We do, and we destroy the livelihoods of everyone who lives in these agrarian societies. It's called dumping and these bags represent one of the largest contributors to poverty in the third-world. Those bags do not represent a leg-up but a boot smashing them back into the mire.

I'd be careful with how you word things. Ethanol is not in an of itself evil and purely political. Ethanol derived from renewable biological processes has merit in as much as it closes the carbon loop. The trouble comes when politics steps in and subsidizes source material whose production is every bit, if not more harmful than the petroleum the ethanol is supposed to be replacing.

If you want to make actual progress against environmental destruction you need to capture the external costs in the price people pay. Innovation will then be driven to that which costs the least.

Corn is only cheap because it is subsidized by my tax dollars. No one ever bothered to make a distinction between food crops and fuel crops, neither did they bother to subsidize nutritionally beneficial crops. This is why manufactured food is cheaper than anything in the produce aisle and why everything has corn syrup or some other corn based derivative in it. Ditch the damn agriculture subsidies and incentivize the actual goals of the public facing message, clean energy consumption and production. Our food supply and thus our health will improve and engineers can work towards solutions with technical rather than artificial merits.

Last I knew premium didn't get blended, just low and mid-grade fuel.

Apparently she has tried to dispute the negative filing. The trouble is that credit bureaus then ask the company that filed the claim if it's legit. If they say it is, then the claim stays. Which is exactly what happened.

This was a pretty crazy crash. 100MPH through two concrete walls and into trees. Even then the drunk was able to get out and walk away.

Which is interesting since Chevy seemed concerned enough about their Volt catching fire to do a recall. Recalls from these folks only happen when they're scarred litigation costs will exceed the cost of the recall.

Maybe I'm imagining it, but I seems to noticing more negativity from the low number posters than from the high number. Perhaps its a generational thing. Maybe all the old guys with their nostalgia for gas autos are feeling threatened. I've also noticed that those posting anti-Tesla also seem to slant Libertarian/Tea Party in other posts.

The location of the battery pack is optimal for safety. It pushes the center of gravity down, it balances the weight between front and back, it provides rigidity for the passenger compartment and it substantially increases the size of the front and rear crumple zones.

Why are people like you holding Tesla to an incomprehensibly higher standard than you are for gas autos? The two highway incidents have involved striking something substantial at highway speeds. Both drivers were warned by the car, both drivers were able to safely pull over and exit the vehicle unharmed. This is the same car that performed better than another other car in history on federal safety tests, the same car that received never before achieved perfect marks by Consumer Reports. What would be the consequences of a gas auto being harpooned by either of these large metal objects at highway speeds? Pick any location under their unshielded undercarriage. I don't think you'll get much of a warning from the car and I doubt the option of pulling over safely will be available to you.

Are you folks really that scared of what electrics will mean for the future of your beloved gas autos?

An inconsequential amount. I suspect a 20mA @3.2V LED would probably look similar to the one in the photo.

Thank you Captain Obvious. What dark alley will you illuminate next?

I believe it's actually aluminum, but they've also designed the battery compartment to point any fire forward away from the passenger compartment. If a gas tank ruptures you're in a very dangerous situation and have very good odds of not living let along walking away unharmed. In the case of a Tesla, 3 for 3 have been able to walk out unscathed. The Mexico fire was from a Model S that had blasted through a concrete barricade while exceeding 100MPH and coming to rest smashed against some trees. I challenge you to find any car of any year, any make, gas, electric, etc. perform as well. No one thinks twice about these very common incidents in gas autos.

How many people have been injured in a Tesla? Would a fellow that runs a successful rocket company not know a little something about hydrogen? You have done nothing to invalidate Elon's claims.

What difference does that make? That's $2B that could have been left in our collective pockets were it not for the trolling. The funding of dishonest business models has to stop. Google didn't purchase inventions from Microsoft, Google is paying Microsoft so that they may use the hard work of Google's own engineers.

That's alright. The Ben Heck Show is an empty anchor.