Alrighty
In reply to this comment by jubuttib:
Nah, I try to stay away from submitting stuff, I might get competitive and the last thing I need nowadays is more time spent on youtube. =)
In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMuZghd4HD0 You should submit it then : I've seen him live, he's definitely my favourite, he has this presence you just can't explain unless you're in the same room. He is just incredibly intelligent, you come away feeling like you've really learnt something.
In reply to this comment by jubuttib:
>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^Payback:
>> ^Fletch:
Never even heard of this guy until someone posted a vid of him last week. He's funny.

An Alabama Negro in Queen Fry's Court

I don't know what you mean but he's from Georgia


He meant to say "Albany Negro".

Anyway, just watched that whole show, and by the time he got to the Sex and the City 2 stuff he was in my top 3 favorite stand ups. The final bit about his father though pushed him straight to number one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMuZghd4HD0 You should submit it then I've seen him live, he's definitely my favourite, he has this presence you just can't explain unless you're in the same room. He is just incredibly intelligent, you come away feeling like you've really learnt something.
In reply to this comment by jubuttib:
>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^Payback:
>> ^Fletch:
Never even heard of this guy until someone posted a vid of him last week. He's funny.

An Alabama Negro in Queen Fry's Court

I don't know what you mean but he's from Georgia


He meant to say "Albany Negro".

Anyway, just watched that whole show, and by the time he got to the Sex and the City 2 stuff he was in my top 3 favorite stand ups. The final bit about his father though pushed him straight to number one.

Happy anniversary! Today marks year number 5 since you first became a Sifter and the community is better for having you. Thanks for your contributions!

Did you watch this old vid?

http://videosift.com/video/An-Autistic-Woman-Speaks-Her-Language-Then-Ours

I skipped through her language and just listened to her "speak" mine. A different side to this.

If this vid doesn't teach empathy, I don't know what will.

So glad you liked it.

In reply to this comment by jubuttib:
Dammit, I want to upvote this at least a 100 times...

Happy anniversary! Today marks year number 4 since you first became a Sifter and the community is better for having you. Thanks for your contributions!

Congratulations! Your comment has just received enough votes from the community to earn you 1 Power Point. Thank you for your quality contribution to VideoSift.

I'm not gonna waste my time dispelling many of the inaccurate statements in your post. instead I will refer you to http://www.gm-volt.com and ask that you do some reading and inform yourself as to why your statments are inaccurate.



In reply to this comment by jubuttib:
There are SO many things wrong about this that I can't even be bothered to write them all down. When the gas engine is running (and it will be, 40 miles is nothing) it's just a hybrid without the benefit of a gas engine also doing some of the work.

They already have working li-ion battery packs, even in automotive use, eg. the Tesla Roadster. And that (if you believe them) has a range of over 200 miles, not to even mention the performance difference. Sure, it's a light little thing, but still.

It looks like a Chrysler Crossfire with some beautifications made with a large sledgehammer (and the Crossfire already looked like a dog taking a dump).

It has a long bonnet, even though it supposedly has only a small gas engine and electric motors are also known to be quite small. So it doesn't have any room at the back. This would be acceptable in a city car, but by the looks of it, it ain't. And why would you need a car that can only do 40 miles if you're not using it in a city?

So it's a slow, ugly car with no place to put your stuff in, is completely useless on a longer trip compared to a normal hybrid, or even a normal car, is too big to be a proper city car, the batteries are going to blow out at some point, most likely in under 100k miles, and then you have to buy a new car.

Also the 50 mpg mentioned is pathetic, since many many many diesel cars nowadays can get more than 60 mpg, and the VW Golf TSI (gas) can get even more than that when you're going at about 40mph. If you drive less than 40 miles every day, chances are you're not going anywhere fast. "Studies suggest that 78% of drivers drive less than 40 miles per day" isn't really a good argument, since lots of people drive zero miles one day and 80 miles the next.

This car pollutes about as much as other cars in it's class while using gas, and the more people use electric cars, the more electricity is consumed, and the more pollution is created to provide that electricity.

Even better, they have a few systems in Germany that add water to diesel, which makes it more powerful, gives better mpg, and reduces the particle output (the only thing that's worse in diesels compared to best gas engines) to non-existant levels. It works for the same reason slighty moist wood burns better than bone dry wood. The systems are already working and require minimal modifications to work in existing cars.

Of course gas and diesel are going to run out at some point, and we'll have to use electric or hydrogen cars. But at this moment, and even in the future, the Chevy Volt is just rubbish.