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Written by MS
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Saturday, 24 October 2009 14:15 |
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With all that has been said about the General Motors bailout I have not seen any real reporting on what that actually means to us, the real people.
In 2008 GM produced a total of 8.35 million cars, 5.37 million of those were sold outside of the US. FACT CHECK
Now this leaves about 3 million cars for sale in the USA. Please follow out my fact check link as I didn't pull these figures out of thin air. Now we have all heard that we the people ponied up 63 billion dollars to bail out GM in 2009. I think this has been reported plenty and I don't feel any real burning desire to research this fact. I did however need to research the number of vehicles built for sale here in the US. Now if we just do some simple math we can find that 63,000.000.000/3,000,000 = 21,000 yes that means that we paid a total of 21,000 for every car that GM produced in 2008.
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Climate Change beyond the hype |
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Written by MS
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 10:40 |
So whos right about climate change?
We have heard from all of the "experts" for decades, back in the 80's we were going to see global cooling, then global warming now we are told that we will see global cooling for the next decade? What are we real people supposed to believe. I have theories to all of this alas I am just a common person so this post is not going to be full of technical jargon or fancy insight, just common sense.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 24 October 2009 14:35 |
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Getting the most out of your mileage! |
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Written by MS
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Sunday, 18 October 2009 11:33 |
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Hypermiling in New Hampshire and Vermont is different than hypermiling in less mountainous, straight road areas. You cannot expect to get the same extremely high mileage results so lets set some reality checks. About the best that I get so far is around 60 mpg out of my Prius, and that is driving so the car is usable. This mileage is not for a 10 mile run, it is for a full tank of fuel. Now I suppose if you just want to get high MPG you could really make others on the road extremely unhappy. That would not be particularly useful and could really turn others off! This would not further the cause of getting people to use less carbon based fuel. My opinion is that courtesy is very important to this cause.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 December 2009 21:05 |
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