Drew Dowdell

Cool. Camino mentioned a while ago that if I was going to plow with an Avalanche, I should get a 2500... that's why I was going that route. Edit: I would just be an extra money making thing in the winter if I ever leave the CubeLand day job I'm in right now.

Do I dare put a snow plow on a 1500?

yeah, I've notice that too. All of the 2500 seem to come in white.

I've resumed my search for an Avalanche... preferably a 2500 so I can put a plow on it.

Chinese made snow blowers.

That's what you call a provocative pose?

uh. no. expand your thinking a bit.

Where is there the requirement that we be the sole cause? What if we are just a catalyst? Ice cores So why wouldn't we try and minimize our impact on environmental balance?

Here is the premise of climate change theory broken down to the simplest points. Fact: Carbon Dioxide is a greenhouse gas, this isn't in dispute. We know that carbon dioxide will trap heat in the atmosphere that would otherwise escape into space. Fact: We are pumping millions of tons of carbon up from the ground where it has been trapped for millenia outside the natural CO2/O2 cycle. Fact: We are converting that carbon into carbon dioxide and delivering it to the atmosphere at a tremendous rate. Again, millions and millions of tons a day. Fact: We know that even mild temperature changes can have drastic effects on weather patterns. A 2 degree change in ocean surface temperature is the difference between a category 3 and category 5 hurricane. I'll give you that we are not done fully developing the theory... but nearly everything so far points to the results being very very bad if we don't reverse course now. I've not seen it so far, but has there been any "good" to climate change that isn't also accompanied with a "bad"? Has there been a "good" at all? Personally, I'd rather not see the "end" of this experiment. If you deny the above facts and still claim that climate change is still "just a theory", then yes, you do in fact deserve that tinfoil hat.

Your post should be repped to -50 for failure to understand the definition of theory. "As used in science, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena." Other "theories" Gravity Relativity Atomic Plate tectonics I'd love it if people who called Global Climate Change "only a theory" would run around Haiti shouting "Plate tectonics is only a theory!!!!!"

Gee... Pontiac did lame job on the G6 interior MCE.... I'd forgive the crotch shots if there were any decent ones.

Yes the concept did have the Turbo V6, but isn't he OPC more like 345hp?

But will you at least concede our point that we're not hating on the CR-Z just because it's a Honda? The CR-Z really is that ghastly. It's easily Aztec bad. Had it remained true to the concept version, I couldn't say that. I'll be in Chicago next week and I'm sure the CR-Z will be there. I can take more pics if you want.

Don't have that answer, but apparently the material is metalic base so it is unlikely to end up in the upper atmosphere.

Saw a mint Fiero GT out playing in the snow yesterday.

I was right, it was Volvo and it looks like the S60, S80, V70 and some PZEV Fords have it. It's called PremAir catalytic coating and was developed by BASF. In particularly bad smog conditions the the radiator coating, combined with the vehicle being a PZEV, would leave behind cleaner air than it encountered by turning all ozone it encountered into O2. Apparently the coating only costs about $50. I have links, but they're all to Word Doc or PDFs. If you google, PremAir catalytic, you'll find it. edit: Here is a good, but old and incomplete article on it.

I agree with Dodgefan. That top Crosstour, even if photoshopped, is much more attractive than the one we got..... just to quell those who would suggest that we've only been hating on Honda's latest designs because they are a Honda.

That would have been Ford's subsidiary of Volvo. I had the impression it was implemented in some Volvos and on the U.S. Ford Focus, a PZEV vehicle. But you do have a valid question.... Maybe I can ask Mulally next week.

+1..... for some people

I'm in favor of not shooting ourselves in the foot.

All you've proposed is that we're slower than volcanos but can do just the same amount of damage. A fire can destroy your house in 10 minutes. Termites take 10 years. Either way, in the end you still have a destroyed house.

Market share went from 15 to 20 in a year.... not shabby

*places bet on the Pacific Ocean winning..... eventually*

Yes.

I'll take it. I don't at all mind it going to a FWD bias platform with this kind of sales performance.