Posted on 08/28/2012 8:15:42 PM PDT by TigerClaws
I had a `70 VW, a `65 too, same mileage, but the `70 burned a little oil.
I adjusted the valves (feeler gauge) and the timing and dwell, replaced your plugs, changed the oil/gasket, etc.?
I miss lifting the hood of a car—or the Dub’s case, the rear hatch—and knowing exactly what I was looking at.
Cars will be made of cardboard.
Obama believes he can break the laws of physics as easily as he breaks the constitutional laws of the country.
Good point. That’s what they said all right. If it’s running purely on electricity shouldn’t it be getting 1,000,000,000,000 X 10 miles (minimum) per gallon of gasoline?
Maybe Detroit learned how to bottle electricity, like catching a fart in a bottle?
Government Motors: It isn’t *what* they know, it’s what **don’t** they know. How could guys this smart go bankrupt?
My 69 Bug still gets around 30 mpg...and I can work on it myself, without a garage full of computers.
Democrats don’t believe their own spin, if it is that easy to improve fuel economy, why not 150mpg? why not 300mpg?
I didn’t build this, ah?
“as it is written, so shall it be” ‘The Ten Comandments’
or
“Twang your magic twanger Frogy” ‘Andy Devine Show’
Obama looking to turn America into a version of East Germany and the Trabbant car.
Although Trabants had been exported from East Germany, they became well known in the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall when many were abandoned by their Eastern owners after migrating westward.
News reports inaccurately described them as having cardboard bodies. This is likely due to the fact that the body of the Trabant was Duroplast, a material that, in East German production, often made use of varying quantities of different fibres, such as cotton, or occasionally paper.
Plus, if the thing sets in the garage, it get fantastic mileage.
And what exactly are trucks going to haul with that?
Basically instead of having one truch wholing 10 bales of hay, farmers will have to get 10 trucks to do that and the fuel consumption will be worse.
“I had a 62 VW bug back in the 60’s that got 30 mpg. Sixty years later the technology is only able to go to 44 mpg..kinda sad really”
Physics & Chemistry have not changed in those intervening years.
Force = Mass x Acceleration (Cars are heavier now, so that hurts mileage. Aerodynamics are better, which helps)
The amount of energy in a gallon of gas has not changed. Engines are marginally more efficient and in many newer cars, some of the momentum is recovered when braking. However, about 1/3 of the energy drives the car, another third is lost through the radiator and the remaining third goes out the tailpipe as heat. (these are rough percentages. actual figures are all +/- 10%) BMW and others are working to recover some of the lost energy in the exhaust. All turbocharged cars recover a bit of this energy.
“BINGO! The effect of these rules will be to effectively outlaw new cars. We’ll all be putting around in fifty year old derelicts like they do in Cuba.”
That’s why they had cash for clunkers destroy the perfectly good cars. So people could not do that.
Physics don't change - friction, heat etc. What has changed is cars having electric windows, air conditioning, air bags, seatbelts, headrests, electronic entertainment systems with multiple speakers, more sound proofing, multiple mirrors, etc. Also, electronics put a drag on the alternator which requires using more gas. So I think we're doing pretty good getting better mileage with all that extra weight and electrical use. I'm impressed. My fun car is a 1966 Datsun with 150hp that still gets 28 mpg. But I do like the comfort of modern cars.
All we have to do is start building cars and trucks that run on natural gas. Most of the towel heads will have to ride bicycles, asses and camels when the cash flow into the Middle East drops precipitously.
Actually I'm really looking forward to a viable electric, with the instant torque of a electric they would just scream...
We will each get 1 donkey to ride to the rice patties and 1 large basket to put on our heads as we travel to work and back..
Try pulling a boat up a ramp with one of those vehicles.
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