Friday Free-For-All
It is Friday. It is the Free-For-All. Pick a topic. Discuss.
According to a cult leader in Texas, a nuclear war will begin June 12. Why a day after my birthday? Is it because I am going to be 40? And why do ALL of the cults live in Texas?
New CBS summer drama, Swingtown. LOVED IT! It was perfectly retro. Clothes, hair, footwear, cars, groceries, decorations, makeup, hairstyles, short-shorts, etc. Even CBS ran a retro promo before it started. This show had swingers, teenage nudity (implied), drugs, orgies, booze, and cheesy mustaches. CBS, Thursdays 10 PM. Check it out.
Evander Holyfield faces foreclosure. You know – I remember when he built this palace back in the 80s. Channel 2 did a huge story on the “local boy making it good”. Now, his career is over, he has nine children from six women, cannot afford to pay child support and is being booted out of his house. My dad says “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.” I think this applies here.
I read no less than five articles about the “future of oil”. None of them said the same thing. One said $6/gal gas by next Christmas, one said $2 gas by end of the year. I am over it.
Death of the SUV. It is about damn time. But wait – does this mean all of these soccer mom elitists will have to go back to a station wagon? Lord. I laugh everytime I see one of those things. HA HA to your $100 weekly fillups.
Related to that: GM to mass-produce electric car by 2010. Um, didn’t they kill the first electric car? EV-1? Remember it? Imagine if they had thrown the fuill weight of the company behind the R&D of the EV-1 back then. But woulda, shoulda, coulda. I do not have to answer to stakeholders like they do. I just have to answer to Missus.
June 6, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Liars!!! All of them! SUV’s aren’t dead, they were built in the first place to answer to a void in the market and while that market has declined, it will never go completely away. Fact is that no car will ever be able to tow 8,000 lbs. While you think soccer moms drive them during the week, their real use was found on weekends and vacations. Let me say it now, having owned a couple SUVs and now a full size truck, no matter how high gas gets I will continue to buy that class of vehicle because smaller doesn’t fit my need. I’ll work from home 100% before I ever do a car again and the same is true for Danielle.
As for GM and the EV-1. They did throw their full weight on R&D of the car. It was the very first production electric car. I was given the opportunity to drive one and it was a hell of a lot of fun to drive. 0-60mph in 6.5 seconds. The reason they killed it was that it wasn’t practical. It could only go 60 miles before it flat out died and had to be recharged and at a cost per vehicle of $38,500 it wasn’t sellable. Pretty hard to compete when you’re in the range of a Cadillac that can perform the same and run 385 miles on a tank of gas. They did however vow to bring the technology back when it was proven feasible and now the Chevy Volt is just that along with the Tahoe, Yukon, and Silverado hybrids. GM should be given some credit for going after their biggest fleet with hybrid technology. Toyota didn’t really accomplish alot with the Prius. Truth is, the Corolla gets similar real mileage as the Prius and the Prius is significantly more costly, for what? So, when it comes to which company is taking the harder stance, I say GM by proving that they have the ability to reduce the consumption on real work horses.