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I wont spoil too much...

...enjoy :)
(not that conservatives are greedy or anything but its certainly a strategy...)

I've been listening to people claim that 30 mpg and greater is impressive (for reference my 10 year old Chrysler V6 convertible still has an EPA rating of 28-29mpg), the cutting edge of Volkswagen, the Polo Blue Motion has a fuel efficiency of 74 mpg.

There is one caveat to this, it is diesel based, given far more cars in europe run on diesel, which gets more fuel efficiency per gallon of fuel.

If it were to be sold here, current prices put regular gas at around 2 dollars, while diesel is 2.9 dollars. Equivalently this would mean on a cost comparison the equivalent of getting 51 miles per gallon... still very impressive.

However despite it having 99 grams of CO2 per km, while the Prius is ~102 grams/km, its being kept out due to failing to meet fuel efficiency standards. These are the same standards that SUVs are exempt from...

Its now put up on the door of my office :)

For details check out http://daywithoutagay.net/

...and i thought i must be seeing things... so i took a photo...

Now i know that inspite of them electing Sarah Palin... Alaskans have managed to elect a democrat senator this time and also in the past elected Mike Gravell, but still there is a certain delicious irony in this book.

Edit:Actually it was Barnes and Noble...

As of today, President Elect Obama is looking exceedingly less shiny. One of the most disguisting examples of the christian right has no place leading the religious aspect (separation of church and state missing here) of his inauguration.

I know Obama has a plan, that might be a good idea in the long run, but he should know better than trying to make nice nice with the religious right... just because they wear suits instead of robes, and are clean shaven instead of bearded, they are just like the islamists, foaming at the mouth, listening to the voices in their heads and possessed of a god complex fuckwits.

Cynicism is easy to give into but i really hope Obama isn't going to be one more political scumbag we end up hating...