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Testudo on May 12, 2006 - 11:33pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
With the price of a barrel over $70, we are now exporting over a Billion dollars per day for oil.  Wow!
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fleam on May 12, 2006 - 11:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Yes $70 is the new $50, no more remarks on it on the radio, etc.   - except if it goes down a buck we'll hear about oil prices "plunging".

I was hanging out at the Barefoot Coffee Roastery or some damn name, in San Jose (which means probably Santa Clara) and it's next to a Bed Bath & Beyond, (f*ck yeah!) and the impatient SUV mommas going in and out and having near-misses with each other made for a pretty hilarious show.

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Arch Stanton on May 13, 2006 - 1:12am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
some good news for a change ...

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003538016

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Engineer-Poet on May 13, 2006 - 6:23am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I wouldn't call a micro-car which is not street-legal, holds one small-framed person and averages 18 MPH anything but a curiosity.  I could do better than that with deep-cycle batteries and a hub motor or two.
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undeadFiz on May 13, 2006 - 9:56am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I already do better. I call my super-fuel efficient vehicle
a "bicycle". I'm gonna get around to trademarking that name
someday. And unlike that 8,000 mpg hat-box, the bicycle will
travel uphill as well.

I'd love to see the 8,000 mpg vehicle survive a snowy winter
and a blazing hot summer. No AC or heat, cramped up in a tiny
box. Good luck.

We need a new mindset, not an unpleasant little box in which to
squeeze our bodies. Take that cage and shove it.

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WebHubbleTelescope on May 13, 2006 - 10:03am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The laws have to change. We have to start by dropping the concept of "street legal".

We shouldn't have to license a canoe. (at least in my state)

You get the picture.

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undeadFiz on May 13, 2006 - 10:18am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The picture I get is one of mad-max style vehicles without
any exhaust controls spewing tons of blue/black smoke into
the atmosphere. I like controls on what motorized vehicles
can be driven on a road.

I have to agree though that a human powered vehicle, such
as a canoe, should not require a license.

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Oilrig medic on May 13, 2006 - 1:33pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I think they require a license to make them more difficult to steal.
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