Thanks. They do detail the electric grid “long tailpipe” question, but don’t go anywhere near the battery production - may be the most significant pollition element in the manufacturing of electric vehicles. Certainly alternative/renewable electricty production will get more efficient, but it’s the batteries leaving…

I’m curious about their battery supply - all the way back to the rare-earth mines (in regulation friendly [aka: none/de-regulated] place like Australia& China - where dirty strip-mining is first carried out, then a dirty smelting process, then materials are shipped to places like Germany(?) Korea(?) and other places…

It’s not like they gave away any actual race data or results

In MA, USA you’re looking at $10-$15/pack depending upon brand (several dollar$ in state-tax “sin taxes”). At those prices, even 24/7/365 420 ends up looking more-economical...

when I was 17, my best friend killed himself two days after his girlfriend dumped him (at Homecoming...) His actions WERE NOT HER FAULT. At all. Bottom line, some dudes take things too damn hard and can’t see any future

this pisses me off. forced-churn. I have a perfectly functioning 4s which meets all my needs - I don’t need a new phone, but now will HAVE TO buy one - ‘cause you know they’ll keep reminding me that I need to “upgrade” my IOS... (and fucking verizon will also ding me for my phone “upgrade”...)

Worst thing “forgotten” in the back seat? a puddle of spilled milk on the rear foot well carpet (8 oz, etc.). For the next 5 years (until gone) the car stank of rotten milk - was my Dad’s “company car” (1979 4 door chevy nova sedan)

I wish there was a short film depicting the reasons why some one needed that bra...

screw the airlines and all their lies. Name another industry that is allowed to sell product that does not exist (overbooked seats). It’s fraud, fuck them and their choke point networks. I’m building a flying car (really). Think about all the choke-points involved with roads, railways, airports, etc. A “small” (fit in…

Have issue with the “new” usage in the ads. In most states, referring to cars as “new” can only legally be done if the car has never been titled to an owner. Only a 1st-owner’s title will list “new” and any ensuing title must legally say “used.” If the car is 2 years old, 7000 miles on it - there is no way it is “new”…

He was gay and couldn’t deal with it - too much cultural-hate/fear/ignorance poured into him by.. Daddy?... someone, for sure. His last-minute pledge to isis was only a ruse designed to posthumously control the conversations about him. Violent homophobia is ALWAYS only one thing - a sexuality tortured person who hates…

seems to me, even though its fast, it’ll still be another “choke point” (security lines, etc.) give me my own 250 mph personal quadcopter. don’t give us more choke pints

How can that be of more utility to the city than simply auctioning them off (Far away from the city, like say central MA...) Even if the city only ultimately got 10-cents-on-the-Craigslist-dollar-value it’d be cash in pocket. I bet these guys would love to haul them away and sell them for the city - http://www.argocycl…

I always like to imagine the meeting which precedes anything like this:

Not always. They can be hard-ass, but I’ve had one in a “low profile” (aka: unmarked) Ford Expedition - who, all truth be told, I unwittingly flew past on my very fast 800cc sport bike, knitting through medium weight speed-limit-plus-traffic, me doing an extra 15 to everyone else’s, 85 let’s call it. This guy (50's…

“Frederic V. Malek, Senior Advisor of the Carlyle Group, Washington, D.C.”<- this one is especially foretelling

an 18 year-old bike being slowly cobbled together into a race bike by an amateur privateer racer (who is carrying a LOT of extra “ballast”) vs. 2 brand new purpose-built high performance vehicles, one of which is at least a half-million $ current season professional racecar? seems like a sensible comparison... (not)…

Better check & see if Terry Bollea has a late-model Honda registered in Bellvue, WA

thanks for the history lesson, but again, anybody is allowed to make-up anything they want - artistically speaking. So if someone says “this is my family crest” well then that IS their family crest

hard-line-conservative-(closeted-gay-man) still does not compute... and from South Carolina to boot (which ironically seems less conservative than North Carolina today - I used to live in NC and formerly wanted to move back there to Asheville, but oh well.. so I’m allowed to judge them)