I have an idea..

LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
edited July 2011 in A Moving Train
I'm thinking of starting an electric car business and offering cheaper fuel than what the oil companies are charging. It will save the economy and the air will smell much nicer.


Who's in this with me? ;)
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  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Oh, and I have an idea I'd like to send to congress and the president that will clear our national debt. I figure if we cut the military budget in half, we could pay off the deficit in our lifetime..

    And GET this.. we'd still be spending 5x MORE than what the second biggest spender, China, is spending.. so we could still kick there ass if we had too!


    Brilliant! :D
  • usamamasan1usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Deport Obama
  • Deport Obama


    Do you never get tired of... being like that?
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Deport Obama
    No!.. I've never liked Biden. He seems like a dick and one Cheney was enough.
  • usamamasan1usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Deport Obama


    Do you never get tired of... being like that?

    I was born this way. I hear they are working on a cure though.
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Here's my theory on Obama. He likes to be liked... If it means becoming a republican to appease to the house at our expense, he will.


    In reality, his decisions will always have to be centered, although I look at the Democrats as conservative.


    Can anyone believe I supported Bush in 2000? (actually I voted for Nader, but thought Bush was the lesser of the two evils... turns out Gore was just a goofball and Bush should have been a car salesman. I was 21 and stupid.)
  • usamamasan1usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Now you are 32
  • Gob wrote:
    Here's my theory on Obama. He likes to be liked... If it means becoming a republican to appease to the house at our expense, he will.


    In reality, his decisions will always have to be centered, although I look at the Democrats as conservative.


    Can anyone believe I supported Bush in 2000? (actually I voted for Nader, but thought Bush was the lesser of the two evils... turns out Gore was just a goofball and Bush should have been a car salesman. I was 21 and stupid.)


    Oh, I don't think Al Gore is a goofball at all, although conservatives sure have done a great job painting him like that.

    You know how many people actually believe that he claimed to invent the internet? Even some Democrats believe that.

    Quite honestly, a pro-active environmentalist would have been a much better choice than an alcoholic fratboy draft-dodger. Who knew?
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    Quite honestly, a pro-active environmentalist would have been a much better choice than an alcoholic fratboy draft-dodger. Who knew?
    i knew that. along with the majority of americans who voted in 2000. remember, gore won the popular vote...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • usamamasan1usamamasan1 Posts: 4,695
    Most people aren't smarterer. That's why Obama got elected.
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    Most people aren't smarterer. That's why Obama got elected.
    actually, that is why the american people gave bush another term, when he lost the first popular vote.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • Most people aren't smarterer. That's why Obama got elected.

    Oh, I get it. You're just trying to be annoying. How cute. :roll:
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Most people aren't smarterer. That's why Obama got elected.

    really!?? ... first you call the OP stupid and then you type smarterer?

    nice ... :oops:

    as far as the topic ... i'm definitely in on your electric car business ...
  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,495
    Quite honestly, a pro-active environmentalist would have been a much better choice than an alcoholic fratboy draft-dodger. Who knew?
    i knew that. along with the majority of americans who voted in 2000. remember, gore won the popular vote...


    Jesus, some people can't understand the rules of the game.

    And we have no idea what kind of president Al Gore would have been.
    hippiemom = goodness
  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,495
    polaris_x wrote:
    Most people aren't smarterer. That's why Obama got elected.

    really!?? ... first you call the OP stupid and then you type smarterer?

    nice ... :oops:

    as far as the topic ... i'm definitely in on your electric car business ...

    He does it on purpose. I find it funny that everyone jumps on his word choice when it is obviously purposeful. Maybe if you we as smarterer as I be, you'd C it 2. ;)
    hippiemom = goodness
  • Quite honestly, a pro-active environmentalist would have been a much better choice than an alcoholic fratboy draft-dodger. Who knew?
    i knew that. along with the majority of americans who voted in 2000. remember, gore won the popular vote...


    Jesus, some people can't understand the rules of the game.

    And we have no idea what kind of president Al Gore would have been.

    Well we kinda do... He didn't become president so he just moved forward with his environmental awareness campaigns, humanitarianism and political action.

    Dubya ran the country into the ground, left the presidency in disgrace and has done fuck-all since. Well no... He "wrote" a lie-filled memoir that was so inane is should have been stored in the children's fantasy section.
  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,495
    i knew that. along with the majority of americans who voted in 2000. remember, gore won the popular vote...


    Jesus, some people can't understand the rules of the game.

    And we have no idea what kind of president Al Gore would have been.

    Well we kinda do... He didn't become president so he just moved forward with his environmental awareness campaigns, humanitarianism and political action.

    Dubya ran the country into the ground, left the presidency in disgrace and has done fuck-all since. Well no... He "wrote" a lie-filled memoir that was so inane is should have been stored in the children's fantasy section.

    No we kinda don't. If there is one thing that is certain, what a politician says they will do as president and what they do as president are very different. And what someone does when they are free from the confines of the presidency is very different as well. I'm not sure if everyone that gets elected gets brainwashed or if the information they receive once becoming president changes everything for them or what though.

    But that is just my opinion. ;)
    hippiemom = goodness
  • inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    polaris_x wrote:
    Most people aren't smarterer. That's why Obama got elected.

    really!?? ... first you call the OP stupid and then you type smarterer?

    nice ... :oops:

    as far as the topic ... i'm definitely in on your electric car business ...

    He does it on purpose. I find it funny that everyone jumps on his word choice when it is obviously purposeful. Maybe if you we as smarterer as I be, you'd C it 2. ;)

    I think you couldn't be more wrongerer...

  • No we kinda don't. If there is one thing that is certain, what a politician says they will do as president and what they do as president are very different. And what someone does when they are free from the confines of the presidency is very different as well. I'm not sure if everyone that gets elected gets brainwashed or if the information they receive once becoming president changes everything for them or what though.

    But that is just my opinion. ;)

    I think the character they've both shown gives us an idea... If not knowledge... Of the kind of men they are.
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,435
    Back to electric cars (thank you polaris_x!). Yes, great idea. At the same time I'd like to throw in a pitch for walkable communities and local economy so we don't have to drive so much in the first place-- remembering that building ANY kind of car increase our ecological footprint (sorry, I know that term sounds overly pc these days, but it's true), and rebuiling our rail system. It is a fact that railroads (even good old fashioned non-high speed rail) use less fuel per passenger/freight mile than any other form of mass transportation. This information is available from this excellent organization:

    http://www.narprail.org
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  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    He does it on purpose. I find it funny that everyone jumps on his word choice when it is obviously purposeful. Maybe if you we as smarterer as I be, you'd C it 2. ;)

    uhhh ... have you read his posts?
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    brianlux wrote:
    Back to electric cars (thank you polaris_x!). Yes, great idea. At the same time I'd like to throw in a pitch for walkable communities and local economy so we don't have to drive so much in the first place-- remembering that building ANY kind of car increase our ecological footprint (sorry, I know that term sounds overly pc these days, but it's true), and rebuiling our rail system. It is a fact that railroads (even good old fashioned non-high speed rail) use less fuel per passenger/freight mile than any other form of mass transportation. This information is available from this excellent organization:

    http://www.narprail.org

    strictly refurbished cars ... and GOB is the man with the plan ...
  • arthurdentarthurdent Posts: 969
    brianlux wrote:
    Back to electric cars (thank you polaris_x!). Yes, great idea. At the same time I'd like to throw in a pitch for walkable communities and local economy so we don't have to drive so much in the first place-- remembering that building ANY kind of car increase our ecological footprint (sorry, I know that term sounds overly pc these days, but it's true), and rebuiling our rail system. It is a fact that railroads (even good old fashioned non-high speed rail) use less fuel per passenger/freight mile than any other form of mass transportation. This information is available from this excellent organization:

    http://www.narprail.org


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  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    brianlux wrote:
    Back to electric cars (thank you polaris_x!). Yes, great idea. At the same time I'd like to throw in a pitch for walkable communities and local economy so we don't have to drive so much in the first place-- remembering that building ANY kind of car increase our ecological footprint (sorry, I know that term sounds overly pc these days, but it's true), and rebuiling our rail system. It is a fact that railroads (even good old fashioned non-high speed rail) use less fuel per passenger/freight mile than any other form of mass transportation. This information is available from this excellent organization:

    http://www.narprail.org

    Walkable communities are a great idea...now to convince the majority of people to walk 15 feet. Where I live my neibhour drives to the coffee shop which is a 15 minute round trip walk :?. My wife and I walk to grocery store's, bank etc., then when we do we get run off the sidewalk by people on bikes, when the bike path is on the other side of the road :?, and these people are adults who know better or should. I would love to see better sidewalks, more bike paths and light rail trains. In Windsor, Ontario the government is spending around 5 billion on a new road to a new border crossing, but mention 30-40 million on pathways, they shy away...figure that 1 out.
    I have certain rules I live by ... My First Rule ... I don't believe anything the government tells me ... George Carlin

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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    I'm all for electric cars provided they can find a way to get them to drive at least a few hundred miles on a charge and have enough power to pull things like my boat :)
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • Go BeaversGo Beavers Posts: 9,196
    brianlux wrote:
    Back to electric cars (thank you polaris_x!). Yes, great idea. At the same time I'd like to throw in a pitch for walkable communities and local economy so we don't have to drive so much in the first place-- remembering that building ANY kind of car increase our ecological footprint (sorry, I know that term sounds overly pc these days, but it's true), and rebuiling our rail system. It is a fact that railroads (even good old fashioned non-high speed rail) use less fuel per passenger/freight mile than any other form of mass transportation. This information is available from this excellent organization:

    http://www.narprail.org

    Electric cars are generally only better if you're drawing hydro power. Walking, biking, and mass transit will grow partially as a result of a push if driving becomes more expensive and inconvenient. It takes long-term thinking to build towards walkable communities though, as so many cities are built around the car.
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    brianlux wrote:
    Back to electric cars (thank you polaris_x!). Yes, great idea. At the same time I'd like to throw in a pitch for walkable communities and local economy so we don't have to drive so much in the first place-- remembering that building ANY kind of car increase our ecological footprint (sorry, I know that term sounds overly pc these days, but it's true), and rebuiling our rail system. It is a fact that railroads (even good old fashioned non-high speed rail) use less fuel per passenger/freight mile than any other form of mass transportation. This information is available from this excellent organization:

    http://www.narprail.org

    Walkable communities are great and I'm all for them. I wouldn't mind moving to one someday.

    That being said, people are spread far and wide across this great country and this concept is just not very feasible except for a relatively small percentage of the people.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,435
    know1 wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    Back to electric cars (thank you polaris_x!). Yes, great idea. At the same time I'd like to throw in a pitch for walkable communities and local economy so we don't have to drive so much in the first place-- remembering that building ANY kind of car increase our ecological footprint (sorry, I know that term sounds overly pc these days, but it's true), and rebuiling our rail system. It is a fact that railroads (even good old fashioned non-high speed rail) use less fuel per passenger/freight mile than any other form of mass transportation. This information is available from this excellent organization:

    http://www.narprail.org

    Walkable communities are great and I'm all for them. I wouldn't mind moving to one someday.

    That being said, people are spread far and wide across this great country and this concept is just not very feasible except for a relatively small percentage of the people.

    Peak oil will change their minds... or at least limit their choices. Better to plan ahead, I say. As for all of us being spread out so far- that's why I support the rebuilding of Americas rail system- our best chance for getting to see family and friends afar in the future.

    And ,yes, arthurdent, very Amish... but them I'm 1/2 Amish-- and yes, I do drive, but sparingly, combining trips, ride share and 45 MPG.

    I'm going to throw in a plug for hybrids while I'm at it. Yes, they're a little pricier but the saving in fuel makes up the difference in car payments and saves you money in the long run and is better for the environment. Win-win.
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  • ShimmyMommyShimmyMommy Posts: 7,505
    FiveB247x wrote:

    This was a great doc! I watched a couple years ago. I would be all over having an Electric Car.
    Lots of love, light and hugs to you all!
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