Electric Vehicles Work: Major Advancement Highlights Need for Better Policy

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Thursday October 29, 2009 · 12:17 PM PDT

2009/10/29 · 12:17

For years we have been hearing how "batteries are too expensive or not sufficiently long lasting" for electric cars.

This was always incorrect. Well over half a century ago it was not clear if the major power source for vehicles was going to be electric, gasoline, or something else. The reason gasoline happened to take hold was because it was ridiculously cheap, while the enormous environmental (and later national security) costs were a) considerably lesser,and b) otherwise simply not integrated into the prices, or considered.

An electric car that could meet the ballpark performance/expectations cost that consumers have come to expect, could have been built at any time. The answer, at least until gasoline is no longer available, was simply to put a genset auxiliary motor on board; to power the vehicle, and to simply recharge the battery, if or when the charge gets too low.

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Wednesday October 28, 2009 · 1:00 PM PDT

2009/10/28 · 13:00

White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett asserts:

Of course it is true that Fox is biased.

But that's not the problem with Fox. The problem with Fox is that it is an advocacy organization either designed or with the effect of coming across as far more persuasive than an outright advocacy station, by selling itself as "news" and throwing in little tidbits of apparent "balance" amongst a barrage of slant, misleading innuendo, misleading statements, and wildly relevant omissions.

There's more below the fold.

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Sunday October 25, 2009 · 8:21 AM PDT

2009/10/25 · 08:21

A recent story in the Arkamond Press-Gazette revealed that several convicted child molesters, most notably William "Trenchcoat" Cootes, and Verne "Coldcut" Naydolly, have indisputable ties to three, highly prominent GOP frontrunners. In the interests of decorum, we won’t name names. But the evidence is quite damning.

It turns out that all three of the above referenced GOP leaders, greatly enjoy shrimp with wasabi sauce. The press Gazette has recently learned both Cootes and Naydolly list shrimp with wasabi sauce among their favorite food items. As if that is not enough, several of Cootes’ cousins, who think Cootes got a raw deal, all contributed, among hundreds of thousands of other people, to these GOP leaders' political campaigns.

So let’s be sure to write an article about this amazing tie, in a prominent and non partisan political journal, so that we can very fairly associate this creepiness with the famous political leaders.

Now let’s change the "facts" just a little bit, without naming any names.

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Saturday September 19, 2009 · 12:23 PM PDT

2009/09/19 · 12:23

Update -- Update below!!!!

But first, late in his most recent column, Washington Post Ombudsman Andy Alexander makes an apt note about the already over played Tea Party "protest." This is a protest, which we think, but are not sure, is over high tea tariffs, or President Obama trying to serve people tea. Or something.

This, is causing some Tea Partiers, to unceremoniously dump large kegs of dark beer off 18th century schooners, into the harbor, screaming "We're mad as hell, and not gonna take it any more!" (Tea was the goal, but the two main arguments between "decaf" and "regular," and "green," and "black," could not be effectively resolved, so Tea Partiers went with Sam Adams - brewed by our second president, Samuel Senior.)

There have been some suspicions floating around that this was a protest against "big government" (though, apart from raising taxes, it's still fairly unclear what this means). As noted here, this does not seem to tell the whole story:

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