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   barticle35 said, 11 months ago

   Gets 50 miles to a gallon of swill.
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   jhughey said, 11 months ago

   Leading-edge technology at GM, Ford, and Chrysler.
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   Terry Cox said, 11 months ago

   I love how the pig and horse are looking at each other. :)
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   Prof danglais said, 11 months ago

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   …and of course the right DO get it by depleting all non-renewable energy resources.
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   pouncingtiger said, 11 months ago

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   The right are no angels themselves. For one of several examples, Weapons of Mass Destruction. Also, W’s Iraq War kill 1000 more Americans than the terrorists did on 9/11.
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   Hillbillyman said, 11 months ago

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   I concur
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   DrBonehead said, 11 months ago

   OK, I like this one! One herbivore tied to one omnivore. Sounds like my wife and me.
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   spamster said, 11 months ago

   course this particular model only turns left.
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   William Pursell said, 11 months ago

   Aye…..if the Wiz wants to keep Blanche occupied,he can put her in it and watch it go around in circles to the left until the horse needs to be fed.
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    revisages said, 11 months ago

    they say that a Prius is no more efficient than a Hummer
    
    reason being, the Prius drivers drive them much harder
    
    with the psychology that they’re doing more to save the environment by driving more
    
    kinda like you care about oral health so much you want to clean your teeth vigorously
    
    so you brush harder until the enamel comes right off
    
    and you guessed it, the teeth fall out anyway
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    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 11 months ago

    re: Prof danglais

    As a geologist, bio and engineer who has worked both for the Corps of Engineers in engineering and for NMFS in endangered species, I see no reason not to use what we have.
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    The idea of biofuels is indeed a stupid one. Reuters reported that we now turn 20% of our grain into fuel. The USDA indicates that we are turning more than 35 million tons of grain into ethanol, which is a net energy sink.
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    Why? The ethanol itself uses an immense amount of diesel, natural gas and coal in the farming, distilling and distribution phases. Tilling, planting, fertilizers, pesticides.
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    Of the initial energy in the corn, 98% is lost in the fermentation process. Yeast yield only 2% of the original carbohydrate as ethanol. That alone should have eliminated ethanol as a fuel. Then, by adding 10% ethanol to gasoline, average mileage per gallon is reduced an average of 30%, which means that the ethanol added is increasing the petroleum use by 20%, per mile driven.
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    In other words, we could reduce gasoline use by 20% just by eliminating the ethanol.
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    Now, if we were to create a system of breeder reactors and use the electricity to hydrolize hydrogen from water, we could eliminate fossil fuels in our transporatation/commuting. But nothing short of that level of energy density is going to replace petroleum.
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    Ah, but nuke’s bad, they claim. You can thank Jimmy Carter for starting the waste problem by stopping the reprocessing program. No congress of either side has seen fit to restart it since.
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    Few people know the danger of doing a sloppy job like the Soviets or Japan better than I do. There’s a reason that my thyroid is gone. (Hanford, downwind, 1969…)
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    What about Japan? First, no planning for disasters. Second, no containment. Nothing like our meter thick cast iron containment dome, such as the one that stopped the products from the meltdown at 3 mile island from leaving the spot. (Yes, it melted down. Worst case. From sabotage, no less. Despite that, cancer rates have never increased in the surrounding counties, which of course is reasonable as no actual radioactive material left the building.) Nothing like our 400 pcf concrete with steel shot for aggregate.
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    I would give a lot to know who spiked our sensors with I-131 from hospital stocks. The idea of a particle with a density of 4100 times that of air traveling 5000 miles in the winter, despite snow and rain is ludicrous. Chernobyl’s didn’t travel that far and they were lofted much higher in the atmosphere to start with, from a hot, continuous fire.
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    AKHenderson said, 11 months ago

    When the motor breaks down, it can be recycled into bacon and glue.
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    gmartin997 said, 11 months ago

    That shouldn’t be a problem for the Wiz. He can the zap the pit into a horse, and use Blanche as a spare.
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    finkd said, 11 months ago

    @Terry Cox

    Wait until they get home and see Henry !
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    finkd said, 11 months ago

    @DrBonehead

    Which one are you ?
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