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Wait. Are the Olsen Twins still in the category of Our Betters or not? Gotta know before I decide if I should listen to them or not.
I don’t. You aren’t.
Hollywood: where the cars are smarter than the celebrities
Seems to me that if Obama wants to be all Castro and such, he should at least be good at it. How bright can you be to keep hitching the progressive cart to such obvious losers?
Rhetorical question, I know.
Oil executives who reap billions in federal subsidies, on the other hand, are Great God-Fearing Americans.
Rich folks buy these cars in a misguided belief that it somehow compensates for their overindulgence in every other aspect of their lives.
It doesn’t.
My cousin voted for Obama because we needed to do something about the environment. This cousin flies across the country every other week, and bragged that her baby, at one year, had already made 40 flights of his own.
But, you know, she recycles.
AJB, on the other hand, is dummerer than a bushel of boiled cabbage.
I’m sure the Olsen Twins must be sad that the Bush tax cuts may expire soon.
At least we’re full of fiber and essential vitamins, like vitamins A and C.
The Progressive AJB doesn’t grasp progressivism, JD.
Wait, corporations and businesses get together in a kind of corporatist / liberal fascist alliance?
Who knew?
The Great and Powerful Non Sequitor has spoken! Ignore that point behind the curtain, and look at the bunnies!!!!
Hey, you can go 40 whole miles in a Volt, bitches. 40 miles. You know how far that is?
LOL @ #9.
Yes, they park it in front of the house and take the Escalade.
Hey, you can go 40 whole miles in a Volt, bitches. 40 miles. You
And then you can charge up for three hours and go another 40 miles!
Of course, you may not want to use the radio. Or the air conditioner.
I’ll know the administration is really serious about the environment when they launch subsidies to make weasel poop coffee cheaper. It’s sustainable, you know…
I think the idea of the Olsen sister turning hot at 18 was much greater than the possibility they would end up hot, given the monchi-chi genetics they’ve been rocking since age 2.
Plus, they’re like stick figures. God knows I love a petite girl but if her ribs are sticking out to such an extent that sexual activity may be compromised, if not outright dangerous, then I’m not interested.
They’re still alive?
I did not know that.
#5 They bought their current congress and president fair and square.
The electricity to charge those batteries appears as if by magic. Not only that, but all those nasty chemicals involved in making the batteries evaporates when Unicorns touch it.
Here’s something progressives just cannot understand: when there is a viable electric car design that can be built for a price that will sell, it will appear, and people will buy it because it makes economic sense to them. The battery (or other electric storage) technology is simply not there yet at a good enough price to make it work. However, to a progressive, wishing (or legislating) will make it so. That’s because they are morons.
Finding the Olsen twins attractive is a lot like giving love to matching kabob skewers with flesh bags.
Ugh.
AJB would rather not deal with the fact that electric cars will be powering themselves upon a grid that is still over 80% fossil fuel run. Snap your fingers, AJB and make it so!
Facts: The other white meat!
Not only are they ridiculously expensive, but the battery packs will probably be scrap before the payment book is done.
I once rode in an electric car back in the 70s. I can still remember its salient features: tiny, whiny, and slow.
So y’all are sayin’ Obama’s pouring more of the taxpayer’s money down a rathole? Damn. Who knew?
Hayek knew.
Why you dissin’ my hobby, Willis?
The last “electric” car I saw was a Prius. It was adorned with Obama and enviroNazi stickers, and it pulled into the handicapped parking spot I was walking by. The driver then pulled the disabled placard out of the glovebox or whatever, clipped it to the rear-view mirror, and nimbly hopped out and briskly trotted her skinny Birkenstocked ass into the store.
Oliver Willis is bigger than a Prius.
I can think of a couple of people I’d kill to own a Tesla Roadster. Of course, they’re people I’d kill for a nice steak dinner, but I digress.
Every Prius I see has an Obama sticker on it. I always think of that South Park episode on Prius drivers loving the smell of their own farts.
My farts smell like Pixie dust.
Y’know, if AJB just wrote “petroleum subsidies are also a bad idea, and they’re friggin’ huge,” we might have had the basis for a little policy discussion. We could have talked about the different populations who benefit from the different subsidies, and how useful the subsidies were at incenting wanted behavior, and whether that behavior was the sort of thing we really wanted our government to encourage. We might even have found out that the community largely agreed with AJB on this issue.
But given the opportunity to choose between being constructive and being abrasive, we know which way AJB will go. Sad, really.
AP wire service…..Dearborn MI,8/2/10 “A spokesman for the Toyota corporation announced a breakthrough in the upgraded Prius models today at a news conference held shortly after the company agreed to a landmark settlement in a class action suit brought by owners of the cars that had experienced s dangerous tendency for their vehicles to chase down and try to kill traffic officers. The spokes pointed out that “It took us almost 20 years to get the 9 volt transistor batteries into a form big enough to fill the entire trunk so we can’t be expected to perfect a breaking system over night.”
Answering reporters questions after the conference ended, he made it clear that “We made it go in less than 20 years, it shouldn’t take any longer than that I don’t believe to make it stop.” Toyota sales figures for the first 6 months of the current year are down, but are expected to rise once the company alters the design of the accelerator pedal, moving it to a safe position in the back seat. In other news…..
The Olsen twins look like anorexic Sleestacks.
I knew an anorexic woman who starved herself to death, the sister of a friend of mine, whose family held to Christian Science faith. Bad combination, anorexia and Christian Science, it seemed to me.
I think that AJB makes a good point in number 5.
How about we kill the per-gallon gas tax and the oil company subsidies at the same time.
They just cancel each other out anyway, AJB, so what’s the difference?
Pablo,
If you floor the Tesla it has a range of one and a quarter miles. Be sure to have someone in a real car following you at all times.
No heat, no AC, but the rich prick that owns the company just got a government loan for a couple of hundred million of your dollars so he can build it for other rich people who are not you.
America is stupid.
When will everyone realize that these are not electric powered vehicles, they are COAL POWERED vehicles. Where the f*^k do you think electricity comes from?????
“Where the f*^k do you think electricity comes from?????”
Progressive: …..Wait……um…..I know this one…..um….Don’t they run on big rubber bands and stuff?
You know how far that is?
Pert near clear to the County Seat and halfway back again, I reckon.
I’d have to see a citation for that. I’ve never heard that before and I’ve been eyballing it for a few years now. I’d also like to see a study of life expectancy of people who make a habit of jumping in a Roadster and flooring it, but I don’t imagine that’s been done.
No, that’s for a scaled down Tesla, the Model S, which costs about the same as a Chevy Volt while utterly putting that piece of shit to shame.
Elon Musk is definitely a character, and he might well be a dirtbag. There are a number of stories surrounding him. But he’s put a completely electric car together that people who know about driving love driving.
Torque!
What? They make electricity out of coal!?! Why, I had no idea!!!
Nuclear plants would make a lot more sense.
We don’t need oil or coal plants, if we all just ride the bus!
i’m a fry cook/well/technically a dishwasher/ but if u put used grease in ur car u can drive it/ if u’ve upfitted it with the special parts/ u have to get used to the smell tho/and people calling u mayor mc/cheese /i’m just trying to save ur life
can u deep fry love?
pdbuttons,
LOL!
“Nuclear plants”
* Tomatoes that glow in the dark? They tried that in Chernobyl.
Mmmmmmm…..TOMACCO…..refreshingly addictive!
tomatos that glow in the dark makes ur hambergers easier to find
keeps them warm/ so u don/t have to use the microwave
the microwave was a bjork invention btw
can be substituted for pumpkins on halloween cuz they glow on ur porch and emit a strange glow and u don’t have to cut the pumpkins and take out its guts and put it on a newspaper and then buy candles and put them inside/ so glow in the dark tomatoos are a labor saving device
glow in the dark tomatos can also be used/alternatively with not glow in the dark tomatos/like tracer bulletts/ when u throw them at actors so u can adjust ur range
i’m trying to find a downside to glow in the dark tomatos and i don’t see it
* Lets you read in bed – bonus
u have a bed?
u lucky lucky bastard
cut out the middleman bring back the stanley steamer with clean coal technology
tomatoes what glow in the dark might would attract insect pests and they would eat them up, if they were tasty
glow in the dark tomatos could be substituted for eggs at easter at the white house easter egg hunt/photo op/ and they’d be easy to find by the chillens and u could/as chief exsectitive/bottle washer have a sweet picture taken but two days later the kids fingers would fall off/ is that a pre-exsisting condition?
one time I asked this Persian if they have tomatoes in Iran and she looked at me like I was retarded
no one tells me anything
well you are kinda retarded in a trig way sometimes
– They have them cupcake, but they hide them under burqa’s
I think it’s way way cool that they call it a Tesla. Best brand name for a car evar.
the oscar meyer weiner mobile is a good name for a car
And it’s funny how AJB works in such clod-hopping cliché, not knowing that Classical Liberals believe that you can’t trust anyone with power, especially not Big Money in bed with Big Gubmint.
I mean, we rotten schlubs think we can haul off and blow $3 million on an effing wedding!
That’s not such a stupid question, ‘feets.
Ask me if we have uyuco in the states. Go ahead. Ask.
Even ask a Mexican. They don’t know what uyuco is.
i applied for a job at u-o-co a bunch of times and
finally i got the job!
but at initiation they wanted me to wear a u-o-co hat and sing the u-o-co song
and i was all/fuck this horseshit and i threw down my u-o-co hat and i think i bumped into somebody on my way out the u-o-co door/ and for that i deeply apologize
u-o-co !/ a brand that can be trusted to be made fun of!
those look like mealworms can we buy them here?
No problem there. Plenty of other reasons, if one were willing to put forth the effort to hate a D-list celebrity.
u-o-co can’t be trusted to see the forest for the trees cuz they strip mine
you of course know this
Oca is eaten raw in Mexico with salt, lemon, and hot pepper.
I should be able to find it.
Uyuco is supposed to be boiled and served creamed. Tastes like boiled peanuts.
Oh, wait. Here’s ulluco. I only ever heard it said; never saw it written.
Tomate de árbol, however, is nasty nasty stuff. So of course they were always shoving it in my face in the form of a puree to drink.
yich
oh I got mixed up… that looks very tasty you know what I’ve been craving lately? mashed turnips!
I can’t stand that gack candy paste sludge they make out of tamarinds and there are very few foods I think are gack especially in the candy family
They’re making pastey sludge out of tamarins?
That’s horrible!
That “environmentally friendly” Toyota that some call the Prius?
They have the spelling wrong.
It’s actually spelled P-I-O-U-S.
As in “pious” – a hypocritical display of virtue.
Named for the arrogantly stupid, green-deluded, smug morons who don’t realize (or more likely don’t care) that they are driving a coal-fired auto whose batteries will contaminate whatever landfill they end up in for about 200 years.
Not to mention all the mercury, arsenic and thalium that will be pumped into the atomosphere by the coal-fired facility that provides the electricity to their charging station.
Not to mention the environmental damage done by the coal mining process, the black lung disease that the miners contract, the fuel used to transport the coal to the utility the leeching of toxic heavy metals & chemicals into the water table from the coal piles stacked outside the utility while it waits to be burned and the same by-products leeching from the slag piles of coal ash that remains after burning.
But, other than that, it’s a really GREEN car!
Here’s something interesting (kinda): I just finished watching an episode of Upstairs, Downstairs, wherein the young daughter of the rich family becomes enamored of the Fabian society.
Which is portrayed as a group of Bohemian, quasi-hippy (U,D being produced in the early ’70s), shallow, narcissistic good-for-nothings who talk of eugenics and G.B. Shaw and H.G. Wells and of toppling the system, pretty much to watch it burn.
Chilling.
Also with the PIOUS
Also with the PIOUS? (HATE hitting Enter by mistake). Something like 15 rare-earth metals to make the battery, which, if harvested in large quantities, will require carving the tops off of how many mountains?
Weren’t they planning to do their carving for rare earths in Afghanistan? So like, two dead birds, one Obamasurgealicious
dicentra,
I know how you feel.
I hate premature transmission as well.
a south park episode was about that pios prius thing
smug was a word used often/ people in south park would pull up in cars and the guys in the pios would say something like/hi randy/ still driving that gas guzzler?/ i’m / and as they said this there faces would squinch up/
i’m saving the enviroment
and after awhile randy would be all/ wtf?whats with all the smug bastards?
and the head one moved his family to san fran cuz the peeps from south park
just didn’t understand and when he/ the guy who moved to sf first met his neighbors they introduced themselves and all his neighbors had like three/4/ 5/ names like this is colonel klink mahoney and his significant other/ doris colonel klink mahoney south russia
and their children/ aesop klink mahoney south russia
and stable klink mahoney south russia/
and let me introduce-from their several previous marriages
deloris clark goodwin klink mahoney south russia
paper towel goodwin mahoney south russia/ who we call pete
saliva is precious goodwin mahoney south russia dot com
etc../ and then they had a housewarming party and all farted into champaghene glasses and then smelt it
funny!/ if the south park guys red this blog i want a job!
i just want hippie chick free love
the rest of u can burn as far as i’m concerned
and i’m not
Didn’t someone once do a study that showed that the green friendly hybrids actually had a larger environmental impact than standard cars, for the reasons di andothers noted above?
JD: somewhere is a study that showed, at least in the larger hybrids, that the energy needed to recycle the batteries was as much or greater, over the life of the autos, than a same size gas model.
Ah, here!
– What they should be using is hydrogen fuel and converters, with the hydrogen generated by solar cells. Would mean limiting their driving to daylight hours. On overcast days, or at night, they could just walk to the corner store.
– Hydrogen is most volatile, so you’d lose a few houses or mall store fronts every now and then, but hey, as green as it gets!
– In some parts of the Muslim world they could make the switch and no one would notice any difference.
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