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Ordinance: All private automobiles over 3 meters in length or 2 meters in width or weighing more than 750kg (excluding passengers) are excluded from the downtown business district.

Have fun getting your little folding coffin squished by this. Oh, and as far as "private" goes, no worries - it will be registered to ShompolTech, Inc. This will not be the first time Hummer owners pawn the legislation, either.

I imagine you have a laughably small penis.

Ordinance: All private automobiles over 3 meters in length or 2 meters in width or weighing more than 750kg (excluding passengers) are excluded from the downtown business district.

Have fun getting your little folding coffin squished by this.

You realize that the Hummer is out of production? Not even the Chinese wanted to buy the company.

Oh, and as far as "private" goes, no worries - it will be registered to ShompolTech, Inc. This will not be the first time Hummer owners pawn the legislation, either.

What does that mean "pawn" the legislation? They left it at a second hand shop as collateral on a short-term loan?

In any case there's a big difference between legally using a tax loophole and exploiting a local ordinance prohibiting non delivery vehicles. And it doesn't matter really, if such an ordinance was in place, a business owner could certainly use a commercially registered Hummer to make his delivery, but if the ordinance requires the vehicle to be used for deliveries only, he wouldn't be able to cruise around downtown, squashing small vehicles at will.

I've never understood the blind attraction to oversize cars that some people have (as opposed to legitimate utility-based concerns... my neighbor is a contractor, drives a heavy duty F350, and actually *needs* its hauling capacity... but when he needs to go downtown, he takes the Prius because it's hard to park a full size pickup with dual wheels in a busy city). My primary commute vehicle is a bike so I'm already the smallest vehicle on the road... and I do have a healthy fear of those Hummers.

Ordinance: All private automobiles over 3 meters in length or 2 meters in width or weighing more than 750kg (excluding passengers) are excluded from the downtown business district.

Have fun getting your little folding coffin squished by this. Oh, and as far as "private" goes, no worries - it will be registered to ShompolTech, Inc. This will not be the first time Hummer owners pawn the legislation, either.

I don't believe we're anywhere near to running out of oil in the next 1000 years

No oil shortage???

gas prices
news article
http://www.hummer.com/

Drive a Hummer.

(Plus it comes with a 12,000 LB wench, think of all the beer that could serve, Germany)

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This is great. Combine biodiesel in cars that use less than 3 liters per 100km (3 liters per 100km = 78.4048614 miles per gallon) and you are using an incredibly small amount of fuel that does not come from the Middle East.

Perhaps driving cars does have a future, even if the gas guzzlers are out.

You're delusional. The HMMWV (also known as the M998 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle) is the military version. You go ahead and go to http://www.hummer.com/ and try to find a quote on something called a HMMWV.

Options on the HMMWV are automatic grenade launchers and a Kevlar shell on the back. The up-armor package is apparently really hard to come by. I'd love to see you try to spec those on Hummer's web site.

Oh really? http://www.hummer.com/

Corporations which cause a lot of pollution would be hurt by added environmental requirements, since they would have to pay to upgrade their factories, use more expensive techniques, etc.

But, you are absolutely right that this will also create new industries which produce such environmentally-friendly equipment, etc.

What I think the corporations need to do is ... innovate in the areas of energy efficiency.

Getting back to the hybrid topic, Toyota is a great example of this. In 1993 (I think) they announced their "Earth charter", which lead to the creation of their hybrid engine. The goal of the project was explicitly to design an environmentally-friendly car. And now it looks like it's paying off for them, big time. In 2000 they announced the beginning of their "New Earth Charter", in which they are researching not just ways to make a car that operates cleanly, but new manufacturing techniques to make it more friendly to build and ways to improve disposal. It sounds like they're really putting a lot of effort into it.

Some more details.

Meanwhile, car companies here in America are innovating in entirely different directions. :(

I have met lots of people that say they love Mac hardware and design but hate the operating system. I would think Apple would probably try to appeal to them.

Really? That's almost exactly the opposite of what most people say... "Oh, I love the UI and OS, but I'm sure not paying an extra [$100 / $500 / $1000] for their hardware!"

"lots of people he has met" and "most people" are not necessarily intersecting sets.

For example, a lot of people are in mensa (random example). Most people are not.

Therefore it is entirely possible lots of people will pay extra for hardware, expanding Apple's hardware base. You disprove your own argument here:

So, would someone pay an extra hardware fee just to have a funky looking hardware design that runs Windows (gamerz not withstanding; I guess they've demonstrated that people will, but we're talking mainstream here.)

No, no we're not talking mainstream. We're talking people that like Mac hardware but want to run Windows, much like the gaming community. If that is ten people then that is ten more sales. Apple is not planning on chucking OSX so that is irrelevant.

You are right, without OSX and all the doo-dads it is just a pretty looking box. Do not underestimate the capacity some people have to pay extra for a pretty looking box.

In summary: small percentage != small number, and expanding the pool of potential consumers is a good thing.

And here's an enormous military jeep that runs on normal roads. Buy a clue thanks.

I prefer to store my H2 in the garage. And I'm not setting any more cars on fire. The last time I did that, I almost went to jail for insurance fraud. I still don't get how it's fraud if it was actually on fire, but that's a story for another time.

While India's satellite launches and outsourcing news are already covered in slashdot umpteen times, sometimes her sensible achievements should be covered too."

Her sensible acheivements should be covered too? Can we mark the article blurb as flamebait? Lets keep the bias out of the story. Please.

In most of the civilized world (this is spelled E.U.R.O.P.E.), there is public transit to take the people to their jobs without FORCING them to use an expensive, gas-guzzling heap of junk on wheels which is, thanks to the inherent paranoïa that is so typical of the shitheap-puritan yankee mindset, has to be inflated beyond any semblance of reasonableness for it's owner to retain some kind of status amongst it's hare-brained sheepish co-herders.

After a while of destroying the countryside with strip-malls, the business owners are getting tired of subsidizing the heavy car usage that is so typical of the earth-trashing yankees' lifestyle and are starting to rebel. By moving the work where the workforce do not need to have a subsidized conveyance.

The great sucking sound is nothing but the sound itself of the yankees' suckitude, it's stupid dependence on foreign oil that has done so much in the last few years to alienate most of the earth's population, all thanks to the most miserable failure of all time in yankee politics.

So, mister Anonymous Coward, your sheepish flame, shot from behind your huge cowardice (see how I am NOT afraid of you unwashed barbarians by signing my name), you can roll it, and shove it up your anus so it can give you your long-overdue orgasm thar your sheepish moronic puritanism has prevented you from enjoying all that time.

That sounds more reasonable. The original post did say 1.2KWh/day, but they probably meant 1.2KWh/hour (that is, 1.2KW) instead. Since I'm from America, I couldn't assume that what's reasonable here would be considered reasonable over in Europe.

Actually, most rear wheel drive cars sold in the US are no longer available because manufacturers want to make more huge rediculous gas guzzeling SUVs. Also Mustangs outsold BOTH GM F-bodies combined, despite Camaros and Firebirds being a few thousand $ cheaper didn't help them much either. I'd be very happy if the insurance companies could kill SUVs, but they simply don't have enough influence.

The real CSI folks don't show up to crime scenes in a Hummer H2, talking on their Nextel i90c?

Well, it's legal, like. But a car that weighs 10,000lbs isn't going to go anywhere fast, and it's hardly going to corner like a go-kart either. Plus you'd need a tanker following you around just to keep it in fuel. I think that's their point.

Then again, some people seem to think that sort of thing's clever.

WTF?!!?11?!

Hey, it's not just computers and peripherals...
Have you seen what passes for an automobile these days?

Uhhhh... Helllllloooooo?!?!

This is America! Land of the Super-Sized Happy Meal, the Gas-Guzzling Ex-Military SUV and Pamela Anderson (NSFW)!!

EVERYTHING IS BIG HERE!!

...but refused my excellent comparative review of Powerbook G4 versus Hummer?

Any body else find this passage depressing?
Hell yeah! It's easy to figure out what they mean by "impractical military vehicle". Or maybe I'm just imagining it's a reference to my dream car? He had one, and got rid of it? Noooo! ;^) If I had one, I'd back it into that journo's Fiat, just to teach him some respect. Heh, no, of course I wouldn't. Just kidding, I'm a nice guy. And I hate dealing with auto insurance issues.

There are no diesel SUV's in USA?

I've seen diesel Suburbans before; I think they were built up to sometime in the 80s or (maybe) early 90s. The three engines that are currently available are all gas-fueled, though.

The Hummer is available with a 6.5L turbodiesel, but you'll pay through the nose for one (and if you never take it off-road, you shouldn't be allowed to own one :-) ).