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GM's Bob Lutz: Global warming is a "total crock of sh*t" {Autoblog Green}
Feb 13th 2008 9:57AM Time to boycott new car sales especially GM. Kick 'em while their down.
"For the fourth quarter, GM posted a loss of $722 million, or $1.28 per share, "
Does the airbag waiver mean the Tesla Roadster isn't safe for kids? {Autoblog Green}
Feb 11th 2008 9:05PM Just trying to see how closed minded people are. I have known quite a few people who killed themselves and their friends with highway darwinism. I don't really understand the overwhelming desire of people to protect their "right' to engage in dangerous behavior but the less people on the planet the better the quality of life will be for the rest. We do not have a right to ever increasing HP or to endanger the lives of others with vehicles that are rediculously over powered for the purpose of personal mobility. We do not have a right to continue to destroy the habitability of the planet with absurd technology. The assumption that what we are doing today in transportations is reasonable is just nonsense. This is an ever so brief moment in the evolution of technology. On a resource constrained planet such entitlement to the More-Bigger-Faster lifestyle will increasing be restricted. Enjoy it while you can, Rojo
Does the airbag waiver mean the Tesla Roadster isn't safe for kids? {Autoblog Green}
Feb 11th 2008 1:51PM People do many things that are not in their own best interest and the love of speed in cars is just one of many"supersize me", advertising manipulated behaviors that are just not smart much less necessary to or an entitled part of personal mobility.
The following is from an article about the 2005 Detroit auto show titled Hold Your Horse Power.
"The big "more" of the auto show is more horsepower. Eighteen models on display at the show boasted 500 horsepower or more.
Do you think there's a "right" to horsepower? Puh-leeze. Perhaps you've got a right to horsepower for vehicles used exclusively on private property. Cars and SUVs are driven on public roads, and courts have consistently held that government can regulate vehicles for public safety and for public-interest issues such as pollution reduction and petroleum savings. You don't have any "right" to test a rocket engine in the street or drive a bulldozer on the highway, because such things imperil public safety. High horsepower, which imperils public safety, needs to be regulated.
But suppose you don't care about petroleum imports, greenhouse gases (which are proportional to fuel burned), or the fact that aggressive, overpowered cars and SUVs are a root cause of road rage, which makes driving unpleasant for everyone. Wouldn't you still care that more horsepower means more people dead--especially, more young people dead?
All this power makes it increasingly easy for drivers, especially young drivers, to get in trouble. A Ford LTD of the 1960s, the sort of land yacht so many Boomers learned to drive on, did zero-to-sixty in 13 or 14 seconds--you had to work really hard to spin it out. A car that does zero-to-sixty in just a few seconds, on the other hand, is distressingly easy to lose control of. High-horsepower cars that gain lots of speed with just a touch of the throttle are practically a death sentence for teens or careless drivers. Horsepower, surely, is the reason road fatality numbers aren't dropping much, despite the spread of air bags, antilock brakes, and other safety improvements."
by Greg Easterbrook
GM CEO asks car dealerships to lobby state, local government against regulating tailpipe emissions {Autoblog Green}
Feb 10th 2008 11:53PM Time for a boycott of all new cars from Detroit that don't get 40 mpg or even better don't buy new until they bring out a plug-in in every model. Its time we got serious about the future of the planet and quit thinking we are entitled to drive bigger, faster cars. It would not really even be a sacrifice to cut horsepower back by 25 - 50% if it meant we would leave the world in better shape.
Does the airbag waiver mean the Tesla Roadster isn't safe for kids? {Autoblog Green}
Feb 10th 2008 11:42PM No car that does 0 to 60 this fast is safe for kids or anyone else in the car or standing near by. Speed Kills and the more power the more likely the driver is to loose control. I would be more impressed if Tesla had built a car with 400 mile range like the Sunrise built by Solectria in the 1990s.
Magnetic Power Inc.'s GENIE technology is supposed to do eight great things {Autoblog Green}
Nov 25th 2007 9:14PM The Question is not "does a device exist that produces electricity without fuel?" That has been avaialble for years. It is called a solar panel. The question is "How much will this new device cost per watt?" The machine won't be free therefor the energy it produces has a cost. Will it wear out and need service or replacement? Yes Unlike the solid state PV panels on my roof which will be producing "free" power long after I am gone.
LA 2007: Porsche Cayenne Hybrid goes 75mph on battery power! {Autoblog Green}
Nov 15th 2007 11:49AM For the record the EV1 did 183mph on battery power although it was governor limited to 80mph.
