Torque is a interesting and commonly misused word. Most simply, it means a turning or twisting force. Similar in many ways to spinning. This is half of what the jetta does. It allows me to "go". The other half is a little more confusing, a little less simple.
GM and Shell ran an advertisement in today's NYTimes. A huge two page spread. Most of those two pages were used to portray a bright blue, unsmoged sky. The rest of the spread hyped a vehicle and, most unsuprisingly, a Shell "hydro" gas pump.
Something reeks about the Ad. Something reeks with the stench of fraud and exploitation. GM doesn't produce a car that could be filled up with your garden hose, not because they are incapable of doing it but rather because they are incapable of making a "profit" on it. Profit , around here, is a dirty word!
This morning, I cruised the beautiful Hwy-168 on my way to Fresno State and listened to The Shins: Oh, Inverted World.
GM and Shell ran an advertisement in today's NYTimes. A huge two page spread. Most of those two pages were used to portray a bright blue, unsmoged sky. The rest of the spread hyped a vehicle and, most unsuprisingly, a Shell "hydro" gas pump.
Something reeks about the Ad. Something reeks with the stench of fraud and exploitation. GM doesn't produce a car that could be filled up with your garden hose, not because they are incapable of doing it but rather because they are incapable of making a "profit" on it. Profit , around here, is a dirty word!
This morning, I cruised the beautiful Hwy-168 on my way to Fresno State and listened to The Shins: Oh, Inverted World.
12 comments:
jly
glad to be able to read a brief snippet of your thoughts.
J Ly,
It is not that GM cannot turn a profit. It is that they cannot turn a profit yet. The hydro vehicle requires hydrogen pumps to fill it. Without hydrogen pumps, there are no places to fill up therefore no places to sell cars. If my memory serves me correct, and usually it does, the only hydrogen pumps currently in operation are in the DC metro area. These are a test area.
GM will produce this vehicle if there proves to be a profit for it.
You should move to cuba or something.
big and rich, you are by far my favorite commentor.
Porque torque?
james lyons.
somewhere in rhode island, there is a girl who ought to be writing about foreign direct investment, but instead is reading about jettas and james. that same girl has a bag of carrots by her and is going to be a crestview LC this summer. she's single, in love with nothing but carrots and the clintons--free of the a.v. boy who cost james lyons $20. come visit camp, will you? dusty said he would too.
yours truly.
So glad you're blogging!
dusty lies.
lying is common and natural thing
Hi James. Did you know (in a nerdly fashion) that it takes immense amounts of energy to separate hydrogen from oxygen to create hydrogen fuel cells? I mean tons of nuclear energy. Hi, by the way.
Sure, but nothing is impossible, right?
To the one who responded cars suck...I cannot agree. I love cars, I love what cars do, and I love why we have them.
Keep the resurrection alive.
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