Re: Re: Prius hybrids selling at a premium

2005-04-15 Thread Terry Blanton
From: Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] And social security, which is, what -- 7.5%? Don't forget that. Social security is 15.5% as any self-employed person knows. Corporations are required to pay half of their employees SS tax.

Re: Prius hybrids selling at a premium

2005-04-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: And please note that Jed's income numbers stopped at $116,666. If you look at larger incomes . . . No, that is the average for the top 20% of the U.S. That's everyone, including Bill Gates. This data was from several years ago (not sure when). The amounts for all 5

Re: Gas Tax

2005-04-15 Thread Horace Heffner
When are people going to stop complaining and arguing and actually DO SOMETHING about energy. The following was a reasonable starting point when posted here over two years ago, and it is still a good way to use the modest gas tax proposed, or even a much larger gas tax, which is now much more

Thanks from Peter Gluck

2005-04-15 Thread Mike Carrell
May I ask you to tell at Vortex that I am grateful to those who answered and I understnad those who didn't. CF is socomplex and I even have not asked why it is not reproducible

Re: BLP implementation path

2005-04-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mike Carrell writes: My point in the essay is that wind and solar have well known problems, and hydrogen storage and distribution on the scale necessary to sustain our present lifestyle is not attractive. However, BLP technologies offer a way forward which can work along with hydrogen

Another Challenge/ was RE: Gas Tax

2005-04-15 Thread Keith Nagel
Hi Horace, Well, lets see. I've spent a better part of my adult life trying to do something about this. Early on, my mentor and I founded a 501(c)(3) to fund our work in the new energy technologies. The response from donors was this is commercial, go to the VC's. The response from the VC's were,

Nobody wants it is what Martin says, too

2005-04-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Keith Nagel makes a cri de coeur: the work going, for the cost some of my wealthy friends spend on golf course memberships I could be doing this full time and making real progress. But the ugly truth is, NO ONE WANTS THIS. Let that one sink in, Horace. Everyone pays lips service, but when it

Re: Prius hybrids selling at a premium

2005-04-15 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $27k to $32k depending on location and political preference. :-) http://tinyurl.com/63t3m Bleah. I don't make enough to even begin to afford that. Most people out there drive used cars because they cannot afford a new one. Much less something like

Re: Prius hybrids selling at a premium

2005-04-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: $27k to $32k depending on location and political preference. :-) http://tinyurl.com/63t3m What do you mean $27,000? It says the base price is $21,000 or $19,000. (What does MSRP mean?) Plus you should get airbags for another $560. All the other stuff in packages 2

Re: Prius hybrids selling at a premium

2005-04-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry explained to me that they can sell cars for more than the list price. I did not know that. It shows how little I know about cars. I suppose these high prices are caused by a shortage. They are planning to increase production, which should bring the price back down to the list price.

FW: WHAT'S NEW Friday, April 15, 2005

2005-04-15 Thread Akira Kawasaki
[Original Message] From: What's New [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Akira Kawasaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 4/15/2005 12:37:30 PM Subject: WHAT'S NEW Friday, April 15, 2005 WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 15 Apr 05 Washington, DC 1. KANSAS: AAAS TURNS DOWN AN INVITATION TO DEBATE

Re: Npbody wants it is what Martin says,too

2005-04-15 Thread RC Macaulay
Jed, Your post is whats called a reality based observation because its so true and real. Mentioning DEC brought back some of the 1970's to me. We bought our first "computer" in 1972, a DEC PDP-8L. Plan was to use it in a design study and demo for bidding a portion of a North Sea project for

Re: BLP implementation path

2005-04-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
(Jed, any idea why the reply field on your message come through pointing to you, not Vortex?) Jed Rothwell wrote: The only conventional energy source that offers the same kind of unlimited power and incredible capablities that BLP or CF offer is spaced-based solar. I guess that would be

Re: BLP implementation path

2005-04-15 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:27:09 -0800: Hi, [snip] At 3:15 PM 4/14/5, Mike Carrell wrote: In the current discussion of a post-peak-oil world, the usual alternatives have been worked over thoroughly, and found unsatisfactory. Found unsatisfactory by whom? You