The Drive-a-Toyota Act

One of my first cars was a 1979 GT. Is yours the Hatchback or Coupe?
(mine was the Coupe)

Really nice, fun to drive, & plenty of pep for a 4-cylinder of that time.

God I miss that car...

 

The BMW Mini has a very expensive battery as well. Not a clue why, other
than the initials are for Bring Money With.

 

I don't believe it...because as well all know, a Prius can't do 100
mph...

 

I figure is old man forced him to plead guilty due to OM's possible run
for the president. Gore wouldn't want this to taint his chances, LOL.

 

in message

We covered this when it actually happened. In various magazine road
tests the Prius was able to top 105 mph.

Ed

 

I don't think Gore plans to run for office. If he did, it has nothing to
do with the results of the high-brid case. The younger Gore may have
pleaded guilty because, get this, he was guilty of driving the high-brid
when he was high.

 

Perhaps he can borrow enough carbon credits from his dad to get out of
it. I think he has enough carbon credits on his own to get out of the
speeding thing (since it was in a Prius), not sure about the drug
charges, and maybe enough to rape a little girl, jay walk, and drive an
H3 for a week if he wants to and still have a positive carbon credit
balance.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

Considering all the carbon dioxide Al Gore puts out (not to mention the
extra CO2 generates because he weighs so much when he travels), I doubt
his dad has extra carbon credits. Besides, his house is not nearly as
efficient as our President's house in Texas.

jeff

 

I just heard on the news that if he's a good little boy til 2009, he'll
be off the hook and won't have to do jail time.

 

Oh - but you don't understand! By wasting energy, Al Gore pays extra
money into the TVA, which allows them to build windmills, which is a net
gain for everyone, so he gets carbon credits for that (which, BTW, his
own company brokers), so he thereby gets special permission to continue
wasting even more energy in the name of saving Mother Earth. It's kind
of like a perpetual motion machine.

So, Jeff, you've simply got to learn to think like a liberal elitist to
understand the logic - but be careful that your head doesn't explode in
the process.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

Won't have a record either.

 

It pays to have a well known father.

 

Any irony in that statement?

Cathy

 

Yes they can.

A litle late with the news, are we? ;-)

 

This one is a GT Hatchback. It is very predictable on the road and
it may not walk off from everything, it will walk off from a lot of
things on the highway..
The car has 245,739 miles on it right now.. i got it when the odometer
read 00503..
(doesn't have hundred-thousands place). The tranny has about 260,000
on it.. and the motor has 45,000 since rebuild. Like someone else
pointed out, it's not modern inside.. oh well.. honestly, when people
give me crap about my car, it says a lot about them.. my car is
transportation, not my wee-wee. usually it's someone who probably has
never held any kind of tool in his or her hand (no pun intended!) at
any time and never will either. Anyone who has ever owned a 20R or
22R -engined vehicle gives the appropriate nod when they note the
absence of blue smoke coming from the tailpipe of a vehicle that
"should have been crushed years ago"..

Don't get me wrong... I'd allow someone to *give* me a newish car or
i'd purchase a broken one for next to nothing (like our 1999 ram 1500
van for $1000 + $500 to buy a new spindle for me to install), but i'm
not going to contribute (for as long as i am able to not contribute)
to the silly idea that everyone needs to be driving a new car and that
what i'm driving is unsafe merely due to its age. I have seen lots of
younger cars that were totally unsafe.. For instance, the
aforementioned van.. when i "test drove" it, i drove about 50 feet
before i parked the thing.. the outer wheel bearing on the driver's
side was completely destroyed and the inner race was riding halfway
down on the spindle.

The only time my car becomes a rolling death trap is when i drive at
unsafe speeds... but then any car could be considered such.

 

actually it has been proven over and over that CO2 is not a big deal.
It is the sun that is the big deal and the thing that is the most
uncontrollable about "global warming"... elevated levels of CO2 have
been proven to follow higher temperatures instead of dictating higher
temperatures. C02 is less than *ONE PERCENT* of the total atmosphere
of the earth. Actually, God should go ahead and turn this place into
a fricking fireball with all the treachery that is occurring all the
time...

I remember learning when i was about 9 years old from Mr. Wizard that
if you have a glass of ice water ... when the ice melts, the water is
not going to run out onto the table. it's just a fact of
*PHYSICS*. Try it sometime if you don't believe me. The ice caps
melting doesn't cause a rise in sea level. it's actually changes in
the land that cause the "rise" in sea level.

And as for "decimating the auto industry". The auto industry is in
cohoots with the government as well as the companies that refine oil
into gasoline.

Someone said earlier in this thread, "a car is not a train..."..

Well try running a diesel train with a tranny connected to the
wheels. See what happens.. The efficiency of the train goes to shit
when directly geared to the wheels. They have tried it. And
perhaps a tiny fraction of pusher engines that are easier to keep
running than replace are still running direct drive. However.
Diesel-electric is the answer to this "gas mileage crisis" for right
now, anyway.. but as i've said earlier.. the companies and the gov't
will not let us have it because it means less dependence on not only
foreign oil but domestic production as well. Who's going to make
money if we're all getting 80mpg ? Well.. they'll increase it to
$7,00 a gallon and cut production even more than they already have.

It's so sad to see everyone jumping on the bandwagon about "saving the
earth" when the very people dictating this "saving of the earth" are
still consuming at the same rate or even more than they were before
(Al MoFuking Gore)... anyone who preaches this shit to me i
immediately write off as a liberal sheep who really couldn't think his
or her way out of a wet paper bag. They really need a bullet through
the brain, post haste. There's a term for people like that... "USEFUL
IDIOT"

it is easy to understand why Atlas Shrugged

 

By that reasoning, why don't close the garage door with the car engine
running and read a book. Don't worry about the CO. It will be less than
1% of the air when you are stone cold dead from CO poisoning.

And your brain power wouldn't go down one bit.

Why don't you do this? Get a big bowl. And put a small bowl inside the
big bowl upside down. Then put some ice on the top of the small bowl.
Does the water rise on the big bowl? Of course it does. Same thing with
the ice caps, because the ice is not floating in the water. The ice is
on land. For the ice not to effect the sea level, it has to be floating
in the ocean. It isn't.

Actually, the problem is the huge amount of torque required to get the
wheels turning.

Just because trains work better with electric motors doesn't mean cars
will. Cars have the advantage that they are much smaller, requiring far
less torque to get going. Transmissions are able to handle this very well.

At least liberals are not stupid enough to think that when ice that is
on top of land melts, it doesn't cause the ocean to rise.

"Useless idiot" seems to describe you pretty well.

If brain power or clues were weight, Atlas wouldn't even feel you when
you climbed on.

 

Except for all the Prius drivers that have received tickets for
speeding... 100mph is still beneath the rev-limiter on the Prius!

 

ok thanks, you must be correct, eh?

 

I don't know about anywhere else, but where I'm at (MI) there are several
idversion programs for people that don't have records. They are used more
frequently than a lot of people realize.