Friends and fellows, you have before you an example of how our current kleptocracy works and why corporatism will fail to bring you any green cars or loan paybacks from bailout queens. The example is a comparison between recent news from Government Motors (GM) and Ford Motor Co. Last year, General Motors was the recipient [...]
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The Sims 3 Gets an Electric Car from Renault
April 22nd, 2010 
Aaron Turpen I saw this story on Wired and had to laugh. Then I thought, “wow, that’s a game I haven’t played in a long time. Looks like they’ve improved it.” Then I wondered how a car is supposed to work into the Sims universe. Then I wondered if you had to plug in the new EV, [...]
Tags: GM Loans Now Paid in Full, Government Still Owns Them
April 22nd, 2010 Aaron Turpen Edmunds is reporting that Government Motors says they’ve paid off the last of their bailout money back to the governments of the U.S. and Canada. Apparently, GM’s CEO Ed Whitacre made the announcement along with a lot of other stuff at a press event on April 21. The company also plans to invest a lot [...]
The M-Org Custom Chopper Concept is Badass Organic
April 20th, 2010 Aaron Turpen With my regular influx of news, press releases, and reading around the Web, I am often presented with concept vehicles. Some of them are really stupidly goofy and unrealistic, some are banal, others are just more of the usual, and some are just, well, awesome. It’s not often that really cool motorcycles come my way [...]
Cap and Trade? Nah, Now It’s Cap and Dividend
April 18th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Well, the clowns in the Senate are working hard to make sure that you end up with some kind of do-gooder climate b.s. legislation whether you want it or not. With Cap and Trade all but scuttled, the creativity of our wealth redistribution experts in Washington knows no bounds. This time, they realize that in [...]
A Crash Course on Hybrid Powertrains
April 16th, 2010 Aaron Turpen There’s a lot of misconception out there about what is a hybrid vehicle, what isn’t, and how “green” and efficient these vehicles really are (or aren’t). It’s really annoying for me as a writer about these things for public consumption, because what is popularly believed and what is actual aren’t always the same. I just [...]
