Global warming

[1949chevy]

Yes...I joined this forum to learn "corvair"...not bitch/read about global warming signs or our president re-elected by 5,000,000 more votes than the other guy....mind you...I am not afraid to tangle with anyone....but this forum is not the place for politics and tangling.

I would prefer quiet when it comes to politics...other forums that I visit...politics is not on the menu....my other cars are much more complicated than a corvair is so I was hoping that I could just cruise easy here and learn the corvair...believe me...I have about mastered building chevy v8"s and placing them in 55 ford pick ups, 51 ford cars, 49 chevys along with subframing them, all electrical systems from scratch, and putting them all together after taking them all apart...every nut and bolt out and cleaned, etc and they run the drive the first time out the door...never have I had to turn a distributor 180 like they do on these tv shows all the time....anyway...I usually take at least 5 years working 7 days a week, all year long, on one car before it goes on the road the first time...

Speaking of cars...and progress...my 66 corvair really runs nice...it is much faster than I thought it would be for a 110 with pg...very impressed. I really love the way it handles also as I have rebuilt the suspension and steering. This one is weeks only and on the road from a car that had been sitting for years to driving it everyday now...when I say I am impressed with the way it runs...that is saying a lot as both my other cars are pretty fast. Here is my vette on a little sunday drive...the accelarator pump was not working and the carb was rebuilt a couple of weeks after this video...it had been parked at my girlfriends all winter without driving it but my future owner wanted to ride in her vette so I pulled it out of storage for a little ride...much faster now that the accelerator pump is working....in 8 sec it went from rolling to way up there...about 3 sec in first...55mph.

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Turn up the sound...the video will be re-done this spring with my Nikon 7000...this one was done with a small cell phone...lots of background noise...I apoligize.

[64powerglide]

49Chevy,

You sound like a good friend of mine who started out restoring Corvette's almost 40 years ago then went into woody wagons & about anything you can imagine. It takes a special kind of mind to do what he & you can do. He has given me advice on my Corvair although he says he doesn't know that much about them but he's a Chevy man. Here are a couple photo's of the 49 Chevy tin woody he did in 2 years, every nut a bolt is new & he does all the wood grain by hand. The owner had the upholstery done. While doing this 49 he also redid a front end on a 64 Corvette for the guy who own's the 49. He also had to redo a dash in a Corvette while working on the 49, he had to take the whole dash out and repaint everything & that took 4 days. I wish I had 1/10 of the talent you & he has. I wouldn't even attempt something like that. I only have enough smarts to keep them running.

Jeff

[91blaze]

49chevy- This is the "off-topic" area for a reason. If you don't want to read or get involved with it then don't. Truthfully, this has been a much calmer discussion than most forums with politics and hasn't gotten out of hand like they usually do.

[1949chevy]

64 Powerglide...thank you so much for the compliment...just keeping a car going these days is a feat in itsself...!!! :)

I will be photographing all the homeless vets tomorrow for christmas cards along with battered women. The guy that asks me to do this every year has a chevy woody like the one in your photos...almost identical as to quality of workmanship...but it is a slick black one...I judged a local car show in Oct with 200 plus cars and I made sure he won top 25...my corvette won last year because of the paint....if he drives it tomorrow, I will try and take a photo for you. That woody you have shown me would put my 49 to shame in my opinion...very nice.

Yes...5 years working everyday 7 days a week as I look back on it...don't think I could do it now....that is why I was so glad to get this corvair...as I told someone last week....I am used to buying cars that don't run...don't have an engine...etc....by the way, the 51 ford car I built was much worse than the F100 was...did not look it but when you opened the door, it fell down to the ground ....but you could see the ground from anywhere inside the car...it was much more of a challenge than this truck believe it or not.

I will, for example show you my 1st truck/car I built...it was a bear....it really went from a case of the real ugly to one of the nicest F100's out there...just the bedwood (hand picked by me) took about a month just to varnish, sand, varnish, sand....8 times and then took a lot of time installing it..painting the bed strips etc....it was nice...but I drove this truck about 6 years and 30,000 trouble free miles....I had placed a 71 monte carlo front clip in this one and it rode and drove like a monte with a truck body...never had it aligned....same with my 51 ford I built...never had it aligned after I installed a 84 monte clip in it....hate I sold that one...it was a super car...24 mpg running 70-80mph...I had built a 305 for it with z-28 heads like in my 49 chevy...the 49 has a hot little hi-po 283, 700R and 3.42 rear. I run with a 65 GTO and 64 409 when I go out of town to car shows...so it has to run good or get left behind... :)

Okay...getting late...will close for now...and again..."THANK YOU" for your comments....Jimmy

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[1949chevy]

49chevy- This is the "off-topic" area for a reason. If you don't want to read or get involved with it then don't. Truthfully, this has been a much calmer discussion than most forums with politics and hasn't gotten out of hand like they usually do.

I go straight to the portal...it was right there in front of me....pretty hard to miss/ignore unless you are blind.

I just prefer that politics be left out of a car forum....but as you see....not afraid to give my two cents worth...and I don't car who you are !! or who you think you are....

I am strong politically....actually worked for the election and re-election of our president....so its pretty hard when its right there in front of you...most other forums that "tolerate this mess"...have it well hid out of site and you must make an effort to find it...besides...there are lots of websites that deal only in politics...maybe one should go there to discuss politics....NO?

[miniman82]

^ha, another Democrat with the victim mentality! 'I need help, because I have no self control!'


ROTFLMAO!!!


Maybe the Gubbment will come to your rescue, and regulate CF for you so you don't have to be bothered by the off topic forum! Ha!

[davemotohead]

Because You prefer politics be left out of a car forum, like a typical democrat you complain and want others to play by your rules, Basically Tell people here to go to another forum, even though you are clearly in the OT political page of this forum, You still complain, and want the rules changed, if you don't like it don't read it! I don't care who YOU are or who YOU think you Are! people here and on the other forum you caused trouble in Have been getting along fine with the rules without you trying to change them for your liking! I also think its funny you think I and people like me (Right Minded) Run scared from your so called Facts,,well I am here to tell you WE DON'T! I applaud you for your political convictions and the fact you went and Helped Obummer Lie ,cheat and steal a second term to further Destroy this country, at least you have conviction, even if its for the wrong Side!

[64powerglide]

Thought this topic needed a little humor. Don't take anything I post personally, please.

[bbodie52]

Funny how the final comments about electricity seem all the more applicable to the Chevrolet Volt and other electric cars that were the pride of the Federal government, while the EPA simultaneously works to shut down coal production and coal-fired power plants (after killing-off nuclear power development and nuclear waste disposal plans for Yucca Mountain). Imagine millions of electric cars trying to recharge each day form the declining capacity of the national power grid. Where is this massive power feed supposed to come from?

Another favorite about gun control... imagine this solution easing the airport security bottleneck?

[davemotohead]

[64powerglide]

Yes Brad, that was a good one too & they still apply today after 35 to 40 years or so.

And another.

[1949chevy]

Because You prefer politics be left out of a car forum, like a typical democrat you complain and want others to play by your rules, Basically Tell people here to go to another forum, even though you are clearly in the OT political page of this forum, You still complain, and want the rules changed, if you don't like it don't read it! I don't care who YOU are or who YOU think you Are! people here and on the other forum you caused trouble in Have been getting along fine with the rules without you trying to change them for your liking! I also think its funny you think I and people like me (Right Minded) Run scared from your so called Facts,,well I am here to tell you WE DON'T! I applaud you for your political convictions and the fact you went and Helped Obummer Lie ,cheat and steal a second term to further Destroy this country, at least you have conviction, even if its for the wrong Side!

Pretty funny stuff there ....

One question....who started this post that does nothing but COMPLAIN and on the other forum also??? Duhhhhhhhh...you might try a mirror there fella...still waiting for you to tell me what law class you taught at Harvard...you know...when you said you were smarter than the pres....again...pretty funny....I believe it was constitutional law he taught....at Harvard.

You want a real liar....I'll give you one tomorrow..maybe 2 or 3....the only non truth I know of is when the pres said you could keep your current insurance....now about that. Most of these policies were in the 2-4 hundred per mo range....my cousin, a right winger had one in Atlanta...her dr wanted her to have a simple procedure....she called the Ins co....they said her policy did not cover that....another dr wanted her to have a different procedure he was worried about...again...she called...and you want to know that answer....yep, NO! Those are the ins policies you could not keep....THEY DID NOT PAY FOR ANYTHING...!! Rational thinkers would understand why they got cancelled....not the few closed minds here though. Ins companies now have to spend 80% of what they take in now....or refund the difference to their insured, lots of folks have received these payments from the crooked ins companies....my cousin had the procedures done....she got MEDICARE...you know what the republicans want to take away what the democrates gave the people of America....just like Social Security.

Did you see that republican lady at a Afordable Health Care meeting...."you just tell the federal gov to keep their hands off my medicare"....pretty funny also.

For your info...because you did not understand my earlier post or you did not even read what I said...I go to the portal page....do you not understand that...it has ebay corvairs and all the recent posts from all the catagories....most sites hide the BS you put out and make it semi hard to find even if you are looking for it.

As to those few that are on my case...thats fine...I just look at the source....not impressed evidently am I.

[1949chevy]

Funny how the final comments about electricity seem all the more applicable to the Chevrolet Volt and other electric cars that were the pride of the Federal government, while the EPA simultaneously works to shut down coal production and coal-fired power plants (after killing-off nuclear power development and nuclear waste disposal plans for Yucca Mountain). Imagine millions of electric cars trying to recharge each day form the declining capacity of the national power grid. Where is this massive power feed supposed to come from?

Another favorite about gun control... imagine this solution easing the airport security bottleneck?

I guess you know Toyota is bringing out a hydrogen powered car in sept....my engineer next door neighbor is building a self sustained house right now...the future will not be run by gas and oil....its already changing pretty fast.

[davemotohead]

I have come to a conclusion you are just a typical left wing brain dead JERK! You started crap here and on the other forum Not me, you start crap and blame me,,Kinda like Obama blames Bush! Typical left wing finger point B.S. Your hero is a Total liar,he lies about EVERYTHING! But you with your brainwashed closed mind won't let yourself see the truth, buddy, QUIT YOUR COMPLAINING! Both these sites have been running like clockwork Until you came along and want to complain about them,,And the B.S I Put out? What about the B.S. you spew? You think your Opinion is the only one that matters and we should all just agree with you because you know whats best for Us because you helped Obummer win the election all by yourself with your strong political opinions!! Blah Blah Blah! And Health care? You mean that socialist Agenda thing the DEMOCRATS DID NOT EVEN READ BEFORE PASSING? Give me a BREAK! Its the worst thing to ever happen to the American People! ITS A JOKE! And now His Immigration plan? Ya like we need another 11 million freeloaders my tax money needs to pay for! How is that Ferguson thing going? I could Care less what your Opinion is at this point because I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU THINK!!! You want lies? here are a Few.

Corruption and lies is the agenda of this administration, from fast and Furious to "I don't know Gruber" it does not take a genius to figure out what the truth is, if you actually pay attention!

A laundry list of lies and broken promises?
Barack Obama's lies; remember these?
"I promise that I will support traditional marriage - one man, one woman."
"I promise 100% transparency in my administration."
"I promise no new taxes on a family making less than $250,000 a year."
"I will allow five days of public comment before I sign any bills."
"I will remove earmarks from pork projects before I sign any bill."
"I will end income tax for seniors making less than $50,000 a year."
"I will bring all of our troops home within one year."
"I'll put the health care negotiations on C-SPAN so everyone can see who is at the table!"
"I'll have no lobbyists in my administration."
"I'll close Guantanamo."
"I'll resign if I don't cut the deficit in half by the end of four years."
"I'll cut the debt by half in my first term." - Obama, 2004 and 08.
"I'll unite the people of this great country."
"I will not take your guns or limit your Second Amendment." - CBS, 2007.
"My administration will be the most transparent you have ever seen."
"We will have a laser-like focus on jobs."
"We will examine every program line for line."
"The Affordable Care Act will help lower health care costs."
"I will use stimulus for shovel-ready projects."
"I will use stimulus money to support and grow the small businesses of this country."
And my favorite lie of all:
"I promise to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America."
Can anyone tell me how many of the above statements he has kept? Anyone?
And now he wants you to believe that his intentions for health care are for your benefit. Remember the old saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Anyone care to add to the list? The last one is very interesting.
Well, Obama, time to keep your promises, I only want you to keep this one: "I'll resign if I don't cut the deficit in half by the end of four years."
Do us a favor and keep this one.
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Lies During the Sixth Year
“We’ve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion.”
Poltifact.com
(IRS) “Not a even smidgen of corruption”
Foxnews.com
“Keystone pipeline would mean maybe 2,000 jobs”
Poltifact.com
Lies During the Fifth Year
“We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas.”
Politifact.com
“If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it”
Washingtonpost.com
“The NSA is not abusing its power”
Washingtonpost.com
“I said benghazi was a terrorist attack from the beginning.”
Lubbockonline.com
“the foreign intelligence Surveillance court is transparent.”
Politifact.com
“First of all, I didn’t set a red line,” said Obama. “The world set a red line.”
Weeklystandard.com
nbcnews

Lies During Fourth Year
“The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.”
Politifact.com
“Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times.”
Politifact.com
“Mitt Romney called the Arizona law a model for the nation.”
Politifact.com
“Planned Parenthood provides mammograms”
Spero News
“We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system”
cbsnews.com
Benghazi violence was caused by an internet video & demonstrations
State Department
“Mitt Romney Plans to fire Big Bird”
Politifact.com
“Under Gov. Romney’s definition … Donald Trump is a small business.”
politifact.com
Because of Obamacare, “over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up — it’s true — but they’ve gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years.”
politifact.com
“I think it’s important for us to understand that the Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration”
abcnews.com
Romney and Ryan will gut pell grants for low-income college students.
Factcheck.org
My budget will cut the deficit by $4 Trillion over 10 years.
Factcheck.org
“I am told that Governor Romney’s new running mate, Paul Ryan, might be around Iowa the next few days,” he said while in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “He is one of the leaders of Congress standing in the way. So if you happen to see Congressman Ryan, tell him how important this farm bill is to Iowa and our rural communities.”
House passed bill on August 2, 2012 (Paul Ryan voted yes)
The American automobile industry has come roaring back…So now I want to say what we did with the auto industry, we can do it in manufacturing across America. Let’s make sure advanced, high-tech manufacturing jobs take root here, not in China. And that means supporting investment here. Governor Romney … invested in companies that were called ‘pioneers’ of outsourcing. I don’t want to outsource. I want to insource.
Forbes- Outsourcer-In-Chief: Obama Of General Motors
“You Didn’t Build that”
A few examples

Lies During Third Year
I will walk on that picket line with you, if workers are denied the right to bargain.
Youtube
In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Obama said that American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years.
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I’ve done more for Israel’s security than any President ever
Obama aided Islamic Extremists take over of Egypt/ Libya – Weapons pour into Gaza
Virtually every Senate Republican voted against the tax cut last week
Examiner
“Every idea that we’ve put forward are ones that traditionally have been supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.”
Like Raising taxes?
Obama met highly qualified out of work teacher Robert Baroz
He wasn’t out of work and Obama never met him.
GOP Responsible for Obama Jobs Bill Not Passing
Dems Rejected Jobs Bill
You have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach. Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts. So the notion that somehow the American people aren’t sold is not the problem
Gallup Poll: Only 69%
These are obligations that the United States has taken on in the past. Congress has run up the credit card, and we now have an obligation to pay our bills.
Looks like it’s been incurred mostly in the years of Obama
Jobs Bill Paid for
Seems not so much Paid for
Then you’ve got their(GOP)which is dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance
Barack Obama, campaiging in Asheville, NC, 10/17/11
I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.
American.com
USA producing more oil than ever before
Petroleum Insights
Fence between US and Mexico is “Practically Complete”
Department of Homeland Security says 5%
Rich doesn’t pay their fair share.
National Taxpayers Union
Mitt Romney would deny gay people the right to adopt children.
Cnn Interview

Lies During Second Year
Obama claimed the SCOTUS decision in Citizens United v. FEC, “open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections.
nationalreview.com
No signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law
Obama Lies to Keep Czars
No “boots” on the ground Libya
Anyone that has worked with the AC-130 gunship can tell you, you need spotters to let aircraft know where the targets are. Usually it is Special Forces, Rangers etc trained for this mission. It’s CIA Agents in Libya on the ground
Reform will also rein in the abuse and excess that nearly brought down our financial system. It will finally bring transparency to the kinds of complex, risky transactions that helped trigger the financial crisis.
Obama Lies About Financial Reform Bill
All Americans WILL BE were, “surprised, disappointed and angry” about lockerbie bomber
Obama Memo
I will not rest until the BP Oil Spill stops
Obama’s Schedule
The health care bill will not increase the deficit by one dime.
Campaign and Presidency
If you like the health care plan you have you can keep it
TownHall
“Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.”
U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., September 9, 2009.
ObamaCare Fee is not a new tax
Obama denies healthcare is a new tax on all Americans
We have run out of places in the US to drill for oil.
Obama’s oval office speech in June 2010
Now suddenly if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you can be harassed, that’s something that could potentially happen.
Arizona Immigration Law
Doctors choose amputation because they get better compensation. Greedy Doctors taking out tonsils for more money.
Claims never documented
The Health Care Package will pay for itself
Time
Republicans don’t have a single idea that’s different from George Bush’s ideas — not one.
Hmm Immigration?
We shouldn’t Mandate the purchase of health care
Democratic Debate Lies
Obama says he’ll save average family $8,000 in gas
Video Proof
I am immediately instituting PayGo “Pay as you go”
Said during a speech immediately after the Trillion Dollar “Shovel Ready” bill.
I got the Message from Massachusetts
Daily Bail

Lies During First Year
We began by passing a Recovery Act that has already saved or created over 150,000 jobs.” – caught cooking the books and now changed to ‘jobs supported’ versus ‘created/saved’
AP fact Checker
Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit. … That wasn’t me.” – Congress, under Democratic control in 2007 and 2008, controlled the purse strings that led to the deficit Obama inherited.Obama supported the emergency bailout package in Bush’s final months — a package Democratic leaders wanted to make bigger.
AP fact Checker
Collective salvation
Obama calls himself a Christian
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Obama Inauguration. 20 Jan 2009
Cut Deficit in Half by end of first term
Associated Press Video
Health Care deals will be covered on C-span
Obama Lies
As President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide
ABC
Recovery Act will save or create jobs
ABC News
Unemployment rate will be 8.5% without stimulus.
Obama Lies
No Earmarks in the $787 Billion Stimulus
CNN
I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan
Specator.Org
We have launched a housing plan that will help responsible families facing the threat of foreclosure lower their monthly payments and refinance their mortgages.
Obama Lies
I am not somebody who promotes same-sex marriage.
NPR
Guantanamo bay to be closed within a year
Council on Foreign Relations.
Won’t Raise taxes on those making less than 250,000 per year.
Businessweek: Obama Agnostic on taxes
List of Tax Promise Violations
2008 Campaign Lies
Bypassing congress unconstitutional; I intend to reverse when I am president
Vimeo
I will walk the picket line with you, if workers are denied the right to bargain
Youtube
No more wiretapping of citizens
Youtube
Mr. Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” but “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
News Busters
I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Obama campaign would accept public funding
ABC
Minimum Wage will increase to $9.50/hr
A Socialist
Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995 fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment.
Mounting Heath Care Lies
Didn’t know Jeremiah Wright was Radical
Dreams of My Father – A radical Socialist.
Would have the most transparent administration in History
Cato Institute
We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way.
Boston Globe
I have visited all 57 states.
Snopes
I’ll get rid of earmarks
Source: Any bill passed during presidency
When a bill lands on my Desk, The American people will have 5 days to review it before I sign it.
Campaign Speech
My father served in World War II.
The Videos and the Facts
Have troops out of Iraq by March 31, 2009
News Video
Seniors Making less than 50,000 will not have to pay taxes
YouTube
Would not vote for any bill supporting troop funding without a firm withdrawal commitment from the Bush Administration.
He has done nothing but continue the Bush admins strategy and to explain how the “surges total failure” has now become his greatest achievement.
Present Votes Are Common In Illinois
NPR
I Won Michigan
Huffington Post
I won Nevada
The Nation
I don’t Have Lobbyists
US News
My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad
Crooks and Liars
I Have Always Been Against Iraq
Washington Post
My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country
CNN
Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.
Obama Campaign Video
I Barely Know Rezko
Sun Times
My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church
ABC News

[bbodie52]

I always figured that a hydrogen-powered hybrid, similar in concept to the gasoline-powered Toyota Prius, would be the next generation energy-efficient low-pollution car to enter the arena, as long as hydrogen production and distribution issues could be worked out on a large scale. A system to support gasoline-powered cars was difficult to establish in the early 20th century too, so it is possible. I never did believe in the electric-only cars. The long recharge cycle, lack of high-current capacity in the national power grid to absorb the added load, battery production issues, etc. indicate that the technology and infrastructure just aren't there yet to support 100% electric cars — except maybe as local, around town commuter cars — one step up from a golf cart. But a hydrogen hybrid does seem to be reasonable. I think that a hard look at further technological advances in nuclear power is also the way to move away from fossil fuels — as long as enough gasoline is still available to keep Corvairs on the road!

I already switched to an energy efficient tankless hot water heater years ago, and we are currently looking at upgrading our HVAC system to a geothermal heat pump. We live on a lake so a geothermal transfer grid on the lake bottom would be the way to go, I believe. I'm all for energy efficiency and a gradual transition away from fossil fuels. But it must be done in a way that accepts a gradual transition while encouraging new technological advances with realistic goals. Costly false starts that prove to be unobtainable produce a lot of negative publicity that discourages the country from even trying. And natural fears of nuclear disaster must be matched by solid technological advances with research and development that will satisfy our needs for large volumes of safe, non-polluting energy production. It can be done, but only if sound R&D efforts are encouraged in the private sector. Apparent insurmountable political and government barriers will not produce strong advances in this area. The French have made advances in nuclear power production out of necessity, since they lack natural resources to produce power any other way. America could really shine in this area, if the incentives seem to be there and political barriers fade to encourage realistic, safe advances. The whole world could benefit by America's lead in nuclear power development. A strong, realistic national energy policy that expands to include Canada and Mexico could make full use of the natural resources that North America enjoys. Fossil fuels need to be a part of that national energy policy so that realistic, forward-thinking goals can be encouraged to permit a smooth transition away from fossil fuels as technological advances permit it.

[1949chevy]

I always figured that a hydrogen-powered hybrid, similar in concept to the gasoline-powered Toyota Prius, would be the next generation energy-efficient low-pollution car to enter the arena, as long as hydrogen production and distribution issues could be worked out on a large scale. A system to support gasoline-powered cars was difficult to establish in the early 20th century too, so it is possible. I never did believe in the electric-only cars. The long recharge cycle, lack of high-current capacity in the national power grid to absorb the added load, battery production issues, etc. indicate that the technology and infrastructure just aren't there yet to support 100% electric cars — except maybe as local, around town commuter cars — one step up from a golf cart. But a hydrogen hybrid does seem to be reasonable. I think that a hard look at further technological advances in nuclear power is also the way to move away from fossil fuels — as long as enough gasoline is still available to keep Corvairs on the road!

I already switched to an energy efficient tankless hot water heater years ago, and we are currently looking at upgrading our HVAC system to a geothermal heat pump. We live on a lake so a geothermal transfer grid on the lake bottom would be the way to go, I believe. I'm all for energy efficiency and a gradual transition away from fossil fuels. But it must be done in a way that accepts a gradual transition while encouraging new technological advances with realistic goals. Costly false starts that prove to be unobtainable produce a lot of negative publicity that discourages the country from even trying. And natural fears of nuclear disaster must be matched by solid technological advances with research and development that will satisfy our needs for large volumes of safe, non-polluting energy production. It can be done, but only if sound R&D efforts are encouraged in the private sector. Apparent insurmountable political and government barriers will not produce strong advances in this area. The French have made advances in nuclear power production out of necessity, since they lack natural resources to produce power any other way. America could really shine in this area, if the incentives seem to be there and political barriers fade to encourage realistic, safe advances. The whole world could benefit by America's lead in nuclear power development. A strong, realistic national energy policy that expands to include Canada and Mexico could make full use of the natural resources that North America enjoys. Fossil fuels need to be a part of that national energy policy so that realistic, forward-thinking goals can be encouraged to permit a smooth transition away from fossil fuels as technological advances permit it.

Very smart post...I am in agreement. The guy that painted my vette, who passed away recently unexpected, has the geo heat pump I think he said...one of his houses had that and he told me that his electric bill was extremely low...his garage would make 3-4 of my house much less his house he lived in...I was thinking around a $100-150 per month total....that house had 72 acres in Tryon, NC...a good horse farm comunity...he had bought another house about 3-4 miles up the road and tried to sell his big house to downsize....the smaller one was 38 acres. Butch was really a great guy...he had moved down here from Long Island...he sold a 48 bay body shop that had the Mercedes/BMW business, a 40 bay holding prep shop, and another in the woods holding area. We painted my vette outside under pines at his house...he had some really nice cars and he and I took them to lots of car shows. Two had 427 ford side oilers...I think he told me 22M for one of them in his 48 ford pu....his 40 ford conv with 8 different blues of house of color paint was nice but not his favorite...we normally took his 49 ford car or his pu most of the time to Pigeon Forge, etc.

I also have built some houses but never put in the geo....I was building and doing wedding photography and cars at the same time...my girlfriend never said one word about it...but we have been together 22 years now...I was licensed to build commerical or residentual but never had the $$$ to put in geo but I think you would be very happy with it every winter month and probably summer bill wise... I know Butch had a couple of tractors/back hoes and dug the ground on his own saving a lot of money....he had told me he had to go really deep to obtain the benefit of geo.

Will include his 40 below with the lesser 427...

Anyway...I agree and hope gas will be around for a while with our older cars for sure....I think supply and demand will play a role here. I currently have 3 cars that have to have premium counting the 66 corvair that I am throughly enjoying. My corvette has 11:15 to 1 compression thanks to Micky Thompson pistons when I rebuilt it in 84...they were the only ones that made a replacement for a 60 over 327 at that time for the 327-350Hp engine that is. My 49 has a 283 60 over with flat tops and Z28 601 hi comp 54cc heads...probalby 10 -10.5 compression....just guessing.

Okay...sorry I have yaked too much tonight....will shut myself up.