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Such things have already appeared, but using solid battery fuel - aluminum plates. It is an Israeli start-up created in 2008 called Phinergy. This is a mature technology, but I don't know how their adoption is going. The company still seems to be around.

Electric vehicles ARE zero emissions; they don't emit any pollutants.

Tesla's are not zero emission.

Citation that seatbelts save lives? Just wow. But for the cameras tech allows much better view than a mirror can. It can highlight the car in the view making missing it in rain or fog less likely. The camera is much less likely to ice over than a static mirror which has a larger surface area to keep clean. Backup cameras are the same thing and seeing what's behind you before you run over it most definitely saves lives. http://www.thedetroitbureau.co...

The Chinese love Buicks. It's a weird cultural thing. And it has it's roots in the quirky fact that when the Communist Party took power, they commandeered the Emperor's car, which was a Buick, and it became Zhou Enlai's car, which was a big deal.

The whole reason GM didn't kill Buick was because of how strong a brand it was in China. Pity, too, because only prigs drive a Buick in the US, it's a long tradition. The only consolation is that they at least killed Pontiac.

Just for reference, the average-priced car is unaffordable by the average-income household.

Trick question! GM recalled several thousand chevy volts due to fire risk~

http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2013/06/chevy-volt-recall-may-set-new-record/


Joking aside: http://www.hybridcars.com/young-woman-in-chevy-volt-survives-severe-drunk-driver-crash/

No fire.

>merely aping

No, I have listened and watched. I have heard talk radio from its modest beginnings here in New England, back when it was new through its eventual evolution to what it is now, and what I hear on the AM dial hurts my head. I used to listen to Limbaugh regularly back in the early 90s and he was entertaining back then, but he's just turned into an angry old man whose invective is wildly wrong and frankly coarse and offensive. I'm appalled by the pile of garbage talk radio has become. Hannity, Levin, Savage, et al., are all cokie-cutter outrage-machines whose only intent is to inflame.

It has even happened to local talk radio. The stupid shit on the AM dial these days from local hosts make me pine for the days of Sherm Strickhauser (WHJJ/WPRO) and David Brudnoy(WBZ who once did a fantastic interview with Ron Paul), back when you could actually learn something from listening. The last of the thoughtful ones, Arlene Violet, left the air in 2006 and went back to practicing law full time.

Talk radio has become unlistenable to anyone with at least two neurons to rub together. Outrage sells. Sanity and knowledge doesn't.

Similarly, Fox doesn't report news anymore. They have become the propaganda wing of the radical right in the Republican Party. They even went to court as an amicus in Florida to say that they have the right to lie in news over the air and won. They have a single token "reasonable person" as an anchor in Shepard Smith, but that's about it. Having Shepard Smith doesn't make up for all the other crap on Fox.

>ownership of production

I guess you're talking about the bailout of GM and Chrysler.

http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2012/02/bush-would-do-it-again-on-auto-bailouts/

Funny how that doesn't make GWB socialist. Funny how GWB did TARP and that doesn't make him a socialist either. And for all the worshipping of St. Ronnie people like you do on the right, you conveniently forget that he also bailed out Chrysler. And they didn't call it socialism back then either.

You don't know what socialism is, and to call Obama socialist means you are using your own private definition of socialism. Because it's certainly not the accepted one. You are deliberately abusing language, to use the word "socialism" as a weapon. Trying to reason with someone who can't use a generally accepted definition of a term is impossible. Such a person has abandoned reason.

Bye.

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BMO

Why do people insist on pinning the auto bailout on Obama, http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2012/02/bush-would-do-it-again-on-auto-bailouts/

Or just keep teenagers and old women off the roads. And old guys. And soccer moms.

In fact, everybody except us fantastic ex Formula 1 Slashdotters. We know how to drive.