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Chevy Volt a Failure - GM to Layoff 1,300

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L), Mar 2, 2012.

  1. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Coal is by far the largest source of electricity. Depending on the source, at least 45% and at least one source says 57%.

    Regardless, using the 45% figure ...

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    ... the next-closest is natural gas -- which is ALSO A FOSSIL FUEL -- at 24%, then nuclear at 20%.

    So we have two fossil fuels and nuclear -- all hated by the left -- making up for 89% of electricity production, with coal nearly double the next-closest.
     
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  2. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    That's like saying 55% of meat was unhealthy beforre The Jungle was published. There's always a starting point to to improve from. And solar is still in its infancy
     
  3. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    There were solar panels on top of houses when I walked to school 35 years ago. The technology isn't a whole lot better now. When does this infancy end?

    And let's not forget to talk about wind, which is driving people from their homes with major medical issues when the huge towers go up near the homes they've lived in for years.
     
  4. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    You don't know much about those panels. They don't generate electricity.
     
  5. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    The infancy ends when development continues; solar panel development came to a screeching halt when President Reagan had Carter's panels removed from the White House on the very day he was inaugurated.

    See the correlation? Government cuts development funds, things don't get developed. D'oh!
     
  6. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    If solar was worthwhile, the private sector would be all over it. It isn't, so the private sector isn't. That doesn't mean Obama won't continue to ply his supporters with billions of our money. You seem to be quite happy with that. We need fewer Solyndras, not more.
     
  7. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    Oil isn't worthwhile according to your arguement. If government stopped propping up the oil, natural gas, and ethanol industries, solar could be a good investment. It has no chance with billions in subsidies going to the oil industry every year.
     
  8. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Girl at my old apartment complex had a Cruze. She hated it. Told me never to get one.It's toolightweight and blows all over the road, like the old Cavaliers were.

    I rented a Cavalier once. Worst car ever. Couldn't hold it in the lane in a stiff breeze.
     
  9. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Remove all subsidies. That's fine with me. Oil will be bigger than ever and all the ineffective ones like solar and wind will be gone. And we as a country will be better off.
     
  10. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    Make every company pay back all of their subsidies and let's see if oil is still on top. The free market does not worked when it's rigged.
     
  11. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    No, no, no -- the Cruze that girl had was the old, crappy one. The new one is a world-class small economy car. Some experts say it's the best car, pound-for-pound, dollar-for-dollar that GM has ever made.

    http://www.edmunds.com/chevrolet/cruze/2012/
     
  12. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    We'll be better off without cleaner technologies? Your side lost that battle in the early 1970s.
     
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