The Electric Car
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From: Spehro Pefhany on 8 Aug 2007 17:28 On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:46:49 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:44:37 GMT, "Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie" ><eatmyshorts(a)doubleclick.net> wrote: > >>On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:07:53 -0700, John Larkin wrote: >>> On 8 Aug 2007 15:47:30 GMT, Robert Latest <boblatest(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>John Larkin wrote: >>>> >>>>> Some of Muni is great. >>>> >>>>BART is great. The bus system is a collection of slowly deteriorating >>>>historical artifacts. >>> >>> The F-line electric streetcars are 60 to almost 100 years old, and are >>> quiet and efficient. >> >>I think "BART" should have been "'Frisco Area Rapid Transit". ;-) >> >>Cheers! >>Rich > >There is Tahoe Area Regional Transit. > >John PHoenix Area Rapid Transit Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" speff(a)interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
From: Jim Thompson on 8 Aug 2007 18:01 On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:28:20 -0400, Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP(a)interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote: >On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:46:49 -0700, John Larkin ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >>On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:44:37 GMT, "Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie" >><eatmyshorts(a)doubleclick.net> wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:07:53 -0700, John Larkin wrote: >>>> On 8 Aug 2007 15:47:30 GMT, Robert Latest <boblatest(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>>John Larkin wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Some of Muni is great. >>>>> >>>>>BART is great. The bus system is a collection of slowly deteriorating >>>>>historical artifacts. >>>> >>>> The F-line electric streetcars are 60 to almost 100 years old, and are >>>> quiet and efficient. >>> >>>I think "BART" should have been "'Frisco Area Rapid Transit". ;-) >>> >>>Cheers! >>>Rich >> >>There is Tahoe Area Regional Transit. >> >>John > >PHoenix Area Rapid Transit > >Best regards, >Spehro Pefhany Damn! You beat me to it while I was out getting scheduled for hip replacement. Phil's Folly... light rail... trains to no where ;-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | America: Land of the Free, Because of the Brave
From: Richard The Dreaded Libertarian on 8 Aug 2007 18:37 On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:49:26 -0700, John Larkin wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:48:23 GMT, "Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie" >>On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:41:03 +0100, Eeyore wrote: >>> John Larkin wrote: >>> >>>> I'm soooo tired of seeing entire blocks of cars that are all grey and silver >>>> and black. >>> >>> Yes, they're very bland / boring. I've had a couple that are 'silverish' but >>> still have some colour in them. One was called 'platinum', my neighbour called >>> it 'oyster'. It was very nice. >> >>The closer the color of the car is to the color of the pavement[1], the >>less likely you are to get a ticket. :-) > > And the more likely you are to get killed. Depending on how much of the responsibility for your own safety you choose to delegate to the idiots. > A lot of these cars are > absolutely asphalt colored, practically impossible to see. That's irrelevant, if the nut behind the wheel has the presence of mind and observational wherewithal to avoid driving into stuff. http://mysite.verizon.net/richgrise/images/Safe-Car.gif Individual Freeom implies individual self-responsibility. Cheers! Rich
From: James Arthur on 8 Aug 2007 19:14 On Aug 8, 7:44 am, John Larkin <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:15:25 -0700, James Arthur > > <dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, James, > > Have you noticed the remarkable, virtually worldwide, correlation of > anti-Americanism with engineering incompetance? It makes sense when > you think about it. > > John Hola John, a) Hollywood and the press don't help. Once America-boosters, now they're against. Marketing works. b) Corrupt governments seem to be the leading cause of world poverty, and f(l)ailing governments love to blame external parties for their failings. Big as we are, we're awfully convenient. c) I think it all goes back to global warming, truthfully. The President diss'd Kyoto, our European friends felt slighted, and, ever since, he can't win. Mr. Clinton was more diplomatic: he paid Kyoto lip service, but never submitted it to the Senate since--with 95 senators opposed--he knew it wasn't ratifiable. Meanwhile, the US' total CO2 output fell last year. Has anyone noticed? I thought not. Cheers, James Arthur "Life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels." --Horace Walpole
From: Eeyore on 8 Aug 2007 19:16
Rich Grise wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:37:00 +0100, Eeyore wrote: > > John Larkin wrote: > >> Jim Thompson wrote: > >> > > >> >I'm getting 19MPG at 85MPH in my Q45 ;-) > >> > >> I'm getting 18 MPG in my 5-cylinder Rabbit, driving to/from work on > >> the hills of San Francisco. I average about 4000 miles per year. > > > > Now that's where an EV really would score ! > > Better yet, put little hitches on the cable cars where for a fee, you > can get a tow up the hill(s). That moves the pollution to the power plant. ;-) > > When I moved to So. Cal this last time, everybody recommended I get an > apartment "on the hill" in San Pedro. It took me three times going up > the hill to figure out why I didn't want to live on the hill - I want > my brakes and CV joints to last more than 3000 miles! ;-) For a second I thought you were going to say you wanted your 'human joints' to last more than 3000 mi ! Graham |