That's a big sandwich

“Good use of the lingo Bit. I'm hungry!”

“Is that you, ynami?”

“Woah!!!!

GLUTNEY....1 of 7...LOL”

“It is - after much public pressure I've condensed my silly name.”

“of course now I live stateside my local safeway seems to sell things bigger than that every day.”

“I think that Subway will sell you a 10-foot-long sandwich. You can't even get that inside most Brit cars.”

“Well if gas prices keep going up we'll all be in Smartcars over here soon.
http://www.thesmart.co.uk/index.html" TARGET="_blank">take this down I95”

“I don't think it's legal to drive a car like that on the Interstate.

Seriously.”

“I can see the utility of having a car like that in town though. I've often thought of building my own electric car that I would drive around town, and keeping one gas-powered car for long trips. If the charge range is 80 miles, that means I have to plug it up overnight about every fourth day. Not too bad.

And electricity is 6.25¢/KWH here.”

“I do think it qualifies as a full on car though, and it'll go fast enough. I always have though it a tad wasteful to have one person sitting in a Surburban. Really a car like that is all you need for a city commute.”

“My main question about electric cars is this, "How is the electricity made?"”

“Well you could make it with natural gas, wind power or nuclear power.”

“lol, lz, good question. Depends on where you live.”

“ynami, we still burn a lot of coal here too.

A lot of coal. There's a fossil plant near Chattanooga that has its own rail siding to bring the coal in.

Plus, where I live, TVA has a lot of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee river. But I seem to remember that they produce a small fraction of the amount of power generated by the TVA.”

“Oh I know. needs to be more pressure to change that though”

“I was eating dinner with a friend and his Czech wife one evening, and for some reason the subject of power production came up. I mentioned that we still burned a lot of coal, and she was astounded. Of course, they have a lot of old Chernobyl-style nukes in the Czech Republic that make all their electricity, so of course burning coal sounds medieval.”