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Mayor Bloomberg Battles Fleet Owners Over NYC 'Taxi of Tomorrow'
An anonymous reader writes "In April, Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced that the Nissan NV200 minivan had won a citywide competition to replace the current cab model, the Ford Crown Victoria, in a phased-in period of five years. Cab owners sued, pointing out that New York City law requires that hybrid electric models be available for immediate use for cab medallion owners; that excludes the current Nissan NV200, with its 2.0 liter, 4-cylinder engine rated at a combined 24 mpg. The NV200 also has poor accessibility for wheelchair users. After a state judge blocked the mayor's plan, Bloomberg allegedly told the CEO of Taxi Club Management at a private club, 'Come January 1st, when I am out of office, I am going to destroy your f--king industry.' Tim Fernholz of Quartz speculates that Bloomberg (a billionaire) may be planning to launch a cab-hailing service like Uber, which was just allowed back onto the streets of New York, with significant limitations."
Guns SHOULD be outlawed. A sane person doesn't try to solve social problems with bullets, and has enough brain capacity to look at epidemiology studies and conclude that owning a gun makes you less safe, not more safe.
On the other hand, if you look around at your first-world neighborhood and conclude that guns make you free, you're a lunatic and are clearly too insane to be allowed to own a gun.
But that's fine. The mayor who wants to allow women to control their own reproduction and homosexuals to marry whomever they like wants to "control every aspect" of your life. Because you are so pathetic that the only part of your life that means anything is your ability to own a gun. And you also don't know what fascism is, but that's an argument for another day.