Gas prices

mussa · January 13, 2009, 04:20:15 PM

what don't you understand. oil = no future. alternative fuels = future. the sooner we stop relying on oil the better. something can replace it and it will make them just as rich

Wingspan · January 13, 2009, 04:21:15 PM

then you would want them to "re-invent the wheel"

mussa · January 13, 2009, 04:42:55 PM

what I meant by that was not putting money into the wheel (oil) but to put it into programs that lean to alternative methods

Diomedes · January 13, 2009, 04:46:20 PM

block is the new wheel

mussa · January 13, 2009, 04:51:04 PM

i think maybe whatever Yeti shtein out, that could be the new fuel for the next generation of cars

rjs246 · January 13, 2009, 04:54:37 PM

Maybe the government never should have started subsidizing monopolistic companies that refused to modernize their product for the better part of a decade while the rest of the world moved forward with new technologies to improve their brands. Maybe they should have encouraged new companies to enter the fold rather than propping up three montrosities that had out-run their usefulness. Maybe then we wouldn't have to decide between 2 million out of work employees and $50 billion in tax payer's money.

Diomedes · January 13, 2009, 04:58:42 PM

I've been listening to NPR's coverage of the auto show. They're at such pains to be percieved as fair that it drives me nuts. They interview these guys and lob softball questions at them as lead-ins so the guys can claim patently untrue crap like, our cars are just as good as japanese cars.

Bullshtein. American cars suck and have for decades.

Phanatic · January 13, 2009, 07:53:51 PM

Quote from: Wingspan on January 13, 2009, 04:21:15 PM
then you would want them to "re-invent the wheel"

Someone invented the car... someone invented the TV... It's not umpossible.

I just drive my Deisel for 47mpg. farg the environment an farg all yall!

Tomahawk · January 14, 2009, 12:28:28 PM

Exactly Phanatic, only I drive my 7.5 liter gasoline powered engine for about 10 mpg

reese125 · January 14, 2009, 12:53:28 PM

we've seen the gas + electric, but next year youre going to see the mass production of all battery cars

its going to be strange one day when all of us are saying, "damn Im out of power..need to go the power station."

rjs246 · January 14, 2009, 12:55:59 PM

It won't really be that strange.

PoopyfaceMcGee · January 14, 2009, 12:57:57 PM

It'll only be strange when I travel forward in time and check out 2015. I can't wait for the Skyway and using your thumbprint for everything.

reese125 · January 14, 2009, 12:58:55 PM

Quote from: rjs246 on January 14, 2009, 12:55:59 PM
It won't really be that strange.

I love you

Phanatic · January 14, 2009, 04:10:58 PM

I'm not sold on the gas electric idea yet.

Tomahawk · January 14, 2009, 04:23:23 PM

Quote from: reese125 on January 14, 2009, 12:53:28 PM
we've seen the gas + electric, but next year youre going to see the mass production of all battery cars

its going to be strange one day when all of us are saying, "damn Im out of power..need to go the power station."

Why wouldn't I just plug it in at home instead of going to the power station?