Gingrich: 'You Can't Put a Gun Rack on a Volt' | Video Cafe

One of my favorites is I saw a Prius in Colorado Springs a couple months ago that not only had a gun rack, but was done up in "real tree" camouflage. Don't think the pic is of the same one, but looking for the pic, there was more than one person who has done it.

My brother in Spokane put truck nuts on his Prius.

Take that, Newt.

My mother in law mounted a gun rack on her broom. On a Volt would be a piece of cake.

I am so mentioning that when I call mine this week. :) She will love it.

I got a gun rack on my backside, who needs one in a car? Even got a homemade shoe holster so?

If you gotta have a rifle rack use a case, unless you're poaching where electric power would be more beneficial. Never seen a poacher use a rack anyway

OPEC will decrease the availability of petroleum to keep the prices high.

Maybe they will and maybe they won't. Seriously, if this is your best argument for not drilling, it's pretty lame. It's loser-talk. How about we try? Would that be so bad? Unless you like our economy and our foreign policy slavishly centered on the Middle East.

Unless you like our economy and our foreign policy slavishly centered on the Middle East.

I, personally, do not. I prefer the current Administrations tact of both increased drilling AND more effective use of energy.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/story/2012-02-17/shell-oil-spill-alaska-drilling/53132996/1

The Arctic Coast is projected to have over 26 BILLION Barrels of recoverable oil. To put that in prospective, the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field (which is currently the largest ever discovered in North America) only contained 25 Billion.

MJMullinll, that 25 Billion barrels sounds mighty plentiful, until you realize that the US consumes about 20 million barrels of oil PER DAY! (check here:http://maps.unomaha.edu/peterson/funda/sidebar/oilconsumption.html) That means that at just that rate, we'd go thru that oil in less than 4 years. That's why we don't tap our reserves becasue we'd deplete it in no time.

Also, oil we produce would go out into the world market for anyone to buy, so we would only use a fraction of it. The reality is that we NEED to start incorporating renewable energy into our every day lives and industry. If we don't there will be hell to pay in 50 eyars or so.

At #2.8 --

That's a real nice strategy for "no reason to ever do anything because it won't work anyway" but I'm afraid you're not going to play to a very friendly crowd with that message.

The entire point of my post was to point out that the Obama Administration has been one of the biggest friends of domestic energy production in a long time.

The reality is that we NEED to start incorporating renewable energy into our every day lives and industry

Absolutely. Where I live, I pass 18-wheelers on the highway every day hauling Wind Turbine assemblies to be installed. Despite right-wing mocking, Wind has reached the point where the cost per watt is almost equal to the class of energy it produces.

Which is too say, Wind Energy isn't built to replace Coal or Nuclear (base load, running 24 hours a day 7 days a week), it's built in lieu of Natural Gas fire "intermediate load" power stations. And right now, wind can match or beat the price of Natural Gas Electrical Generation.

But you can't just tap your toes and immediately fix everything at once. I believe Wind/Solar, Natural Gas, and Nuclear are good goals for clean(ier) energy generation. I do believe increased domestic drilling -- regardless if every single barrel pulled out of the ground goes directly into my tank -- is a good thing.

If we don't there will be hell to pay in 50 eyars or so

Doubtful. The dirty little secret that no one (for their own reasons) wants to talk about is that at around $4 per gallon, 100% artificial Gasoline/Diesel/Kerosene fuels become cost effective.

And when I say artificially, I'm talking about using electricity pulled from the grid to produce Hydrogen and CO2 from seawater which is then chemically altered into whatever hydrocarbon chain you want.

Now of course you're talking about $1 Trillion plus in production facilities to meet our complete Petroleum Fuel demands...which is why you wouldn't even start until you knew for a fact that the fuels you were going to make were going to stay $4+ from this point on.

But in all truth...the cost of building the infrastructure would probably be cheaper than the combined cost of the current Petroleum infrastructure if you count the current 100+ year history of the industry as a whole (speaking to refineries, wells, equipment, etc.)

It would just need to be built in a shorter frame of time than the current system was.

MJMullinll, I don't think we are arguing. Seems we are almost saying the same thing - that is, we need to start using more green energy while still drilling. I was just trying to point out that even though the billions of barrels of oil find isn't as much as some people think, and that means we need to speed up that incorporation of green energy.

If we can speed up the use of green energy in the manufaturing sector I think we'll make more progress than concentrating on automobiles.

Know what else currently can't be done with a Chevy Volt...keeping any on car lots that offer them.

Are you joking? Chevy sold less than 8,000 Volts in all of last year and they acknowledge that's less than they were hoping for. They sold over 26,000 Silverado trucks (where gun racks go)...IN JANUARY.

I'm sorry, did I say the Volt was #1 in Chevy's list...let me check...

Nope...I, indeed, said that dealers who keep them cannot keep them on the lot.

I'm not trying to get in a d#$k-measuring contest with who can burn more gas the fastest, I'm simply making the point that between the Volt, the Prius, and Leaf I see a LOT of Prius' and Leaf's on their respective lots.

Sorry, in the battle for niché markets, I do believe Chevy has the advantage.

Out here where we work for a living and don't use trucks to "commute," it may be the last time we can get a decent truck before they start trying to make them an electric P.O.S.

We purchased a new car this year and hopefully a new truck next year ('13) seems like it just might be a good one. Can't go elec. until they can guarantee 100 mi + R/T.

But you could get one that uses propane. Still cleaner than gas, but the price of propane is getting up there too. You are correct about the range, but if Republicans get their way it will never happen. It will take government investment to get there, whether it is direct or through tax policy. Obama's been pushing that while R's just bash it and block the end of subsidies for oil companies.

decent truck before they start trying to make them an electric P.O.S.

Are you aware that Diesel Locomotives are technically called "Diesel-Electric" Locomotives.

Want to know why? It's because ALL OF THE WORK of moving the train and it's potentially hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of TONS of cargo are all moved by 100 ELECTRIC power trains being fed by Diesel Electrical Generators.

You think pure Diesel pickups have a lot of torque at 500 to 600 lbs.? It is possible to build a pickup in the model of a Diesel-Electric Locomotive that could easily pull 1000 to 1500lbs of torque.

And because the electric drivetrain is separate from the actual generator, you could power with with anything from a Diesel/Gasoline/Propane/Natural Gas Internal Combustion engine to, eventually, a fuel-cell and never change how you drive.

So I hope you're not too disappointed when pure-combustion drive trains go the way of the steam engine because it's going to happen sooner than you think and you're just going to have to live with having TWO to THREE times the power per gallon burned.

I'm afraid the "yesterday forever" (which is what I call it when people opine for things never to change for any reason) is a perfectly fine idea...but doomed to failure by its very nature.

I'm sorry, did I say the Volt was #1 in Chevy's list...let me check...

No you didn't. But guess what? I didn't claim you did. See what a dumb game that is? But you did say:

Know what else currently can't be done with a Chevy Volt...keeping any on car lots that offer them.

And that seems like the point you are trying to make is that we should all be impressed with hot sales of electric cars. I think I demonstrated rather effectively that electric car sales are more embarrassing than they are something to get excited about.

So I hope you're not too disappointed when pure-combustion drive trains go the way of the steam engine

The steam engine (and for that matter, the horse and buggy) were replaced by internal combustion because the gas automobile was cheaper, faster, stronger, and more reliable. When an electric car is superior in all these ways to a gas car, people will be buying them by the millions. No one is being unjustifiably nostalgic about gasoline cars. And it's not some anti-green bias. What we have now works better. And not just a little better. A lot better.

The internal combustion engine was NOT cheaper ,faster, OR more reliable when first developed . Electric motors are far more efficient , faster and more reliable than the ICE. Fuel was VERY cheap at the time and it was the major reason it was widely accepted. As stated earlier, the generator driven motors are very powerful and fuel efficient.

The internal combustion engine was NOT cheaper ,faster, OR more reliable when first developed

Not when first developed, no. But when Henry Ford figured out how to make giant piles of cars cheaply, it was "game over." And that took a while.

Believe me, when they can make an electric car that seats four, gets to 60mph in 5 seconds, isn't butt-ugly and costs less than $40,000, I'll be the first one in line. Of course it will have to be extremely cool, because I also love the sound my car makes and I don't know how an electric car is going to complete with that.

If we wait until they can be developed cheaply, we will likely be buying our new technologies from those countries, with an eye on the future, who are investing, now, despite the bad economic climate, in the R&D and infrastructure they believe will fuel their future economies. The Chinese are anxious to adopt solar designs, designed and developed in the USA, while the USA finds them still not economical.

An electric car can blow the doors off anything currently on the road now. Maybe not the PRIUS or VOLT, but from 0 to 60 the gasoline engine is the looser.

And that commercial you see is chock full of lies. It claims Canadian oil sands will be developed for US consumers, lie #1. It claims natural gas collected through fracking is completely safe, lie #2. It claims that through these technologies US can remain strong and competitive, lie #3. We either make a strong push towards renewables now or the world will leave us behind. If we wait until the energy industry does it through private channels it will be too late, it will take government investment and choking the government down until it can be drowned in a bathtub will make that impossible. Same thing for electric car batteries. Obama is doing what he can to push for more funding in that arena, it would be nice if Congress were to take a little interest in our future instead of continuing to subsidize the past.

And he isn't a sow's "ear". ;)

You are so right. And his ego won't fit either.

I wonder if you can put a gun rack in the Popemobile that Sanctitorium is going to ride around in?

Right Roy, so simple to use, even a draft dodging hawk could do it!

Lots of Headroom in that Popemobile Porter , He cant blast his foes with a torrent of Santorum from a water cannon!

a torrent of Santorum from a water cannon!

Eeeewwww!

I'm curious, Roy. Just who did you think Timba was making a personal attack against? Neanderthals?

I was just wondering why stating that Gingrich looked like an ignorant Neandrathal was a violation of the COH, but I can certainly appreciate the confusion. Reading bash statements too much can take your mind for a twirl. We all know how much intelligence it takes to bash someone without reason, by my latest measure it's less than a thimbleful. Not that bashers don't have any, they just choose not to show it.

D Luniz, I msutsay that I've had that ver ythought as well. But, then I extrapolate fro mwhat I am seeing in some of teh Tea Party controlled sates and I come back to reality.

If the Repubs win everything this November I fear the US would become like Kansas or Michigan. One is fast becoming a Theocratic state (Kansas) the other is becoming a despotic one (Michigan). 100 point to anyone who can tell me why I say Michigan is becoming despotic.

you talking about that town that went bankrupt so a City Mangager was appointed by the state?

Now, let's talk about the kind of petrol a 747 or 767 uses......if we have any Commercial Pilots on here!

Delta got rid of it's 880 's way back when because of the petrol they used.....so.........

steven, I bet it would look good too.