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Yeah, but it's a car blog. You know. NASCAR?
The Top 5 Tactics of climate denial:
1. Cherry Picking 2. Fake Experts 3. Impossible Expectations 4. Misrepresenting the Science & Logical Fallacies 5. Conspiracy Theories
Diethelm & Mckee 2009
Honesty is not on the list.
Guru
300 veyrons sold, 900+ Tesla's sold another 6,500 presold...do you ever tire of being wrong...
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”-John Stuart Mills
Guru
the only thing preventing me from buying electric/hybrid is price and that's coming down quickly...mileage is already adequate, Mrs wyly could easily commute to work for a week before needing to recharge, with an overnight recharge once a week she would never need to buy gas again...with fuel somewhere around $1+ per liter now and may rise to $1.50 per liter by summer electric/hybrids are going to become cost effective very soon...
Last edited by wyly; Mar 02 2012 at 08:44 PM.
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”-John Stuart Mills
Nope, they are getting better and better and since we have over 200 years of oil at present usage they aren't going anywhere for a LONG time to come.
It's not much better than it was 50 years ago. Short range long charging times.Electric vehicles are far more efficient and cheaper to operate. Battery technology is improving by leaps and bounds and will soon be taking cars 400 miles
When you add it the additional cost it is not that much cheaper. When we finally start taxing them for road use the difference will almost go away completely.or so on a single charge at a fraction of the cost of the gasoline that would be needed for such a trip.
Bio-diesel will be here forever. In the US alone we have over 200 years of oil at present use rates.Internal combustion engines using hydrogen may continue to be part of our transportation systems but gasoline and diesel engines will almost completely disappear in the foreseeable future.
""The power to do good is also the power to do harm."
Milton Friedman
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Guru
I see where GM halted production of the Chevy Volt and laid off 1,200 people.
Who would want a car where the desin process was dominated by Nancy Pelosi?
ObamaTax Delendum Est
Guru
wrong once again...a 5 week pause in production to allow sales to clear off inventory....
Bragman said "inventory corrections" like the one GM announced are "not unusual at all." He said the buzz surrounding the Volt makes routine decisions newsworthy.
"The only reason this is making headlines," he said, "is because it's the Volt."
http://www.latimes.com/business/auto...,5159035.story
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”-John Stuart Mills
Commentator
Where did you get that number? Wikipedia says 64 years.
The Top 5 Tactics of climate denial:
1. Cherry Picking 2. Fake Experts 3. Impossible Expectations 4. Misrepresenting the Science & Logical Fallacies 5. Conspiracy Theories
Diethelm & Mckee 2009
Honesty is not on the list.
Guru
Ford paused production of the Excursion and they made Excursions at eight times the rate of Chevy Volt AND made a good per unit profit.
But cars...for the most part is a volume biz. Gotta have volume to justify that factory.
ObamaTax Delendum Est
Analyst
The price of gas is going to continue to rise. The world does not have "over 200 years of oil at present usage". That's complete nonsense. Internal combustion cars are going to be replace fairly rapidly by the much cheaper to maintain and operate next-generation electric vehicles that are about to come on the market within a few years.
I guess it's obvious that you haven't actually read this thread or you would know better. Try reading this if you want to know the current facts on EV batteries. Long range, short charging times, much cheaper.
The Future of Transportation
Ignorant BS. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Bio-diesel from algae or something may well stay in use for some time, particularly for some specialized applications, but electric vehicles will still be cheaper to run and maintain and will be preferred for most uses.
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy;
that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Because it hasn't even come close to projections.
""The power to do good is also the power to do harm."
Milton Friedman
."
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