[Fruitcake]

Evworld has an article about the Hummer 2 and concludes it is about half as energy effective as an Ford Model T.
Let's hope that all the technology the optimists are talking about is at least as old as a model T.

from old europe
http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section ... ewsid=5742

[rostov]

http://www.esuvee.com

Check out the advertisement somewhere on the top bar, right-most. Wish there's a way to extract parts of the advertisements for PO use heh.

[jdmartin]

This, in part, from the NY Times, regarding the rising fuel prices:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome people are seeing opportunities in the price spiral to help others. Members of the Gateway Pentecostal Fellowship in Cranston, R.I., raised $1,000 last month to subsidize the price of gasoline at a service station to help working-class residents. The church's members pumped 2,000 gallons, trimmed by a 50-cent-a-gallon subsidy, down to $1.89.
The Gateway pastor, Russell Farmer explained, "We just wanted to be there as representatives of the Lord and show that he cares about everyday problems."

[EnergySpin]

And when the food supply gets a hit, they will feed His children with Bible Bars
(have posted it thrice already; I cannot stop laughing ever since I found this)

[aahala]

energyspin, thanks for providing that most enjoyable
link.

I noticed on the left the Holy Mud Company products page. I don't know
which I want the most -- Dead Sea Mud Mask at $26 or the
illiminated crucifix.

[EnergySpin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('aahala', '[')b]energyspin, thanks for providing that most enjoyable
link.

I noticed on the left the Holy Mud Company products page. I don't know
which I want the most -- Dead Sea Mud Mask at $26 or the
illiminated crucifix.

[rogerhb]

Well it may well be worth stocking up on unleavened bread if you are about to start your exodus from the cities.....

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jdmartin', 'I')nterestingly enough, many of the cars in the line were Mercedes, BMW's, et al. I think I only saw 1 or 2 junkers. Everyone else was driving at least a $30k vehicle (many SUV's).

[crude_intentions]

F*ing Bible Bars ??? and people wonder why Christianty is a dying religion in America.

[gego]

Insanity subsidizing stupidity.

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergySpin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('aahala', '[')b]energyspin, thanks for providing that most enjoyable
link.

I noticed on the left the Holy Mud Company products page. I don't know
which I want the most -- Dead Sea Mud Mask at $26 or the
illiminated crucifix.

[turmoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'M')y wife freshens her breath with some 007 testi....errr...never mind.

[Leanan]

From the Washington Post: Smaller Cars Enjoy New Chic
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')ohn Mathews of Universal Toyota in San Antonio has witnessed the day that auto industry executives in Detroit said would never come.
"We are seeing people who are driving $40,000 Suburbans trading them in on $15,000 Corollas," said Mathews, who manages a dealership in a state where big trucks and sport-utility vehicles rule the roads. "The last 30 days have been unlike anything I've ever seen in the automotive industry."

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Leanan', 'E')ven Texans are trading in their SUVs for Corollas

[seldom_seen]

This apparently is the new status symbol for texas commuters:

[bobcousins]

I knew Midge Ure was a giant of pop, but not literally.

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', 'T')his apparently is the new status symbol for texas commuters:

[Leanan]

This article reports that "demand destruction" is happening faster than many thought possible:

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industrie ... usat_x.htm

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')ouglass says gasoline demand in his area has dropped 10% below last year's, starting in August. It's "a huge change" that he previously thought would take years.

[lorenzo]

1. The Flemish government has just brought justice to SUV owners. They used to write their SUV off as a "light truck", knowing that for "light trucks" there are tax breaks.
Now the government has issued a decree which says that SUVs are ordinary cars. The extra income for the government is estimated at a yearly $5 million (not much, but we're a micro-state).
link Rumor has it that we're also going to penalise inefficient gas-guzzling cars in general (with an extra tax).

2. SUVs were banned from many Flemish city centres recently, because most accidents in city centres in which pedestrians are involved happen to happen with SUVs. (There's a sociological correlation between aggressive driving and SUV ownership). Of course, they're also banned because they pollute the urban air.

3. Finally, in cities where they haven't been banned yet, there are anti-SUV-terrorists operating, deflating all SUV-tires around. This is a pan-European deflaters organisation, operating in France and the Netherlands too. (A recent poll shows that ordinary people like this kind of terrorism). The police doesn't intervene, which is good.

So how's the war against the SUV going in the US and elsewhere?