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Neil Young’s Electric Car Breaks Down, Left ‘Helpless’ on California Highway
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| 9/10/13
Posted on 09/10/2013 4:53:44 PM PDT by Libloather
Neil Young, a high-profile proponent of cars powered by alternative fuels, was recently stranded on the highway when his own $1 million biomass-powered hybrid car broke down.
**SNIP**
Young was on his way to an environmentalist festival in Canada, according to the Sierra Sun, driving his custom-made hybrid electric 1959 Lincoln Continental.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; car; electric; electriccars; oops; young
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To: lee martell
Actually, that particular quote is not from Neil, but from another very famous Canadian songwriter/ singer; Joni Mitchell Accckkkk! Wow, did I ever blow that one. I'm a huge Joni Mitchell fan, and have the record .. Doh!
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posted on
09/10/2013 5:46:32 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Joni Mitchell Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire, if this old man is remembering correctly.
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posted on
09/10/2013 5:53:11 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
To: Libloather
“A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow”
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posted on
09/10/2013 5:53:34 PM PDT
by
Farnsworth
("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
To: Libloather
Long may you....
Oh, crap.
To: The Cajun
The original version of the song, ‘Woodstock’, appeared on Joni’s ‘Ladies Of The Canyon’ LP from 1971.
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posted on
09/10/2013 5:57:15 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Libloather
Hey hey, my my
My electric car will never die
There's more to the hybrid
Than meets the eye
Hey hey, my my.
Out of the garage and into the black
You pay for this, but they give you that
And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the garage and into the black.
To: Windflier
Man, 1971, I'm oooolllldddddd, LOL.
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posted on
09/10/2013 5:59:46 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
To: moovova
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posted on
09/10/2013 6:07:08 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(This post coming to you today from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
To: The Cajun
Man, 1971, I'm oooolllldddddd, LOL. I was a teenager of 15 during Woodstock. I'm now 60 years old.
I am simply amazed at how fast the time went.
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posted on
09/10/2013 6:44:17 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Las Vegas Ron
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posted on
09/10/2013 6:46:39 PM PDT
by
gibsosa
To: mylife
“On the beach?”
My favorite album of his when I was a teen. “Your just pissing in the wind...you don’t know but you are...”.
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posted on
09/10/2013 6:47:27 PM PDT
by
willk
To: Libloather
Good thing it happened in California, not in the South!
To: liberalh8ter
I've had no use for Neil Young since I read about him turning his back on his handicapped son.
Good Heavens, where did you get THAT from???? His son Ben has dominated his whole life for 35 years.
Are you talking about that Carrie Snodgrass Lawsuit? That turned out to be bogus. She was a mess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3z09VRZ6to&feature=player_embedded
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posted on
09/10/2013 6:52:54 PM PDT
by
Forgotten Amendments
(I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
To: willk
I still have a copy. ☺
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posted on
09/10/2013 6:53:12 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: Windflier
I was 24, driving around in a 429 Cobra, single, making more money in the oilfield than I knew what to do with in 1971.
And now here I am hitting on 67 in a few months, so close to 70 that I can smell it.
50 year class reunion coming up next year!!
What a gathering of old people that will be, LOL.
The older I get the faster time runs, my perception anyway.
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posted on
09/10/2013 7:03:38 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
To: nickcarraway
$1 million???? Staggering, even considering that the car has been totally reconfigured more than once. It burned two years ago, too.
And all of that for 24 - 28 mpg (according to the "LincVolt" website).
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posted on
09/10/2013 7:18:12 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Windflier
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posted on
09/10/2013 7:42:12 PM PDT
by
HotKat
(Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
To: Libloather; a fool in paradise
Who’s this Johnnie Mitchell guy?
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posted on
09/10/2013 7:45:13 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Libloather
I still have an affection for all of CSNY music. Truly some gifted singers and musicians.
Although they are all misguided... Hopefully in the name of the Lord, they will ask Jesus soon.
To: Libloather
He was probably thought his car would "keep going, and going, and going" Maybe be he needs an
award
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posted on
09/10/2013 7:59:32 PM PDT
by
drinktheobamakoolaid
(If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln)
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