Today there are two kinds of car companies:
“.. those that mass produce fuel-efficient cars and those that will. The American auto industry can no longer afford to be one of those that will.”
And, still one kind of “green” politician;
Mark Phelan reports in Friday’s Detroit Free Press that Obama drives a 340-HP V-8 Hemi Chrysler 300C – the most powerful engine option for that vehicle, and one of the most powerful family sedans on the market. The “C” gets a combined city/highway 21 mpg.
G.G. Nominee!!!!
cal2 Outstanding!!
“I invite anyone who owns a hybrid or electric to bring it to MB next winter!
You will then learn what it means to be stranded!
Posted by: OMMAG at May 11, 2007 8:57 PM”
Unicity Taxi has been using their hybrids all winter in Winnipeg and loves them.
“For some reason, while growing up during the dark ages, my father earned enough to support the family and my mother did not have to venture out into the work a day world.”
Farmerboy, thats one of the most sensible things I’ve heard in a long time. Every household has AT LEAST two cars. Mine has three. And the miles aren’t just double either. There are all the extra miles you run because you don’t have someone at home taking care of business. Alas, you have to have two incomes anymore to make ends meet.
Families are actually quite economical, not only that they take good care of their offspring as well.
Alby,
There seems to be a slight but very real conservative resonance there.
Your support to conserve clean air, dynasaur oil and beer money is noted. = TG
“when the *Sorry, No Gas Today* sign appears on the local gas pumps …. Old reliable pick ups just don*t go anywhere.”
Neither will anything else. But the old reliable pickups won’t be racking up interest charges as the rust away in the back yard.
WRT the 300 C: while the regular “C” does come with a 340-horse powerplant, the “C SRT-8” version comes with a 425-horse version of that massive corral.
That’s nothing, however. Over at Mercedes, one can purchase cars with up to about 600-700 horses.
Then there’s the Bugatti EB 16-4 Veyron, with 1,000 horses.
And then there’s the Hennessey-tuned Viper with 1,200… yep-one thousand two hundred horsepower.
Hee-hee! That kinda road-ripping, tire-destroying thrust will make anyone giggle like a little girl!
“”when the *Sorry, No Gas Today* sign appears on the local gas pumps …. Old reliable pick ups just don*t go anywhere.”
Ha ha ha ha in your dreams Boris. There is ample supply for a couple of lifetimes while new fuels come on line. If the pumps go dry its because some green soviet government makes it an edict…then I go out for black market fuel.
If you Green bolshies want your wet dream of a failed western capitalist system to come true you will have a long wait. No matter how hard socialists try to pull capitalism from a demand dynamic to a command dynamic some capitalist fills the demand curve.
We look at soviet Russia which had state made shortages ( in the midst of resource abundance) for decades…who filled the shortages? Grey marketeers…who by the time Yeltzin stepped in ran the country and are now the ruiling economic class in capitalist Russia.
I have to laugh at the Canadian left…that vision of the out of gas sign at the pump is really revealing of their mindset….they really want a cold war era soviet economy…shortages, middle class collapse…tyranical regulatory regimes.
Green soviets in love with state fabricated consumer shortages.
Ah, the good old days. Yuri Gagarin, Sputnik – when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets…
Visiting Vladivostok and seeing the rusting might of the Soviet Navy, the 1/2 inch of oil slicking the harbour, the empty trucks driving around aimlessly and the friendly lines to buy … well, anything … I thought, “if only we could bring communism to Canada!”. And then I had to take my mom to the hospital and realized somebody had already beat me to the idea.
Anyway, no time for further posting. Have to cycle up to the campus for a hemp advocacy meeting and candlelight vigil for Taliban detainees. Ta!
Water vapor is a feedback factor, whereas CO2 is a forcing factor. That means that more CO2 in the atmosphere (forcing) leads to more heat which leads to more water vapor (feedback) in the atmosphere.
Ah, that explains why, in the past, rises in C02 have followed temperature increases by about 800 years.
Must be a gaia thing.
For once, I agree with lberia. You don’t need 300 HP any more than you need a 50cal to hunt deer.
I can pass anything on the road in my 140-bhp ’07 Civic, and I could pass anything in my 126-bhp ’04 Civic before it. I also could pass most anything using the five-speed effectively in my ’97 Suzuki Swift (85-bhp?) and that had 200k of highway kilometers, including up and down the mountains of the Yukon, Alaska and Northern B.C.
Sometimes, you replace what you think you need with what you want. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but confusing the two means we have endless rows of 4×4’s in the mall parking lot.