Drew Dowdell

Cadillac is losing the zeta platform, not the DTS/STS replacement.

I've wanted to move to germany since before that situation happened. That wasn't the original reason, but it helped. I want to go to germany because I think living in europe for a few years would be fun. But also because it now looks like germany might be a good place to hide from the financial turmoil that is about to hit this country. My boy is going with me. We'll be back.

Yup. That's him in the first pic.

and now for the bad.... My dad decided he wants the car till at least I come back from Germany, so it's getting shipped to Florida. But hey, at least he'll put some money/labor into it while I'm away and it will be more complete when I get back. I'm here this weekend to evaluate it's condition and get it ready for transport. We didn't try to start it.

tail end is very lexus like

Oil rose to $118 yesterday, opens today at $115 RBOB Gasoline still hovering in the high $2.90s, the lower priced crude probably still hasn't hit refineries yet.

Would you mind making this same thing but with just the center logo? I use this as my desktop wallpaper and it looks great, I get lots of compliments. I'd like to also use it on my new blackberry as the background, but the smaller logos make it too busy on such a small screen.

Well my "triple redundancy" was coming from the cost of all the stimulus checks sent out. My point was that $168 billion could have been spent with much better returns even if all you did was invest all of it in wind power. It wasn't a comprehensive energy policy.

Typical lifespan is set at 25 years at which time the tower would remain in place but the generator assembly would be replaced and the blades refurbished at a much lower cost than initial installation. I'm not saying no nukes. In fact, I'd prefer nukes as a way to smooth the power delivery from wind. However, I still see wind as the primary source. With nukes however, I want to see new reactor design. I much prefer the compact, and likely safer, pebble bed breeder reactor design over the huge monstrosities we currently have.

The RL doesn't even stack up to the sales of used Seville STSes..... it's a non-starter.

Spend $2.5 billion on wind and have higher peak output as your 650mw nuke plant AND have redundancy built in.

Why? Because anything above 40k has to be able to lap Nurburgring right with the Cobalt SS?

You don't think triple redundancy spread across every part of this map that is blue wouldn't cover us? And in the event that the wind stops blowing across the entire country for a day, there are still coal and nuke plants out there.

QUOTE(Satty @ Aug 6 2008, 05:46 PM) [snapback]417647[/snapback]To be fair, 78% of his statistics have a source. I really don't consider his ass to be a source of anything valuable to this board.

For being the best at pulling numbers out of his ass: SMK

*sigh* This is going to be a long thread. Wind power is only about 2 cents per kwh more expensive than coal currently, but the price for wind generators is coming down as economies of scale start to kick in. Nuclear is cheap only if you're not counting building and disposal costs.

Did you just insinuate that the government acts rationally and sensibly?

Lucerne's torque is listed at 237 v. 275 for the 2007 Merc thus allowing lower gearing.... as I said.

otherwise known as "Make the check out to General Motors Corp."

Would you be willing to pay 48k for a Lucerne if the body was made of aluminum and it had a 6-speed? Do you think the typical buyer of this car would?

Gearing + torque ... and you're really not saying much about the Ford since the 3.9 V6 has more horsepower than the 4.6 V8.

one last correction..... $168 billion would buy enough of the big wind generators to power every household in America...... three times.

Oil close down another $2 today to finish at $116 RBOB Gasoline relatively unchanged, finished at $2.9523

Perhaps I worded it poorly. I'm not saying $168 billion would buy a wind generator for each household. I'm staying that $168 billion would buy enough of the big wind generators to power every household. Oh yeah, and all those trees stop the wind too.