Anyone who's thought this through knows it's a bad idea--for starters Russia and South Africa would control much of the new gold coming into the world--but the gold romanticists are fixated on it because they can't accept the idea that money of any kind is only worth what people accept it's worth--having a gold standar...more

Don't you conservative morons know any history? New technology has nearly always involved government spending. The differnence is we didn't have such a politicized attack group with preconcieved ideas such as "The government is the problem" by the noted intellectual Reagan. Here is a partial list of the government fina...more

Don't conservatives ever get tired of passing around the same lies? The Volt fire thing was only an issue because some conservatives politicians made it one. After the final report came out which exonerated the Volt, the politicians went on to other mud slinging, but it still comes up in these "discussions"  Are you al...more

The economy was done in by two conservative ideas--free trade, and unregulated banking. And James, the founding fathers created our form of governement based on preventing factions of emotional self interest, including religion from influencing the government. Unfortunately the average American in the past grew up in a...more

What you ignoramases want to ignore is that in fact much of modern technology and the economy that is based on it came from government programs.  That is the role model for the current economy. The government pays for initial technology development which is then given away to private companies when private investers th...more

Don't you conservative morons know any history? New technology has nearly always involved government spending. The differnence is we didn't have such a politicized attack group with preconcieved ideas such as "The government is the problem" by the noted intellectual Reagan. Here is a partial list of the government fina...more

On the ethanol vs gas thing, gas is much more energy dense and the energy per unit mass is about 50% greater than ethanol. To correct a fact above, gas is "heavier" than ethanol not the other way around, but you should be comparing density not weight, and specific heats, but I agree this may not mean much to the averag...more

Wow--I've never seen such a mixed up bunch of facts--but conservative Obama haters could care less--any mud slinging that will stick--. News flash--it didn't stick last November and it won't stick here--there is an obvious paid group of neoconservative malcontents with nothing better to do than be the first posters on ...more

OldOldMike doesn't tell us what kind of engineer he is, probably of the chemical or petroleum industry type, only hints that he is old. Well his facts are old too. In fact current battery technology is very near the cost performance of internal combustion/gas technology. If you factor in the built in subsidies and in p...more