Thursday, 3. January 2008, 20:27:27
hybrid, plug-in, Cafe, PHEVs
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Now it's pen-on-paper official:
Let's just be thankful that the 35 mpg standard survived all the backing down. And the Detroit News mentions this: **a measure in the bill that will provide at least $90 million annually for battery research to make plug-in hybrids a reality.**
Somehow I thought the PHEV money had been stricken. Hey, it's nice to be wrong. While the 35 mpg number won't kick in until 2020, the bill mandates changes starting with the 2011 model year. My, that's soon.
========== AutoblogGreen.com
PHEVs are a reality, only not in large scale production yet. There is a thriving business in converting the Prius and other makes from hybrid to PHEV. = TG
Sunday, 4. November 2007, 06:10:05
hybrid, Canadian, vehicle, Association
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Saturday, 11. August 2007, 07:11:26
modern bathroom, Vancouver Island, , pines
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Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Finishing touches to a deluxe home. . .
This modest on the outside home has a modern craftsman fitted interior with beautiful dark stained wood floors, ceramic tile of varied Grecian stone in the bathroom, in the kitchen, back porch floor and wet boots area inside the front doors. Laundry room and kitchen both have water impervious chocolate ceramic floors.
The appliances are modern stainless and the fridge blends in quietly in black. There is ample modern recessed lighting. There is also a modern faux fireplace. Nice warm ambiance but no fire, no wood, no ashes.
The lot is handy to everything in Courtenay, yet there are tall pines, willows and cedar. The double lot allows the owner to build a studio or other structure if so desired. I am not a real estate person but a friend of Neil, the owner and renovator, so any error of description on my part is unintentional. The exact details are listed with the real estate pros. Or Email me: tone.robinson at gmail dot com.
Wednesday, 23. May 2007, 17:55:22
Pick-up, P/U, , Phoenix
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This very nice [SUT], sport utility truck,runs entirely on battery power.
That saves me about $400 a month in gas. Hey, that could cover the payments with change to spare.
This SUT is popular with municipal maintenance departments. They have engineers on staff and know a good deal when they see it. Also they want to be able to get around and fix things during a crisis, when all gas pumps are reserved for military and police - emergency use.
I like it. Sadly, so do many others and the waiting list is looong. = TG
More on this Phoenix and [No Gasoline], EVs at my other blogsite:
http://TonyGuitar.blogspot.com
= TG
Saturday, 14. October 2006, 02:54:55
EV, E-bike, Battery, Eestor
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I really do want an EV. [ Electric Vehicle ]Car, but maybe an E-Bike.
Remember that the monthly payments for an EV [car] will not even phase you. Why?
Simple, you are not paying $300 per month for gas so your budget remains about the same.
For an E-Bike at about $1200, you can probably buy new for cash. No payments!
Amazing, but true. In B.C. Canada, where I live, [Vancouver Island], you can buy an E-Bike, [looks like a motorcycle] new, for only $900 to $1300, but aside from no gas to buy. . . get this:
[1] An E-Bike does not require a driver*s license.
[2] An E-Bike does not require registration.
[3] An E-Bike does not require INSURANCE.
- - [ I would get some PL insurance . in case you flatten somebody]
This miracle of economy may be due to government wanting to encourage a move away from gas dependency and air pollution.
Check your state or province regulations to see if an E-Bike could save you a bundle of green backs.
The world is weird. E-Bikes are sold through our local computer dealer.
With no gas, no oil, and few moving parts, EVs are virtually maintenance free so there is not much service work for a bike shop to look forward to. Maybe that*s why they do not sell E-Bikes.
Service work pays their $90 shop hour rate after all.
I could not believe all this good stuff until October 11th/06 when I read all these facts in our syndicated local news paper.
The new 2007 models are even more comfortable to ride, have a longer range and new features like motor lock-out and wireless remote security alarm. You need a pick-up truck to steal it.
The Canadian version comes with a big maple leaf on the front. Optional is a suspension feature making the E-Bike ride more like a motorcycle. Takes the rough stuff better.
Improved high torque motors and batteries allows 50 miles between recharging. [plugs in at home or work]. Many Box stores have pugins for senior electric EVs. So plug in while you shop.
A re-charge will add a featherweight 6 - 20 cents to your hydro bill. If you get caught out of charge, you can pedal it like a normal bike.
There are several EV posts and good links at:
TonyGuitar.Blogspot.com
= TG
Saturday, 15. April 2006, 18:13:00
Canada, Flag, maple leaf, Canada flag
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Is it time for a new Canada flag? A flag with a little conservative blue to go with the monopoly liberal red of the current design? Yes, a new more inclusive flag may be in the cards. The red maple leaf is ok but the leaf is best when turning to gold in the fall and Quebecers may appreciate some fleur de lis as well.
Thursday, 6. April 2006, 18:27:24
Liberal, world, advertising, editor
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Funny crackers.
Posted by steve in bc at April 4, 2006 09:48 PM
I clicked on Steve in BC*s link and got The *Canadian*.
How do three or four disgruntled liberals create a HUGE mud-slinging Epaper with no overhead?
Easy….One website …….and One Email address.
.TheCanadian
Click on [About Us] and you get nothing but a Trudeau platitude.. No info at all!
Click on [Contact Us] and voila… the true picture. Four liberals and News bureaus all over the world and one on every continent.
However, if you see more than one Email address, please let me know OK?
============
National Co-Managing Editor: John Stokes
Assistant Co-Managing Editor: Peggy Chang
Advertising Director: Debra Mackenzie
Make a classified or display advertising pledge.
Enquire about our Advertising Pledge Card
Help support our not-for-profit mandate.
Careers Section Editor: Jay Singh
Other Newspaper Editors E-mail contact info:
Foreign Bureaus
== [Oh no! More Liberal Toronto Ego Mud-slinger, groan.]
Europe
Asia
Africa
Australia
United States
West Indies
South America [all bureaus with same Email address] TG
Wednesday, 29. March 2006, 18:48:24
Iran, US, dollar, US dollar
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from the March 29, 2006 edition
Here, once and for all, are the reasons that any attempt of Iran's to change the trading in oil from US dollars to $Euros simply will not work.
Iran's plan to weaken the dollar will fail
By Milton Ezrati. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0329/p09s01-coop.html
CS MonitorTG
Sunday, 12. March 2006, 02:39:52
Comox Courtenay Comox Valley buy and sell sw
Comox100, Comox Courtenay free chat news and swap website
http://Comox100.Selterra.com
The local [syndicate] newspaper wanted $94.00 for two small want ads,4X,…. so Voila! Now we have this free bulletin board, free want ad site, and free local news chat site.
This site may fill the vacancy left by the missing board at the Driftwood mall, and our long gone Teleshop. Boy, do I miss Teleshop. TG
http://Comox100.Selterra.com
Sunday, 26. February 2006, 04:05:18
Cartoons, plot, democracy, Qatar
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There is a plot
The Qatar Emir, who owns Al Jazeera helps to spread it.
February 09, 2006
The cartoon intifada, continued
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013089.php
http://tinyurl.com/s5npf
In *Rent-a-riot ABCs,* Emir Taheri shows how *the whole rigmarole was launched by Sunni-Salafi [Wahhabi] groups in Europe and Asia, with Ahmadinejad and his Syrian vassal, President Bashar al-Assad, belatedly playing catch-up.* Taheri writes:
The [traveling group of Danish Muslim militants] found a more sympathetic audience in Qatar — where the satellite-TV channel Al Jazeera (owned by the emir) specializes in inciting Muslims against the West and democracy in general. The channel*s chief Islamist televangelist, Yussuf al-Qaradawi (an Egyptian preacher who is also a friend of Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London), was all too keen to issue a "fatwa" to light the fuse. He then mobilized his network of Muslim Brotherhood militants in Europe to attack the cartoons and claim, falsely, that images were not allowed in Islam and that the Danish paper had violated "an absolute principle of The Only True Faith.*
Thus the call for Jihad received its supposed *theological* green light. (Ironically, the section of the brotherhood headed by al-Qaradawi is financed by the European Union as a non-governmental organization.)
As the first rent-a-mob crowds appeared on global TV screens, Ahmadinejad realized that here was a cow worth milking.
For Denmark is set to assume the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council — at the very time that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to refer Iran to the Security Council and demand sanctions. What better, for Tehran*s purposes, than to portray Denmark as *an enemy of Islam* and mobilize Muslim sympathy against the Security Council?
MEMRI has just released a dispatch on al-Qaradawi:
In a February 3, 2006 Friday sermon, Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, who is head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, president of the International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS), and the spiritual guide of many other Islamist organizations across the world (including the Muslim Brotherhood), exhorted worshippers to show rage to the world over the Danish paper Jylland Posten's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The sermon was aired on Qatar TV on February 3, 2006.
Read MEMRI's translation of excerpts of the sermon here.
Austin Bay begins his analysis of the cartoon intifada with Ayatollah Khomeni*s condemnation of The Satanic Verses and concludes that the uproar over the cartoons results from *information warfare.*
Minneapolis Star Tribune metro columnist Katherine Kersten covers the local angles on the cartoons. Kersten writes:
[M]any newspapers[] insist that the cartoons violate their standards. The Star Tribune described them as *purposefully sacrilegious* and has declined to reprint them. Many Christian readers will be watching to see if standards differ the next time a cartoonist turns his sights on evangelical Christians or the Catholic Church.
Let's just say that the appearance of Kersten*s column in the Star Tribune is the paper*s gesture toward the free-speech aspect of the cartoon intifada.
Finally, reader Paul Hornsleth, *a grandson of Grenå (in Jyland, of course),* alerts us to the English-language international version of the Jyllands-Posten .
[Peace and democracy are the arch enemy of any Emir*s absolute rule. Planned mass demonstrations that fuel hatred to destabilize Afghanistan and Iraq are a logical weapon for their purpose.
Silence and more troops are our best means to advance peace and freedom.
Time to stop shouting freedom of speech at any price and to stop pouting like spoiled brats and stop feeding the Jihadist fatwa frenzy.
More troops to provide the security purple fingered voters risked their lives for is what is required. TG]
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