A question for Mr. Wong

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-02-11 02:16pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Americans and Canucks really are going to feel a painful shock when oil starts becoming a rarity.

May as well go the whole hog and get a gas turbine for the trucks instead.

No Oil? No Problem.

Hemp!

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-02-11 02:28pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Americans and Canucks really are going to feel a painful shock when oil starts becoming a rarity.

May as well go the whole hog and get a gas turbine for the trucks instead.
No Oil? No Problem.

Hemp!

Jojoba is far superior.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-02-11 02:28pm

Hemp is unlikely to be a viable alternative for oil, despite what their advocates say.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-02-11 02:34pm

I'd rather we went for hydrogen power anyway, once the industry is going and the tech cheaper.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-02-11 03:02pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:I'd rather we went for hydrogen power anyway, once the industry is going and the tech cheaper.

Ditto.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-02-11 03:32pm

i'm a hybrid man myself. I cant wait until we start to see hybrid sports cars that still get 40 mpg. Nothing beats the low end tourqe of an electric motor. couple that waith a small turbocharged 4 cylinder for high end power and BAM! the ultimate sports car.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2004-02-11 04:26pm

Ah yes, the joys of driving a 77 Plymouth Fury Wagon-body... V-8 engine, hood that stuck out 5ft in front of you, and solid steel all the way.

Then came the 85 Buick Riviara.. V-8, solid metal, hood out to there....

Those were the days of steel and power.

Now I'm beating Ricers with a stock '02 Dodge Neon 4-banger.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-02-11 08:36pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Chardok wrote:He drives a Mercury Grand Marquis.
They don't technically need roads, they tend to make them.

Tell that to the dumbass that rammed into my mother a few months back.

Car was totalled while the Dodge RAM my mother was driving only suffered roughly $4000 in damage (only because my father insisted in factory brand spanking new parts...since it was only a couple months old at the time).

All because the dipshit wasn't paying attention to the road.

muse · Post by **muse** » 2004-02-11 09:06pm

Darth Wong wrote:Just to confirm, Chardok is correct. I drive a Mercury Grand Marquis, and it has the heavy-duty cop suspension option installed. I don't drive that far to work every day, but it's stop-and-go, and the car is ... somewhat thirsty

Might as well go ahead and install the police ram bumpers on the front, that way if you hit someone you'll really ruin the sucker's car. No sense leaving a job half done is there?

SWPIGWANG · Post by **SWPIGWANG** » 2004-02-11 09:43pm

Uh, I know that you are allowed to drive tanks in Britain provided it is light, has rubber tracks and no weapons (of course).

So can you do that anywhere in north america?

I'd luv to drive a modernize M5 or something.....

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But really, for casual uses V8 is overkill. The european can deal with double digit horse power, and merely a century ago people are dealing with a mere single digit horse power.....

Besides, aside from startup there is no need for low rpm torque....and tanks don't drag race that well....

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2004-02-11 09:55pm

Cool. I had no idea you're allowed to drive tanks in Britain.

Luke Starkiller · Post by **Luke Starkiller** » 2004-02-11 09:57pm

SWPIGWANG wrote:Uh, I know that you are allowed to drive tanks in Britain provided it is light, has rubber tracks and no weapons (of course).

So can you do that anywhere in north america?

That is then no longer much of a tank, now is it?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-02-11 09:59pm

I'm pretty sure that you can't. That's just too much weight. If you lighten a tank its no longer a tank.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-02-11 10:30pm

Fuck hemp, there's four times as much oil locked up inside of shale in the US (the extraction process is very similar to that use by Canada with its sand oil pits) as there is in Saudi Arabia's total reserves. Not all of it could be extracted, but a damn lot could be, a plan to do (By IIRC Mobile with US goverment backing) so fizzled in the early 80's when oil prices dropped however. Fucking annoying short sighted planning..

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-02-12 08:02am

LadyTevar wrote:Ah yes, the joys of driving a 77 Plymouth Fury Wagon-body... V-8 engine, hood that stuck out 5ft in front of you, and solid steel all the way.

Then came the 85 Buick Riviara.. V-8, solid metal, hood out to there....

Those were the days of steel and power.

Now I'm beating Ricers with a stock '02 Dodge Neon 4-banger.

i had a neon. i bought a '95 leftover in 1996. I went through 2 head gaskets, a rear main seal and 2 alternators in 40,000 miles. I finally said fuck it and bout a Honda. Dodge wouldn't take it back under the lemon law because the EXACT same problem didn't happen 3 times. The car was damn quick though. 2.0L 150 h.p. and a stick... it was a blat to drive. I hear that the problem was with the design of the 2.0L 4-cyl that dodge contracted out to Mitsubishi in the 90's, and they don't use that engine anymore.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-02-12 08:14am

Uh, I know that you are allowed to drive tanks in Britain provided it is light, has rubber tracks and no weapons (of course).

So can you do that anywhere in north america?

I'd luv to drive a modernize M5 or something.....

Well there the "Yellow tank" in London I saw on Discovery channel. It is a fully functional privately owned Sherman tank that sometimes drives around the city. All systems on the tank are operational except the weapons.[/quote]