I'm wondering how all the Bernie supporters (real socialists, not Democrats) will feel about the DNC stealing the nomination from ole Bern twice in a row?
I'm thinking a substantial lot of them will be angry enough to stay home & not vote. Many more are still pissed at Hillary and just "won't vote for the same old corrupt establishment candidate!"
(As heard on local talk radio...)
Ruby & I got to go to work together today!
(She looks better than I do!)
https://www.realclearpolitics.…es_at_dnc_convention.html
Here's the link to Hillary Clinton's comments on Bernie. 😄
I see the Dems are really afraid of a Sanders candidacy. They're trotting out Hillary in a "docuseries" (propaganda with commercials).
Some of her main talking points being discussed this week are how much she hates Bernie. "No one likes him, no one wants to work with him, this is why he's never accomplished anything." "His economic plan is baloney!"
We'll see if old Shrillary still swings a big bat with the lefty voters. Maybe she will have an impact on Super Tuesday. I'm certain that the DNC is hoping so!
i install them into the plastic and then use the screws just like you would any other product. kind of like putting a screw into a light switch cover, if that explains it better. here is a pic that i installed the mats in the cockpit with rivnuts and then screwed them on. You will have to zoom in to see it.
Okay, I'm definitely going to have to try Rivnuts now - I've got mats waiting to install this weekend!
Does anybody believe that the DNC didn’t have anything to do with Steyer, Mayor Pete, and Klobuchar dropping out and endorsing Biden right before Super Tuesday in an attempt to derail Bernie??
LoL! Grumpycat for President!!! 
do you use RIVNUTS? since i had seen them used on here i don't use anything else. That tool is the next best thing to slice bread lol
These look great - my only question is would they work well on the plastic panels? The plastic anchors are supposed to hold the steel protection plate and the plastic panel behind it together. These look like they would work if I had applied the Rivnut to the plastic panel before I attached the metal panel with the 3M tape. For those who are installing a rear panel in future, I think I would look into this!
Supposed to be 40F tomorrow morning at 6 when I leave for work. Promises to be 65 by the time I head home at 2.
Me & Ruby are riding to work together tomorrow!
Ever consider JATO?
Wasn't there a guy who won a Darwin Award for strapping a JATO onto an Impala?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/…-seater-rental-buy-online
Not being snarky, this EV model makes sense to me.
7-ft long (tiny!), classed as a quad, not a car. No DL needed, 16-yr olds can drive it, top speed 45 kph. Buy for under 7K, or lease for 3K down, $22/month. Perfect kid car, college car, city car. Cheap enough to own as a niche vehicle. This is what Elio tried and failed to do - Citroen just might make it work. 😃
Did about 200 miles yesterday with some of my brothers from my CVMA Chapter. Great day to take the front part of the roof off and enjoy the sunshine. Did a route from Cabot, AR, to Drasco (just north of Heber Springs), then Batesville for lunch, back through Bald Knob and then home. First nice day to really enjoy. Loving the SS more every ride
Looks like a great ride! Cabot is about 180 miles from us, but I'd like to come down & join you some time!
" I spoke with a guy last week who drove his model 3 down from Boston to Fort Myers "
Wanted to address this separately. I'm glad your friend had a safe & successful journey, but I can't help noticing that it was all down the east coast.
Pretty sure of two things:
1. This guy had to plan his trip around stops for juice. We had to do much the same in the early 60's (& earlier). AAA helped a lot in those days.
2. He would have a more difficult time traveling to NW Arkansas, I bet. Not that it couldn't be done, but the challenge would be great and the route more restricted.
This isn't a knock on the technology, its just a reality check on the state of the infrastructure. Its bound to improve & be better for my children & grandchildren than it is for me.
The future steals in on silent feet only the prepared have ears to hear.
With 280 million personal vehicles in America, shifting 25% of the fleet to electric is 70 million vehicles.
If one filling station takes 7MW, the numbers still don't add up. There are 180,000 filling stations in the US. If 1/4 are electric (same % as fleet), you need 45,000 electric stations. That's 315 GW of power available 24/7. That's power (GW) not energy (KWh), and that's new capacity above and beyond what we produce now. No energy need for heat, lighting, electrical devices is going away. You're arguing that increasing demand for electric generation capacity of 300 GW can be counted on easily, I don't see it. Don't forget: all this new energy would be fossil fuel powered. I just don't see the eco-conscious EV crowd going all-in for clean nuclear power any time soon.
Nor do I see companies like Tesla, GM, Ford, et al absorbing the cost for this infrastructure, which would cost many trillions. The price of that must be shouldered by the electric vehicle consumer. Currently, we overwhelmingly buy home charging stations, but that becomes problematic, too. If the major energy conduit is slow charging home units, the EV isn't a traveler's vehicle, its a personal city travel & commuter vehicle. That's fine, but a singular purpose vehicle (much like the Slingshot) will continue to be a niche vehicle because most families can't afford them. They need a more general purpose vehicle.
Fusion power would change this dramatically by lowering the cost of electricity by up to 90%. But we ain't there yet.
she either needs more rides.....or less rides.....
Define "rides". 😉
Recent article by greencarreports.com praises a new charging station design being developed by Porsche.
This design offers 18, 350 kw (Tesla grade) charging points and 4 22 kw points (electric 'city car' grade). That's room for 22 cars. They can charge a car from 5 to 80% in a best time of 23 minutes. With potty & snack breaks, let's say we could charge 50 cars per hour, but only 36 of those could be family cars.
36 cars per hour with 36 "pumps" working. The biggest highway gas stations I've seen might have 24 pumps, most have less. Fill up time is usually less than 5 minutes, call it 10-12 with potty & shopping. A 24 pump station can service over 100 cars per hour easily.
The green car folks note you can get enough juice to go 62 miles (100 km) in 5-7 minutes... if you wanna pull in for a fill up every 62 miles that is. Again, as a city/commuter car model, this isn't bad, but for travelers, it sucks. If you live in a rural area where charging station infrastructure is less common, it becomes unfeasible.
The real kicker is that this station requires 7 Megawatts of energy to power it. The article breezily explains this away by saying "all from renewable sources" - do you have any idea how big a 7MW solar array or wind farm array is!? So in reality, this bad boy is fossil fuel powered (and so are the cars that charge there) just like your ICE car is... we just get to relocate the exhaust pipe.
By the way, how much energy is 7MW? Depends on who you ask, but depending on where you live, this much energy will power between 3000 - 7000 homes. So your SINGLE fueling station sucks up enough energy for an entire small town - enough energy for the daily needs of 10,000 to 30,000 people (assuming low density housing of 3-4 people per household) I'll also remind you this best-case scenario report is from an advocate website, not a neutral 3rd party.
THIS is why electric cars will continue to be a single digit fringe of the world transportation fleet - at least until we get fusion powered electricity.
Read more in the article here.
Looks like a very classy sedan, I'm sure you'll both enjoy it for many years to come.
I like Mother's Back to Black. Does a nice job, but you do need to renew your protection regularly, no matter what product you choose. I've always had good luck with Maguire's stuff, by the way, just a little expensive.
thanks for the video, and I do get it - but I still don't like it, and I won't buy one if I don't have to.
I'm in the same sort of wrestling match with my TV and DVD player. I have no cable or broadcast TV service of any kind in my home. There aren't enough swear words in English to tell you how I feel about how far down the toilet TV has gone....
But my TV & DVD players are connected devices. I do use that to download select programming, etc. These insidious things INSIST that I want broadcast crap as soon as the DVD stops playing. I sweat, swear, call help lines (NEVER helps) and spend hours crawling through menus to get my TV & DVD to stop being robots and go back to being devices.
I will NEVER get into that fight with an essential transportation system, or potentially when I'm on the road. The "Oh, that will never happen!" statement comforts me not at all... mostly because every other time I've heard it, it has been a lie.
Doc&Ruby the red paint on the push fasteners is either Chrysler Red enamel model paint or just red spray paint. I've tried both. I have also used clear coat over some trying to make them more durable but they do tend to flake or chip. Just touch them up in place with a model paint brush or switch to the unpainted ones that should have been included. I started painting them because I thought it made the colored plates look less bolt-on.
Yeah, I figured to get some Testor's model paint if I can find it - that stuff works great on plastic.
Really very satisfied with the rear plate - it looks awesome! The small blems on the plastic anchors are behind the wheel, no one's gonna notice them except me. The Captain didn't when she looked over my work yesterday. 😁
I would be happy to recommend this mod to anyone. Really dresses up the plain rear end - especially if you run without a fender!
Check out the recalls underway by Kia and Hundai. Various motors and problems, and current Souls with IVT transmissions are having major problems.
Theres much I like about my Soul, but had I done the research, I wouldn't have bought it. It has the 2.0L.
Agree with a hearty thumbs down on all CVT vehicles. These things go by a variety of names, so look carefully.
Ask how many speeds the transmission has, and then Google that anyway. (NEVER trust what the sales guy says!)
