"The Brits might be a bit more reserved, but hey you'd be if it rained most of the time"
That's a common misconception. It hardly rains at all in Britain (compared with somewhere where it REALLY DOES, like Seattle), the reason we have this reputation is that it's overcast (and therefore looks as if it MIGHT rain) fully 50% of the time.
Honestly, this year in particular it's been amazingly dry, and we've still had only a few days of significant rainfall in London since the start of summer.
Actually, as any sensible motorist will tell you, cars will last as long as you're willing to maintain them. What usually happens is that a) after 5 years, the car loan is paid off and you fancy a new one, so you sell the car and b) after 10 years, it costs more to service the car each year than the car is worth, thus making it prohibitively expensive to INSURE.
In fact, it's MUCH more economical to buy a high quality car that's 5 years old and maintain it until it gets damaged beyond economic repair, the maintenance costs do not even approach the level of depreciation you get on a new car.
The car industry knows this, and plays us accordingly (that's why it costs $200 to replace that door seal on your 10 year old Honda Accord with 150 000miles on the clock).
What nonsense. It's not an advertisement unless it's paid for - in this case, it's just an opinion. The newspaper is paying Pogue to give his opinion on Panther.
And how the hell do you figure that corn oil (or ANY bio-Diesel) as an automotive fuel is inefficient? You grow more corn which recycles the CO2, and the corn oil is burned by Diesel engines which are AT LEAST twice as efficient as petrol burners. Electric cars, also, are typically HUGELY more efficient in their power use versus petrol fueled machines.
I'm a supporter of nuclear energy myself, but it's only financial expediency that's holding it back. Look to France for your example of what CAN be achieved - they export power to every other major Euro economy.
There IS a real fuel consumption constraint, it's the ability of the earth to recycle the CO2 that we produce in burning it, and we don't even know what that number is yet. The USA strategic reserve is a red herring - the most powerful nation on Earth should be a lot more proactive than maintaining a stupid, inadequate reserve (which does nothing more than keep uncompetitive US oil families in business.
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You let it go?
Well, they're Austrians, so a Nazi salute would seem appropriate.
Fucking Nazis. Nothing changes.
"The Brits might be a bit more reserved, but hey you'd be if it rained most of the time"
That's a common misconception. It hardly rains at all in Britain (compared with somewhere where it REALLY DOES, like Seattle), the reason we have this reputation is that it's overcast (and therefore looks as if it MIGHT rain) fully 50% of the time.
Honestly, this year in particular it's been amazingly dry, and we've still had only a few days of significant rainfall in London since the start of summer.
How are you going to pump the water through the magic channels?
Persuasion?
What are you going to use to power your electrolysis process?
Love?
Actually, as any sensible motorist will tell you, cars will last as long as you're willing to maintain them. What usually happens is that a) after 5 years, the car loan is paid off and you fancy a new one, so you sell the car and b) after 10 years, it costs more to service the car each year than the car is worth, thus making it prohibitively expensive to INSURE.
In fact, it's MUCH more economical to buy a high quality car that's 5 years old and maintain it until it gets damaged beyond economic repair, the maintenance costs do not even approach the level of depreciation you get on a new car.
The car industry knows this, and plays us accordingly (that's why it costs $200 to replace that door seal on your 10 year old Honda Accord with 150 000miles on the clock).
Not true.
A American "gas" tax would also raise an enormous sum of money.
Didn't anyone notice?
What nonsense. It's not an advertisement unless it's paid for - in this case, it's just an opinion. The newspaper is paying Pogue to give his opinion on Panther.
"You see a lot of the same thing in the import racing circuit, oddly enough."
How do you race imports? Order two things from abroad and see which arrives first?
What do you mean "will", I received my copy of Panther TODAY, and Quartz Extreme has been with us for a YEAR ALREADY.
"Oil in the sahara? Maybe, but that defies the point.."
Let me introduce you to the bigger picture...
"the point" of EVERYTHING is money. If it cost 0.01% more to build a panel than drill for oil we all know what would happen.
How are you gonna stop the sandstorms destroying your panels? (or covering them up?)
Quite apart from the fact that there's LOADS of oil under the Sahara...
Oh well, the US cellphone system lets down Americans again :-[
You should consider the Nokia 8910i. I have an 8910 and it's a brilliant 'phone.
God is vapourware.
So it's kind of like buffing the Casio, then?
Feeble troll.
Apple are moving plenty of product and making a small profit.
You should try cut & pasting a better troll from one of the professional Mac-baiters.
Order the G5 now. Having the OSX install disk is MUCH better than having only the software restore set.
Seriously, man - do it now.
"Cleaned the clock"?
What does THAT mean?
Yes, 3 months supply is an inadequate reserve.
And how the hell do you figure that corn oil (or ANY bio-Diesel) as an automotive fuel is inefficient? You grow more corn which recycles the CO2, and the corn oil is burned by Diesel engines which are AT LEAST twice as efficient as petrol burners. Electric cars, also, are typically HUGELY more efficient in their power use versus petrol fueled machines.
I'm a supporter of nuclear energy myself, but it's only financial expediency that's holding it back. Look to France for your example of what CAN be achieved - they export power to every other major Euro economy.
There IS a real fuel consumption constraint, it's the ability of the earth to recycle the CO2 that we produce in burning it, and we don't even know what that number is yet. The USA strategic reserve is a red herring - the most powerful nation on Earth should be a lot more proactive than maintaining a stupid, inadequate reserve (which does nothing more than keep uncompetitive US oil families in business.
Like the Bush family.
You should consider seeing a doctor.
Seriously.
They couldn't hear it over the TV.
I don't think you're factoring in the cost of invading and occupying Iraq.
SUVs are subsidised by not being subject to fuel consumption constraints, and the whole world pays for THAT.