I hope taxation works, but I doubt that it will. Why tax to prohibit? Why not just prohibit? It is not like we can use the money Considering the deficits the U.S. government is running and the fact that so little of that deficit spending goes to alternative-fuel research, I think the problem of how...

I think they're called lincoln log sandwiches. First time I ever heard of them was on one of the last Sopranos episodes.

sunlore wrote:(Maybe there should be a seperate thread for this one)

I think you're right. I moved the cap-and-trade topic right over heres.

(Maybe there should be a seperate thread for this one) I agree. Making cap and trade work is another works-only-in-theory model. It's too open for corruption and rigging. Cap n' trade is terribly problematic. It's just another subsidy for historical bad actors. Carbon pricing in the form of taxes a...

Was looking this guy's work up recently in light of the way the Republican's are locally going crazy about Al Franken's "pornographic" writing for Playboy. I remember this article, this is one section. Apparently it's no longer available on Nat'l Lampoons online archives... Dang, I wanted...

The Honda Civic Hybrid is still available Ah. Maybe I was thinking of the Accord hybrid or the Insight being cancelled. In any case, glad to be wrong about that... a little more competition among hybrids is good. By the way, it's cool that this thread has gone on for so many pages without anyone ci...

Only in downtown driving. NOT on the expressway, and especially NOT long distance. The Metro got 50 MPG highway, the Metro XFi 58. The Prius gets somewhere in the lower 40s in the real world (i.e. not EPA or CU "granny driving" mileage tests). That's only maybe a whopping 5-ish mpg better...

Hybrid vehicles are, for the most part, a joke. You can just buy a Geo which is thousands of dollars cheaper and get the same gas mileage, if not better. ... and you could beat that gas mileage with a motorcycle! or do even better with a lawnmower! Your post is, for the most part, a joke. Any compa...

"Robert Kennedy," "Edward Kennedy," and "Joseph Kennedy" each have the same number of letters.

These guys were shitty on SNL, but I could picture them being funny somewhere else: Horatio Sanz Colin Quinn Unremarkable on SNL and much funnier somewhere else: Chris Rock Julia Louis-Dreyfus Rob Riggle Not funny ever under any circumstances: Jimmy Fallon This is just among the better-known and mor...