12th April 2004, 5:14 PM
Why do you assume America cares just because the people in charge of the news stations seem to care? Honestly, I agree with you. Gas prices are fine, it's everyone driving by themselves in giant Hummers all the time that are making them all bankrupt. Well, at the very least, if they don't stop, they'll have electric option soon enough. I'm not talking the old electric cars. Those worked, but weren't up to the average moron's standards. These new ones currently being built are race track worthy with very nice distance. Honestly, screw a complex fluid guzzling engine. Soon, they'll be nothing but a memory, like the era when humans actually were needed to operate stores (Wal-Marts around here are making everything from the checkout lanes to product shelving automated).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)