It won't be long before I'm able to fit my entire 44GB music collection on my cell phone!

The devil thing is an interesting spin, but if the Russians I know personally are a good example of normal Russians, then I would chalk this one up to insurance fraud.

Welcome to America mohammed.

Hahahahahaha!

There are those of us who would like a smokin' rig without the adolescent flashing lights and form-not-following-function case design.

At least offer an option for a more...uh...mature appearance.

Mexico?

Did it occur to anyone here that these people are not stupid and everything visible in the picture is there for a reason?

In my opinion this is an attempt to generate buzz about future product by giving internet "detectives" something to "discover".

This is marketing in the internet age.

The poll is meaningless. Especially when you consider the fact that it's easy to vote more than once! Voting more than once is prevented by two easily defeated techniques.

1) Cookies, which can be deleted.

2) IP address, which can be sidestepped by using a dial-up connection. Each time you log in to your dial-up connection you are assigned a different IP address.

"Apparently the clear majority of Autoblog readers agree with the "loony" people that want to save the earth. (take a look at the poll) ;-)" -Ryan


What the majority believes often has little to do with the facts. There was a time when the majority thought the Earth was flat. Short-sighted feel good "solutions" will not save the Earth.



"Ethenol comes from many different things, Brazil's ethonal comes from sugar cane, we have an enitre state devoted to that." -Ryan


If sugar cane is used, then the price of sugar cane will increase. That also has consequences.

Producing fuel from sources such as corn would increase demand for that commodity, which in turn would drive up the price of corn. Corn is used for many different things. Increasing the price of corn for other uses would definitely have consequences that need to be studied before jumping on the ethanol bandwagon.

Once again, the loony environmentalists only consider the first layer of the issue. If you go to the link below and look at the fuel economy data for various vehicles, you will see that 40 mpg would eliminate most vehicles from the marketplace. A lot of manufacturers and their suppliers would go out of business if a 40 mpg law was passed. That means a lot of people will lose their jobs. Patents on hybrid, electric, fuel cell, and other technologies would prevent a lot of these companies from switching over to the newer technologies. The loss of income for so many people would have a trickle down effect on other businesses like real estate, restaurants, travel, etc. The economy is a complex system that should not be toyed with by short-sighted feel good measures like fuel economy requirements. Consequences need to be considered. Anything else would be irresponsible.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/byclass.htm

I've also heard a few conspiracy theory nut cases claim (on other sites) that the oil companies have bought out many of the patents that threaten their business. Again, they are only looking at the first layer of the issue. Patents expire after 20 years which would not be that far away if they bought the patents years ago. And patents are very easy to search for at the link below. I have yet to see any patents owned by oil companies that could be used to put them out of business.

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html