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Alternative Energy Policies a Boon For Inflatable Electric Car
Brian Stretch writes with a story about the Mini Utility Vehicle prototype from XP Vehicles, an electric car that is partly inflatable. The recent struggles of the auto industry and a political climate that supports the development of alternative energy vehicles have given the car a better chance at actually hitting the market. Quoting:
"Building a car takes many years and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars traditionally. XP is able to cut a lot of the costs and timeframe because its car has 70 percent less parts than a regular car, and the company is using novel materials that require simpler factory devices, and production and manufacturing processes that lower the cost to deploy. ... The seat is inflatable, the dashboard is inflatable, and the internal structure and carrying racks are inflatable, or a mesh suspension. Instead of requiring six-axis robots, XP uses radio frequency welders that look like giant waffle irons. The factory equipment is much less expensive and the car simply has less parts that could fail. The motors are built into the rear wheels in most XP prototypes. The first cars to reach the market will have two rear hub motors and a motor controller, that's it."
Well, you won't need to imagine much longer. Once Obama and his cronies ram the still-unread Waxman Global Warming bill through the Senate, you'll have your very own inflatable car. Because SUVs are teh devil, and it's all you'll be able to afford when the middle class gets soaked yet again to prop up more runaway spending. Want to know what this country's financial future looks like? Just keep your eye on California for another month or so. Hey, weren't we promised that our taxes wouldn't go up if we made under some arbitrary yearly income? Oh wait, I guess Obongo wasn't talking about hidden energy taxes that get passed on to the consumer. You all might want to learn Spanish so that you can follow all the jobs down to Mexico. Boy, now won't that be fucking ironic...
Obama is seeing to it that soon we Americans will only be able to afford small Euro cars, too. All Americans except him, that is. He and all the other politicians will still be rolling around in armored luxury vehicles surrounded by an SUV security convoy. Must be nice to be able to flick off every single American and still have them lining up to suck your cock...
less
determiner & pronoun 1 a smaller amount of; not as much. 2 fewer in number
(source: Compact Oxford English Dictionary)
Sounds like meaning 2 is correct in this situation. Yes, fewer is better, but I don't think less is actually incorrect.