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  Pompey...

  We all live on this planet.  An "America First, Screw the Rest" approach is not going to be our best interests in the long run.

  The US had a great run, from the end of WWII to about right now.  We basically controlled manufacturing, trade, and finance.  Now we seem to be on the path to be one of the top players, not the top player.

  We can't always have things our way in the future.    On A one-time cheerleader for hyper-consumerism lays down his pom-pom posted 8 months ago 16 Responses

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  asdf

  "In yet another endless thread where car-crazed boys masturbate furiously to visions of the latest wondercar fantasies, its always about how we have to have cars very different from the cars we have."

  What a childish post.On CMU study suggests GM has wildly oversized the batteries in the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid posted 8 months ago 37 Responses

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  OK, ...

  How can you create two million jobs in the next six months or so?

  Or do you want to keep a couple of million people on the dole for the next few years while you come up with an idea?

  BTW, you seem to have a unique definition of the word "we".  "We" don't want the cars that Detroit, Japan, Korea, Europe make - you think?On CMU study suggests GM has wildly oversized the batteries in the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid posted 8 months ago 37 Responses

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  That big, flashy video display...

  Expensive because it must be expensive?

  Or expensive because it is still low volume production?

  It's a video monitor.  Mass produced, monitors sell for a hundred bucks or less.On Ford starts marketing campaign to emphasize fuel economy in new hybrid posted 8 months ago 9 Responses

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  If you had to purchase...

  ...a car, a house, anything big for all cash, up front very, very few people could do it.

  Borrowing to buy is a way to pay as you go.  You borrow someone else's accumulated wealth and pay them a fee for the privilege of using their money.

  The fuel problem is not a "borrowing"/debt problem but a combined resource scarcity and environmental problem.

  We have to move to renewable fuel sources.  And we'll have to borrow money to do so.  

  And pay for those resources and borrowed funds as we use those new energy sources.On A one-time cheerleader for hyper-consumerism lays down his pom-pom posted 8 months ago 16 Responses