And so the world passes us by. Gosh I’d like one of these:
BBC News is reporting that a French company has developed a pollution-free car which runs on compressed air. India’s Tata Motors has the car under production and it may be on sale in Europe and India by the end of the year.The air car, also known as the Mini-CAT or City Cat, can be refueled in minutes from an air compressor at specially equipped gas stations and can go 200 km on a 1.5 euro fill-up — roughly 125 miles for $3. The top speed will be almost 70 mph and the cost of the vehicle as low as $7000.
The car features a fibreglass body and a revolutionary electrical system and is completely computer-controlled. It is powered by the expansion of compressed air, using no combustion at all, and the exhaust is entirely clean and cool enough for use in the internal air conditioning system.
Tata Motors is known for its interest in innovation and has been selling compressed gas buses since 2000. It is currently working on producing the world’s cheapest car, which will be almost 100% plastic and will sell in India for about $2500.
Tata is also expanding into the world market. It acquired Korea’s Daweoo in 2004 and is now the top bidder to purchase the originally British Jaguar and Land Rover lines from the United States’ troubled Ford Motor Company.
And to think I used to defend the Big Three…
Meanwhile, Americans debate if they should elect a guy who doesn’t believe the Earth is more than 6,000 years old, or a guy who thinks that compromise with such people is a Top Priority in the race to fix this nation’s problems. Or some woman who won’t get anything done because we’ll all be too busy investigating her lesbian-murder love triangle.
The rest of the world is laughing, laughing at you, America. As they should.
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Canada's got lots of air
I suggest we invade them.
We are fucking doomed. This is like a science fiction story of being doomed.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
no, lb. it's not like a sci-fi story.
because those have Happy Endings, Tech as Deus ex Machina, or enlightened Aliens who bring peace and harmony by page 457. all we get is pathetic kleptocrats and bill (“i’m a midget and a coward!) kristol. who is paid with our tax dollars.
still, i would vote for ’invade canada.’ ’cause we’d lose, and then they’d take us over and we’d all have health care.
and bacon.
Another angle on the "OMG illegal immigrants!!" attitude
Just catching the tail end of PBS’ “Jews in America” series (missed the earlier part which was what I wanted, but anyway) as they’re up to about the turn of the 19th/20th century.
Evil things going on in Russia, pogroms etc, and Jews are fleeing en masse to the US. When something happens here, be it political, climactic (think “Day After Tomorrow”) and USers in large numbers must flee to some other country or die…anybody else suspect we’re going to be welcomed with open arms?
These people never get that the Golden Rule, or karma if you prefer, works both ways. We will be done unto as we have done….
God I Love Snark
I just wanted to say that the snark here is delicious. Thank you for providing me with some much-needed humor and sanity in the wake of Iowa.
snark is our specialty, kuhndalini, just after Shrill
thank you and you’re welcome, please feel free to inject your own here any time.