Comments on: At least Moai’s left a legacy worth leaving (like Album Covers)

By: JTMinIA

JTMinIA — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:41:49 +0000

Ah, so you have no actual data; just an assumption. Now I understand.

ps. I’ve looked and there is no car that gets better gas mileage at X rpm in it’s top gear than it gets at (the same) X rpm in any lower gear. As long as you hold engine-speed-related issues constant, slower is always better because (a) drag goes up with the square of speed and (b) post-tranny drive-train losses go up (linearly) with speed. The one exception is for cars with a true, old-fashioned, straight-through, 1:1 gear; these can get better mph in this gear than some others due to lower tranny-related losses. But there are almost no such manuals still being made. And the Solstice isn’t one of them. So your assumption will almost definitely trun out to be false.

By: perris

perris — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:58:55 +0000

it’s the solstice gxp, I just went to foxwoods and on the road averaged 39.4 mpg, if I went down to 55 that would have dropped precipitately

although my car has a 5 speed, I assume any car with a 6 speed transmission might get better mileage at higher speeds then 55 as well

By: marymccurnin

marymccurnin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:48:20 +0000

I have on thing to say.

Mass Transit

But someone told me recently that Americans will never give up their cars. I said then they will die a slow death.

By: JTMinIA

JTMinIA — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:25:22 +0000

“my car gets best gas mileage at 62 not 55 or 45 and even back then, truckers with overdrive got worse gas mileage at the lower speed”

Please tell me what car gets better mileage at 62 than 45 mph.

ps. Attaturk - “Moai” is a plural, proper noun

By: alank

alank — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:29:31 +0000

It comes down to a lack of forward thinking among most people. Watching them speed to work every morning, having no capacity to plan an earlier start so as night to endanger themselves and others, is a reliable indicator of this fact. Thinking about budgets is apparently a rare occurrence among Americans. Their ability to think globally about mid- to long-range consequences of their actions is completely out of the question.

For some reason, I remember the implementation of the federal speed limit taking place during the Carter administration. It’s interesting that he’s blamed for creation of the law and that Clinton is blamed for eliminating the final vestiges of it. Neither of these assertions is true, apparently.

By: ericblair

ericblair — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:13:03 +0000

I don’t think it’s the drivers doing 75 mph that are the problem, it’s the drivers doing 5 and 10 mph every rush hour. We need to improve our infrastructure to deal with this, and not start tilting at windmills by fiddling around with speed limits.

By: SharonMI

SharonMI — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:51:21 +0000

CATA is the bus system here.

By: SharonMI

SharonMI — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:50:52 +0000

CATA (Capital Area Transportation Authority) had a record 10 million riders in 2006, and another record in April even with increased fares. My fellow students and I, who are driving all over the state for our “externships” talk about “what if we had a nice train system.” I’m wondering where the politicians are in this. Oh yeah, it’s Michigan.

By: perris

perris — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:09:00 +0000

this is a more disturbing story then most realize

greenspan eliminated the mandates of documentation and they answer to nobody

they loan foreign government money without approval of congress among other activities

we need to decertify the fed and as far as I am concerned we need to consider allowing states to issue their own currency which will pretty much eliminate the national debt immediately

now I now there are repurcussions and I am not saying that is an actual course of action but I am saying we need to either federalize the fed or take some other action such as allowing states to issue their own currency but not necessarily that particular course of action

the fed must be reigned in, they must keep records, their assets must not be held by people they must be held by THE people

By: Bilbo

Bilbo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:01:34 +0000

Scarecrow’s up: McCain Has Bought Bush’s “Return on Success” Propaganda