What do you all drive?

That is amazing. Thats stock TT? Does it have the drivers wheel on the opposite side?

i drive a toyota supra 1986 and a 1/2 lol ^_^

As of today i am the proud owner of an 02' is300.

I love that car!

Congrats Twite !

Thanks a lot..I'm going to have lots of fun with it.

cool mailpup mines a non turbo ^_^ but needs body work

true, but my Dakota was a 4.7L and I got the same ultra-low mileage as kitty's parent's Durango.

its still aggrivating when full size trucks with bigger V8s can get better mileage then "midsized" trucks with smaller engines. but I don't have to worry about that anymore anyways

i drive and fix all of those and i get paid very well oh you pay me

Bearweiser,

If everyone owned a four cyl *87 Jeep, you may be a much poorer [moneywise], mechanic today.

My Wagoneer has doors that still close with the safe-like click of a Brinks security truck. This little jeep is built tough and goes anyplace with 4X4 and the correct tires. Good in snow. Still looks good too.

http://TonyGuitar.blogspot.com [scroll down ]

Only repair so far was a new starter, [expensive Bosch with sealed solonoid]. Starters are down low in the salt and slush so replacement after 20 years is likely. After 240,000kms too.

You can see from my blog site that the next preferred ride is an EV Jeep. Either that or one of those compressed air Paris taxis ..
http://BendGovernment.blogspot.com

Save $400 a month. Look Ma! No gas or diesel to buy. And, Oh yeah, no pollution. = TG

As usual I'm confoozed.....

I always thought that the act of compressing air was an energy intensive activity. I say this because because when the air compressor in my living room kicks on, the electric meter in the house spins like a Dradle at Channuka. Sort of like the energy to charge the battery in an all electric car has to come from somewhere. Which is to say that that power station is now the polluter, not the vehicle.

Anyway, at the moment I'm muddling around on a 1991 Honda 750 Nighthawk, 53MPG highway, 40+ city and you don't have to blow it up. Did I mention that it leaves in a reasonably proactive manner?

If I remember correctly, the energy required to run a plug-in electric car would still cost and pollute less than gasoline, even if the electricity was produced by a coal-fired power plant. However, the initial investment (the cost of the car) may still be too high to be feasible.

We're Not Moulding Statistics, We're Forming Opinions!

Said the utility company. A

We're Not Moulding Statistics, We're Forming Opinions!

Said the utility company. We all know that executives don't lie. Consider the crew at Enron, honest to a fault.
Before you accept anything about pollution statistics, you should consider the lowly computer power supply. It generally wastes about 30% of the energy supplied to it. Guess what, you could hook up the 12V of your power supply to the car battery and charge it. What would you think the overall efficiency loss from the power station to the charged battery would be? Don't know, but it has to be more than 30%.
An electric car would alleviate guilt on the part of it's owner since pollution by proxy never has as severe an emotional penalty as good old fashioned DIY pollution.
Electric heating costs about 3 times as much as fossil fuel.


Please forgive me for for the double post, I accidentally hit the stupid key.

Silly question RE: grid Ev charging vs on vehicle charging

CaptainCranky said. . .

** the energy to charge the battery in an all electric car has to come from somewhere. Which is to say that that power station is now the polluter, not the vehicle. **

CC, I am surprised at you. That has got to be the most junior and un-informed question ever asked in the EV battery charging game.

Everyone knows it is vastly more efficient to charge 293 million vehicles from the grid, [ it is about 50% coal-gen in the USA], than it could ever be running on 293 dirty mobile chargers using gasoline / glycol/ oil and other contaminant fluids and producing co2, sulfides and monoxide pollutants.

293 million EV battery packs is the number the Fraser Institute of engineering determined the grid can easily support during evening non-peak hours without any undue stress. = TG

My Ride

Are you against Chevys?

Anyway I am a CHEVROLET FAN I will be 18 in december probably will get a seventh car. But for now I am very happy with my modified Pontiac Grand Am 2000 I have an almost finished 1989 Malibu in my grandpa's shop it is getting ready to race but I've got to get 18 so I can race legally here in Chihuahua I also drive a 1998 Dodge Durango (What a beauty!) Of course all the time I sell and buy cars and I made the choice between the Durango and Grand Am. My father told me to choose one of them. Not bad counting on that he's got the money and I just get the clients for the cars. He also lends me the 300 M Special 2004 sometimes and my mom has an Intrepid R/T that I like the least of the four.
My ride is one of a kind but it is missing a slight paint job for which I am saving and raising money.

And, oh yeah, Captain Cranky,

You suggest the French are confoozed running Paris taxis on compressed air because your compressor draws a lot of current?

Better fix your air compressor. The French are too smart to run anything that loses money.

The French bought 8 to 10 thousand EVs for their mail delivery. If there is ever a sudden gas and diesel shortge, French business will still click along smoothly because bills and orders in the mail will always be reliably delivered.

We in North America, [Canada & USA], did not think of that yet. There is nothing *confoozed* about the French. = TG

Led Zepplin came to town.......

To preach about getting back to nature, they used 75,000 watts of amplification to do it.
The French probably have the energy conscience you suggest, why the women even avoid electric razors.
I tend to find so much idealism on this site (with respect to energy conservation), coming from people with gaming computers with 650 watt power supplies, sitting in air conditioned rooms, not allowing the computer to go to standby so as not to incur "thermal cycling damage", then handing to electric bill to their parents, as to question any credibility from them.
You have no idea what you're talking about with respect energy usage required to compress air. It's easy to subsidize energy usage by a government, just hand the electric bill to your parents, er, I mean taxpayers