{"id":512,"date":"2009-02-19T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/19\/a-plan-for-all-those-surplus-cars-and-trucks\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T11:33:00","slug":"a-plan-for-all-those-surplus-cars-and-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/19\/a-plan-for-all-those-surplus-cars-and-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"A plan for all those surplus cars and trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody&#8217;s buying cars and trucks this winter, so I have an idea for a stimulus plan. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already had trucks tip through the ice on Lake George and Upper Saranac Lake.  Now the Press-Republican is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/local_story_050002831.html\">reporting<\/a> a truck through the ice in Lake Champlain near Ti.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><span><span>While driving on the frozen lake just north of International Paper, the 2004 Ford Ranger reportedly hit a pressure crack and submerged.<\/p>\n<p>Police found the vehicle&#8217;s owner, Michael J. Curtiss, 31, of Meriden, Conn., and his friend Scott D. Soule, 30, from Lebanon, Conn., walking up railroad tracks when they were stopped.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><span><span><\/span><\/span><\/span>These guys are on to something.  I say we hold a huge truck rally &#8212; invite people from all over the US &#8212; then wait for the thaw.<\/p>\n<p>Most of our houses are underwater.  Why shouldn&#8217;t our cars be, too?  Call it the Polar Bear Plunge Relief Program.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the trucks that have led the way this winter &#8212; on Upper Saranac and Lake Champlain &#8212; are still mired in the bottom mud.  <\/p>\n<p>But you can bet their owners have already been to the nearest used car lot, looking to get back behind the wheel. <\/p>\n<p>If they&#8217;re really patriotic, they&#8217;ll be back out on the ice next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody&#8217;s buying cars and trucks this winter, so I have an idea for a stimulus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}