I think it's the middle-men who are on the whole responsible for these issues. My own parents have been approached by middle-men, sorry not sure what their titles are, who handle contracts between land owners and the companies. They handle the initial contract and pre-payments for anything in the ground, including percentages for any find. The oil and gas companies just buy these contracts from them in the same way freddie mac and fannie may buy home loans. I don't know if this is true for the entire country but its certainly true for where my parents live.

Talk about an 80's flashback. I learned basic on a CoCo, the color computer from radio shack. Picked up Hot CoCo, Rainbow Magazine and others and my technique improved a lot. Then I got into OS-9 and learning the basics of linux, pascal and a number of other things. Just wish that assembly had made more sense to me at the time. It's also when I started hardware-hacking my machines for better memory and a variety of other things that radio-shack never intended to support. I want to give a shout out to Chris Burke for making the first and best commercial hard-drive interface for the Coco... thanks Chris, you were a game changer. I've often wondered why people made fun of my chicklet-keyboard back then on my first battleship gray coco but now all laptops have them and its considered trendy. *laugh*

In the whole article it never mentions physically how the vehicles are tested. According to Consumer Reports, they are put on a frictionless "treadmill." There is no way in the world you can get realistic numbers from a frictionless testing device designed to falsify the numbers.

It's called politics and marketing. He's trying to build support for a future product with his left hand while his write hand is playing with the money.

As far back as the late 1980's we used freezer's on hard-drives to recover data. It helped against various over-heating issues so you could recover just a little bit more data each time you used the drive. Every few years you hear about some other method to recover data with a freezer including putting a device in the freezer. Funny how it always works. All hail the freezer!