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Post by Swamp Gas on May 10, 2008 19:28:09 GMT -5
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Post by Mech on May 10, 2008 19:31:05 GMT -5
The problem right now with affordable electric cars are either they are..........
Unsafe, underpowered, slow, poor range.
The more performance electric cars are just too expensive for an American worker to afford.
I hope this changes.
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Post by Swamp Gas on May 10, 2008 19:41:05 GMT -5
I think it will change. New technology is always expensive at first. You should have seen the prices of color TVs in the 50s. My family bought a Zenith in 1959, a 21", and it was $600 at the time, which is about $12,000 in correct dollars. Only one other person we knew had one, and it an Admiral, but was crappy.
Remember CD players in 1982? They were around $1000 then, about $5000 in current dollars. Now they are less than $20.
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Post by Mech on May 10, 2008 19:48:20 GMT -5
We'll see.
Im not a sports car kind of guy...so i hope to see a working mans vehicle...the pickup 4x4....in electric form.
18 wheelers probably can't go electric...so Willie Nelson's Biodiesel fits the bill.
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Post by Mech on May 10, 2008 20:22:27 GMT -5
I rember seeing a CD for the first time.....in a mom and pop actual RECORD store that sold mostly cassettes and some LP's. in 1983
It was "The Police: Syncronicity".
I was kind of in awe in a sense...as I was a kid not used to seeing a laser disc before...probably because it had swirling rainbow colors and all.
I asked the guy at the counter what it was and he told me it was a laser disc record.
Had no idea that it would become the standard.
Back then....I had mostly cassettes.
Got my first CD player in 1986 I think.
Pink Floyd...Dark side of the Moon was my first CD...still have it and it works.
Hard to believe that was 22 years ago.
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