PROVIDENCE, R.I. - State police say they arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent — the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn't dead.
Stanley Kobierowski was taken to a hospital, put in the detoxification unit and sedated, said Maj. Steven O'Donnell. He was arraigned Tuesday on charges of driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest, and he was released after promising to appear Friday at a court hearing.
"The person's lucky they survived," O'Donnell said. "There's no doubt he would have gotten killed or killed someone if he had continued on the route he was taking."
A phone listing for Kobierowski could not be found, and he did not have a lawyer in court Tuesday.
Kobierowski, 34, of North Providence, was arrested after he drove into a highway message board on Interstate 95 in Providence, O'Donnell said.
After police arrived, Kobierowski had trouble getting out of the car, then grabbed it and refused to move, forcing troopers to carry him to the breakdown lane before taking him back to their barracks, O'Donnell said.
A breath test showed blood alcohol readings of 0.489 percent, followed by 0.491, O'Donnell said, the highest readings state officials could remember for someone who didn't end up dead.
The legal limit in Rhode Island is 0.08. A level of 0.30 is classified as stupor, 0.4 is comatose and 0.5 is considered fatal, according to the health department.
Would-be burglar found dead in Hollywood ventilation shaft was upside down Pic at the link. He looks like a guy that would be found dead upside down in a ventilation shaft... Police think man was trying to rob Hollywood sports bar Well...maybe he just snuck out for a smoke maybe.
HOLLYWOOD - A man whose body was found in the ventilation shaft of a Hollywood sports bar was upside down and died of suffocation, the Broward Medical Examiner's Office said today. The cause of death of Benjamin Rodriguez, 46, was given as positional asphyxia, meaning his lungs became compressed and he suffocated. It was classified as an accident. Benjamin "Mastermind" Rodriguez...
The Hollywood man could have been dead for up to 72 hours when police found him at 441 All-Star Sports Bar, 1510 S. State Road 7, on Saturday night, authorities said. Hey. Does it always smell like that in here?
Smell like what?
Police believe Rodriguez, who was 5-foot-7 and weighed 182 pounds, could have been trying to burglarize the business. Damn fine police work if ya ask me...
"Rooftop burglaries aren't uncommon, but to have somebody stuck or die is," police spokesman Lt. Manny Marino said Sunday."This is the first one I've seen where the person died," said Marino, who has been with Hollywood police for 13 years. I wish I'd seen more, but...sorry.
It took authorities about five hours to extricate the body from the vent, which police said measured no more than 2 square feet. Charlie, gimme the sawzall...
Employees of the bar called police about 7:20 p.m. Saturday, after they smelled a foul odor and saw what appeared to be blood dripping onto the bar's kitchen floor. Hey. Is that barbeque sauce? And has that cheese gone bad?
Nope. Looks like there's a dead guy in the vent.
Firefighters arrived and found the body trapped in the exhaust vent of the stove hood. Hey, Charlie. Lookit this...
Crime scene technicians were at the sports bar throughout the night, and the body was removed by about 1 a.m. Sunday, Marino said. Hey, hurry it up. We don't wanna miss CSI...
The gruesome find came two days after sports bar employees noticed a few ceiling tiles had fallen to the floor, police said. We thought it was an earthquake or...sumthin.
The incident was classified as an attempted break-in and no one thought then there might be a body trapped in the vent. But...what if there's a dead guy in the vent?
Yeah. Right. Does it always smell like that in here?
Smell like what?
The previous week, another business that shares the small strip mall with the sports bar was burglarized. Investigators think the dead man successfully burglarized the adjacent business and returned to break into the sports bar, Marino said. Ha! That was easy!
Over the years in South Florida, many thieves have cut through roofs to steal from businesses -- jewelry stores, pawn shops, check-cashing and convenience stores, according to news reports. Elsewhere in the nation, there have been reports of rooftop burglars breaking bones and suffering other injuries in falls. Look for OSHA to demand that airbags be deployed after an establishment closes to prevent a recurrence of such tragedies...
Though risky, the rooftop entry method may be preferred because it's harder to detect than forcing open a door or breaking a window, Marino said. Risky? Any comment on that Benny?
Those more conventional methods tend to set off burglar alarms, but generally, internal motion sensors detect even rooftop burglars once they get inside. What is this, The Thomas Crown Affair?
If the man found dead in the sports bar was trying to rob the place, he may have given his life for a small amount of cash or alcoholic beverages. If?
"It would've been minimal," Marino said of the potential haul. "This is a closed bar. What could have possibly been there?" The motherrlode. Booze, smokes, and lottery tickets...
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Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs did an elevator cleaning bit and while he found used condoms and other debris, there were no dead burglars hanging around, inverted or otherwise.
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Look for OSHA to demand that airbags be deployed after an establishment closes to prevent a recurrence of such tragedies...
Hey! Don't give them any ideas....
This Monday readers of New HampshireÂ’s Valley News were surprised to see the paper's name spelled "Valley Newss" on the front page masthead.
The following day the newspaper, which covers the Upper Valley area straddling New Hampshire and Vermont, published an “Editor’s Note” acknowledging the error. "Oupes. We messsed upp."“Readers may have noticed that the Valley News misspelled its own name on yesterday’s front page,” it read. “Given that we routinely call on other institutions to hold themselves accountable for the mistakes, let us say for the record: We sure feel silly.” "Knot to mentyon stupppid."
The misspelling, which is still visible in the archive section of the newspaperÂ’s website , has already been touted as favourite for typo of the year by the Regret the Error blog, which monitors media mistakes.
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A New York state report says a maintenance man who earned $100,000 last year working at a psychiatric center has been living for free in a paint shed on company grounds and even had his mail delivered there.
A report issued Monday by the inspector general's office says the worker lived on the grounds of the Rockland Psychiatric Center in New York City's northern suburbs for three years. It says he stayed in a back room of the shed and had a couch, microwave and refrigerator.
The worker is being charged $2,500 for the time he lived there. Now he's living with his wife at a home in Pearl River, about 3 miles away. Think of all the gas he saved! Or...perhaps it was a love nest?
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A six mile round-trip commute. Let's take a plausibly unfavorable scenario for fuel consumption: he has an absolutely top-end giant monster SUV, a big honkin' Lincoln Continental, or a ratted-out 30-year old Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Landau Brougham -- whatever it is, let's say that it gets 18MPG. He's burning, what, a whole two and a half gallons a week? TEN BUCKS in gas to get to and from work.
If he drives the biggest, most profligate, most carbon-footprinty big-block musclecar found at the local dragstrip, his fuel expenses for the daily commute still won't crack the $30 a week barrier.
This is a "crisis?"
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The average adult male can walk 3 miles an hour easily. Given that many in the DC area and around other metro areas commute in a car an hour to and from work, what's the problem. It's just not kids who are couch potatoes.
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I walked 3 miles before I came to work today...
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So maybe he needs to sue for the $2500 back, no lease and was the 'rental unit' oked by the local authorities? seems like all tenant / landlord laws favor the tenant
Diners have been flocking to a restaurant in northern Nigeria to see pieces of meat which the owner says are inscribed with the name of Allah.
What looks like the Arabic word for God and the name of the prophet Muhammad were discovered in pieces of beef by a diner in Birnin Kebbi. He was about to eat it, when he suddenly noticed it looked and smelled like dog doody the words in the gristle, the restaurant owner said.
A search of the kitchen's meat revealed The Islamic Trinity three more pieces which bore the names. The meat was boiled and then fried before being served, owner Kabiru Haliru told newspaper Weekly Trust. The chef boiled and fricasseed allah! He must be Killed!
"When the writings were discovered there were some Islamic scholars who come and eat here Try the Golden Calf gristle. It's delish.
and they all commented that it was a sign to show that Islam is the only true religion of Table Scraps for mankind," he said.
The restaurant has kept the pieces of meat for visitors to see. Thousands of people have already gone to the restaurant to see them since they were discovered last week. A vet told the newspaper the words "defied scientific explanation". Undoubtably the most succinct description of islam I have ever seen.
"Supposing only one piece of meat was found then it would be suspicious, but given the circumstances there is no explanation," Dr Yakubu Dominic said. I'm going to make a fortune with my "allah" meat stamp. Patent pending. Photo at link.
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I wonder how many times Alan's name has appeared in Arabic around the world, and ignorant people couldn't read it - so the message was wasted.
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Lol , just lol .. Especially the Islamic scholars bit ..
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Oh come on! It's obvious that if Allan wanted people to know that Islam is "the one true religion for mankind" that he would put his and Mo's names on a couple pieces of boiled-then-fried meat. Cheez, what more evidence could you want?
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Allah's name on an icecream-cone (if you twist it and look really hard) is sinful but if it appears on meat (if you're dillusional) is proof of Allah's superiority?
It would be a crack up if they found out the meat was not prepared Halial style (however you spell it).
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To see a world in a grain of sand and read the name of God in a piece of gristly meat. It is all so beautiful and poetic. Or would be if it weren't so silly. I still think Allah is really Loki in disguise.
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Steve S. Thanks for the comparison of Allah to Loki. I've been looking for some kind of comparative description for years, and now I have it. Again, many thanks.
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Muhammed didn't have the sense of humour necessary to be Loki, Broadhead6. Allah, as described in his book, clearly did. And after all, Allah is just as real as Loki.
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"Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Doctor Elvis Presley led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top secret project, known as QUANTUM LEAP.
"Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Doctor Presley prematurely stepped into the Project Accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own.
Fortunately, contact with his own time was made through brainwave transmissions, with Al, the Project Observer, who appeared in the form of a hologram that only Doctor Presley could see and hear. Trapped in the past, Doctor Presley finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right, that once went wrong and hoping each time, that his next leap will be the leap home."
The Chinese government has ordered a Danish-operated art gallery not to display Andy Warhol pictures for security reasons Up to 38 athletic paintings by late American artist Andy Warhol have been forbidden to be displayed at Danish-owned Galleri Faurschou in...
But gallery management says the real reason for the ban is to force visitors to concentrate on Chinese art. Galleri Faurschou believes it had previously received approval for the Warhol exhibit from European representatives of the Chinese government. But customs officials are now refusing to release the pictures.
'We sent out 500 invitations, the catalogues were printed and the pictures' owners had arrived in Beijing, but on Tuesday we had to cancel everything,' Kai Heinze, the gallery's manager, told Politiken newspaper.
Heinze said other galleries have been forced to change some of their exhibits to Chinese displays as well.
He said Galleri Faurschou would probably be allowed to show the Warhol exhibit after the Olympic Games are over, but added the business had already wasted nine months work and lost around 300,000 kroner in investments planning the display.
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Gee, the Chinese are really getting into the spirit of warmly welcoming visitors from around the world and showcasing the hospitality of their ancient oriental culture.
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Maybe there's some lingering bitterness over those tarted-up images of Mao, which made a fortune for Warhol by, essentially, treating Mao as a disposable product similar to Campbell's Soup or Coke bottles. Or so I'd like to think, anyway. ;-)
ROME (AP) - Italy's Parliament gave final approval Tuesday to a contentious law that grants immunity from prosecution to Premier Silvio Berlusconi and other top Italian officials. The Senate passed the legislation by a wide margin after it previously sailed through the lower house of Parliament. Berlusconi's conservatives have a comfortable majority in both chambers.
The legislation protects the president, the premier and the two speakers of parliament from court prosecutions while in office. It will enter into effect once President Giorgio Napolitano signs it.
Critics have charged that the law is aimed at protecting Berlusconi from a current corruption case in Milan. Berlusconi is accused of ordering payment in 1997 of at least $600,000 to his co-defendant, British lawyer David Mills, in exchange for false testimony at two Berlusconi trials in the 1990s. The defendants deny the charges. Berlusconi has depicted himself as the victim of left-leaning magistrates.
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I'll assume the magistrates are guilty until proven innocent (guilty of leftism, that is.)
Angry reaction brings a halt to use of city pumps Back off, peasants...
The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention has used the city's gas pumps to fill up and apparently avoided paying state and federal fuel taxes. Errrrr....ummmmmmmmm...Look! Obama's on television!
The practice, which began four months ago, may have ended hours after its disclosure. An aide to Mayor John Hickenlooper released a statement Tuesday evening saying that Denver 2008 Host Committee members would pay market prices for fuel and would also be liable for all applicable taxes. I was shocked, shocked I tells ya, when we were caught this was brought to my attention.
However, Public Works spokeswoman Christine Downs told City Council members just hours before that host committee members were fueling up at the city pumps. The city does not pay taxes on the fuel for its fleet, and Downs said the host committee would not either. The word must've went out. Fill 'em up fast! The gravy train's gonna derail.
The disclosure brought immediate scrutiny. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said the practice "would seem" to be illegal and referred the matter to the state Department of Revenue. Nonprofits, such as the host committee, are subject to state and federal gasoline taxes, according to the Department of Revenue. Oh. We...forgot.
The issue arose during the regular weekly meeting of Hickenlooper and City Council members. Downs requested authorization for a contract so the Public Works Department could be reimbursed by the host committee for use of "fueling facilities, fuel and car washes." Downs said the contract with the host committee started in March and that $9,700 in fuel and services had been purchased from the city so far. But the committee has yet to be billed. The city anticipates $466,125 in total revenues from the contract, Downs said. So they've been working on a nonexistent contract since March?
City Councilman Charlie Brown raised the question of whether the host committee would be paying fuel taxes, and Downs said it wouldn't. "There's something there that just doesn't seem right to me because, in a sense, you're saying then that the officials who pass the laws are not willing to live by them," said Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz. ...and, this shocks you?
Hickenlooper said the practice isn't unique to Denver. "I do know for a fact that they're doing the same exact thing in Minneapolis," Hickenlooper said, referring to the city that along with St. Paul is hosting the Republican National Convention. Harrrumph harrumph harrumph!
But Teresa McFarland, a spokeswoman for the Minneapolis-St. Paul host committee, said its members are getting their gas at public pumps."We're not getting a tax break on fuel," she said. "That's not the setup at this end." Oh-oh. Somebody better tell Mayor Ooompalooompa before he makes a bigger ass of himself.
In Colorado, consumers pay 40.4 cents per gallon in state and federal fuel taxes. "We're a nonpartisan, nonprofit committee, but certainly, if the city feels that taxes are applicable, we will pay those, too," said Chris Lopez, spokesman for the host committee. "So we would pay all applicable taxes on any of the fuel." Especially since we've been caught...
The host committee, which is responsible for raising money to put on the convention, is using the city's pumps "for safety and security reasons," Lopez said. "We know the gas is not tainted," he said. "We use it as a safety and security measure." Yeah..."safety and security"! That's the ticket!
Hickenlooper said GM is "loaning" the host committee vehicles and he expects a large number to be hybrids. It wasn't clear Tuesday whether host committee members are using those loaners or their personal vehicles. Oh...let me guess.
Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, said the city's arrangement with the DNC host committee was "appalling. I'm hoping this is not the first of many stories about how Colorado taxpayers are apparently subsidizing the Democratic convention," Wadhams said. Care to make book on that, Dick?
After the meeting, Faatz said it was wrong for the DNC host committee to get a tax break."I am just troubled by not having the payment of taxes for what I consider to be a privately funded party, and that's what the host committee is: it's a private organization," she said. "If you've got a 14-gallon tank, on the average, that's about $5.66 that they don't have to pay for fill up," Brown said. Brown also questioned the need for car washes. C'mon, man. My ride's gotta look good. For the reputation of the city.
It also wasn't clear Tuesday whether the Department of Revenue will investigate."We can't talk about any individual taxpayer's circumstance," said department spokesman Mark Couch. "Tax-exempt organizations are not exempt from fuel taxes, so a nonprofit group is not exempt from fuel taxes. As to the individual circumstance involved here, we'd have to look into it and investigate to make any kind of determination." If it was Republican's though, they'd already be in cuffs...
Denis Berckefeldt, spokesman for Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher, said Hickenlooper's administration has been guilty in the past of doing business before a contract is executed. GASP!!
"Is it unusual that it happens?" he asked. "No, because they do stuff like this. Do we like it? No." Awww, you can trust the mayor. He's not like the others...
In January 2006, Gallagher complained to Hickenlooper in a letter about the "ongoing problem related to work being performed on behalf of the city before a contract for that work has been fully executed and properly signed."
At that time, Gallagher wrote, an examination of 999 contracts found that in 790 cases - 79 percent - work began before the contracts were "fully executed." Well...hey...well...ummmmm...Look! Obama's on television!
"We would have a problem with this because they're clearly selling fuel to the host committee without a fully executed contract," Berckefeldt said. "We have a real serious issue at the auditor's office with the city doing business with anyone without a contract." C'mon. You can trust me. I'm the mayor.
KARACHI - Buses, coaches, wagons, trucks and heavy vehicles across Sindh province yesterday went on an indefinite wheel-jam strike to protest against unprecedented price-hike in petroleum products.
The strike, which was called off in the afternoon, completely paralysed Karachi port operations resulting in losses of millions of rupees to the exchequer. Due to the strike many of the city's petrol pumps remained closed as the petroleum products could not be delivered and a closure of majority of the petrol stations is likely if the vehicles remained off the road for next few days.
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ION WAFF.com [paraph] > INDIA > WOMAN MARRIED TO HINDU GOD AT AGE 12, AND SPENT THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS GIVING OUT SEXUAL FAVORS TO UNTOLD NUMBERS OF MEN IN THE NAME OF RELIGION AND CULTURE/TRADITION [Indian Temple Prostitution ala Pre-Teen/Tween Girls]. Temple Prostitutes also suffer from high HIV-STD Rates in consequence.
Aerial firing during a marriage function near Islamabad airport late on Tuesday forced authorities to halt flight operations for more than an hour. Police sources told Daily Times that a Dubai-bound flight was about to take off when gunshots were heard from a nearby locality. Officials of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) delayed the flight while putting security on high alert. Police rushed to the scene and established that some gunshots had been fired into the air during a marriage function in a locality near the airport.The airport authorities, however, said that delay to the Dubai-bound flight was an operational one. The flight took off after a one-hour delay.
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Which draws more juice from the electric grid, a big-screen plasma television or recharging a plug-in hybrid car? Do hybrids plug in, or are we talking about electric cars?
The answer is the car. But the electricity drawn by plasma televisions is easing the minds of utility company executives across the nation as they plan for what is likely to be a conversion of much of the country's vehicle fleet from gasoline to electricity in the coming years.
Rechargeable cars, industry officials say, consume about four times the electricity as plasma TVs. But the industry already has dealt with increased electric demand from the millions of plasma TVs sold in recent years. Officials say that experience will help them deal with the vehicle fleet changeover. But many plasma TVs aren't on during rush hour.
So as long as the changeover from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles is somewhat gradual, they should be able to handle it in the same way, Mark Duvall, program manager for electric transportation, power delivery and distribution for the Electric Power Research Institute, said Tuesday. "We've already added to the grid the equivalent of several years' production of plug-in hybrids," Duvall said at a conference on electric vehicles in San Jose. "The utilities, they stuck with it. They said, 'All right, that's what's happening. This is where the loads are going, and we're going to do this.'"
Automakers, such as General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp., are planning to bring rechargeable vehicles to the market as early as 2010. But speakers at the Plug-In 2008 conference say it will take much longer for them to arrive in mass numbers, due in part to a current lack of large-battery manufacturing capacity. Auto and battery companies still are working on the lithium-ion battery technology needed for the cars, and on how to link the battery packs to the vehicles.
"We see the vehicle penetration levels coming at a rate that's manageable," said Efrain Ornelas, environmental technical supervisor with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in San Francisco. "It's not like tomorrow the flood gates are going to open and 100,000 vehicles are going to come into San Francisco or something like that."
Instead, the vehicles will show up by the thousands throughout Northern California, he predicted. PG&E will be able to track their charging patterns and plan accordingly for the future, he said. Utility officials say they already are coping with increased demand, especially during peak-use periods in the afternoon and early evening. But the rest of the day, most utilities have excess generating capacity that could be used to recharge cars. California rolling brownouts are finished?
But the preparation doesn't mean electric vehicles will be accommodated without problems and good planning, the officials say. Since most electric cars will in the perfect world likely be charged during off-peak electric use times, utilities should have no problem generating enough electricity. But since people with the means to buy electric cars likely will live in the same areas, utilities worry about stress on their distribution systems, Ornelas said.
That means consumers will face a lot of choices about when and where they charge up their cars and how much they want to pay for the electricity. The choice for consumers will come because utilities likely will raise rates to charge cars during peak use times, generally from around noon to 8 p.m., and lower them for charging during low-use hours, industry officials say. I assume that's all rates; not just those to charg cars. or are they planning separate meters and/or voltages?
In California, utilities already are installing meters that track use by time of day. PG&E charges 30 cents per kilowatt hour to charge an electric vehicle during peak hours, he said, but charges only 5 cents from midnight to 7 p.m. Phoenix had several choices of variable rate plans 20 years ago.
Duvall said utilities still have to be wary that high gasoline prices could push sales of rechargeable electric vehicles well into the millions by 2020, because that could stress the system. Other possible problems include electric vehicles getting larger and requiring far more electricity for recharging, and demands from people that their vehicles be recharged quickly, drawing more electricity during peak times.
Also, companies such as the Campbell-based Coulomb Technologies, are starting to develop recharging stations for sale to parking lot operators, office buildings and cities, which will draw more electricity. Or could trickle-charge over a longer period of time?
There's also talk of the cars storing electricity and sending it back to the power companies during peak times, but officials say that's in the year 2525 a long way off.
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Do hybrids plug in, or are we talking about electric cars?
Electric for the first 20 miles or so then hybrid.
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I think they are talking about plug-in hybrids Bobby. You charge the batteries before you leave the house, if your trip is no more than 40 to 125 miles (depending on the model of car) you wont use any gas at all. The gasoline generator will kick on and recharge your battery pack at 30% charge. All told, Chevy Volt should get 540 miles to the gallon on a tank of gas starting with a full charge.
To charge the vehicle on off peak rates you need a special meter from the electric company that keeps track of peak/off peak charging. Where I live, it would cost about 45 cents a day to charge the Chevy Volt.
Another thing to keep in mind is range, they claim it has a range of 45 miles on the batteries. That is somewhat misleading because they are quoting that as the guaranteed range after 100,000 miles on the battery pack. I don't know if its true, but some people on the Volt forum claim the new range is around 125 miles for a fresh battery pack.(?)
The car will fully charge in 3 hours, but like you mentioned, it could trickle charge for 8-10 hours and put a lot less strain on the grid. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see a selectable charging time, 3 hours if you are in a hurry, or 8 if you have all night to let it charge.
There is a wait list for the volt with over 50,000 people on it already, to be released in late 2010.
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Now; what will be the solution to build and maintain the roads when these cars are not paying into the present gas tax system? A tax on the power derived from these charging stations? That ought to PO those folks who don't think they should pay for those nasty highway workers because their car is green. Similar to the bicycle riders who think they should not pay for those bike lanes they have been using.
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Another thing to keep in mind is range, they claim it has a range of 45 miles on the batteries. That is somewhat misleading because they are quoting that as the guaranteed range after 100,000 miles on the battery pack. I don't know if its true, but some people on the Volt forum claim the new range is around 125 miles for a fresh battery pack.(?
That's best case range just driving. How long will it last on a cold, rainy night, running the lights, defroster, wipers while listening to the radio?
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the new range is around 125 miles for a fresh battery pack.
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The claim may be for 125 mpg - running 40 miles on the initial charge and then a good mpg run for the remainder. A 1.1 litre diesel at constant rpm can do wonders for mileage.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Which draws more juice from the electric grid, a big-screen plasma television or recharging a plug-in hybrid car?
