My Personal Saga on the Politics Board...

So why not a hybrid Accord?

 

We were having baby number 2 and the Prius is bigger.

I also like the way it looks better.

 

Well.. even at $2/gallon, it would take 10 years of owning a Prius to make up the price difference between the Pruis and the comprable Toyota (Camry?). Although, I don't know how the Federal Tax Credit plays into that.

I read somewhere or another that there are comprably sized non-hyrbid SUVs that get better gas milage than the Ford Escape.

Sachin

 

I live in Chicago, gas here is $3/gallon.

My understanding is that a hybrid is really best for city driving (which is what I use a car for anyway -- I cannot remember the last time I took our car on a long distance trip).

My hope is to eventually produce a car that runs on spotted owls and other endangered species. I am working on conceptual designs now.

 

I recently read that the hybrid Accord (IIRC) has a very quick pick-up that eats all of the energy savings, for a net gain of zero MPG. The other hybrids fare better.

 

WCM, Thanks for proving my point again. You whiny little bitch.

Edit: Speaking only for myself, I never advocated having you ********-canned from the politics forum. But, it was nice while you were gone.

 

Its hard to fathom just how warped your self-view is.

 

But my car will be even better. I call it the "EvilNeoCon Mobile" and it will run not on oil, but on spotted owl and snail darters. And I will use only illegal immigrant labor to build them and threaten to outsource even that.

Then I will rule the world!

And I will tie Superdave in chains and use him as a hood ornament and announce to all that the "Lord of the Wasteland" is coming while I chase down Mel Gibson.

 

Close.

Of course, YMMV.

 

My recollection is that it's people in the hippie section of Chatham County. Let me google and search the N&O website and get back to you.

 

More likely I was confusing you with the late great and widely lamented Ol' Dirty.

And even though Dirt Dog wasn't in the sketch, it seems that some of your financial ideas come straight from the pages of Wu Tang Financial's portfolio.

Don't forget:

Wu Tang Clan ain't nuthin' to fvck with.

 

You can't thank your very own independent centrist.



So why the hell have we never managed to do a Scotch tasting at the Royal Mile?

 

Sachin...

http://www.biofuels.coop/

and where you can buy the stuff

http://www.biofuels.coop/tanks.shtml

See if this attachment works

 

I think we'll all too lazy to actually organize it. How about August 11?

Sachin

 

Holy sh!t!!!!

We don't go on too many long trips, but we're driving to Florida in our gas-guzzling Acura MDX this Christmas - mostly because it's a PITA to mail all the presents down there and even more of a hassle to try to mail the ones we get from the family back home to us.

Actuall, for a SUV the MDX gets pretty good mileage - around 17-20 highway.

Don't forget about the snail darter.

 

Glad to see you didn't forget.

 

Back when I was in college, some friends and I started a "Students for Apathy" to make fun of the left wing activist groups on campus. We would sneak around in the middle of the night and put our posters near theirs.

I later found out some of the activists were not amused and had been looking to beat up who did it.

There, I just outed myself!

 

Works for me.

 

Myself and an Afghan student talked about starting the Aryan Student Association. This was also the guy who sponsored a PETA chapter - People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.

He was pretty far to the left on most things political. Biggest snob I ever met though.

Sachin

 

Have you told your wife? I'm sure she'd have preferred to learn in a different way.


And at any rate, all this talk of scotch (mmmm, Macallan 25........) and hybrid cars is ruining a perfectly good thread! Stop it!

 

Actually, I have a video tape ready for when I die.

You know, of course, that the Persians invented scotch and Darius the Great was driving around in a hybrid in 485 BCE.

 

I considering running for the board of our local food cooperative and the replacing all the Mother Jones magazines with the American Spectator.

Sachin

 

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One site on bio-diesel

I've been schooled that it is always best when using reprocessed grease for fuel to a) install a seperate gas tank and b) run a second fuel rail or install a device that switches the source from which the fuel is drawn to the engine [tank A to tank B, vice versa].

 

Yes, Darius's famous half-horse half-goat got far more leagues per talent of wheat than the traditional vehicles.