Thread: 35.5 mpg

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For man to imagine that we are significant enough to provide any impact of lasting consequence to the Earth is nothing short of laughable. Many of us here are old enough to remember the great "global cooling" scare of the early 1970's (chronicled by Newsweek - see article at http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm).

The New York Times has been warning of climate change for over a hundred years, but can't decide if the killer will be a freeze or a heat wave (see http://www.businessandmedia.org/spec...fireandice.asp).

We certainly need to be good stewards of what we have been entrusted - but realize in the "big picture" we are but dust mites in the corner of the universe. I for one, want to live my life to the fullest and enjoy the years that God sees fit to give me. To love those close to me, share with those less fortunate (through other than government sponsored welfare programs!) and not worry to much about the things that are so obviously beyond my control.

That said - I do vote and am more than willing to stand for what I believe to be true and just -don't mess with my family, don't tell me where I can go to church, don't tell me what I can or can't drive and know that the guns in my house are ready to use to defend what I hold dear.

Regards All,
Glenn

glen I agree you and those links you found, lest we forget another 70's b.s. scare of acid rain is killing the vegetation there will be no plants left to make oxygen all the crops will fail everybody on earth will die from lack of o2 or starve. but the caught N.B.C. doctoring phony pictures. and gave up on that one. then save the wales said all the oceans in the world would die no more fish we will all die in ten yrs. then we had the hole in the ozone because you had a/c in your car the hospitals would be over run treating skin cancer we will all die but we changed to 134 but only here no other country wanted to burden the people with that farce. but were always that this this is a CRISIS. ( of course it always comes with the by line children the poor and minorities hit worst ) OK sorry for rambling must have stood in the hot sun too long .....ted

Preach on Glenn and Ted, love it!!
If R134 safe, why do you have to recover it? Because somebody made recovery machines and still wants to sell them?
Home Depot considers Latex paint Hazmat, hmm, water based paint is hazardous..
Yes you can build a 100 MPG car w/10 HP, but people want to travel at 35 or better.
Obama wants $6 a gallon gas so the new "green" GM will suceed. I'll buy Ford. Of course we still want performance and don't want to drive smart cars. Europe has been living with $3+ gas for over 20 years and they do optimize small engines, but I want a BBC in a gas guzzler with $1 a gallon gas, but it's not worth it for America to pump oil if oil is cheap, hell we can't even get it out of the ground as proven during the $4 a gallon days. I guess the cold war is over and we don't have to protect are reserves anymore, and the worst part is they will find alternative fuels and all of our reserves will be worthless.

I save gas all week...drive to the shop, drive home. Local parts stores deliver parts, other places deliver lunch.... An ugly little Lumina we "inherited" from a tow gets reasonably good mileage, I spend about $15.00 to go back and forth to work for 2 weeks.... if I'm working in my garage, it's 20 steps out the back door.......


Don't even tell me we can't play with our 3 or 4 MPG on E-85 big block Fords on the weekend!!!!!!! (and I don't even have time to ride along most weekends) Oh yeah, the diesel we tow with does about 16 mpg and only gets driven on weekends...Oh yeah, bio-diesel in the toter.... I do my share....leave me alone!!!!

Oh yeah,,,and with all the talk on saving fuel, the state won't let me drive my electric golf cart back and forth to the shop?????

Dave, Here we can drive ATV's and golf carts on the road, but I think I'm the only one that drives a golf cart. I raised mine total of 9" and put larger tires on it. I still have to put the headlights & tail lights in. (not the cheap fog type lights) and some other toys on it.

Pat

I don't know what kind of "mileage" this golf cart gets, but sure would be fun to drive. Not far from where I live, there is a retirement community called "King City" where it is legal to drive golf carts on all roads with speed limits less than 35MPH. Let me tell you, this baby will definitely keep up with the traffic. While this is a stock photo, the two old gals I saw in one of these were having a great time and getting a lot of "thumbs up" from everyone who saw this thing. For about $4,000 - you too could be driving a Hummer golf cart!

Kewl stuff!!!! The speed limits on the streets of this berg of a town are generally 20 mph, I've added brake lights, directionals, and a horn to make it legal and still no dice..... However, if it was a gas engine instead of an electric motor, everything would be fine and I could drive it in town........

Government is the best organization I've ever seen that can constantly contradict itself, waste lots of other peoples money, operate at a financial loss year after year, and still continue to function!!!!!!

For $4000.00 I'd drive a different body, I'm anti Hummer look alikes, I like the real one to much! How about something these?

Now those are some golf carts!! - I think the marshal at my local course may have a bit of a problem with these bad boys, but he'd never catch me in his Cushman!!

just give me a Tesla