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Voting for her because she is a woman is sexist. Voting for her because she is the best candidate for you is being responsible. I don't care about John McCain's penis.

I do not dispute that grid electricity is here to stay. However, the business model for grid electricity in the next ten years is poised to change. The price per watt for solar panels has cratered since the late 1970s. By the way, Carter put the panels ON the White House, and Reagan took them OFF. California has a million solar roof initiative, and most states have some form of net metering. What net metering is, by the way, is that the utility must buy extra electricity from houses with solar panels, by law. Since electricity is more expensive during the day, a single solar panel will immediately start saving a family money. Electrical utilities serve at the pleasure of the state legislature. Electricity is about to change the face of motive energy.

If a household does not have electricity, chances are they either don't want electricity, or have bigger worries than motive energy costs. Nice try with that strawman, though. Electricity has to remain competitive, and if electrical utilities don't want to lose their shirts to solar panels, micro wind, and the simple act of turning off the TV, they will have to raise their rates slowly. Motive energy should be a cash cow for electrical utilities, not a reason for people to drop off the grid.

Yes, it is obviously true that increased demand will affect the supply, and thereby the cost. However, a fifty mile charge at ten cents a kilowatt is a dollar. At twenty cents, it's two dollars. A DOUBLING of the cost is practically painless. Moreover, since plug-in hybrids will have gasoline tanks, they could stockpile their gasoline, thereby making prices for both commodities competitive with one another. Remember, petroleum has been king shit as the motive energy carrier since the 1920s. It simply has not needed to compete with natural gas, electricity, propane, hydrogen, ethanol, butanol, or biodiesel. Let's say natural gas got a five per cent market share, propane got a two and a half, ethanol got a ten percent market share, butanol got a two and a half, Hydrogen got a two and a half, electricity got a 20 per cent market share, and Biodiesel got a two and a half market share in the coming ten years. That's a cut of forty five per cent of the motive energy market. Petroleum has a ninety five per cent cut right now. Now, the oil cartels can sell their product on the open market. A forty five per cent loss in market share in North America would simply mean they can kill any alternatives budding in China and India. Energy companies, like BP, Conoco Phillips, Shell... they will want in on this new paradigm shift. Shell can sell diesel and gasoline in China, and solar panels and natural gas in North America. Every house in North America has electricity. United Solar Ovonics is hiring 400 new people in Greenville. The Chevy Volt is green lighted. There is no gas crisis. There is a motive energy opportunity.

Ok, I risk a flame-storm, but... Every house in America has electricity. A kilowatt of electricity averages ten cents in this country. A kilowatt of electricity will propel a car five miles or so. We have the battery technology today to go fifty miles on one charge. The average commute is less than forty miles. The Chevy Volt is green lighted. I predict that half of the new car fleet in ten years will have some electric complement to the internal combustion engine. We have the technology to convert every drop of flue gas from coal power plants into biodiesel from algae. We get half of our electricity from coal. We have 200 years worth of coal. United Solar Ovonics is hiring 400 people in Greenville. The Chevy Volt is Green lighted. Coal companies can sell what was once waste as fuel. There's a gas crisis?

How much on a pound per pound ratio does carbon fiber rate against steel in cost, and how much steel do you need versus how much carbon fiber would you need? Steel is a 150 year old product, just like petroleum.

Would such a light vehicle pass today's safety standards, let alone emissions?

Maybe an RV dealer that sells diesel RVs and owns a waste grease processing plant on the side...

Strike that... reverse it. There are about four liters in a gallon.

GM just shut down four Truck and SUV plants... I will bet you a gallon of gas that they will be retooled for small cars.

McCain. May was the least deadly month for Americans since the beginning of the Iraq war. The change in strategy is working. When was the last time you saw mention of the war on MSNBC?

Yeah, I tend to only drive during the daylight hours. I REALLY hate people that cut me off. I swear to God Almighty, Creator of All We Survey, that I have never been cut off by a minivan or a sedan / "car"... it's ALWAYS been heavy trucks or SUVs. I mean, the family has a truck. Trucks are useful, but we sure as hell don't cut motorcyclists off.

When was the last time you replaced your air filter? Yeah... you should get on that.

Now, as a delivery person, I drive for a job. I know, right? However, what I drive, a 50... er, 49.5 cubic centimeter Kymco Agility 50, priced to sell at $1,797 two years ago, costs me 5.7 cents a mile at four dollars a gallon to ride. Now, Chernobyl's 36 mile to the gallon ride, (The EPA is padding that number, believe me) costs 11.1 cents a mile on the highway. Remember, this is at four dollars a gallon. Now, the cruising speed of my Kymco is 45 miles an hour or so. Cher can go seventy miles an hour or more. For the privilege of driving with maniacs on the highway, she pays twice as much as me to ride. Twice as much, being charitable, mind you. So, It would take me three hours to get from my home to Michigan and Washington street in Detroit, and cost me three dollars and 32 cents, round trip. It would cost Cher $7.90 from my house and back, and would take an hour and 22 minutes, round trip. Now, I never go to Michigan and Washington, but I paid $1,797 for my ride. I can go any where I want. It will take me longer, but... I LIKE my ride. Now, assuming I get around to putting my motor endorsement on my license, I can get a used 650 cc for about $1,750, and get around sixty miles to the gallon. I still won't go on the highways if I can avoid it.

They are poor. Their deaths, like the deaths from the tsunami, do nothing to affect global commerce. They are not white. If such a disaster happened in Europe, North America, or Australia, the world would shudder.

Simply put, cutting emissions is the one thing that NO ONE should disagree with.

Help change his oil for spring.

Muffins

Get into an argument on what would be the best way to utilize the Froot Loop Fuel...

Not lately. Although ever since I have been sleeping over at my girlfriend's house, I have been looking in to making breakfast for her... What's a good breakfast for your significant other?

In a prior life, traveled Europe with a band of Roma Gypsies that adopted him from an orphanage at sixteen, and played a fiddle for money.

Paint a landscape in abstract from a picture he took.

Nintendos. Parrots or Ninja wives?