UncleBuck
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i love your sig.
Oops on global warming
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MuyLocoNC
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I think electric cars absolutely are the future. Every five years they seem to have incredible advances in battery technology especially in the amount of energy they can store. The only reason I won't buy one anytime soon is regardless of what star rating they give them, they are death traps. Just like my little compact I ran around with not too many years ago. Five star safety crash test rating, but worthless if a Tahoe tbones ya in an intersection.
Gonna be a while before they can replace pickup trucks and vans on the road, and as long as those big bastards are on the road, my family will be toolin' around the streets in a tank. Mileage be damned. Nobody is paying attention on the roads out there, texting, emailing, twittering, all that crap. Life is too precious to risk on a daily threat so obvious, I'll let you brave souls roll those dice.
The Tesla is bad ass though. I wouldn't let my children in it, but I'd love to take one out for an afternoon.
jeff f
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i am very happy you are happy with your purchase. i would not be able to use a car like that as i am a contractor and must have a truck. i resent that people think that i am a polluter and your not. its total fucking bullshit. you arent saving the planet. you are driving a car that you think is neat and saves you money. good for you i am sincerely happy for you. now kindly stay out of my business while i decide what my needs are.
14 dollar gas hurts everyone, especially the poor. and its for no good reason other than the people pushing it to feel better about themselves. further, it puts R and D programs at risk, and even stresses schools. i contract for a school. 2000 seat school costs 750,000 a year, or about 3 percent of total budget. for electric alone. tell me how 14 dollar gas improves the school?
its hogwash and i resent it, strongly
canndo
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No similarity at all. A Cat 5 doesn't "release" anything so much as move energy around. Mountains exploding are background, that happens ALL the time. This is a historically sudden release of historically ancient and slowly accumulated carbon. Likely it has never happened before in earth's history. Of course those who believe that the earth has seen it all can't grasp that fundamental.
josae
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For electric cars they are closer then you think. The only problem is regulation. Check out the documentary called "Who killed the electric car". They have also come across new form of a hydrogen battery that is more efficient/more cost effective then the platinum battery.
ref : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110421141628.htm
As for safety rating I thought that all cars had a standardized rating although I could def. be wrong.
Canndo has a point as well, volcano's release heat and oxygen more then any other elements due to reduction during the eruption.
ref : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110421141628.htm
As for safety rating I thought that all cars had a standardized rating although I could def. be wrong.
Canndo has a point as well, volcano's release heat and oxygen more then any other elements due to reduction during the eruption.
Windsblow
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Didn't Al Gore discover Global warming? Wasn't it right after the internet? I think he invented the internet and the first webpage that popped up was the IPCC website.
josae
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This is because to harvest oil it takes oil to refine the oil, it takes oil to transport the oil for refining, it takes oil to transport the oil for sale etc.
UncleBuck
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i don't think you are a polluter, i think you have the vehicle you need. i am currently trying to trade my shit bird for a good gas mileage pickup so i can do some landscaping work around town and have a place to put the yard debris.
i don't think expensive gas will help anyone, neither does "the chosen one, the messiah". he wants to open up the strategic reserves to ease the current rise is prices so the recovery doesn't sputter. if you think ANYONE wants high gas prices, i would say that is hogwash, and would resent it strongly.
based on what i can gather from your posts, i was raised not too far from where you live. funny how we are so different in opinion.
jeff f
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you would really have to give some evidence that the messiah wants cheap gas. he has stated publicly, just the opposite and the first thing he did when getting emaculated was to remove a couple million acres from the possibility of drilling.
please provide some evidence he wants cheap oil, cuz it sure isnt happening.
UncleBuck
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yeah, i thought the same thing the other day.
they are always the first to dismiss the well-accepted theory when it is cold out, but go oddly silent once a massive fucking heat wave starts killing people over several nations.
the line of thought that weather = climate is a fallacy, but it is a telling one.
MuyLocoNC
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Yeah, the earth is warming, ok fine. Guess what, it's gonna warm until it starts to cool. Nothing you or I do is going to change that. We're kinda still coming out of a mini ice age, remember. Imagine that, it's cold, it's hot, it changes...just like it always has.
Or, we could all drive around in death cars..err, I mean "smart" cars. No thank you, I'll let it be you they're picking out of my grill, rather than the other way around.
Or, we could all drive around in death cars..err, I mean "smart" cars. No thank you, I'll let it be you they're picking out of my grill, rather than the other way around.
oh really???
it comes from:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/northeast-heat-records-notables_2011-07-22
the headline reads:
Northeast Heat: Rewriting the record books.
Antidisestablishmentarian
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Here in Texas(where its hot all summer every year) we havent beat our records yet.
I don't live anywhere near the east coast, no records being set here. So what was your point?
BTW temps were 120-122F 20 years ago, Makes 102 look like springtime.
Record temp for New Jersey was 110F set back in 1936.
New York highest ever temp? 108F set back in 1926
New Hampshire? 106F set back in 1911
Virginia? 110F, 1954
I'm waiting for some record heat, not these sensationalist temps you try to spout as evidence of man made global climate change. None of those temps you stated were records for those states.
Back in 1913 it got to 134F in California....1913.....Man Made global warming from all the cars i bet.
Farfenugen
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I wonder if I can pay off my credit card with carbon credits? Guess that means I'd best start eating beans, driving around in a beat-up ol' dodge, and have beef cook-outs using charcoal bonfires
tet1953
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I love it when naysayers point at blizzards in the midwest and here in the northeast as proof against global warming. Well, of course it's snowing, it's winter and it's cold. The important part is the increase in precipitation. Increased frequency of large winter storms supports climate change theory.