/of course it is clue, I submit (=

That’s what it seems to me to be. Clue required the winning player to solve the murder by announcing the person, the weapon, and the room of the mansion, just the form used by Lwesson when he says “Obama, with the bailout candlestick in the Library…”

Perhaps Lwesson was smiling inwardly as he wrote, wondering if we diligent members of the allusion watch would smoke him out.

I realize Clue is totally off the subject of the post but, really, how can a CEO be any better at forecasting things like oil prices than are the many other people who spend full time making such forecasts, using better data, and using serious money to hedge prices one way or another.

#51 statik:

“He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it.” I am just re-reading “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” by T.E. Lawrence. He talks about the tribes of what is now Saudi Arabia, which fought each other forever until a foreigner (Turk) appeared. Then they all joined together to repel the foreigner, and then went back to fighting each other.

He also has a lot to say about Britain’s experiences in Iraq in and following WWI. Eerily similar to our experiences there now. Can anyone say Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds?

Which is also what Winston Churchill said about Afghanistan in 1897.

#61 statik:

I can’t take credit for RB’s comment. I get in enough trouble on my own. But I think it’s “Clue” “Colonel Mustard in the kitchen with the knife”, says I.
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Wow, been along time, but I read that book (autobiography?) myself back in my ’school days,’ I did however watch Lawrence of Arabia recently, so that has to count for something right…right? lol

If anyone else is interested in reading it (but never got around to it), there is a free text file hosted on the web for it:
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100111.txt
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As to the board game, I’m pretty sure Lwesson meant the Beauty and the Beast game, what is this “Clue”? …never heard of it. (=

The technologies are not mutually exclusive like that, nor are they being promoted that way.

You, like many here, feel Volt is the new standard… disagreeing with the strategy GM is proposing with BAS+ and Two-Mode.

It’s the disagreements within which tore apart old GM. The new GM seems to be going down that very same path. Why is that so hard for some to see the pattern?

In other words, please explain what the plans are for each technology… volume, price, and vehicle size/type.

“what it means to the consumer is very simple: Unlike a pure electric vehicle which essentially becomes a horseless carriage once the batteries are depleted, the Volt will run for as long as you feed it gasoline”

http://en.autos.sympatico.msn.ca/resources/article.aspx?cp-documentid=20438080

Amen!

#44 CorvetteGuy:

Can’t argue with any of that. BTW, one of my customers showed up yesterday in a brand new 2009 1/2 ton Dodge crew cab bought from some downsized dealer in the Midwest for $12,000. It was a V6 and kind of a stripper, but still how do you compte with that.

Remember the Dinah Shore song? “SEE the USA in your CHEVROLET….” Still remember it what, 40 years later?

#51 statik:

“He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it.” I am just re-reading “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” by T.E. Lawrence. He talks about the tribes of what is now Saudi Arabia, which fought each other forever until a foreigner (Turk) appeared. Then they all joined together to repel the foreigner, and then went back to fighting each other.

He also has a lot to say about Britain’s experiences in Iraq in and following WWI. Eerily similar to our experiences there now. Can anyone say Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds?

Which is also what Winston Churchill said about Afghanistan in 1897.

#52 jeffhre:

I know that Honda has a fueling station at their headquarrters in Torrance. That’s the only one I know of.

As to “allcarselectric”, I hear you. I put up one of my marvels of brevity yesterday, and it took me about 15 minutes to edit it down enough to go, LOL. Oh well, if they don’t want my wisdom, too bad for them.

#61 statik:

I can’t take credit for RB’s comment. I get in enough trouble on my own. But I think it’s “Clue” “Colonel Mustard in the kitchen with the knife”, says I.

#64 john1701a… Voltec in the current form is FANTASTIC for a passenger car but dual mode is absolutely required for heavier duty work. I don’t see a Volt pulling a “bobcat” to your house to do landscaping work.