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From: krw on 26 Apr 2010 20:33 On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:05:29 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On 26/04/2010 23:32, Joel Koltner wrote: >> <krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote in message >> news:6j3ct59lnb6vj2di6v68lnirs2g1rr66ll(a)4ax.com... >>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:19:01 -0700, "Joel Koltner" >>>> Yeah, but up until the past couple of decades, the engines were a lot >>>> more >>>> cantankerous than gasoline-powered engines. You still see glow-plug >>>> switches >>>> on some trucks today, yet even the cheapest automobile hasn't had a >>>> manual >>>> throttle in about 35 years now. Bizarre... >>> Perhaps because truck drivers can be bothered to learn how to drive their >>> vehicles. >> >> OK, but where's the payback? Look at how popular automatics are today -- >> the vast majority of people don't value the extra bit of control that >> manual transmissions, engine controls, etc. might given them. The fact >> that you can make a diesel today that the average consumer will find as >> easy to operate to an ICE (and for no more cost but with a bit better >> efficiency) is what will slowly drive their adoption. (Although these >> days the big thing is hybrids and all, so I fully expect that diesels >> won't make up any significant percentage of consumer vehicles in the >> foreseeable future.) > >I assume you are talking solely about the USA? >In Europe the situation is very different. In the UK, for example, half >of cars sold are diesel. I drive a 2.0L VW Golf diesel, which averages >50mpg. You don't have the EPA. When gasoline was $4/gallon, diesel was over $5, thanks to the EPA.
From: Joel Koltner on 26 Apr 2010 20:40 <krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote in message news:fpbct5tsv3hgt5oteoi5u9tm4ugcahja41(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:48:46 -0700, "Joel Koltner" > <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>Could be. What are your predictions for the types of cars that'll be common >>in the coming decades? > Have you ever watched the Flintstones? Ah, so it's a healthcare initiative as well -- daily exercise included with every trip to the store!
From: Don Lancaster on 26 Apr 2010 21:03 On 4/26/2010 11:40 AM, Joel Koltner wrote: > "Don Lancaster" <don(a)tinaja.com> wrote in message > news:83m3p7Ff9gU1(a)mid.individual.net... >> <http://www.tinaja.com/etsamp1.asp> > > Don, do you still write columns like that for any of the remaining > hobbyist magazines out there? > > Got a list of all the magazines you've written columns for anyway? :-) > > Weren't you even in Midnight Engineering for awhile? (Great name for a > magazine -- I quit subscribing after I graduated from college, > apparently it ceased publication not too long thereafter?) > > ---Joel > Hobbiest magazines stopped paying their authors a living wage two decades ago. At that time I moved online. Most column reprints can be found at <http://www.tinaja.com> Current publications are often found at <http://www.tinaja.com/gurgrm01.asp> -- Many thanks, Don Lancaster voice phone: (928)428-4073 Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 rss: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu.xml email: don(a)tinaja.com Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com
From: Michael A. Terrell on 26 Apr 2010 22:08 "krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:55:08 -0700, Jim Thompson > <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote: > > >On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:48:46 -0700, "Joel Koltner" > ><zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > >[snip] > >> > >>Would you wager any money yet on Obama being a one-term president? :-) > >[snip] > >>---Joel > > > >I'll wager the Dems will retain control of Congress in 2010, and Obama > >will get a second term. > > I'll take the bet. > > >To see how that will happen, just look at Florida... loser Repubs will > >run as independents, splitting the vote, allowing Dem wins. > > I thought so at first too, but the Tea Partiers don't seem to be that stupid. > They'll be fragged, first. If Crist ran as an independent, he could easily > come in second, but the Rubio would still win. I'm already sick of the continuous Rubio pol ads on TV. They run back to back, all day long. -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: krw on 26 Apr 2010 22:27
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:08:38 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > >"krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote: >> >> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:55:08 -0700, Jim Thompson >> <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >> >> >On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:48:46 -0700, "Joel Koltner" >> ><zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> > >> >[snip] >> >> >> >>Would you wager any money yet on Obama being a one-term president? :-) >> >[snip] >> >>---Joel >> > >> >I'll wager the Dems will retain control of Congress in 2010, and Obama >> >will get a second term. >> >> I'll take the bet. >> >> >To see how that will happen, just look at Florida... loser Repubs will >> >run as independents, splitting the vote, allowing Dem wins. >> >> I thought so at first too, but the Tea Partiers don't seem to be that stupid. >> They'll be fragged, first. If Crist ran as an independent, he could easily >> come in second, but the Rubio would still win. > > > I'm already sick of the continuous Rubio pol ads on TV. They run >back to back, all day long. That's what it takes. People are dense. |