Comments on: White House and Democrats Reach Accord on Loan to GM and Chrysler

By: Paul-R

Paul-R — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:49:12 +0000

Jackson, I think we agree on government run healthcare. That is, I think it will be a giant train-wreck like the three (sarcastic) examples I gave. That’s the usual result when you combine enormous power/money with unchecked greed/incompetence.

By: J Man

J Man — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:02:16 +0000

#100 Dave G

#95 J Man Says: “The Chevy and Chrysler in our garage will eventually be replaced by a Honda and Volkswagen most likely”
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Volkswagen has a terrible reliability record, even worse than GM. See here for details:
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzenu6hr/ebay_pictures/tt.jpg
By the way, if GM goes under, it will cost taxpayers much more than the bailout in lost income taxes and unemployment benefits. The bailout loan is the least amount of risk for taxpayers.
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Hey Dave G, go back up and reread my post! What you quoted me as saying was actually said by someone else. I was responding to their post just like I am with yours now.

I am 100% for the bailout being that my employment depends on it. Also I will never have a Honda in my garage. I might have a VW but it will be an older one that I am parting out to make some cash.

By: ccombs

ccombs — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:28:25 +0000

#123

Sounds real easy and I’m sure we can build it tomorrow!

I’ll use it to recharge my EEStor products!

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:38:55 +0000

Come up with a lossless, superconducting power backbone to get power from the winy places, solar from the sunny places to deliver to the power-hungry places: then, these diffuse-energy collection schemes can start to take over from concentrated-energy like coal and nuclear. Not before.

A gigantic stationary power storage technology plugged into the superconducting backbone wouldn’t hurt, either.

By: wwskinn3

wwskinn3 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:32:39 +0000

I don’t know if anyone has asked this or not – “Can the Volt pull a small pop-up type trailer”?

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:32:28 +0000

“Boy I can’t wait. Then health care will be simple (like the US tax code) and infallible (like FEMA) and completely free of greedy corruption (like Obama’s Chicago). It’s gonna be great.”

You might want to get that irony-detector checked, Paul. You’re actually agreeing with me. Add to all that the rationing of health care (where you wait months for vital care like you do in Canada and the UK).

By: Xiaowei1

Xiaowei1 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:16:20 +0000

Jason @ 109 said “This is absolutely false. Nuclear is not the answer. The earth is expected to need 30 terrawats of power by 2050. If you build 1 new billion-watt nuclear power plant every 1.6 days from now until 2050, that is 8 terrawatts. If you cover every inch of land on earth with wind turbines, thats another 2 terrawatts.

The sun provides 800 terawatts of harness-able energy. ”

I have a very difficult time believing these figures, well the last one regarding the sun at least.

Are you suggesting our tiny planet will use 3.75% of the available energy outputted by the sun (that falls on earth presumable)? focusing on today’s energy needs as no-one can really be sure what 2050 will bring, having a quick look around, http://www.terrawatts.com/ states “Enough solar energy falls on the surface of the earth every 40 minutes to meet 100 percent of the entire world’s energy needs for a full year.” Something does not add up as 2.8% of the daily energy would do us for a year. Complete blackout for 40 minutes once a year – I’m in, and I think the environment could cope….

Now, I’m not going to take the numbers on that web sight as gospel either, but put please check your numbers they just don’t make sense. In principle however I totally agree with Jason, solar is a great way to collect energy, we just need to perfect it with cheap materials which collect a good portion of energy which falls upon them.

By: Exp_EngTech

Exp_EngTech — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:15:38 +0000

Gas is getting CRAZY CHEAP not far from me ($1.19 a gallon).

Despite another OPEC production cut that is coming soon, I wonder just how low gas prices will go. Who knows, if “Dr. Doom” is right about how bad the economy will get, those that are employed might be buying 50 cent gas.

To those that don’t know him…meet “Dr. Doom”…..
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17pessimist-t.html

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0812/gallery.market_gurus.fortune/index.html?cnn=yes

O.K., O.K., after reading that you might need some “Depression Era” funny stuff……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUwtaQ1HZ-g&feature=related

And now….I return you back to our regularly scheduled cherished fantasy…..the 2010 Chevy Volt.

By: statik

statik — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:56:28 +0000

Final vote tally:

237 -170

By: statik

statik — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:47:28 +0000

Well, it just passed in the house…looks to be getting around 240-250ish of 218 needed, not sure the end numbers, they are still tallying it up.

Note exactly a even Rep/Dem split either (no surprise)

Dems 90%ish yea
Rep 20%ish yea

No shocker on this passing…it was expected, I don’t know what the vote breakdown was supposed to be…or how it foreshadows the Senate vote. The President’s endorsement didn’t exactly rally his troops in the House, lol.

Look for the Senate vote on friday with some modifications to appease the masses, as it looks like it won’t go through ‘as is’…and that back to the House to ram it through…again.