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Patrick3000, I stand corrected.

As for the cars not looking any different than a modern car, that was their point. Some of the hesitation for people to buy a different type of vehicle, like an electric car is that it looks like an electric car. Companies make the mistake like BMW is doing, in trying to shout out that their electric car is different. Has anyone seen the electric car BMW is about to come out with.......fugly!!!!

Mercedes next year will be introducing their B-Class in the U.S. and it will be electric powered by Tesla. Fortunately the B-Class doesn't look out of place like BMW's car.

I am not one of those "save the world while hugging a tree" types. I just believe that we ought to be as self sufficient as a country as we can. The technology is here in our own country, running on our own resources.

Terrorists..... has anyone given thought as to why they want the "West" dead... we keep medaling in their part of the world. Let them kill themselves off fighting over land and such. I am certainly not defending them, but if we left the Middle East figuratively and literally, than perhaps we would be less of a target.
Us going into Iraq in 1990 was not about terrorist, nor was the second time. So what do you think it was about....invading Kuwait? We don't send troops to Africa to stop one group from invading another.......
We (military) mothballed a lot of "assets" ,in our Middle East allies' countries in the mid to late 80's with the express purpose and I am quoting, "to protect the oil fields in event the Soviet Union or other unfriendly nation tries to take the fields". How do you think we got so many people and equipment in place so fast....half the stuff was there already.