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I feel like going into the woods and looking for a bear to kill me before I am forced to have a conversation with someone who is driving one of these.

Then you should act on that.

There is nothing wrong with such a vehicle and I agree with MGS.

Just because you don't like it does not mean it isn't a viable and sound option.

Wait a second, if most people driving hybrids are... you know, then people driving this... OH NOES!

"I don't talk to people who drive electric cars cause its gay!" <- accurate paraphrasing

warpcrafter wrote:http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/index?dcp=ppn.39666654.&dcc=0.216878497#/leaf-electric-car/index

I feel like going into the woods and looking for a bear to kill me before I am forced to have a conversation with someone who is driving one of these.

What is the world coming to!?!?

Companies acting on emissions targets? Sacrelige I tell you!

Everyone knows that cars should be powered using pure crude oil squeezed from the feathers of seagulls!!

Seriously. What problem have you got with electric cars?

It's not as if Nissan is going to come to your house with death-squads to force you to purchase one.

Sounds like a pretty decent vehicle to me. Although to be fair I'm not a driver and know very little about cars.

Goliath wrote:
It's not as if Nissan is going to come to your house with death-squads to force you to purchase one.

Nissan Death Squad wrote:We have come for your convential motor vehicle.

This car seems... impracticle. I'll wait for my nuclear powered hover car, thanks.

The hippies win. . . what exactly? Was there some sort of competition? Oh wait, that's right. PROGRESS IS BAD.

We are in a WAR ON COMMON SENSE.

Right, guys? I mean, we can't have those damn hippie tree hugger types threatnin' our god fearin' American economy with technology nonsense.

Someone call the Fabricator General, there's been a tech-heresy.


*Edit*
The Nisan Death Squad comment made me chuckle. Sigged.

Have faith. Nissan also makes the Titan. The guys driving Titans will run over the guys Leafs (Leaves?) and not even notice.

Ah! But the Titan runs on gas so is fine.

Just wait until the OP finds we have had solar powered calculators for a while now, he'll have a fit!

I have a solar powered tanning bed.


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And hippies can't afford them: LEAF SL
starting at $33,720

Pfe!!! i don't see the problem on it... sooner or later the world will empty of petroleum... so... what's the probem??? sooner or later all who wants a car or any vehicle will need to purchase one of those... unless someone find another option...

Bah! If it aint a huge gas guzzlin truck or a badass muscle car, then those [see forum posting rules] pussy hippies have already won! We need to take back America for the good god-fearin-gas-guzzlin true Americans. I never liked grizzly bears anyway. It's us or them man.

I prefer my feet rather than a "fancy" electro-car anyway... not to mention i don't like cars but i agree with you somehow... i like motorcycles, but the idea of a electro-cycle that don't roar (or at least a crappy PRRRRRRRR!!!!!!) when pushing the throttle frightens me...

Black Corsair wrote:unless someone find another option...

Like oh, I don't know. . . people could do something crazy like riding bikes or something instead of taking the 3mpg IMMA AMURICAN HURRR SOOPER TRUK if just going down the road.

Or if you're feeling really out there you could just. . . walk.

But that won't happen because this is AMURICA.

rubiksnoob wrote:

Black Corsair wrote:unless someone find another option...

Like oh, I don't know. . . people could do something crazy like riding bikes or something instead of taking the 3mpg IMMA AMURICAN HURRR SOOPER TRUK if just going down the road.

Or if you're feeling really out there you could just. . . walk.

The only problem i see really is that the two parts look only for their own interests... let me explain... i'm sure if the people who design vehicles and such stuff and those "ecologists" worked together, surely now we had a option liked by all parts non contaminating but still making that noise most of us love (me included) but NOOOOO!!!!! for this reason we always see options that will have lovers and antagonists.... nothin liked for everyone... and i'm sure that's possible.....
Don't Adrees only to America... this thing happens everywhere..




If not... well personally i enjoy walking more healthy is...

The key question is how many guns can you fit in a Leaf and what does the weight do to the range?

Kilkrazy wrote:The key question is how many guns can you fit in a Leaf and what does the weight do to the range?

Well as long as the gun range is still within the car's range, it shouldn't pose too much of a problem.

rubiksnoob wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:The key question is how many guns can you fit in a Leaf and what does the weight do to the range?

Well as long as the gun range is still within the car's range, it shouldn't pose too much of a problem.

Truly sneaky sure no need to care for engine's noise

The electric car and other fossil fuel independent vehicles (FFIVs) are a natrual progression from the dwindling resources of oil are utterly gone and we have to take that step anyway to get something to run on something else.

rubiksnoob wrote:

We are in a WAR ON COMMON SENSE.

And the idiots are winning...

I personally believe that the west needs to go to electric cars so as to ween us off of our dependence on certain undesirable countries that want to hold us hostage to their oil. Not to mention the rise of fundamentalist Islamic states. I am certainly not a hippy.

GG

Lack of mass transit is a huge problem in the states. Outside of the North East and Chicago, there really isn't a good system. I'd love to be able to ride the train to work here in Houston. But since I don't live in the Medical Center or work at the Astrodome, our only train doesn't help me much.

I'd take a bike, but my commute is 30 miles. I'd live near my plant, but I don't want to get shot or mugged every other day.

So, I'm stuck driving a car. I have a Prius hybrid and I get 45-50 MPG, depending on the weather and my lead foot.

I didn't get it for the environment. "feth the envrionment, I don't have kids" is my motto. I got it to save money and *somewhat* reduce my use of petroleum products supplied by fundamentalist Islamic states and Venezuela (feth that dickhole).

I'm no hippy, either.

Oh right, Chicago still has a public transit system!

Get a motorbike and you'll get there quicker just by terrorising everyone to get out of your way.

Elmodiddly wrote:Get a motorbike and you'll get there quicker just by terrorising everyone to get out of your way.

That's nearly a suicidal proposition in Houston, AKA "The land of the soccer moms with battle barges that put on make up while they steer with their implants."

Edit: A bit more PC...

Sounds like most of the UK drivers anyway. My commute on Fridays and Sundays was about 160miles and was really good in warmer weather. Anything below 5 degrees C and it gets painful though on a bike! Overtook lots of people even a chap reading a book (!) whilst driving and one person sat in the middle lane trying to hit his girfriend and they literally fought whilst driving.

rubiksnoob wrote:

Black Corsair wrote:unless someone find another option...

Like oh, I don't know. . . people could do something crazy like riding bikes or something instead of taking the 3mpg IMMA AMURICAN HURRR SOOPER TRUK if just going down the road.

Or if you're feeling really out there you could just. . . walk.

But that won't happen because this is AMURICA.

For ten years I lived in a house that was seven minutes away from the nearest gas station and fourteen minutes away from the nearest grocery store. It was thirty five minutes away from my college and our family's church.

A bike was not an option. Much less my feet.

malfred wrote:I have a solar powered tanning bed.

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I personally don't see the problem with electric cars, Crude Oil will only be around for so long before we've used it all, what will we be using to power cars once we run out of crude oil?