STARS ARE TWO-FACED ON SUVS

[SJ]

Jason:

I agree wholeheartedly. My biggest consumer wish is to see Ford and GM introduce cars, trucks, and SUVs that offer greater efficiencies. Design, parts sourcing, and manufacturing should be firmly planted in America.

Ford is supposed to offer a Hybrid Escape SUV in the Summer of '04 and GM is working on at least 5 near-term models that use alternative fuel sources.

As you stated, the profit motivation is what blinds some of the manufacturers at this stage of the game.

I refuse to buy a Japanese nameplate [very expensive consumer product and too valuable of an industry to justify my proliferation of a foreign entity], but I also want to be a productive member of society, so I'm hoping that GM and Ford step up to the plate before it's too late.

[bklynh2srock]

This thread is like a train wreck. Don't wanna look, but you have to.

Most important of all: Klaus reads quality material. One cannot overestimate the quality reading Page Six in the New York Post provides. Where else can you find out who is dating whom? Which celeb left another celeb's hotel room in the wee hours of the morning? Try and figure out the blind items?

Seriously guys, I'm always for a healthy debate, but I'm starting to get sleepy.

Anyone able to figure out the blind item last week about the "charming" actress with a VD?

[Dennis]

Tex,
Save me a seat at the bar will ya? Let's try to remember that you don't have to be smart to be a movie star or a newscaster and there's no IQ test to reside in SF.

Dennis (equally pissed off---just further north)

[MAC]

"15 years ago, when the US/Japan auto trade dispute was a hot issue, I vowed to never buy Japanese. Times have changed."

Nothing has changed, people simply shifted their hate targets, you just merely being influenced by the wind of the day and follow the crowd. We Americans always need an enemy or someone to look down on, whether it is German, Italian, Irish, English, Japanese, Chinese, Arabs, Jews, Mexicans and whomever fits the bill for the moment, or we feel threatened economically by someone. You are not an independent confident person, you are easily influenced, unfortunately you don‘t even know it. This month it happened to be anti-SUV, few months ago it was the WTO, or genetic engineered foods, or whatever coming next.

Huffington and Lear have 9000SF mansion, do you know what a 9000SF house uses every MONTH? Minimum $2,000 of gas and electric, a decent size garden uses $2,000 of water a month. How pathetic you are merely a follower to these people. Hitler could not have done what he did without people like you.

I wonder what kind of TV or LCD or DVD do you own? Do you know what are in the computer or cell phone you are using now? Do you know all the DELL computers are made in Taiwan? Wal-Mart buys $6 Billion a year from China? You can accept the reality and look to the future, or you can fight the windmill.

Stop the hate and all the negative energy, it does you no good and it does our great country no good.

[Mike97ZJ]

Did anyone catch Cameron Diaz on Leno a few weeks ago?

She was talking about her Prius and saying how she loves driving it, she feels so "patriotic".

Jay laughs and says incredulously, "Oh, so you feel patriotic driving a JAPANESE car?"

Knowing how much of a car guy Jay is, you just KNOW he had some really good things to say about THAT, but didn't.

I hate it when stars get all political and support causes.

It's like, you make MOVIES. Big deal, nobody cares WHAT you think.

[\"Hummer\", heh, heh]

you. "http://home.attbi.com/~n9ivo/whatswrong.swf and see if you can find the little energy-wasting ghost in this picture. Make sure your volume is up extra high in case there are any clues."

I would but I saw that like 2 years ago.

Someone told me last week that Michael P. Farris "Huff-huff Huffington" used to call himself "FOOK", and they pointed me to his old webpage. Be sure to scroll to the bottom.

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare...8665/fook.html

-Jason

[This message was edited by "Hummer", heh, heh on February 25, 2003 at 09:05 PM.]

[Big Z]

Coal, petroleum (oil), and natural gas are burned in large furnaces to heat water to make steam that in turn pushes on the blades of a turbine.*Did you know that coal is the largest single primary source of energy used to generate electricity in the United States? In 2000, more than half (52%) of the county's 3.8 trillion kilowatthours of electricity used coal as its source of energy.

Natural gas, in addition to being burned to heat water for steam, can also be burned to produce hot combustion gases that pass directly through a turbine, spinning the blades of the turbine to generate electricity. Gas turbines are commonly used when electricity utility usage is in high demand. In 2000, 16% of the nation's electricity was fueled by natural gas.

Petroleum can also be used to make steam to turn a turbine. Residual fuel oil, a product refined from crude oil, is often the petroleum product used in electric plants that use petroleum to make steam. Petroleum was used to generate less than three percent (3%) of all electricity generated in U.S. electricity plants in 2000.

Nuclear power is a method in which steam is produced by heating water through a process called nuclear fission. In a nuclear power plant, a reactor contains a core of nuclear fuel, primarily enriched uranium. When atoms of uranium fuel are hit by neutrons they fission (split), releasing heat and more neutrons. Under controlled conditions, these other neutrons can strike more uranium atoms, splitting more atoms, and so on. Thereby, continuous fission can take place, forming a chain reaction releasing heat. The heat is used to turn water into steam, that, in turn, spins a turbine that generates electricity. Nuclear power is used to generate 20% of all the country's electricity.

Hydropower, the source for 7% of U.S. electricity generation, is a process in which flowing water is used to spin a turbine connected to a generator. There are two basic types of hydroelectric systems that produce electricity. In the first system, flowing water accumulates in reservoirs created by the use of dams. The water falls through a pipe called a penstock and applies pressure against the turbine blades to drive the generator to produce electricity. In the second system, called run-of-river, the force of the river current (rather than falling water) applies pressure to the turbine blades to produce electricity.