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Automotive News & Views Are automobiles a major cause of global warming?
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Replying to: kernick (Nov 05, 2008 12:18 pm) I know who SOMEBODY voted for !!!!!  
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Replying to: larsb (Nov 05, 2008 12:54 pm) It's been estimated the 400-lb battery pack (largely considered the most important part of the Volt) will tack on an additional $10,000 to the car's price. Did I not read that the tax incentive was for domestic built plug-in hybrid? If the battery the one most expensive component is built in Korea. I would think that would make the car less than 85% domestic which I believe is the point needed. Toyota is not happy they were excluded with their. Plug-in Hybrid. Toyota's objection to the bill does not give high hopes to the upcoming plug-in Prius being eligable for the larger credit. Toyota insists the bill should equally target all plug-in electric vehicle buyers, allowing consumers, not the government, to determine market winners.
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Replying to: larsb (Nov 05, 2008 1:00 pm) I would imagine CA with all its babbling about GHG emissions would give incentives. I think they are broke though. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 05, 2008 1:08 pm) So far General Motors and Toyota are the only automakers that have announced plans to produce plug-in hybrid vehicles in the near future. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 05, 2008 1:14 pm) Only one such vehicle—the Tesla Roadster—is on sale today |
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Replying to: larsb (Nov 05, 2008 1:16 pm) WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders have added $1 billion in tax breaks for plug-in electric vehicles to a $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill. The provision would grant all-electric vehicles or plug-in models with at least a four-kilowatt battery pack a $4,168 credit. A vehicle like the extended range Chevrolet Volt with a 16-kwh battery would qualify for the maximum $7,500 credit for vehicles under 10,000 pounds. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081002/AUTO01/810020388/1148- /&source=nletter-business
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 05, 2008 1:31 pm) As if anyone who can drop $100K on a Tesla needs a $7500 bailout credit. |
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Replying to: larsb (Nov 05, 2008 6:28 am) You must've not mingled enough. We Yankees say "youse guys" as in the sentence--" Youse guys don't know what yer talkin 'bout'.
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BBC SHUNNED ME FOR DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE FOR YEARS David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV. A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm. Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists. His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming. Here he reveals why – and the price he has paid for not toeing the orthodox line on climate change. "When I first stuck my head above the parapet to say I didn’t believe what we were being told about global warming I had no idea what the consequences would be. I am a scientist and I have to follow the directions of science but when I see that the truth is being covered up I have to voice my opinions. According to official data, in every year since 1998 world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased. Why, then, do we not hear about that? The sad fact is that since I said I didn’t believe human beings caused global warming I’ve not been allowed to make a TV programme. My absence has been noticed, because wherever I go I meet people who say: “I grew up with you on the television, where are you now?” It was in 1996 that I criticised wind farms while appearing on Blue Peter and I also had an article published in which I described global warming as poppycock. I’ve seen evidence, which I believe, that says there has not been a rise in global temperature since 1998, despite the increase in carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere. This makes me think the global warmers are telling lies – carbon dioxide is not the driver. The idiot fringe have accused me of being like a Holocaust denier, which is ludicrous. Climate change is all about cycles, it’s a natural thing and has always happened. When the Romans lived in Britain they were growing very good red grapes and making wine on the borders of Scotland. It was evidently a lot warmer. If you were sitting next to me 10,000 years ago we’d be under ice. So thank God for global warming for ending that ice age; we wouldn’t be here otherwise. People such as former American Vice-President Al Gore say that millions of us will die because of global warming – which I think is a pretty stupid thing to say if you’ve got no proof. http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/69623
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