Agreed, but China is no longer a communist state. The Chinese Communist Party is a massive organization with some grass-roots democracy and internal meritocracy, and it runs a "market socialist" state with a mixture of state-owned enterprises and an open-market economy, using an iron fist. I'm no expert, but read [en.w…

Really?! You have to ask such stupid questions and lie? People ride bikes as a means of transportation, and paved roads were built for transportation. Bicycles are road legal, end of story. (And in my city illegal to ride on the sidewalk if you are over the age of 13.) Don't tell me to get off the road, asshole.

Mazda 3: 33 mpg combined - 28 city - 40 highway

In the real world Volt owners go hundreds or thousands of miles on cheap domestic electricity without filling up the gas tank, see [www.voltstats.net] . That's of value to some people for a variety of reasons, despite the car's high price.

economic growth ... comes from births and immigration and we aren't having children like we used to.

Fortunately for GM there are environmentalists who think for themselves:

You're probably right about battery packs and mpgs, but

How did 20,000+ Leaf and i-MiEV drivers become "no one"? Every morning you get in a car that you cheaply and overall-less-bad-for-the-environment recharged overnight, and you do your daily driving without stopping at a gas station. Sounds convenient to me. There are plenty of options for longer trips, including the…

(The French loanword you seek is cachet.)

No new car makes sense from an economic perspective, although putting the smallest engine and smallest wheels and tires on your chosen car saves $$ and gas. Buying a new car is throwing money away.

Nice fantasy, but how would GM have fitted that battery pack in a Malibu V? If they shrank the battery pack, then it wouldn't have the same all-electric range nor the power delivery. Plopping a smaller battery pack in the back would severely cut into trunk space, like the Ford Focus Electric. The Volt's battery along…

But it's exactly cars like the Volt that will turn GM's image around, far more than xTS-V 666 horsepower whatevers or yet another Malibu that's almost-no-really-just-as-good as the competition. "GM also reports that eighty-percent of Volt sales are also conquest sales, with the Toyota Prius being the most-traded in…

failed to sell whatsoever

I think selling 7,671 of the first production plug-in hybrid ever in the first year instead of 10,000 GM bravely (and foolishly) projected is far from epic failure. Not surprisingly, most cars sell less than their manufacturer hopes. For comparison, the Prius sold 5,600 in the USA its first year.

If people's experience of the rock and the trench in person is no better than the depiction on LACMA's web site, then this piece is not going to be a success.

The rock is going to sit in a "456-foot-long slot constructed on LACMA's campus", I think they're pretty committed to it!

You are an artist! I'm serious, contact an art gallery in Boulder and see if you can get the wheels turning.

That's your opinion, mine is Abstract Expressionism was one of the greatest things to happen in art. It's been 60 years since Pollock, de Kooning, Franz Kline and the fantastic Rothko did their thing. For what it's worth the best works are still rising in value because "idiots" really want to own them, and the mammoth…

You haven't even seen it and you're spouting your opinion as fact? Spare us.

Try "following links" before posting rhetorical questions. The boulder, plus the 456-foot-long slot it resides in, plus the surroundings, are the art piece. You might want to withhold judgment until you see it. Like Stonehenge, I doubt pictures will do it justice.