"Additionally, light cars might be fine for those who putz around warm weather climates, but I live up in the snow belt of America. The high winds can blow lighter cars all over the place, including right off the road. I have to drop sand bags in my car during the winter months because my 2005 Focus, a 4-door car, is too light for safe driving in certain conditions."
Learn how to drive. I have driven a Geo Metro a car 1/2 the size of your monster focus in northern Michigan weather (average 64 inches of snow per winter and we get it.) and driven in worse windows that you have ever experienced... Mackinac bridge in winter, 80+mph wind and open grate below you so wind can catch the car and lift it. Try feeling your car lift off the ground.
Get real tires, Blizzak for winter, learn to drive. I can outdrive a suv in the winter in my Honda Civic. small cars are safe as hell.
and no you cant fill your car in 5 minutes. the shortest fill up on a 10 gallon gas tank I have been able to do at a pay at the pump when the pump was working fast was 10 minutes.
Most rapid charge stations will charge in 15 minutes.
Why? because it's impossible to build elevated trains down the center of highways? Public transportation is very doable. It's naysayers like you that make it hard to get done.
but you can buy a small commuter car. do you really need to drive alone 40 miles to work in your Extended cab F350 that has never had anything in the truck bed other than the 50" plasma you bought? Buy a small commuter car. a ford Festiva gets 40mpg is a ULEV vehicle and works just fine for getting to work and back even 100 miles away. AND it does great in snow. I see 4 of them drive in more snow daily than the whimpy girly people in NYC saw this year.
ULEV vehicles get $0.00 tax. every MPG below 35 your vehicle get's you add an extra $0.50 per gallon tax at the pump. Hummer H2 owners can afford $9.25 a gallon gas.
Fact: making life harder does not stop the stupid from having kids. Look at africa, overpopulated for the resources so children are born into starvation over and over.
It will not change anything. The rich get Richer, the poor get kids.
That is bull cockey.. Those "safety" features are useless. Stop thinking that Italy, UK, Spain and Germany are a backwater 3rd world where they build card to kill people. They are as safe as the junk that GM and Ford makes.
Let me guess, you also believe that Canadian drugs are "UNSAFE" as well... the raging lie the US govt and the drug companies claim.
the skill level of OTR truck drivers has dropped drastically. Most semi truck drivers are as bad as the blonde bimbos driving the SUV while plucking eyebrows.
this country will gladly let idiots drive a car and a flying car.
Which is why all the Tea baggers are failing hard. All the elected teabag candidate are making things worse. Look at NY and the idiot teabagger hat repealed a energy tax that caused a GIANT problem. you cant convince these people with facts. Stop trying.
Excuse me? I'm highly educated in automotive design, please explain how I am "poor in reasoning and understanding"
A SUPER example of the useless automotive safety laws is how it took a decade to get the SMART FourTwo imported into the USA. by "US" standard it was unsafe. yet it proved it's safety in 30 countries including Canada for a long time. A large number of very safe cars sold in europe are not sold here because of ridiculous laws regarding "Safety".
As to reasoning, Electric cars, are overpriced and not affordable to most of the United states population. Coupled with the fact that the only options we have are subcompact cars now your affordability is coupled with desirability and suddenly the electric car is in a lose-lose situation. Those that can afford it would rather buy something else coupled with a large portion of cant afford it. Add all that together with a car that is equal to a Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf; the Honda Civic or the Ford Festiva. $12,000 for the base car leaves $28,000 for gasoline. At a leadfoot average of 35mpg for both cars (rated to 40mpg, assuming Americans will drive at 90+mph to reduce fuel economy) and assuming an average of 12,000 miles a year driven at $4.00 a gallon gas.... that gives you 20 YEARS of gasoline at $4.00 a gallon or 10 years at $8.00 a gallon.
Who in their RIGHT mind would buy an electric car at these prices?
So how are they going to do it when the current "legal" electric cars cost so much that only the rich can afford them (Yes $40,000 = rich mans car)??
Are they going to subsidize them so that $20,000 credit goes to everyone that buys one? so that means we all pay for them while we make rich fat cats richer on the public teat?
Are they going to force manufacturers to sell them for reasonable prices?
OR will they repeal a lot of the STUPID automotive safety regulations that are in place to keep foreign cars out of the USA market and increase the prices of the ones that are here by adding a ton of un-necessary crap?
How the hell is the white house going to accomplish this without making significant changes to current automotive and import laws?
Because 90% of women bombers are forced to do it. the scumbag Islamic terrorists either start killing their children, or threaten to kill their kids to make the woman do the deed. In fact a cellphone detonator means she could not be trusted to blow herself up so her Islamic torturer needed to have control of her death to make them happy.
All you flag wavers saying "dumb bitch" are uninformed as to how Utterly Disgraceful and lack of Honor these Islamic Terrorists are.
and if you DO have online social junk you ALWAYS create two on each.
1 is your professional side you keep professional and squeaky clean. 2 is your nasty dirty real life one that has NO information to link the two.
My twitter and Linked in are super professional. My facebook is my personal and has ZERO info to link me to it. my real name is not there only my nick-name that is changed a bit so it's not easy to grep if you knew it.
If you Google my real name all you get is professional stuff of mine and some smattering of line noise (no I'm not a drummer for a punk band, and I am not missing in Iraq) It's called maintaining your reputation, and for some reason college kids cant understand this. You will not get that Marketing director job if they find photos of you doing keg-stands while taking a bong hit, It's the equivalent of getting "EAT ME" tattooed to your forehead.
DAT is used heavily even today in the pro world. it's a failure in the consumer world for one reason only the Copyright bit disallowed recording DAT to DAT making home recorders useless.
Minidisc was not a failure, it sold more units than mp3 players did for the first few years mp3 players were available. it just had bad timing and shoddy quality of the portable players coupled with overly complex tiny tinfoil parts that were easily destroyed.
memory-stick and UMD were designed for sony products only to do vendor lock in. they did their job well.
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You mean like the entire presidency of George Doubleya Bush?
Facebook has never been free as in beer. I have never had to give up a ton of personal info to get free beer, it's just handed to me.
TOS is as enforceable as a EULA.
IF you have a better lawyer, then you are full of WIN!
Something you lack as you dont have any to provide.
"Additionally, light cars might be fine for those who putz around warm weather climates, but I live up in the snow belt of America. The high winds can blow lighter cars all over the place, including right off the road. I have to drop sand bags in my car during the winter months because my 2005 Focus, a 4-door car, is too light for safe driving in certain conditions."
Learn how to drive. I have driven a Geo Metro a car 1/2 the size of your monster focus in northern Michigan weather (average 64 inches of snow per winter and we get it.) and driven in worse windows that you have ever experienced... Mackinac bridge in winter, 80+mph wind and open grate below you so wind can catch the car and lift it. Try feeling your car lift off the ground.
Get real tires, Blizzak for winter, learn to drive. I can outdrive a suv in the winter in my Honda Civic. small cars are safe as hell.
Yes if you have a charging station.
and no you cant fill your car in 5 minutes. the shortest fill up on a 10 gallon gas tank I have been able to do at a pay at the pump when the pump was working fast was 10 minutes.
Most rapid charge stations will charge in 15 minutes.
And I can drive my civic for 10 years at $8.00 a gallon on the price difference of my civic to a Chevy volt.
Chevy volt is a very bad investment.
Why? because it's impossible to build elevated trains down the center of highways? Public transportation is very doable. It's naysayers like you that make it hard to get done.
but you can buy a small commuter car. do you really need to drive alone 40 miles to work in your Extended cab F350 that has never had anything in the truck bed other than the 50" plasma you bought? Buy a small commuter car. a ford Festiva gets 40mpg is a ULEV vehicle and works just fine for getting to work and back even 100 miles away. AND it does great in snow. I see 4 of them drive in more snow daily than the whimpy girly people in NYC saw this year.
Hello, there's plenty of room in the trunk.
Tax stamps for cars. I'm all for it.
ULEV vehicles get $0.00 tax. every MPG below 35 your vehicle get's you add an extra $0.50 per gallon tax at the pump. Hummer H2 owners can afford $9.25 a gallon gas.
Fact: making life harder does not stop the stupid from having kids. Look at africa, overpopulated for the resources so children are born into starvation over and over.
It will not change anything. The rich get Richer, the poor get kids.
That is bull cockey.. Those "safety" features are useless. Stop thinking that Italy, UK, Spain and Germany are a backwater 3rd world where they build card to kill people. They are as safe as the junk that GM and Ford makes.
Let me guess, you also believe that Canadian drugs are "UNSAFE" as well... the raging lie the US govt and the drug companies claim.
There is 1 truck that cornered well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC_Syclone
The Syclone was an awesome truck to drive and cornered better than any BMW.
Problem is GM cant build something like that anymore. They dont have any management that knows how to run a car company. they no longer have any soul.
Because of fake "safety" laws. the truck you want is safe as all get out, but US safety laws are designed to keep competition out of the country.
You are making the fake tree buggers in California cry by saying that.
Stop clouding the issue with facts!
the skill level of OTR truck drivers has dropped drastically. Most semi truck drivers are as bad as the blonde bimbos driving the SUV while plucking eyebrows.
this country will gladly let idiots drive a car and a flying car.
Which is why all the Tea baggers are failing hard. All the elected teabag candidate are making things worse. Look at NY and the idiot teabagger hat repealed a energy tax that caused a GIANT problem. you cant convince these people with facts. Stop trying.
Excuse me? I'm highly educated in automotive design, please explain how I am "poor in reasoning and understanding"
A SUPER example of the useless automotive safety laws is how it took a decade to get the SMART FourTwo imported into the USA. by "US" standard it was unsafe. yet it proved it's safety in 30 countries including Canada for a long time. A large number of very safe cars sold in europe are not sold here because of ridiculous laws regarding "Safety".
As to reasoning, Electric cars, are overpriced and not affordable to most of the United states population. Coupled with the fact that the only options we have are subcompact cars now your affordability is coupled with desirability and suddenly the electric car is in a lose-lose situation. Those that can afford it would rather buy something else coupled with a large portion of cant afford it. Add all that together with a car that is equal to a Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf; the Honda Civic or the Ford Festiva. $12,000 for the base car leaves $28,000 for gasoline. At a leadfoot average of 35mpg for both cars (rated to 40mpg, assuming Americans will drive at 90+mph to reduce fuel economy) and assuming an average of 12,000 miles a year driven at $4.00 a gallon gas.... that gives you 20 YEARS of gasoline at $4.00 a gallon or 10 years at $8.00 a gallon.
Who in their RIGHT mind would buy an electric car at these prices?
So how are they going to do it when the current "legal" electric cars cost so much that only the rich can afford them (Yes $40,000 = rich mans car)??
Are they going to subsidize them so that $20,000 credit goes to everyone that buys one? so that means we all pay for them while we make rich fat cats richer on the public teat?
Are they going to force manufacturers to sell them for reasonable prices?
OR will they repeal a lot of the STUPID automotive safety regulations that are in place to keep foreign cars out of the USA market and increase the prices of the ones that are here by adding a ton of un-necessary crap?
How the hell is the white house going to accomplish this without making significant changes to current automotive and import laws?
Because 90% of women bombers are forced to do it. the scumbag Islamic terrorists either start killing their children, or threaten to kill their kids to make the woman do the deed. In fact a cellphone detonator means she could not be trusted to blow herself up so her Islamic torturer needed to have control of her death to make them happy.
All you flag wavers saying "dumb bitch" are uninformed as to how Utterly Disgraceful and lack of Honor these Islamic Terrorists are.
and if you DO have online social junk you ALWAYS create two on each.
1 is your professional side you keep professional and squeaky clean.
2 is your nasty dirty real life one that has NO information to link the two.
My twitter and Linked in are super professional.
My facebook is my personal and has ZERO info to link me to it. my real name is not there only my nick-name that is changed a bit so it's not easy to grep if you knew it.
If you Google my real name all you get is professional stuff of mine and some smattering of line noise (no I'm not a drummer for a punk band, and I am not missing in Iraq) It's called maintaining your reputation, and for some reason college kids cant understand this. You will not get that Marketing director job if they find photos of you doing keg-stands while taking a bong hit, It's the equivalent of getting "EAT ME" tattooed to your forehead.
Dont be a MORON and brag about your crimes online.
100% of all "hackers" that brag about their exploits get nailed.
100% of all thieves that brag about their exploits get nailed.
Keep your mouth shut. Cops catch crooks because the majority of crooks are stupid as a box of rocks.
You dont write down you exploits in your memoirs, you dont tell friends, you tell nobody, you never type it, speak it or think it.
DAT is used heavily even today in the pro world. it's a failure in the consumer world for one reason only the Copyright bit disallowed recording DAT to DAT making home recorders useless.
Minidisc was not a failure, it sold more units than mp3 players did for the first few years mp3 players were available. it just had bad timing and shoddy quality of the portable players coupled with overly complex tiny tinfoil parts that were easily destroyed.
memory-stick and UMD were designed for sony products only to do vendor lock in. they did their job well.
AATRAC was too little too late with too much DRM.
Because far more Honda Civics sold compared to 6 karat diamond rings!