Bush vs Science

[archenemy]

"then you should all be jumping for joy every time the price goes up by $1 a gallon"

 

Another stupid conclusion.

 

You don't have to be an 'ecosaint' to try to affect change do you? What an utterly stupid idea. Why do you consistently argue that only the most extreme endpoint of personal behavior should be attempted otherwise why bother trying? It's exactly the same kind of argument as 'If you support the Iraq war, then you should go enlist'

 

High oil prices will do more to encourage fuel efficiency than anything else - much more effective than sneering from behind the wheel of the volvo.

 

Related Note - this years MPG info:

 

Subaru Outback: 21/26

Volvo V70R AWD: 18/24

Jeep Commander 4WD: 16/19

Lexus LS 470: 18/25

Audi TT Roadster: 20/28

Honda Insight: 60/66.

Dodge Caravan 18/25.

Hummer H3: 16/19.

Chevy Tahoe 15/19.

Toyota 4-Runner 17/21.

Chevy Impala 18/28.

Toyota Camry 24/34.

 

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/FEG2006.pdf

Corvette 7.o LS7 V8 16/26 I am wet

[cj001f]

Corvette 7.o LS7 V8 16/26 I am wet

 

Powering the home "appliances" with a V8 now? Can you say desensitized

[archenemy]

Corvette 7.o LS7 V8 16/26 I am wet

 

Powering the home "appliances" with a V8 now? Can you say desensitized

Not as quickly as I can say, "Are you in yet?"

But you've heard that one before.

[JayB]

While not fond of the Volvo stickers; it's easier to paste that on then actually DOING anything, the assumtion that driving a small car vs an SUV amounts to negligible differences is false, and your ususal elitist derision for such efforts punctuates lack of comprehension.

 

Maybe this is why you're driving one around Boston:

 

Fred J. Schaafsma, a top engineer for General Motors, says, "Sport-utility owners tend to be more like 'I wonder how people view me,' and are more willing to trade off flexibility or functionality to get that. " According to Bradsher, internal industry market research concluded that S.U.V.s tend to be bought by people who are insecure, vain, self-centered, and self-absorbed, who are frequently nervous about their marriages, and who lack confidence in their driving skills. Ford's S.U.V. designers took their cues from seeing "fashionably dressed women wearing hiking boots or even work boots while walking through expensive malls. " Toyota's top marketing executive in the United States, Bradsher writes, loves to tell the story of how at a focus group in Los Angeles "an elegant woman in the group said that she needed her full-sized Lexus LX 470 to drive up over the curb and onto lawns to park at large parties in Beverly Hills. " One of Ford's senior marketing executives was even blunter: "The only time those S.U.V.s are going to be off-road is when they miss the driveway at 3 a. m. " --from High and Mighty, Kieth Bradsher

 

I have a '94 Toyota Pickup with a canopy that I leave parked except for my weekly exodus out of Boston on the weekends. Great for carrying skis, boards, kayaks, etc - and/or crashing at trailheads. And " changing the climate!!!

[cj001f]

Corvette 7.o LS7 V8 16/26 I am wet

 

Powering the home "appliances" with a V8 now? Can you say desensitized

Not as quickly as I can say, "Are you in yet?"

But you've heard that one before.

Rosie and her sisters never say that!

[archenemy]

Corvette 7.o LS7 V8 16/26 I am wet

 

Powering the home "appliances" with a V8 now? Can you say desensitized

Not as quickly as I can say, "Are you in yet?"

But you've heard that one before.

Rosie and her sisters never say that!

That's because you have their mouths full

[foraker]

And " changing the climate!!!

 

Once again showing that you can't be taken seriously. Anything that emits carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, etc is 'changing the climate'. It's a matter of degree but then that fact seems to elude you.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Funny, I drive a truck. Actually, I have two of them: one to drive and one I just work on and enter in shows.

I cannot understand how your world is so cleanly cut into Republicans, Democrats, and idiots who don't vote. Obviously, I am the idiot. But you, my friend, are a piece of work--you got it all figured out.

 

 

it's spray, and sometimes it's just fun to rattle the cage and stir up the monkeys.

[Cobra_Commander]

or apparently act like an oxygen-starved baboon

[KaskadskyjKozak]

or apparently act like an oxygen-starved baboon

 

I see you're a graduate of the Pee-Wee Herman school of debate.

 

[Cobra_Commander]

That would be the "president" based on this morning's press "conference".

[Johnny_Tuff]

That would be the "president" based on this morning's press "conference".

 

How dare you insult that man?! He is a college graduate!

[Mos_Chillin]

Science is something I actually got passing grade in.

 

You know yer gonna have my posse on yer ass.

[Johnny_Tuff]

You know yer gonna have my posse on yer ass.

 

I don't swing that way, pervo.

[catbirdseat]

Science is something I actually got passing grade in.

 

You know yer gonna have my posse on yer ass.

Well, duh, it obviously wasn't English.

[Gary_Yngve]

How dare you insult that man?! He is a college graduate!

 

I should point out that he's a graduate of some pansy pandering lame-ass Ivy League school that has some of the highest grade inflation in the nation.

 

A much more respectable ex-President, Jimmy Carter, is a graduate of Georgia Tech, an engineering school, where they don't believe in grade inflation. Because if you can't do your shit right, things crash and explode.

 

Though I can't find exact data, the average ugrad GPA at an Ivy school is around 3.4, and at GT, around 2.8.

[Cobra_Commander]

stupid ivy leaguers!