Posted on 03/22/2006 5:50:00 PM PST by wagglebee
What you save in hybrids will be made up for by insurance for it. Those little cars don't look very sturdy for impact IMO.
It's off topic but since Larry David is mentioned here goes. Last night my wife and I finished our "Curb Your Enthusiasm" marathon by watching the finale of the fourth season on DVD (we'll watch season 5 once it's available). The show is absolutely hilarious, a true work of genius. Throughout the show David subtly mocks liberals and liberal pieties. I know he's a big-time Dem contributor but I agree with Ann Coulter that he's actually a closet conservative. It's just that in the circle he moves in he has to behave as if he's a liberal.
Larry David may be like Sonny Bono. Back in the 60's and 70's everyone assumed that Sonny was a big leftist, then he runs for office as one of the most conservative Republicans to come out of California since Reagan.
No problem Rushbo, it's your money, but lemme tell ya, those CFLBs are a real money saver. They use approximately 1/4 the electricity as a conventional bulb. But if ya don't mind paying four times as much for your electricity, ignore the new technology. You probably got more money than me anyhow.
I put them in the lamps in my house that get the greatest usage, and I've seen a dramatic drop in my electric bills.
I also use them at my deer camp, and they draw so little current that I am able to light the place with a 12-volt battery.
Congress and the envirowhackos not allowing us to drill in our own country are the ones hurting us.
Your collective reasoning is off base.
Perhaps. But IMO to whatever extent he drives, and there is a higher mileage vehicle available that preforms pretty much the same function, he's making a choice to add to our national difficulties.
I perform home inspections for a living, and I could easily "justify" to myself a larger and lower mileage vehicle to haul my tools and ladders. And if I buy a really big (or at least really heavy) vehicle the government will (IMO perversely) let me take a big deduction for purchasing it.
I choose not to do so because it appears to me that one of the biggest threats facing my country is dependence on imported oil and the subsidies this forces us to pay to repressive states with a distasted for our freedoms and a proven track record of sponsoring attacks on Americans - it seems crazy to me to give these guys a dime more that we have to, especially as the marginal practical advantage for me to use such a vehicle for my work is small.
And it appears to me that is likely also he case for Mr. Limbaugh - that if he wants either luxury or performance he can have plenty of ether in vehicles that aren't at the bottom of the list for energy efficiency, while I doubt that he has a pressing need to tow 6,000 lbs or haul 50 sheets of drywall home at a time.
And when I encounter someone who is proud of burning more gas than the next guy to get himself and his cargo from from point A to point B I “just don't get it” - sure he's got a “right” to do it, but the practical result – a weaker America – is the exact opposite of the things Mr. Limbaugh he says he stands for.
Hehe,
Very good.
Actually the place is pretty nice and I'm not usually into crowds. The big water slide takes your breath away. Being bought by the UAE, I hear, so I guess we will not see too many FReepers over there!
I saw the new lotus at 12-Hours at Sebring last year. Pretty impressive. Have you seen it? I almost bit but giving up all that tourque in my Vette would be tough.
Power plant turbine/alternator sets do run at a constant speed, so that we get a constant frequency of AC (60 Hz around here).
However, let's say you switch your light bulb from a 60W incandescent to a, say, 12W fluorescent (giving the equivalent light output). Now, you've just reduced your power consumption by 48W. The power company does indeed have regulators to keep your line voltage (more or less) stable, so your current consumption goes down.
That reduced power/current consumption now ripples back up the distribution system all the way to that ultra-monster turbine/alternator. Due to voltage regulators and steam throttles and boiler thermostats and oil pump regulators and such, the horsepower being delivered to the alternator goes from 100,000 horsepower to 99,999.98 horsepower. The oil flow to the boiler's burner goes from 50,000 gallons per day to 49,999.998 gallons per day. (I made that oil number up.)
Bear in mind, this all happened because you unscrewed your incandescent bulb and screwed in a fluorescent one.
Now, people in your area duplicate your action by 60,000 times. Now the power plant has decreased its oil consumption 60,000 x .002, or 120 gallons, per day.
And, of course, a similar effect obtains for power plants using other energy sources.
One final comment. 120 gallons of oil savings per day at the power plant looks like a drop in the bucket, so to speak, for all that Green light-bulb-switchin' goin' on. But remember that I made up those oil numbers, so the savings might be more significant than that. Or maybe less. < ]B^)
My SL has the 155mph limiter. To eliminate it requires two chips at over $500 each. I live with the limiter.
They want you to hitchike around in sandals, filthy clothes and long hair. Just like them.
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