The folks at GM announced the initial MPG rating on the Chevy Volt today.
Wow:
The EPA has released a new methodology for determining a draft fuel economy standard for extended-range EVs like the Volt, and under this new procedure, the Volt will have a composite urban fuel economy rating of 230 mpg! On the electric side, the Volt will consume 25 kW/hours per 100 miles. That makes the Volt the first car ever to get a triple digit fuel economy rating.
I think I’m pretty representative of the typical exurban traveler, and I’d be right on the edge of the 40 mile range of the Volt’s electric power only mode for my daily commute. Recharging at night, when the electric grid is taxed the least, my gasoline consumption would be nearly non-existent in normal driving conditions. Now, that would require me to park the Magnum, and all of its Hemi goodness, but for a “daily driver” I’d sign up for that in a heartbeat.
I want one.
Sez Wingfield:
If you disagree with Democrats’ health care plans, they consider you stupid. Or a liar. Or maybe a stupid liar, pants on fire.
Looks like it’s time to get Kyle Wingfield in front of the Death Panel. Because, you know, those are totally going to be real and anybody who says different is a LIAR! Ask Palin.
File this headline under “Things I’ve read 5,238 times”:
Now is the right time: Cubs must show they mean business.
Sigh. Not off to a very encouraging start.
Growing up in Kansas, the only real baseball choices were the Royals (heh… sure), the Cubs, or the Braves. Count me as one of the kids who grew up rushing home from school to catch the 3:05pm broadcast with Harry Carey on WGN. Those days I wished I could throw as hard as Shawon Dunston, and one of these days I’ll sign up for shoulder surgey to correct the fact that I tried to prove it.
I don’t have the same kind of enthusiasm today, but I still follow my Cubbies (and loath the Cardinals). Not feeling good about our chances in the division this year. Maybe we can hang on for a wildcard.
The beat goes on.
Weasels.
Cowan finds it ironic the way the state is handling publicity about the loss of HTRG compared with when it was put in place five years ago.
“Since it was implemented, we have been required to print the following statement on all tax bills:
‘This reduction in your bill is the result of homeowner’s tax relief enacted by the Governor and the General Assembly of the State of Georgia’,” Cowan said.
House Bill 143 goes out of its way to make sure counties don’t emphasize the loss of HTRG, Cowan said.
The law states, “each fiscal authority shall not include a notice on each tax bill regarding the unavailability of the credit.”
Eliminating HTRG will cost the average homeowner about $200 – $300. The Governor and General Assembly are trying very hard to make sure you don’t notice. Bills hit the postman next month! Excitement!
So I heard about this kid who was all like “The Ox is a total douche bag”, and then the Ox people said, ”listen you little prick, Ox will be there next week and you’re totally going to have to face him on the playground if you don’t shut up”, and the kid was all like “yeah, well, fuck you, that’s not what you told me when we were texting yesterday”, and the Ox people were like “hey, that’s not cool, why you got to go telling everybody”, and then some other kids said “yeah, dick, Ox is teh awesome so leave him alone”.
inspired by gray
So, it’s been a hellish week of meetings, action items, interactions with “boundary partners”, and [insert your favorite corporate euphemism here]. I’m tired, I want my Friday margarita, or perhaps I’ll just consume a nice ice cold beer.
I swing through and grab the kids on the way home.
Both younsters inform me that they wish it was Monday so they could go to school. Um… what? That’s not exactly what I had in mind.
Perhaps in my advancing years, I’ve some how forgotten the anticipation of the coming school year through the eyes of a kid. But maybe, and perhaps it’s what still rattles around in my brain as the most lucid rememberance of the coming school year, my kids are just a little different.
