[reagan_fanatic]

But it makes the enviro-wackos feel good...

[eldoradude]

This is what the big energy and pollution tax credits are going for. I wish I had had a camera to take a picture of this idiot!

[Paul Atreides]

There was an article posted here a few days ago about an enviroweenie who had some trees chopped down so that he could build a house.

[dagnabbit]

Is it legal to tow a gassed-up, running generator?

[tet68]

But Dude, you don't understand, he's got a wind turbine running his oil well and cracking plant so he probably gets
19 mpg.

[rellimpank]

--wonder where the owner-operator studied physics?

[John Jamieson]

A whole bunch of people paid $5,000 extra for a Prius to save 500 gallons of gas each. Yes, I believe it.

[freekitty]

oops....they forgot to tell us that it has to use gas to operate.

[rockfish59]

Was he heading for the blackout?

[rogue yam]

Dude!

The configuration you describe sounds very inefficient and is therefore whack.

However the new hybrid cars are really an application of this same set-up, all housed within the engine compartment of the car, of course. With the different components sized and integrated correctly, and taking advantage of other efficiencies (e.g. capturing momentum during braking) these cars can be much more fuel efficient that standard gasoline-only cars.

It's all new technology and therefore it is not price-competitive yet. And I do not necessarily support any subsidies of these technologies. But that is not to say that hybrid cars won't one day be competitive on price and other performance with standard gasoline cars.

[Hugin]

Hey, I live right near there in Folsom. Haven't seen that, but I do see beat up old cars belching smoke with Ralph Nader, Greenpeace, etc. stickers plastered all over them.

[Mo1]

It was TOWING A GAS POWERED GENERATOR to provide the electricity to make the car go.

FOFL ... Oh yea .. they are saving the planet /sarcasm >

[F.J. Mitchell]

"Can you believe it?"

On this asylum planet, ran by the inmates? Absolutely.

[gitmo]

Don't be so obtuse. He had to tow the generator, because they don't make extension cords longer than a couple thousand feet.

[alancarp]

Actually, this sounds a lot like something a FReeper would do -- just to make a point!

[dc27]

Did the car have a Howard Dean bumpter sticker?

[atomic conspiracy]

ROFLMAO! The very latest in moonbat touchy-feely tech. The next logical step is to have the generator power a Hollywood style battery of sunlamps that would illuminate a giant array of solar cells on a second trailer.

Before I became a geologist (way before), I was a groundskeeper at the local municipal recreational complex. The place was big, about 60 acres, so we used golf-carts to get around. The carts didn't have enough charge to go all day and it was sometimes pretty inconvenient to limp into the garage and get a fully-charged one. Sometimes these weren't available at all, if someone forgot to plug them in. The city would not buy a gasoline vehicle for us, partly on eco-wacky grounds, so we rigged one cart with a Honda portable generator, so we could re-charge as we went. It worked but I think a fleet of Hummers would have been more efficient (if they had existed then).

[dagnabbit]

But will my SUV run off tofu?

[ElkGroveDan]

Dud you should have taken a picture. This story is priceless.

[joesnuffy]

LOL that is just perfect...and the moron was patting himself on the back for
being an example of what man needs to do to save the earth....