Posted on 03/29/2006 3:43:18 PM PST by kellynla
(CBS) The star at last week's Philadelphia Auto Show wasn't a sports car or an economy car. It was a sports-economy car — one that combines performance and practicality under one hood.
But as CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports in this week's Assignment America, the car that buyers have been waiting decades comes from an unexpected source and runs on soybean bio-diesel fuel to boot.
A car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon would be enough to pique any driver's interest. So who do we have to thank for it. Ford? GM? Toyota? No — just Victor, David, Cheeseborough, Bruce, and Kosi, five kids from the auto shop program at West Philadelphia High School
The five kids, along with a handful of schoolmates, built the soybean-fueled car as an after-school project. It took them more than a year — rummaging for parts, configuring wires and learning as they went. As teacher Simon Hauger notes, these kids weren't exactly the cream of the academic crop.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
I take that as a no. Posting info without a source won't float. If you can't back it up don't post it.
I agree completely. This guy has (hopefully) changed these kids lives forever. I say hopefully because the future is always cloudy for all of us.
Poor Baby
One of the things that bothers me most about FR is that whenever something comes along that may help the energy situation, about half the posters' answer is "can't work," "won't work" or "I want a SUV that gets 8mpg so there."
IMO, this is the kind of talk that makes socialists smile as they hide behind their "progressive" label, as they point and say "see, they're just reactionary."
Maybe we ought to want an SUV that gets 30mpg and does the same thing the old one did. Maybe it'd be cool to haul the boat to the lake with an electric SUV which has 100% of its torque available at zero RPM.
IMO, if we take some corn, which we're already paying to have grown and see rot in storage, and get *some* use out of it as ethanol, this is great. Even if the equation about it taking more gas than we get out is true (which IMO it isn't, but that's another discussion) it doesn't apply; we're growing it ANYway, the cost is already present.
If we build electric cars, and then decide we need to build nuke plants to power them, great. Whatever works is great.
I guess it all depends on what your goal is in energy policy. Mine is to, as soon as possible, flip the bird to Chavez and the Saudis and Armenijihad (sp!) and all the other wackos who hold us hostage to our oil need and tell them to drink their damn oil. I know this doesn't happen in a year, or 5 years, or even 10 years, but it doesn't happen if every time we start we stop and say "never mind, this isn't THE 100% solution out of the box."
We are not Brazil; we won't replace all our need with one source. It'll take many approaches working in unison. This is also great; it means that we'll be less vulnerable to an attack on one aspect of our energy supply.
Oh, and kellynda: I don't think it's particularly helpful to keep citing that bit about one American's life, unless you actually believe that we're engaged in wars for oil.
Watch what you say to Kelly. According to him if you were not in the Military you have no right to an opinion. Now mind your Ps and Qs because he'll get real tough and add some "LOL", "LMAO", and "go away"s to his replies.
You talkin' to me boy? DROP AND GIVE ME 50!
LOL! Candy ass civilians. LMAO!
Probably a bicycle.
"Posting info without a source won't float."
I POSTED THE SOURCE, GENIUS.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
I spent the better part of my free time yesterday dealing with naysaying jerks like you with absolutely NO THANKS for the post and I haven't seen one ioata of contrary links posted by you. I was going to look it up for you but after your dumb remark I'm not going to bother.
DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!
http://www.eia.doe.gov
I haven't made any assertion one way or the other about oil vs corn. You did. If you're too emotional to handle someone asking for proof of your assertions maybe you shouldn't be posting here. Try MySpace.com. You might enjoy that more.
It takes a real dip$#!T to drive something that ugly.
Link?
[I don't think it's particularly helpful to keep citing that bit about one American's life, unless you actually believe that we're engaged in wars for oil.]
I believe it.
If you're going to come on my thread and talk about me; at least have the manners to address me in your post.
Have you enlisted yet? LMAO
I see you've got time to chastise others for coming on "your post" but still no time to come up with any proof for your claims. Did you check out myspace yet? It's just right for you.
Some parents actually gave their kid the first name of Cheeseborough? What's his nickname? Cheesy?
Here we go again. We import more oil from Mexico then Iraq. We import more oil from Germany then Kuwait. Have we invaded either one of those countries to get "cheap oil"? It would be a hell of a lot easier to invade Mexico or Canada (our number one supplier of imported oil) then anyone in the Middle East.
Yeah, I caught that too (see my post above ;-).
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.