Really? Never took a physics class?

[ducatiz]

Ok. One shallow and petty victory for you. EDIT: I lack one.

rofl

[fwtcc]

Ok. One shallow and petty victory for you. EDIT: I lack one.

No need to get huffy.  I guess when you can't be right, be angry at the guy questioning you.  That's the other right mantra, correct?  When putting down someone else's intelligence, be sure that you do it intelligently.  When you mess it up twice,... FAIL.  I'm just sayin'.

[OwnyTony]

No need to get huffy.  I guess when you can't be right, be angry at the guy questioning you.  That's the other right mantra, correct?  When putting down someone else's intelligence, be sure that you do it intelligently.  When you mess it up twice,... FAIL.  I'm just sayin'.

Um.......The conversation I was having was mostly between Ducatizzz and me.  It did not warrant an outsider jumping in and talking smack.  Our conversation (Ducatizzz and me) did not resort to calling each other names. 

When "Pandora's" box was open, I did not limit myself from making a cheeky remark.  Twice fail?  Again, you take two commas (or the lack of me putting in 1 comma for two separate statements) and try to manipulate that into some major victory for yourself? 

I was not being huffy on my "Ok. One shallow and petty victory" statement.  I am "huffy" now.  Ill give you the benefit of the doubt.  Maybe i should
have wrote "Ok. One shallow and petty victory for you  "   Maybe then you will get the nuances of what I said and realize the tone was suppose to be received as sarcasm. 

Why would I start smack within the monster family.  I enjoy and value this community.  If someone starts smack and it is directed towards me, I will "defend" myself.  Most of my posts were as PC as i deemed necessary so to minimize "bad blood". 

In this regard,... you FAIL, I'm just sayin'.   You like the tone of that?

[fwtcc]

Dude, really, all in good fun.  The first was merely an interjection for the respect of "the burn".  I actually hate grammar nazis, but it is a shame to see a good retort ruined by irony.

This little guy:

I guess when you can't be right, be angry at the guy questioning you.  That's the other right mantra, correct?

was merely a joking reference to this little guy:

My statement is half joke/wit and other half retort.

Again, all in good fun my friend.  Now back to Team America and A-ric Ball-rin.  Sorry my attempt at a minor, humorous interjection turned into a huge one.

[OwnyTony]

Dude, really, all in good fun.  The first was merely an interjection for the respect of "the burn".  I actually hate grammar nazis, but it is a shame to see a good retort ruined by irony.

This little guy:was merely a joking reference to this little guy:
Again, all in good fun my friend.  Now back to Team America and A-ric Ball-rin.  Sorry my attempt at a minor, humorous interjection turned into a huge one.

YOU'RE CALLING ME LITTLE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .........

There is a reason why I add those comments.  It is to show, or help with the tone of what was written.  You can't "hear" what is written.  Tone and inflections in one's voice are also means of communication.  I can say one thing and it will literally mean one thing, while the tone and way I say it may make it mean something totally different.  Sarcasm would be a good example of this. 

[the_Journeyman]

Didn't take time to read the whole thread, but...

We just traded my fiancée's car (2004 Malibu with 2.2L I-4) for a larger car.  2008 Impala with 3.5L V6.  She went from 20-21mpg (the 2.2 was really overworked in the Malibu) to 28-30mpg.  Bigger car bigger motor.  It's an E85 compatible.  Seems in order to get decent mileage on the E85, they had to make it as efficient as possible.  Ford also screwed up with they dropped the Vulcan V6 (3.0L, 12 valves) out of the Taurus lineup.  I've got one with 175,000 miles that STILL consistent ly gets 27-29mpg.

JM

[zedsaid]

How do i make it so that this thread no longer shows up in my "replies" filter?

It's sooooo far off topic it's not funny.

Well, maybe it'd be funny if i were in a better mood.  But really it's just irritating.

Could everyone who's butt sore put the claws away and back away from eachother?


Let it die.

[MendoDave]

How about this as a mid term solution.



It runs on compressed Natural Gas. CNG is much cleaner burning and costs about $2.75 A gal.

Don't know where to get natural gas where you live?

How about at Home. That's right, the same stuff that runs your stove top and furnace will run this Car. There is a filling kit you can buy and you just pipe it in to the NG line in you house & fill up in the driveway.

[ducatiz]

Don't know where to get natural gas where you live?

How about at Home. That's right, the same stuff that runs your stove top and furnace will run this Car. There is a filling kit you can buy and you just pipe it in to the NG line in you house & fill up in the driveway.

...bring on the Taco Bell jokes...

[He Man]

...bring on the Taco Bell jokes...

I would, but the make the beast with two backstards took away the only Tacobell within 4 miles of me. You know what they turned it into? A make the beast with two backsing commerce bank. And you know hat happened on oepning day? it got robbed.

And mendodave, not everyone has natrual gas in the house. Theres still alot of people on electric stoves.

[Ducatiloo]

Great until we use Nat Gas to the point that the price goes up on it, then watch people try to heat their homes.
Too much of a Band-aid fix for me.  And I'd like hydrogen except for the fact that they use methane to make the  the hydrogen via Steam reforming.  If they ever can find a cheep way to create hydogen via Electrolysis I would be all for it.  But right now it looks no better than a electric car hooked up to coal plant.

[ducatiz]

If they ever can find a cheep way to create hydogen via Electrolysis I would be all for it.  But right now it looks no better than a electric car hooked up to coal plant.

with a price tag of 10-20x as much

[MendoDave]

I realize that not everybody has it, but lots of people do. That would make us less dependent on someone else's oil, because this stuff is our stuff, it's not brought it on a ship. There is No one solution that's going to fix it all. But for millions of people this stuff comes right out of their garage. I think you can get a tax credit for it too. Remember those old LPG conversion kits people had on their cars? My uncle had one. His wife worked for Suburban propane so he got a discount on it. Anyway these work the same way. you run it on Compressed Gas until it runs out then you turn the Valve and run on gasoline like normal.

I don't think the Honda does that though.



http://automobiles.honda.com/civic-gx/refueling.aspx