-Dave

Secondly, aren’t batteries designed on a chemical process. So, you have a crash, where does all of this battery acid go and who cleans it up?

cjs1943 on January 26, 2009 at 2:52 PM

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Backwards.

Batteries are not necessarily batteries, the modern prototype electric cars don’t use lead/acid “car” batteries. They use LiIon (Lithium Ion) (in the case of the Tesla (http://www.teslamotors.com)) which are also in your cell phone.

In the event a crash cracks the case, it’s a chemical spill, but powder form rather than liquid, i.e. diesel. The danger isn’t acid, but destructive discharge of all that stored energy. Using Jaws of Life the wrong way on a Prius may turn a fire and rescue guy into a crispy critter….

As for why someone would want to own an electric car, well, Tesla is making a small fortune, and there are still Citicars on the road. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicar) There are enough Green True Believers out there who don’t seem to get that electricity does NOT come from fairy dust…

That said, if I could get a fully electric car that’s as heavy, and loaded with safety features as my current Camry, I’d seriously look at it. For a daily drive, it’d be fine.

Mew

‘‘(A) An individual shall not be denied regular
2 unemployment compensation under any State law
3 provisions relating to availability for work, active
4 search for work, or refusal to accept work,

is this reparations?

SEC. 2001. EXTENSION OF EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT
14 COMPENSATION PROGRAM.
15 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4007 of the Supplemental
16 Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110-252; 26 U.S.C.
17 3304 note), as amended by section 4 of the Unemployment
18 Compensation Extension Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-
19 449; 122 Stat. 5015), is amended—
20 (1) by striking ‘‘March 31, 2009’’ each place it
21 appears and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2009’’;

just f-ing great,now nobody has to go get a job until the end of the year, or until they extend this out even farther……and
SEC. 2002. INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
4 BENEFITS. we will pay you more to sit on your ass

PART 5—REPEAL OF WITHHOLDING TAX ON
21 GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS

would somebody pleeeeese explain this to me
its in the add-ons

$20 billion to increase food stamp benefits by 13.6% and expand the program to over 32 million people.

House Democrats 1/15/09 Committee Report, Page 4

Thank Obama and Congress the next time your stuck in line at the grocery store behind some morbidly obese person paying for their shopping cart full of junk food with food stamps.

If they dont oust blagovich..

ahh our elected leaders learend well

From kruschev!!!

$50,000,000 to be distributed in direct grants to fund arts projects and activities which preserve jobs in the non-profit arts sector

House Democrats 1/23/09 Bill Text, Page 122

Another urgent national priority which justifies borrowing millions and sending the bill to our children and grandchildren.

‘‘(iii) The utilization of a certified electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014.

http://readthestimulus.org/index.php?doc=waxman_tax_0116&page=158

Didn’t find the dollar amount, but the chills should be priceless.

Why would he insert a state’s “personal” problem into a Federal level bill?

What if Blagojevich was found “innocent”?! (Yeah there’s still the other clause where they vote themselves the funding)

But this nonsense, this PURELY PARTISAN POLITICAL NONSENSE, has no place in this (or any other) bill.

Skywise on January 26, 2009 at 2:13 PM

Hey.. don’t diss on my Congressman there. I’d much prefer Republican Mark Kirk to be my Senator than the bozos who are currently there now, so I’m all for him posturing. It really isn’t going to affect anything because Blago will likely be gone before the stimulus is passed.

Oh my.

I searched for my name and came up EOF. I suppose I won’t be on the promising end of this stick.

ericdijon on January 26, 2009 at 2:29 PM

No, you won’t. And sadly, neither will a lot of us.

As the Great Glenn Harlan Reynolds says: ‘…it’s a redistribution of wealth from the politically unconnected to the politically well-connected.’

I’m thinking of buying some long-term stock in Tar and Feathers shares.

How racist of the democrats they just excluded so many indian reservations

Heck there could be lot’s of fun filled activities here. Drinking games, Bailout Jeopardy, Name that Fictitious Pork, Limericks . . .

An additional amount of $50,000,000 to the “National Cemetery Administration” for monument and memorial repairs.

House Democrats 1/23/09 Bill Text

I guess all the roads and bridges have been fixed already.

$150M for the Smithstonian

cnredd on January 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM

Saw that too. $150 million just doesn’t seem like enough to get worked up about anymore, though.

…What a scary time this is.

Rod R. Blagojevich no longer holds the office of Governor of the State of Illinois.

Is this hope or change? Does Oprah know about this? Blago would say #&%#**&*!

(5) To stabilize State and local government
5
budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions
6
in essential services and counterproductive state and
7
local tax increases.

Isn’t this an outright attempt at usurping the states’ sovereignty? Why send more money through the wasteful grinder of D.C. only to send it to states or localities? (Who gets what will be determined, of course, by Uncle Sam).

This is a horrible bill, through and through. Some of the enforceable energy compliance requirements are totalitarian.