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Re: All weather or winter tires for Mazda MPV? [sramamur1]

by sramamur1 on Tue Nov 18 06:15:44 PST 2008

Thanks for the comments. I live in London, Ontario (between Detroit and Toronto) and had to deal with snow and ice for nearly six months in a year. Ideally, should use snow tires for winter and all seasosn for summer. Instead wondering whether we can get away with using all weather tires such as Nokian WRG2 throughot the year. We drive about 20,000 km/year (12,500 miles/year) and is it reasonable to expect that WRG2 will last for four years? Thanks again, Sri.

Re: Here comes another one - [fintail]

by magnette on Wed Nov 12 13:08:16 PST 2008

It used to be worse, when the support vehicles, etc tended to follow the same route - you would get a parade of 4x4's with trailers, as part of the problem. About ten years ago, they started to instruct them to go by a different route - with mobile phones etc it is always possible to call for assistance, and the old cars just run on the old roads, not the motorway, which goes a good stretch of the way from south London to north Sussex. The old cars run on the original Brighton road, through the towns along the way - they even pass through pedestrianised bits in some towns. And they go right past Gatwick airport - the old A23 road runs down the eastern boundary, directly under the flight path, and past the main entrance... I've only ever seen it in London, either in the suburbs or at Westminster Bridge. I did try the start once, but it was too crowded, whereas you get a pretty good view on the bridge - and its quite an iconic spot, right next to Parliament, with the chimes of Big Ben, etc...

Carbon footprint

by magnette on Tue Nov 11 12:36:36 PST 2008

1896 Salvesen Steam Wagon - Westminster Bridge on London - Brighton Run 2nd November....

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by fintail on Fri Nov 07 10:18:34 PST 2008

Yesterday's winner - a gigantic semi with a huge moving-truck style trailer, one of those really low slung ones. He was pulling out of a parking lot, didn't guess the uphill part of the lot correctly, and bottomed out as he was entering the street. He was completely stuck, blocking 3 lanes (plus center turn lane) of a major 4 lane arterial. That created a nice case of gridlock. It was pouring rain, too. I will give credit to the cops for doing as decent a job as I can imagine getting cars to squeeze by. Today's winner (so far): 0530 this morning, saw a minivan taxi ahead, on a 40mph arterial road. It would change lanes now and then, suggesting it was lost (don't these things have navi yet?). As luck would have it, the thing veered into my lane which became a highway on-ramp, and I had to jam on my brakes. The guy then went about 24 on a twisty ramp posted at 35 (meaning a 1952 London bus could take it at 70). The ramp splits to go to two different roads...he was in my lane, then veered over again to go the other way. I pity the poor souls who got stuck behind him on that busier road.

Creators of carbon credit scheme cashing in on scam

by gagrice on Tue Nov 04 06:54:58 PST 2008

There's an elephant in global warming's living room that few in the mainstream media want to talk about: the creators of the carbon credit scheme are the ones cashing in on it. The two cherub like choirboys singing loudest in the Holier Than Thou Global Warming Cathedral are Maurice Strong and Al Gore. This duo has done more than anyone else to advance the alarmism of man-made global warming. With little media monitoring, both Strong and Gore are cashing in on the lucrative cottage industry known as man-made global warming. Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Wikipedia-described as "the world's first and North America's only legally binding greenhouse gas emission registry reduction system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil." Gore buys his carbon off-sets from himself--the Generation Investment Management LLP, "an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 with offices in London and Washington, D.C." of which he is both chairman and founding partner. To hear the saving-the-earth singsong of this dynamic duo, even the feather light petals of cherry blossoms in Washington leave a bigger carbon footprint. It's a strange global warming partnership that Strong and Gore have, but it's one that's working. Strong is the silent partner, a man whose name often draws a blank in the Washington cocktail circuit. Even though a former Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the much hyped Rio Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations in the days of a beleaguered Kofi Annan, the Canadian born Strong is little known in the United States. That's because he spends most of his time in China where he works to make the communist country the world's next superpower. The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is big cheese in the world of climate change, and is one of the main architects of the coming-your-way-soon Kyoto Protocol. The tawdry tale of the top two global warming gurus in the business world goes all the way back to Earth Day, April 17, 1995 when the future author of An Inconvenient Truth traveled to Fall River, Massachusetts, to deliver a green sermon at the headquarters of Molten Metal Technology Inc. (MMTI). MMTI was a firm that proclaimed to have invented a process for recycling metals from waste.Gore praised the Molten Metal firm as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and make money for investors at the same time. "Gore left a few facts out of his speech that day. First, the firm was run by Strong and a group of Gore intimates, including Peter Knight, the firm's registered lobbyist, and Gore's former top Senate aide," wrote EIR. "Second, the company had received more than $25 million in U.S. Department of energy (DOE) research and development grants, but had failed to prove that the technology worked on a commercial scale. The company would go on to receive another $8 million in federal taxpayers' cash, at that point, its only source of revenue. "With Al Gore's Earth Day as a Wall Street calling card, Molten Metal's stock value soared to $35 a share, a range it maintained through October 1996. But along the way, DOE scientists had balked at further funding. When, in March 1996, corporate officers concluded that the federal cash cow was about to run dry, they took action: Between that date and October 1996, seven corporate officers--including Maurice Strong--sold off $15.3 million in personal shares in the company, at top market value. On Oct. 20, 1996--a Sunday--the company issued a press release, announcing for the first time, that DOE funding would be vastly scaled back, and reported the bad news on a conference call with stockbrokers. "On Monday, the stock plunged by 49%, soon landing at $5 a share.By early 1997, furious stockholders had filed a class action suit against the company and its directors. Ironically, one of the class action lawyers had tangled with Maurice Strong in another insider trading case, involving a Swiss company called AZL Resources, chaired by Strong, who was also a lead shareholder. The AZL case closely mirrored Molten Metal, and in the end, Strong and the other AZL partners agreed to pay $5 million to dodge a jury verdict, when eyewitness evidence surfaced of Strong's role in scamming the value of the company stock up into the stratosphere, before selling it off. In 1997, Strong went on to accept from Tongsun Park, the Korean man found guilty of illegally acting as an Iraqi agent, $1 million from Saddam Hussein, which was invested in Cordex Petroleum Inc., a company he owned with his son, Fred. http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031307.htm You might conclude that these two are men of many scams.

Re: Facts, rather than claims [texases]

by Mr_Shiftright on Mon Nov 03 13:56:02 PST 2008

The story gets better: (from Wikipedia) n 1996, inventor Stanley Meyer was sued by two investors to whom he had sold dealerships, offering the right to do business in Water Fuel Cell technology. His car was due to be examined by the expert witness Michael Laughton, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. However, Meyer made what Professor Laughton considered a "lame excuse" on the days of examination and did not allow the test to proceed.[3] According to Meyer the technology was patent pending and under investigation by the patent office, the Department of Energy and the military.[14] His "water fuel cell" was later examined by three witnesses in court who found that there "was nothing revolutionary about the cell at all and that it was simply using conventional electrolysis". The court found Meyer guilty of "gross and egregious fraud" and ordered him to repay the two investors their $25,000.[3] And later on...... Stanley Meyer died suddenly on 21 March 1998 after sipping from his drink while dining at a restaurant. An autopsy report by the Franklin County, Ohio coroner concluded that Meyer had died of a cerebral aneurysm, but conspiracy theorists insist that he was poisoned to suppress the technology, and that oil companies and the United States government were involved in his death.