Why is it the douchbags always get first post?

Got to admit, that's the most realistic way to naturally cool an area I've heard of to date. I just hope it doesn't mess with any established order too much -like fish migrations or an increase in flooding.

If you're going to troll, at least be creative and original.

This is nothing new to protests. They get cleared out all the time (even in the USA) and then regroup. Is the timing suspicious, a little, but you could have picked any day for the clearing and then said it was to harm a future event. I was never in the protests (none were near my location) but I hope they shrug this off and regroup. I also REALLY hope they get some fricken direction and organization. Simply being there isn't enough, they have to organize efforts on specific targets more than the few leaders have so far. Oh, and for the love of God take some control over the 'live feeds' and at least try to find someone with any amount of charisma and social skills to narrate them. The live streams I've watched so far were a painful raping of my eyes and ears.

Huh? Try to be a little more coherent and research your arguments first. I agree with you that driving is a privilege and not a right, but your argument fails to convince on its own. Saying that something is not a right because "it's not in the constitution" is displaying your ignorance of one of the constitution's purposes. It's suppose to be changed very often to accommodate new things that could not or would not be considered when it was first written. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get off my soap box -it hurts my feet.

I mostly understand the figures this post states, but it sounds like engineering dialog from 'Star Trek: Voyager'. But, all this means to me is that the chips from last year are now cheaper that they've been out-classed.

Right on. It's like saying "A new breakthrough could finally make television possible inside your home!" For something cheaper than the Leaf, read my comment right below this one.

Yay, a decent comment from Anonymous Coward. He's not just trolling, hooray.

*gasoline doubles in price every 10 years!!! Sorry, typo. Also this applies to the continental USA. I have no idea what gasoline prices do elsewhere.

"...will finally make the electric car a reality?" Um, first of all electric cars are actually older than gasoline cars (snobby comment, done). Second, with current battery tech electric cars are already more cost effective than gas driven cars when you compare vehicles of identical costs. The only wrinkle is lack of highways travel, but there's a solution for that too. Compare a $10k used car to $10k electric car: The cost of a decent LiFePO4 battery pack is $6k, the distance per charge is at least 50 mi, the charge cycles is at least 2k -meaning that the $6k battery pack will last for 100k mi. The cost of electricity to recharge the pack is ~$0.10 per 950 Wh which means the cost of 100k mi is ~$1645.14 -or $7645.14 for the total cost of electricity and battery. Now, for the gasoline car lets say gas will average $4/gal for the next 10 years (that seems low considering it more than doubles in price every two years) and that a decent used car will get 35-40 MPG in the city. Considering ONLY the cost of gas (not oil, maintenance, or repairs on the engine), the cost of fuel for 100k mi will be between $10k and $12k. This is with a very conservative estimate of gasoline costs and not accounting for the lower maintenance costs of electric drive systems. To address highway travel, any car 3500 lbs and under requires about 18 HP to travel at 60-70 MPH. If you have trunk space or a trailer hitch on your electric car, you can add a gasoline or propane generator to produce the 13.5 kW that your car uses on the highway and have infinite range. Or do what I do and barrow someone's gas car when you need to go more than 50 mi. Sorry about the formatting, /. took away my paragraphs :(

Well you get what you paid for.... Oh that's right, you didn't pay the editors anything.

Taxicab Confessions: Oxford Edition

Oh no, It's the guys they sent to reclaim their prototypes again, RUUUNNNNN!

Yeah, neither is mine, but it's not often that you can make that joke and it be more relevant to the situation than this time.

"Siri, Don't sue. Confirm.", Siri, "I'm afraid I can't do that Dave."