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09/25/09
Why the helmet? Did the car even get over 25mph?
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Yes I drive a flex fuel car and yes I plant trees, because I think everybody has to contribute to stop making pressure on what nature has given us.
It´s a stupid idea to think that we can put back all the carbon into the atmosphere that was accumuated during millions of years.
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09/26/09
What you're saying doesn't make any sense, but it's uncontroversial accepted knowledge that human activities have raised atmospheric CO2 levels from 280 parts per million before the Industrial Revolution to more than 380, and they continue to rise.
Instead of getting opinions on climate change from an entertainer, try some facts from scientists, e.g. the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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As far as flex fuel goes since the US is using corn based ethanol your flex fuel car is not only worse for the environment for the same size car but is actually making our dependence on foreign oil even worse too because of all the diesel needed to grow the crops and transport it as ethanol can't be piped lined due to it's more corrosive nature.
Wether you believe in global warming or not (p.s. every major scientist believes it is) we still have a dependency on foreign oil and that is a problem regardless. If you wan't to help get a small car for long commutes and keep the large car for transporting larger goods or several passengers. Nothing says that large car can't be a GTO or Shelby Mustang. Also use public transport when appropriate but depending on where you live that maybe just about impossible. Bikes are good too and they have the added benefit of making people less fat. I reckon you could lose weight by doing what Rush Limbaugh did but replacing a food addiction with a dependency on prescription pain killers while rallying against drug users isn't really the best thing to do. Yeah biking is much better.
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09/25/09
Just leave me the hell alone, people who think you know what's "good" for me.
I'd be a Libertarian, except they have issues, too.
I need to move to the middle of the Australian desert and start riding around in a late-50's Desoto....
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@gabeedwards01:
@X5SoB:
@quayzar:
I understand why Jalop-world is best unpopulated by politics.
I don't argue Ford vs. Chevy, I ask why isn't MOPAR invited to the party?
Long-distance motorcycle lists, mailing lists...y'know, way back in the Internet Middle-Ages, used to specifically state guns, religion, and politics were off-limits for discussion. Understandable, being how quickly things devolve into name-calling and wide-ranging unplesantries.
Gabeedwards01 and srbiff...if you two want to travel to the middle of nowhereland with me, y'all are going to have to live a solid hour drive away. I'm not anti-social...yet...but I'm gettin' there, which is unfortunate.
I like individual people, most times, some are inherently unlikeable, but people, as a species, need another few tens of thousands of years of evolution/education to be tolerable, en masse.
09/25/09
Giving this guy any airtime without calling him out on his shit is inexcusable.
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This is Jalopnik - like the Masons, we recognize that everyone has their own beliefs, but we are all here because our mutual belief in one god... the automobile.
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I would hit the ALGORE one on purpose, and then hit it again the next time around, and then.....
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Another inconvenient truth for Mr. Gore
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Do as I say, not as I do.
Then ask him this "You are a partner in the venture capital firm of Kleiner-Perkins and a co-founder of the United Kingdom-based investment firm of Generation Investment Management, each of which stands to gain financially from greenhouse gas regulation. Please describe any other financial interests that you have in any other businesses that stand to profit from greenhouse gas regulation?"
And Bill Gates? AIDS actually has killed people and is not hysteria based on "models" which have been inconveniently wrong lately.
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Hell, by watching you all, I thought you right-wingers worshipped rich people. I mean, you repeatedly vote for policies that extract money from working people's pockets and stuff it into the pockets of the super rich. After all, your big crusade these days is to ensure that ordinary Americans pay twice as much for health care as the citizens of civilized countries do, so that insurance company executives can be centi-millionaires and billionaires.
So what's with the cash money envy all of a sudden?
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If I remember the article correctly, his 10,000 sq.ft. mansion uses something like 20x the amount of electricity of the average U.S. household, and every time he flies around in his jet, he pretty much wipes out the total GHG savings that you, I, and anyone reading this blog combined could muster in 5 years.
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@VeeArrrSix: Here's one of my favorite carbon footprint pictures of ALGORE.
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09/26/09
I have problems with Rush Limbaugh but him making money isn't one of them and it shouldn't be for Gore either.
09/26/09
Granted he hasn't always used a solar panel and his hybrid is a SUV but Al Gore has been advocating on the environment since the '80s and that is more than many have done.
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$5 for 5 laps?
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Try all you want, the goracle will not be stopped! He has the power to herd the sheep.
09/25/09
I don't get the point of the streamers and ping-pong balls. The car is bright orange. The track is painted colorfully. There is no need to jazz it up for the audience at home.
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clearly, back on the drugs!
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and yes, i got some KIND bud for later tonight, Chong.
09/25/09
bty, I prefer a Wild Turkey and vicodin cocktail to chase the pain away.
09/25/09
It just could be that the current government climate has swelled his bank account to something larger than his ego.
09/25/09
regardless, i don't listen to talk radio, i'm not a retard.
09/25/09
duuuuuuuuuuWHAT?
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09/25/09
That sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke...
09/25/09
So, what's the ending?
09/25/09
Nevermind. Let's not finish that punchline.
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Probably just as well. ;)
09/25/09
Oh, jeez!