I don't understand how some of the cars got on the list. They may be crappy cars, but they aren't ugly in the "fell out of an ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down" ugly.

(The Aztec is ugly in the way that when you see one you keep staring at it wondering if your eyes are playing tricks on you and marveling that someone deliberately designed and built that atrocity.)

(I'm mystified why NASCAR lets loser cars continue driving. If someone is twenty laps down, don't let them back on the track--there's already too many idiots out there to have one more.)

Lawyers and whiners are destroying all the fun.

One source

[www.anwr.org]

Wind is inconsistent and requires a lot more land than many people account for.

Ethanol drives up the cost of food and uses good arable land. It uses almost as much energy to create as it provides. (Why butenol gets short shrift is weird.)

Solar doesn't actually provide as much energy as people realize and doesn't work at night.

Hydrogen takes more energy to produce than it provides (and fuel cells aren't nearly as efficient as is often claimed.)

Yeah, all of these should be developed, but they aren't going to replace oil, coal, nuclear and hydroelectric as the primary sources of energy.

We also shouldn't ignore alternate ways to obtain diesel and gasoline, such as coal gasification and algae.

Interestingly using just coal gasification, the US could become gas independent. One possibility would be for the US to NOT put oil from some domestic sources on the open market. Will piss a lot of people off though...

Not on ANWAR: the place they want to drill is crap land. It is not the Alaska you see in National Geographic. Even most the natives there think it's shit land.

That said, even if I got 30 mpg at 70 mph, I'd be willing to pay the extra cost.

RE: Accidents

During my commute, I've noticed that the biggest causes of accidents are the "commuter" lane, specific on-ramps and cops. All three cause traffic to slow and/or merge.

Most motorsports are turning into competition between weenies. Just try reading the whining of several Formula One drivers.

RE Lewis vs. Kimi: Amateur mistake by Lewis--I actually think he should have gotten a one race suspension--though some blame MUST go to the folks on the radio who should have reminded Lewis that the pit lane exit was closed.

I'd buy one of these and look like a dork if it was $14,000 and matched the performance of the Geo Metro.

I now own a 99 Civic. Nice, but not as fun as that 79. I will say it's more reliable though.

(Honda did the same with the Civic CVCC of the late 70s.)

(Incidentally, the lesbian/bi angle makes sense; it frees up the male lead to bed as many hot babes as possible without worrying about all that relationship crap.)

I despise people who think they are funny when they aren't, especially when they laugh at their own jokes, and that describes Adam Corolla.

(As someone else said, I do think the promoter and city share culpability here. Very simple, common sense precautions would have reduced or prevented the carnage.)

For reality/fictional crossover, why not the Transavia Airtruk? Real plane, rugged and avoids the clogged highway problems. (And since I already look like a dork, I would fit right in.)