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One of my Camaro friends posted on Facebook yesterday that he "just can't wait until the hippies blame the Cali earthquakes on global warming". Several of his friends started commenting on how they just can't believe that humans have any effect on global warming and that it is all a conspiracy to take down big oil.

So, like a *******, I commented that they were stupid for ignoring thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies because the media and politics behind it. I wanted to emphasize that they should look at the science, not the politics. That a measurement does not have a political affiliation. That a yard is still 3 feet even if Obama likes football. That if he took his car in to get a dyno test (because he is a huge Camaro freak), the dyno would not read differently because the tech was a Democrat.

They wanted me to post proof, so I posted a link to a UN study published by a pair of nobel prize winning scientists. Nope, doesn't count because the UN is a political joke, and the Nobel prize has been given to Al Gore and Obama, so those scientists are a joke too. Ok, fine. Here are links to NASA and NOAA webpages that have compiled thousands of these studies into a couple "easy to understand" break-downs. Nope, NOAA is government funded. NASA (and here is my biggest rant of all) doesnt count because Obama suggest they should have a Muslim Outreach program (link: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/07/nasas_muslim_outreach_106214.html).

I honestly felt dumber having read their responses.

At that point I realized that, as always, one cannot have a logical discussion with someone who does not value logic. The media and politicians have really turned the US public into a bunch of mis-trusting morons.

 
There is a movie out there, I have not seen it, however I have been told by friends about it. It is a futuristic trend of what you just described. Idiocracy. That is direction we as a society are moving. Politicians and the media (propaganda tool for the politicians) are making it so that we as a whole cannot formulate our own thoughts. Very sad.

 
Dex, you probably only feel that way because you're having a bad reaction to whatever strain of pot you're smoking there in CO. Go back to the co-op and get a better stash of Obama-funded weed.

 
I think it's safe to say that it's hard to find a Bona fide agenda free "study" on the issue....

But for starters if someone could tell me what the temperature was on earth the day the dinosaurs died I would appreciate it...

Everyone in boulder believes the recent floods was a result of "climate change" not just maybe a lot if heavy rain over a shirt period of time....

 
But the dealership is overpriced like anywhere else.
I'm looking at buying a new car so I've been spending an unfortunate amount of time at dealerships recently. I haven't had to deal with this in 10 years, but it's time for a more reliable ride for my daily commute. I'm not enjoying the car shopping though. :(

 
I think thats how carmax found their niche - no one wants to put up with those ********....

 
I think thats how carmax found their niche - no one wants to put up with those ********....
Yea, but for the price carmax is asking on a used model I could go to a normal stealership and buy a new model. It's hard to justify buying at Carmax in that instance.

I impose a limitation on myself for vehicle availability which makes finding what I want a little more difficult at Carmax too. I don't like automatics. I drive manuals. I do this even in Atlanta traffic driving across across one of the most congested stretches of interstate in the area. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment, but I just can't stand being behind the wheel of automatics. On the downside this limits the number of places that have a car available which I would consider buying, on the plus side when a place does have one it's usually been sitting on the lot for months and the dealership is desperate to get rid of it. :D

 
What yah looking for?

A 4 cylinder jeep is manual and gets good gas mileage. :)

I have had decent experiences with car max... But they do have there issues..

 
What yah looking for?

A 4 cylinder jeep is manual and gets good gas mileage. :)

I have had decent experiences with car max... But they do have there issues..
I wouldn't mind a Jeep as an extra car, and may end up buying one if I can convince the wife it's more practical then a old beater truck.

But I'm not sure a jeep is going to fit the bill for a daily commuter. My requirements are, something cheap (both to buy and to operate), simple (IMO the more gadgets it has on it the more likely something is to break), & reliable. And of course it needs to be a manual. What my search has boiled down to is the Honda Fit. It's actually pretty fun to drive and I was amazed at the space inside.

 
How about TrueCar.com? Or is that similar to CarMax?
I found TrueCar is nothing more than a pass through website for ordinary dealerships. Basically you put in what you are looking for and then they forward you "certificates" you can take to a "qualified" dealership and that dealership will honor the price that you got from TrueCar. What the website doesn't tell you (well not in big print at least) is that to receive your price certificate you have to input your phone number and email. Alarm bells should have gone off at that point, but I put in my junk email account and my google voice number. Within 5 minutes I had voicemails from three local dealerships basically telling me they could beat the price that I had been presented via their TrueCar price certificate. And best I could tell the prices from TrueCar were really no better then when the dealerships were already listing on their websites.

 
can you still get the quais free nissan leaf? car of the year!
It doesn't come in a manual so it's out. ;)

Since there is no where to charge one of those things at the office it's not really practical. There have been a couple of occasions where the person here who has one has had range anxiety just from having to drive to GDOT and back.

 
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