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Rush Limbaugh to take Jay Leno's 'Green Car Challenge'
The Hollywood Reporter ^ | September 18, 2009 | James Hibberd

Posted on 09/19/2009 4:38:49 AM PDT by iowamark

America, are you ready for Rush Limbaugh in an electric car?

The conservative talk show host has agreed to take Jay Leno's "Green Car Challenge."

In the segment airing next Thursday on NBC's "Jay Leno Show," Limbaugh will race an electric Ford Focus around a custom-built track beside Leno's studio, the show's representative confirmed.

The "Green Car Challenge" segment makes its debut on the primetime show tomorrow night. Celebrities who participate drive two times around the twisty track, which takes a little less than a minute to complete.

By the time Rush gets behind the wheel of the zero-emission vehicle, Bob Costas, Al Michaels and Drew Barrymore will have set times to beat.

Limbaugh is not a fan of hybrid and electric cars. Last March he criticized such vehicles -- including Ford's.

"Nobody's buying 'em. Nobody wants them. The manufacturers are making them in droves to satisfy Obama. ... People are going to buy [hybrids] because Obama's going to see to it the price [of gas] gets back up to four bucks, since that is the tipping point … Ford and Toyota are manufacturing all kinds of new hybrids to keep politicians happy. Politics. You want to know what killed the auto industry? Politics.”

Leno has been interested in getting more newsmakers on his new program than on "The Tonight Show." On his second night he welcomed Michael Moore into the studio.

The advertiser-friendly "Green Car Challenges" allows NBC to work product sponsorship into the program, though some critics have wondered whether the segment will also be entertaining.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: car; celebrity; challenge; electric; electriccar; focus; ford; fordfocus; fordmotor; green; greencar; greencarchallenge; greens; hollywood; hybrids; jayleno; jaylenoshow; leno; limbaugh; nbc; rush; rushlimbaugh; talkradio
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To: Sacajaweau
It (the Honda Accord Hybrid) drives just like a normal car. It has a V6 with hybrid-electric augmentation. It actually has MORE power than a standard Accord V6 due to the augmentation.

The only time that you notice any difference is when you are stopped - the gasoline engine actually shuts off. NOTE: If you are sitting at a stoplight with the engine running you are getting zero mpg. As soon as you take your foot off the brake pedal, the engine re-starts instantly and off you go.

Regenerative braking is used to re-charge the battery pack.

The only sacrifice is that the rear seat does not fold down (they put the battery pack there).

61 posted on 09/19/2009 6:40:14 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: Bryanw92
" I’ll add that they think that even laws of physics are just guidelines. "

I guess they would learn really fast that by jumping out of a airplane without a parachute that the laws of physics is not just " guidelines " .
62 posted on 09/19/2009 6:42:31 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
... and a huge infrastructure for recharging these cars away from our homes, before electric cars have a snowball’s chance in hell of being practical.

AND, how long will it take to recharge them? AND, what motel will we be staying at while we wait for that recharging?

Nobody talks about this!

63 posted on 09/19/2009 6:45:48 AM PDT by JohnG45
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To: reg45

I don’t like little cars, but the day Ford makes an F350 diesel electric without cutting the power, or charging an arm and a leg, I’ll buy it. In fact they should boost the power with it, and keep fuel mileage the same, that’d make me happy.

The best thing that they’re starting to do is make hybrid SUV’s, but all the enviros still complain.


64 posted on 09/19/2009 6:48:11 AM PDT by jkeith3213
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To: reg45

‘Green’ is the new communist world governance, movement. Don’t believe me? Research it yourself.


65 posted on 09/19/2009 6:50:54 AM PDT by Freddd (Government run health care=paying more and being denied what we already have.)
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To: Bryanw92
It would be very interesting to compare traffic statistics between Liberals states or areas, and Conservative states or areas.
To watch traffic patterns of those areas , and which states that have the most cell phone use while driving accidents.
Or is this a general mood and attitude of society ?
66 posted on 09/19/2009 6:50:58 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: Freddd

I agree with you, but I also believe in technological progress.


67 posted on 09/19/2009 6:53:19 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: reg45
Sorry Rush, some of us do like gasoline-electric hybrids. I have one - a 2007 Honda Accord Hybrid. It’s the best car I’ve ever owned.

That's because your gasoline-electric hybrid comes with two important words ahead of the label hybrid: Honda Accord.

68 posted on 09/19/2009 6:53:26 AM PDT by GreenAccord (Bacon Akbar!)
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To: jkeith3213

A diesel-electric hybrid powertrain would be fantastic.


69 posted on 09/19/2009 6:56:05 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: reg45
What was the price increment for the hybrid over the just gas one?
70 posted on 09/19/2009 6:58:14 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit The law will be followed, dammit!)
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To: iowamark

“zero-emission vehicle”
Cliche/Myth #221 of the “Progressives”.The emissions are just moved from the tailpipe to the power plant downtown.


71 posted on 09/19/2009 6:59:55 AM PDT by RoadTest ( Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols - Psalm 97:12a)
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To: iowamark

I live in a farming community and you cannot haul hay, machinery or your bass boat with an electric car. We also have hills and it snows a lot.


72 posted on 09/19/2009 7:01:59 AM PDT by rabidralph (http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/ http://www.sarahpac.com)
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To: iowamark

Deception is the name of the game in “zero-emission vehicles”.

If Leno really wanted to do a “Green Car Challenge” he’d take the “zero-emission vehicle” from the Burbank studio, drive it up to the Angeles Crest Highway near Pasadena, then down the winding road towards Wrightwood, then down the Cajon pass to I-10, for the return.

A “zero-emission vehicle” would never make it. THAT would be good TV - probably a 150 mile circuit, it’s “only” 150 miles? a ZEV should be able to do that, right?


73 posted on 09/19/2009 7:02:13 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: GreenAccord
The Honda hybrid system is simpler and less expensive to implement than the Toyota and Ford systems. This may also result in fewer failures. Less to go wrong.

The Toyota, Ford, and the latest generation of GM hybrids use a more complex system. However, that system gives them a distinct advantage in start/stop and slow driving which can be done in electric only mode. The result is that their fuel consumption is MUCH LOWER in urban traffic.

It's a trade off.

74 posted on 09/19/2009 7:06:16 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: GreenAccord
That's because your gasoline-electric hybrid comes with two important words ahead of the label hybrid: Honda Accord.

Agreed. The first Honda car I bought was in 1975. I ordered it in orange and it came in yellow. Took it anyway. I put over 200,000 miles on it. Have owned hondas ever since. Great cars, great customer service.

75 posted on 09/19/2009 7:10:44 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs.)
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To: GnuHere

Did you watch it last night? It was awful and I kept watching expecting the show to get better........ and it didn’t. Never again.


76 posted on 09/19/2009 7:18:19 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: mad_as_he$$
It was pre-owned. It was $5000 more than another Honda Accord I was considering. However, that $5000 also covered:
  1. One year newer: 2007 vs. 2006
  2. Honda certified vs. not Honda certified.
  3. Lower mileage: 28,000 vs. 56,000.

77 posted on 09/19/2009 7:18:21 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: reg45

Thnaks. Just curious.


78 posted on 09/19/2009 7:27:50 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. V for victory)
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To: toomuchcoffee

Rush will have his chauffeur drive while he rides shotgun, smoking a cigar.


79 posted on 09/19/2009 7:44:10 AM PDT by Deadeye Division
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To: Ditter

No, I taped the first show and wasn’t too impressed. I might tape the Rush episode just to see how Jay treats him.


80 posted on 09/19/2009 7:51:53 AM PDT by GnuHere
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