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Climate and hydrogen car advocate gets almost everything wrong about plug-in cars
Once upon a time, some serious people used to believe that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) might have a snowball's chance in hell of being a practical and affordable climate strategy in our lifetime. Those very sincere people were used by some of the car companies and Bush Administration as part of a strategy to oppose or delay the introduction of more viable alternative fuel strategies, in particular electric cars — see, for instance, the movie "Who killed the electric car?"
That isn't to say pure EVs were slam dunks as successful mass-market consumer vehicles, particularly with the technology of the 1980s and even 1990s. HFCVs, however, required multiple technological (and other) miracles to succeed and every plausible competitor, including EVs, to fail first (see "Hydrogen fuel cell cars are a dead end from a technological, practical, and climate perspective" and "The car of the perpetual future" "" The Economist agrees with Climate Progress on hydrogen"). That is but one reason the absurdly expensive infrastructure will never be built — nor has any independent group ever proposed a plausible scenario under which the infrastructure would be built. And that's the fundamental hydrogen cars will not be practical or a cost-effective climate strategy in your lifetime.
Under the leadership of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, California briefly flirted with a serious investment in hydrogen cars and infrastructure — the Hydrogen Highway. A driving force for that alliterative but ill-fated effort was Terry Tamminen, who "headed California's Environmental Protection Agency and was Cabinet Secretary and Chief Policy Advisor" to Schwarzenegger, who is now "the Cullman Senior Fellow for Climate Change and Director of the Climate Policy Program at the New America Foundation" and author of a recent but outdated attack, "The Myth of Battery Cars" debunked below.
The California legislature in particular sped away from the Hydrogen Highway effort once it became clear that both the fueling station and the cars were insanely expensive and not terribly practical (see "California Hydrogen Highway R.I.P.")
Today, with rapidly advancing battery and related technology, we know that pure EVs and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are a core climate solution since electric drives are more efficient, easily powered by carbon-free energy and indeed far cheaper to operate per mile than gasoline (or hydrogen), even when running on renewable power. And they are the key alt-fuel strategy needed to deal with the energy/economic security threat of rising dependence on imported oil and the inevitably grim impacts of peak oil (see "Why electricity is the only alternative fuel that can lead to energy independence"). That is why pretty much every car company in the world will be introducing one or more models of PHEVs or EVs in the next 2 to 4 years, but we still don't have a single commercial HFCV anywhere near production (see L.A. Times: "Hydrogen fuel-cell technology won't work in cars." Duh.).
In particular, a renewable-energy-based hydrogen fueling system capable of handling even half the cars and light trucks on the road would cost many hundreds of billions of dollars. And it would have a cost of avoided carbon dioxide of more than $600 a metric ton, which is more than a factor of ten higher than most other strategies being considered today. Also, the total well-to-wheels efficiency with which a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle might utilize renewable electricity is roughly 20% (although that number could rise to 25% or a little higher with the kind of multiple technology breakthroughs required to enable a hydrogen economy). The well-to-wheels efficiency of charging an onboard battery and then discharging it to run an electric motor in a PHEV or EV, however, is 80% (and could be higher in the future)""four times more efficient than current hydrogen fuel cell vehicle pathways.
If you care about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, vehicle efficiency is certainly the top strategy (along with technologies to minimize or avoid car-based transportation), but EVs and PHEVs are going to be the cornerstone alternative fuel vehicle technology. That's why is it so surprising that Tamminen — Director of the Climate Policy Program at the New America Foundation — would attack them. The rest of this post is a guest debunking by my friend Felix Kramer, founder of Calcars.org and author of previous guest posts such as "Everything you could want to know about the plug-in hybrid and electric vehicle announcements at the 2009 Detroit auto show."
Rebutting Mr. Tamminen's Battery Electric Car 'Myths'
By Felix Kramer
We at The California Cars Initiative (and our colleagues at Plug In America and elsewhere), were surprised to see the strong critique of plug-in vehicles at the website of the influential and usually eminently reasonable New America Foundation. In his posting, "The Myth of Battery Cars" NAF Senior Fellow Terry Tamminen, who serves as its Director of its Climate Policy Program, starts off saying "it's time to dump the battery-powered car in the same policy landfill as corn-based ethanol, and he concludes with "battery cars are no more viable at this time for solving our oil addiction on a large-scale basis than corn-based ethanol."
In between he cites multiple objections and analyses many of which are uniformed or misinformed. His approach is both surprising and not unexpected.
On the surprising side, he knows better. In his years at Environment Now! and then as head of the California Environmental Protection Agency, he saw how the objections to electric vehicles (EVs) gradually fell away, and how plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) emerged as a new solution that provides a practical near-term transition for the automotive fleet. We welcomed him at the launching meeting of Plug In Bay Area in August 2006 http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/501.html where he endorsed PHEVs as "our immediate future" (in contrast to other longer-term solutions). And in his popular 2006 book, "Lives Per Gallon," he mentions EVs two dozen times. Recounting the story of the gutting of California's Zero Emissions (ZEV) Mandate, he cited their "value and practicality."
On the expected side, while publicly embracing "silver buckshot" — ecumenically pursue all solutions — Tamminen has always seen the future as hydrogen-powered. In California, he succeeded Alan Lloyd as the chief cheerleader for a "Hydrogen Highway" infrastructure, and for a massive skew in government regulations and support for fuel-cell vehicles over plug-ins. Since leaving state government, he's made the case in Canada and many other countries. Now the vehemence of his article is reflective of his remaining consistent to his vision, even as one-time allies at federal and California elected officials and energy/transportation agencies, and advocates such as the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Institute, have acknowledged that this solution remains a decade away and that we can get there quicker with plug-ins.
To take his points in order:
1. Batteries will always be too heavy; materials are scarce and toxic. This sounds like a comment from before 2006. Batteries are improving steadily in "energy density" and cost — by 7-15% a year, with occasional faster leaps as technologies shift. Automaker and battery makers have concluded that the supposed "lithium shortage" doesn't exist. Nickel-metal hydride and lithium batteries are approved for landfill (not toxic) and can be recycled. The battery and motor of an EV is not always heavier than the larger engine and gas tank while you benefit from up to four times greater efficiency of an electric motor over and internal combustion engine.
2. We'll need a giant new infrastructure; charging takes too long; we'll get overloads and blackouts unless we spend billions of dollars to upgrade the power grid. Plug-in hybrids need no new infrastructure. According to a study from the Pacific National Lab, today's grid has capacity to recharge 84% of today's cars if they all plugged at night. This applies to all-electric vehicles charging at night as well, which will be true for most vehicles used as families' second cars. Price signals will disincentivize daytime charging on late summer afternoons when the grid is at capacity. And the Tesla Roadster's high-power charger takes under four, not eight hours to recharge http://www.teslamotors.com/learn_more/faqs.php .
3. Range matters: yes, most average commutes are 30-40 miles/day, but cars need to be able to drive 300 miles between refills. And people who live in apartments don't have access to a charger. PHEVS l have that range by definition: when the battery is depleted the engine powers the car for hundreds of miles. The forthcoming Chevy Volt 40-mile electric range matches the drive cycle of 78% of vehicles. Tamminen has forgotten his approving quotation (page 152 of Lives Per Gallon) of Ed Begley, Jr. saying "The detractors of electric vehicles are right. Given their limited range, they can only meet the needs of 90 percent of the population." The first buyers of plug-in cars may be drivers with garages, but the charging infrastructure is starting to arrive: The New York Times Real Estate Section reports that building management company executives say they want to be ready for the coming wave of customer demand to charge in their high-rise apartments: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/realestate/30posting.html .
4. Only small, light cars can be battery powered. While it is true that until recently, most EVs were small and underpowered, the coming wave of luxury sports cars has proven that EVs can outperform gasoline cars. The vehicles continue to be designed to be as aerodynamic as possible because that makes sense for any vehicle however it's powered. And Tamminen gets the size issue exactly wrong. The larger vehicles have plenty of room for batteries and, and they're the gas-gulpers. IF you switch around the usual way of looking at miles per gallon into gallons per mile, this becomes obvious. Our 50 MPG Priuses converted to 100 MPG PHEVS use 1 gallon per hundred miles instead of 2–saving 1 gallon. A 15 MPG truck that becomes a 45 MPG PHEV saves over 5 gallons per hundred miles. That's why CalCars is now focusing largely on pickups, SUVs and trucks, including conversions of already-built vehicles.
5. Plug-in cars are only as clean as the electricity they run on. This is true, but on today's national grid (50% coal), an electric mile produces only half the CO2 of a gasoline mile. Tamminen acknowledges this is true for hydrogen as well"¦not entirely, since some hydrogen (an energy carrier, not a source) comes from reforming natural gas, which is still high in CO2. For hydrogen made electrically from water, multiple studies have shown the original electricity used to make the fuel carries a vehicle three to four times further if it's put directly into a battery rather than cycled through hydrolysis, fuel transportation, compression, and fuel cells before they get to the electric motor that powers the car. If we ever get hydrogen created directly from the sun and algae, we'll still be decades away from having a full infrastructure for its use.
6. Plug-in advocates aren't looking at the cost of the entire infrastructure, just at the end use. Tamminen forgets about the ability of PHEVs and many EVs to come to the market with no new infrastructure. In contrast to this, all the hydrogen vehicles he so strongly supports need a new infrastructure, and it's largely because of that fact that Energy Secretary Steve Chu and may others have concluded that even if multiple technical and cost issues involving hydrogen and fuel cells are solved, other solutions that are much closer are more deserving of support and incentives. Some day we might have hydrogen providing the range extension fuel for PHEVs, but even cellulosic ethanol is generally seen as arriving far sooner than hydrogen.
The biggest refutation of Tamminen comes from the growing stampede among national governments and automakers to bring plug-in cars to market. They are starting with substantial tax incentives until costs decline with economies of scale — but the gap needed to bridge is in the $5-$10,000 range, one-tenth or less the amount needed to subsidize Tamminen's preferred hydrogen cars.
Good resources for this subject include: the CalCars FAQ, the page in Internal Combustion Engine Conversions http://www.calcars.org/ice-conversions.html and the Plug In America FAQ
For more debunking, see Terry Tamminen is "mythtaken."
16 Responses to Climate and hydrogen car advocate gets almost everything wrong about plug-in cars
Here in the UK we do vans on Urban routes that use only around 1/7th of the energy that the equivilent diesel vand does and pay for themselves in 3 years and then its profit all the way. These vans can take up to a 2 tonne payload but many vans does less than 15-30 miles a day and hence the 150 mile range of these vans are perfect.
To: Mr. Tamminen,
I drove a Cooper Mini E for 15 miles this weekend. Later, watched it charge up in less than two hours which restored it's 120 mile plus range–all on 100% renewable electricity–50 amps at 240 volts. http://www.miniusa.com/minie-usa/
Plenty of room on board for swappable battery packs like those in the "BetterPlace" program. http://www.betterplace.com/solution/ So, you're never out of gas once we add the battery shack to the local gas station or supermarket.
The car is perfect. The electronics, motor, and batteries are from the same firm providing the Tesla components. Would be even more perfect with lithium iron phosphate chemistry batteries.
The bidirectional inverter capability makes this product smart grid ready. So the 25 kwhs on board might keep your lights on next time the power goes.
Repeat, the car is perfect. Fast, silent (need a whistler for the bike riders like me).
Running an EV on 100% coal produced electricity would release about half the amount of CO2 per mile as does running on gas.
Fact or myth? These guys say 60%.
If fact, then is not the CO2 portion for EVs more like 30% of gas cars?
Electric cars are certainly an important part of the solution to climate change and other environmental problems, but only on a relatively small scale. We cannot replace every gas car with an electric one, we need better alternatives for long distance travel and cargo transport, like electrified rail.
Battery advances are being announced at a breath-taking pace, now that it's clear that there will be a market for lightweight, high-capacity batteries. My main problem with my PHEV is that there aren't enough places to charge it, and my normal round-trip commute is twice the battery range. I happen to be on vacation this week and lucked out: the motel I'm staying at has one outlet that I can use to charge my car. We do need some incentives for businesses to offer charging stations, or for charging station companies to set up charging station networks with subscriber-based services. We are indeed approaching a tipping point where batteries will be good enough so that PHEVs, EREVs and BEVs will be practical and attractive. Even with the $10K price of the lithium battery pack, my Prius cost me less than what the Volt is expected to cost even after the $7500 tax credit (which I didn't get on my car). A capability similar to the Volt and less costly (and on a proven, reliable platform–the Prius) has been available for a YEAR now. I think it's more patriotic to buy a battery made in Massachusetts rather than pay for lots more foreign oil. I just wish that more people would see it that way and be willing to make the sacrifice financially to promote PHEVs.
Nissan has partnered with eTec to install 12,750 charge points in five states by the time their Leaf EV comes to market.
France is spending $2.2 billion to install charging points. I think one writeup of the program stated two charge points for every car in France.
Serious money is moving into creating places to charge. That, to me, is a signal that electricity is in, hydrogen out….
Thanks, Joe, for including this (prepared with Ron Gremban, CalCars Technical Lead). Readers may want to see another critique from Paul Scott of Plug In America, which is found as a comment at the Tamminen article and at http://evsandenergy.blogspot.com/2009/09/terry-tamminen-is-mythtaken.html
— Felix Kramer, Founder, The California Cars Initiative (currently suffering from mail problems)
Both Mr. Tamminen, Mr. Kramer (and Joe) have it wrong.
Mr. Taminen's prediction and suggestion that EVs and PHVs be ignored as the near-term (and possibly medium-term) vehicle solution to reduce oil use and associated GHGs is demonstrably false since, as Mr. Kramer points out, so many new vehicles of these types are on the market or in production. If EVs and PHVs (in their current form) weren't viable, we wouldn't be seeing the industry interest that we are.
However, the long-term solution should be a vehicle that uses no fossil fuel whatsoever and yet still provides the full range of today's vehicles (when has man ever accepted a new technology that does less than the one it is replacing?). So Mr. Kramer is wrong to retaliate by saying the hydrogen-powered vehicles are unlikely (apart from his throw-away line "Some day we might have hydrogen providing the range extension fuel for PHEVs, but even cellulosic ethanol is generally seen as arriving far sooner than hydrogen.")
What both sides fail to grasp is that hydrogen and battery technologies are complementary, not competing technologies. Indeed, they need each other to make up for the drawbacks of each. Fuel cells are indeed more expensive than batteries while also being less efficient (the "four times more efficient" meme is most certainly incorrect, especially since no fuel cell vehicles will be built without batteries), although both are much more efficient than the ICE. However, the energy density of hydrogen is several times higher than that of the most advanced battery. Thus, unless there is a revolutionary breakthrough in battery (or ultracapacitor) technology, range will always be an issue for battery-powered vehicles but not so much for hydrogen-powered vehicles. The 7-15% improvement is unlikely to make up for the gap and adding more battery cells to a vehicle to increase the range is an exercise in diminishing returns.
I have no doubt that we will see a large increase in market share of EVs and PHVs in the coming years. And I applaud this. But the time will come when resource scarcity and/or climate changes will demand that we end the combustion of fossil fuels for transportation purposes. And so would it be prudent to cut off all funding for fuel cells when we know that we will need/want them someday? By all means, most of the funding should go to battery technology at present. But the car of the future will have a fuel cell AND a battery (and potentially an ultracapacitor as well). Therefore, saying that we shouldn't be funding fuel cells for transportation research is as short-sighted as the Luddites that assert that we won't run out of oil and climate changes won't be so bad in criticizing the emergence of EVs and PHVs.
Advocates on both sides should accept the limitations of their chosen technology and embrace the other–we are all on the same side after all.
[JR: Nah. EVs and PHEVs are fatal to HFCVs — that has been widely understood for a long time. I've always said the HFCV program should be a long-term basic research effort to deliver the multiple breakthroughs still needed. But that's not what the program has been for a while. It's mostly money down the toilet.]
Jeff, there's a very good chance that we will have EVs fully capable of replacing hybrids in the not distant future.
The Tesla S will be available with 300 mile range. And based on the Tesla Roadster one should be able to recharge at home in less than five hours. That would take care of almost everyones daily driving.
I don't know if the S will have exchangeable battery packs, but there is no reason why a 300 mile range car could not. Battery changes are very rapid, faster than filling your gas tank. An EV with 300 mile range and exchangeable batteries makes coast to coast travel very doable.
The only issue with achieving this sort of performance at an affordable price is battery cost. Panasonic has just stated that they are going to be able to manufacture EV batteries for half of current cost due to being able to use current technology and manufacturing capabilities. That's the "50%" decrease that we've been promised when adequate manufacturing scale is reached. And if Panasonic can do it, others can as well.
I'm just not seeing the limitations that you are….
If companies like Better Place are able to make the battery-exchange system work, this would go some way towards alleviating the "range anxiety" that EV owners would feel. But this requires a massive outlay for infrastructure (along the same lines as that required by fuel cell hybrid vehicles (FCHVs) that supposedly eliminate them from contention (at least in Joe's mind)), not to mention the herculean task of getting the car companies to all agree on a standard battery pack and location inside the vehicle.
I'm not saying it's impossible; I am just saying that Tamminem and Kramer and Joe all seem to have such unjustifiable certainty about the horses they have in this race. I would argue for a distribution of R&D dollars that favours EV and PHV research heavily but that still includes dollars for fuel cell and hydrogen for transportation purposes research.
I also think that 300 miles, while laudable, is still inferior to current vehicles on the market. I agree that costs will come down and specific energy and energy density numbers of batteries will improve, but the latter are unlikely to be able to match the incumbent ICE performance. That is why I advocate for a powertrain that uses the high specific energy and energy density of hydrogen along with the high efficiency and transients capability of batteries and ultracapacitors.
Furthermore, if we are allowing promises/conjecture of future advances in battery technology, we must provide the same courtesy for fuel cells. If you follow the advances of companies like Ballard Power here in Canada, you will see the same type of increases in performance that you quote for Panasonic.
I am surprised that you don't see the limitations of the Model S: its range will be roughly half of the Toyota Camry (non-hybrid version), while costing some two and a half times more. That seems pretty limited to me.
The costs will be alleviated (at least somewhat) when the externalities of fossil fuel-powered vehicles are internalized, and so it's the performance that concerns me most. Bridging that gap in range is just unlikely with battery power alone, in my opinion. Thus the combination powertrain that for which I advocate.
Just noticed that the Model S base model that costs $57,000 will only have a 160-mile range. The 300-mile range means a much larger battery pack than for the Roadster, and this premium is expected to raise the price to $65,000. So now, the Model S has half the range and is over three times the price of the Camry. Personally, I would love to own one. But I still think it's limited, and will be a hard sell to the masses.
I've never heard of Tamminen, but certainly know Amory Lovins of RMI, who has been beating the hydrogen drum for a long time, and brought a lot of people down the hydrogen highway. It may as well have been the Hershey Highway for all the good it did.
If he's finally backed off, it's news to me. What took him so long? Did he not know anyone capable of basic engineering? The reason I'm curious is that he's such an impressive guy, who gets many other things right.
The other issue is: Why do US EV's have to be Teslas or oversized family cars (The Volt)? These cars mean we're born dead if we're hoping to compete internationally, since GM wants $40k for the Volt, and Tesla a lot more. Even the Tata $2k gas car makes more sense to a typical consumer than either of these. I wouldn't be surprised if Tata modified it for the US market as far as safety feature, etc, raised the price to $5k, and scooped the market. The US auto industry is poised to blow it one more time.
Mike, there was a time back in which a lot of us looked for something to replace petroleum for personal transportation. Hydrogen, biofuel, and electricity were the three options (compressed air and flywheels received minor consideration).
Biofuels, as soon as someone did the "reality math" and found that we couldn't run our cars off agricultural crops and also eat, fell away as a major solution.
Electricity just didn't look promising. Battery technology limited us to very heavy lead acid battery packes, 30 mile ranges, and long recharges.
That left hydrogen, inefficient and problematic as it is, as the most viable solution. Lots of problems to be solved, especially the cost of fuel cells, but at least the promise that one could take renewable electricity and power a carbon free vehicle.
But batteries improved, greatly improved, and reality shifted. In fact, I think few took EVs seriously until the Tesla hit the road. Once that happened it was possible to see that hydrogen just wasn't the future. (Baring some huge unforeseen multiple technological breakthroughs.)
I don't know when Lovins switched his support from hydrogen to electricity, but RMI's "Hypercar" has been discussed for quite a while. And it's a hybrid.
As for car size, you gotta' make what the buyers will buy. Moving from gas to electricity is a major, major shift in the way people travel. Asking them to also move to tiny cars at the same time would greatly decrease the speed of changeover.
As for size/overseas competition, US car manufacturers already make smaller cars for overseas markets. In fact, Ford has brought several of their smaller, more efficient "overseas" models to the US lately.
Toyota, Hybrid Innovator, Holds Back in Race to Go Electric
New York Times – August 20, 2009
"Toyota executives rattle off reasons to be skeptical of electric cars: They do not travel far enough on a charge; their batteries are expensive and not reliable; the electrical infrastructure is not in place to recharge them.
Executives also say that Toyota's reputation for reliability could be tarnished if the company forged ahead with an unproven technology."
Greg Blencoe
Chief Executive Officer
Hydrogen Discoveries, Inc.
"Hydrogen Car Revolution" blog
[JR: Care to double our $1000 bet from 2007 — "Greg Blencoe wins if hydrogen fuel cell vehicles hit 1% of new sales of the typically-defined car and light truck market in the U.S. during 2015 or any year before. Joseph Romm wins if it is 2016 or any year after"!
You left out a lot from the NYT piece:
But electric-car enthusiasts say Toyota is being unnecessarily cautious, ignoring technological breakthroughs that would allow it to develop electric cars more quickly. Advances in batteries, as well as in the strong magnets needed for drive motors, have made electric vehicles viable, automotive analysts say. Technology is also being developed that will drastically cut down charging times.
"There's a potential for electric cars to be easier and cheaper to make than conventional cars, because their structure is simpler and they use fewer parts," said Hiroshi Shimizu, a professor of environment and information studies at Keio University in Tokyo.
Moreover, he said, battery production technology is no more complicated than that of semiconductors, which are already mass produced.
"Toyota could launch an electric car tomorrow if it wanted to," Mr. Tateuchi, the former race car engineer, said. Regretting his gas-guzzling creations, he founded the Japan E.V. Club 15 years ago to urge automakers to produce zero-emission cars.
"Toyota tells people the age of electric cars is not yet here," he said. "That's not true."
Meanwhile, conditions for a wider adoption of electric vehicles are falling into place.
Consumers appear more interested in buying eco-friendly cars. A string of studies has shown that most of the time, most people drive well within the range of current electric cars.
Governments around the globe are supporting the technology with subsidies and by setting ever more stringent emission standards. Infrastructure projects to build battery exchange and recharging stations are starting up.
And there is an environmental imperative: Though the newest Prius can travel 50 miles to the gallon, as a hybrid it still uses gasoline and emits carbon. Sherry Boschert of the San Francisco Electric Vehicle Association said a survey of 49 scientific studies found that electric vehicles released 24 percent to 65 percent less carbon than hybrids, when the electricity they used was taken into account.
"Whether you smoke a lot or you smoke a little, you're still a smoker," Nissan's chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, said at the Leaf's introduction, in a snub to Toyota's hybrid technology.
Both Nissan and Mitsubishi have their own reasons for rushing out an all-electric car. Having invested little in hybrids, they hope to leapfrog straight to the next technology.
Nissan is introducing some hybrids that use Toyota's technology, but Mr. Ghosn said he hoped the Leaf would be the world's first mass-produced electric vehicle. The Leaf travels up to 90 miles an hour, goes 100 miles between recharges and carries a price tag of $25,000 to $33,000.
Mitsubishi's i-MiEV was released in limited numbers in Japan this year.
The California-based start-up Tesla Motors has also been selling electric cars on a limited scale. In late 2010, General Motors plans to release the Volt, meant to travel nearly 40 miles on batteries before a small gasoline engine starts up to provide electricity.
Meanwhile, Toyota's new president, Akio Toyoda, has become a big promoter of the company's fuel cells, which he calls the "ultimate" technology. But fuel cell cars, which produce electricity from hydrogen, would take even longer than battery-electric vehicles to commercialize.
Some experts predict that the auto market will soon be divided among competing technologies. "Small electric cars will be used for short distances within cities, with hydrogen cells powering big buses," the Development Bank of Japan forecast in 2008.
Others say that once automakers commit to mass production and drive costs down, electric cars could dominate the market. That could require Toyota to speed up its electric car plans, they say.
"You don't see many competing technologies survive in a key market for very long," said Mr. Shimizu, the Keio University professor.
And more often than not in the history of innovation, a change in the dominant technology means a change in the market leader.
"Electric cars are a disruptive technology, and Toyota knows that," Mr. Shimizu said. "I wouldn't say Toyota is killing the electric vehicle. Perhaps Toyota is scared."]
"In a press release today (September 9, 2009), Kia Motors announced that the company has joined Toyota, Honda, Daimler, Hyundai, General Motors/Opel, Ford, and the alliance Renault SA and Nissan in signing a 'Letter of Understanding' that calls for the initial hydrogen fueling infrastructure to be built by 2015."
Greg Blencoe
Chief Executive Officer
Hydrogen Discoveries, Inc.
"Hydrogen Car Revolution" blog
[JR: Please, please, somebody build our fueling infrastructure 'cause, like, if you don't, well, then, like nobody in their right mind would buy our product since, well, where can people possibly get hydrogen, particularly hydrogen dispensed with expensive, energy-intensive compressors at the absurdly high pressures we've impractically built our cars with.]
A belated response to Joe's blithe dismissal of my arguments with a "Nah. EVs and PHEVs are fatal to HFCVs — that has been widely understood for a long time."
Understood by whom–you?
[JR: I used to help oversee the entire DOE clean vehicle program including hydrogen and hybrids and EVs. I have spoken to a more than a hundred of the country's leading experts on alternative fuel vehicles in the past several years, first in researching my book, "The Hype About Hydrogen" and then in the course of dozens of talks on the subject. I have read many dozens of studies on HFCVs and AFVs. So I repeat, it has been widely understood by the majority of the independent authorities on the subject based on my personal conversation with them and my review of the literature.]
I would submit that the fact that the majority of automotive OEMs continue to develop FCHVs means that your statement is patently false. The same argument against Tamminem's assertion that EVs aren't viable goes for your assertion that FCHVs are "dead" (your words) because of EVs and PHVs (Remember, PHVs can be fuel cell-based too!). You may believe it to your core that FCHVs won't be around for decades, if ever, but the plain fact is that many people, and especially people in the automotive industry (which you are not in), disagree with you.
(BTW, I think my acronym is better than yours: the 'H' (hydrogen)in yours isn't needed, since no other fuel is currently being considered for transportation fuel cells on any scale, while the 'H' in mine refers to the hybridization of any vehicle that has a fuel cell in its powertrain that I am certain (as a powertrain engineer) will be the case)
I am also interested in a clarification of how money directed towards fuel cell research has been "money down the toilet". Can you explain why this is so?
[JR: We've spent a great deal of that money on accelerated demonstration of technologies that won't be commercial. We've also spent more money in general on the "D" than FCVs warrant, given their extreme unlikelihood of ever being a major contributor to addressing our transportation or climate problem.]


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Actress Eva Green's Perfect Sense of Character
"It is a rare treat to play someone so 'normal,'" says French actress Eva Green, referring to her latest role as a buttoned-down scientist in the drama "Perfect Sense." "I have been playing quite extreme characters up until now, so portraying somebody so down-to-earth was very nice indeed."
By extreme, she is referring to roles such as a flying witch in "The Golden Compass" (2007), a psychotic and murderous lesbian school teacher in "Cracks" (2009) and, of course, her portrayal of Vesper Lynd, the double agent who ruthlessly ensnares and breaks the heart of James Bond in the highly acclaimed "Casino Royale" (2006). Extreme seems to be part of the actress's DNA.
However, when it came to her latest role—an epidemiologist trying to stop a world-wide epidemic—the 31-year-old actress embraced the challenge of playing someone who wasn't, as she says, "cuckoo."
Set in Glasgow, "Perfect Sense," which is released in the U.K. on Oct. 7 and other European cities early next year, follows the fortunes of her character, Susan, as she attempts to solve the crisis and, in the best disaster-movie tradition, rediscovers love by falling for a local chef, played by Ewan McGregor. "She has had her heart broken, is a bit cynical and guarded, but starts opening up and allows herself to be vulnerable," she says, speaking from her parents' home in Paris.
In the film, described by Ms. Green as "a love story with layers of horror that is also quite dark but ultimately uplifting," most of the characters gradually start losing their senses—smell first, followed by hearing and sight—and experience extreme emotional and physical distress, such as grief, anger and hunger. Set in an apocalyptic world, the root cause of the epidemic is a mystery.
The Danish-British co-production was shot mostly in Glasgow over a five-week period and the actress says it was challenging in terms of characterization and making the story believable. There was a longer-than-usual rehearsal period, which gave her and Mr. McGregor the chance to get to know one another and work through their scenes much more than is typical in filmmaking. "In this crazy business you don't really have much rehearsal time, but we were lucky and had a couple of rehearsals before shooting, which allowed us to get the tone of the script, which was quite particular. So David Mackenzie, the director, helped us to find it," she says.
"Ewan is a very humble and charming human being—a gentleman. He is not afraid to show his guts or his emotions as a man" she says of her co-star. "He is very instinctive and a beautiful actor."
Inspired to act after seeing Isabelle Adjani in Francois Truffaut's 1975 classic "L'Histoire d'Adele H," Ms. Green went to an English-speaking school in Paris and studied acting at the Saint Paul drama school there. Born in Paris to a Swedish dentist father and a French-Algerian mother, Marlène Jobert, who was a well-known actress in France, Ms. Green says she was fearful of only getting roles because of her mother. She was on the verge of giving up when, at 22, she was offered her first film role in Bernado Bertolucci's 2003 "The Dreamers," an erotic tale of youthful sexual discovery set against the backdrop of the 1968 Paris riots. "I was doing a play that I hated and wanted to stop acting when a casting director called and asked me whether I was free on Sunday to attend a casting with Bertolucci," she says. "I couldn't believe it. My immediate thought was complete disbelief, but the gods were really with me that day because I got the part."
The explicit sex scenes and full-frontal nudity in "The Dreamers" raised some eyebrows. Some of the love scenes with Mr. McGregor in "Perfect Sense" are also quite graphic. "It is awful," Ms. Green says about filming the sex scenes. "I hate nudity. There are usually about 20 people in the room. It is not like having sex with your boyfriend. However, if it is not gratuitous or pornographic and to do with love, then I will do it for the movie. It is always very stressful. I usually can't sleep the night before filming."
Ms. Green, who divides her time between her parents' home in Paris and her own in London, has been very selective in her nine-year acting career, juggling more artistic work along with big-budget films. "Bond was a big machine and gave me a middle name, which has allowed me to do independent films," she says, adding that her career choices have a lot to do with who is directing a film. She says one of the reasons she was interested in making "Perfect Sense" was the opportunity to work with David Mackenzie ("Hallam Foe," "Young Adam" and "Asylum"). "I really enjoyed working with Eva, and I think she is a really interesting and original actress," says Mr. Mackenzie. "It's obvious she has great intelligence and great beauty, but there's an otherworldliness to her that gives her something unique."
As part of her research for the film, the director sent Ms. Green to an epidemiological center in Glasgow to spend some time in the lab. "Everyone was in their own world. Swine flu was going on, so I was in the thick of it—just like in the movie," she says. "What was really interesting was that most of them had a really wry sense of humor, which I thought may be because they are dealing with death and disease every day."
That humor seemed to carry over to the shoot, where edible props—insatiable hunger is one of the epidemic's symptoms—were in abundance. "It was very funny, as the production had a bucket next to all of the actors so that we could eat things and then spit them out," she says. "I remember eating lipstick, flowers and toothpaste—it was fun." It wasn't so much fun imagining loosing her senses, and she refers to the imaginary loss of her eyesight and hearing as "harrowing."
Ms. Green's next role sees her back in more quirky territory, playing a jilted witch who locks up her unrequited love, played by Johnny Depp, in a box and casts horrible spells on him in Tim Burton's gothic tale, "Dark Shadows." She describes her screen relationship with Mr. Depp as "electric."
And when filming for "Dark Shadows" ends, what's next on her agenda? "A nice long holiday, preferably in the sun." The perfect counterpoint for dark tales.
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The CWC Lady Bulldogs have no doubt had a rough season, and what happened on Thursday seems to be the perfect example of the team's luck this year.
Before the varsity game started though, the junior varsity team hit the floor and faced off with their counterparts from Eldorado.
The junior varsity Lady Bulldogs defeated Eldorado, 36-32.
Graci Ackerman led the scoring for the team with eight points. Others adding to the score were Madison Wenzel with seven points, Paige Winter with five points, Lixi Wheeler with five points, Claire Blankenberger with four points, Alexa Combs with three points, Maggi Ackerman with two points and Lexi Wheeler with two points.
The varsity team then took to the court, and were playing very solid and took a slight lead into the locker room. But while working towards a possible win, the lights went out.
The power outage that covered the town caused the postponement of the game and a rescheduling is pending.
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The Panama Canal Authority said it is confident in the process it uses to move ships through the new locks at the canal, following an accident last week that damaged the Xin Fei Zhou after it made contact with one of the walls at the Agua Clara Locks.
Ocean carrier MSC has started investing in TRAXENS, a French start-up that produces technology for ocean container tracking.
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A 'Transformational Gift': New York's Met Will Receive $1 Billion Cubism Collection
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The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art will receive what its director calls a "truly transformational" gift: Leonard A. Lauder's collection of 78 cubist works.
"Although the Met is unique in its ability to exhibit over 5,000 years of art history, we have long lacked this critical dimension in the story of modernism," Thomas P. Campbell, the Met's director and CEO, said in a statement. "Now, Cubism will be represented with some of its greatest masterpieces, demonstrating both its role as the groundbreaking movement of the 20th century and the foundation for an artistic dialogue that continues today. This is an extraordinary gift to our Museum and our City."
Lauder, the heir of his mother Estee Lauder's cosmetics fortune, agreed to give the museum 33 works by Picasso, 17 by Braque, 14 by Gris, and 14 by Léger. Forbes, which has calculated Lauder's net worth, values the collection at $1.1 billion.
"The Cubist trove therefore signifies a gift of 13.5% of Lauder's total net worth — and drops his fortune to $7 billion," Forbes reports. "It also enshrines him in the pantheon of the most generous philanthropists of all time."
The New York Times has a bit more on the significance of the collection:
"Scholars say the collection is among the world's greatest, as good, as if not better, than the renowned Cubist paintings, drawings and sculptures in institutions like the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Pompidou Center in Paris. Together they tell the story of a movement that revolutionized Modern art and fill a glaring gap in the Met's collection, which has been notably weak in early-20th-century art.
"'In one fell swoop this puts the Met at the forefront of early-20th-century art,' Thomas P. Campbell, the Met's director, said. 'It is an unreproducible collection, something museum directors only dream about.'"
The Times adds that Lauder has been courted for years over his collection. The National Gallery of Art in Washington was among those seeking the collection, the Times reports.
Lauder explained his decision to give to the Met in a statement.
"I selected the Met as the way to share this collection because I feel that it's essential that Cubism — and the art that follows it, for that matter — be seen and studied within the collections of one of the greatest encyclopedic museums in the world," Lauder said. "The Met's collection of modernism, together with those of MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney, reinforce the City's standing as the center for 20th-century art and fuel New York's ongoing role as the art capital of the world."
The collection will be presented for the first time at the Met during an exhibition scheduled for the fall of 2014.
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Carol Vogel, art reporter for The New York Times, says the terms of the donation are unique for an art gift. She tells Audie Cornish, host of All Things Considered, that having no strings attached is significant.
"There are a lot of collections that have come to institutions with very, very strict guidelines," she says. "They have to be either shown together as a whole collection or they can't be split up or they can't travel past that museum."
Vogel says it gives the museum many different options when curating exhibits. "Realizing that, he simply is giving it to the museum," she says.
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If Disney and Sailor Jerry had a kid, it would do this kind of work
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this is hot, you deserve a pat on the back.
I actually know someone who has this tattooed on their leg, I always thought it was a wonderful design
This is beautiful! I want a tattoo of this! Great work
Bad Ass Belle!
How would you feel if I got this lovely thing tattooed on me?
This is probably my fave one. I love beauty and the beast.
I absolutely LOVE this. Big fan of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and generally all Beauty and the Beast tales.
Love love love it! I adore Belle, and this was just SO perfect!
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I LOVE your tattoo'd princesses... Can do you one version of Alice?! PLEASEEEE!!!
Would you mind if I get this lovely picture of yours tattooed? THis is like...perfect *___*
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I love your tattoo'd Disney Princess series so much! I hope you will do Tiana from "The Princess and the Frog" soon! *pretty please*
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I like it! A lot original!
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I've not personally ever had the experience of reading about a place, getting there, and finding it to meet, let alone exceed, my expectations until I stayed at Maple Hill Manor. Usually descriptions indulge in hyperbole or the two best photos hide the less-than-elegant reality. Not the case here. This is the best BnB - ever. It's clean and plush, the innkeepers are consistently gracious, and the food is extraordinary. There really wasn't anything I wished had been different.
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Our stay at the Maple Hill Manor Bed & Breakfast was absolutely amazing. It was a great location for our Kentucky Bourbon Trail weekend getaway. The breakfast served in the morning was incredible and a great way to start our whiskey tasting day! I would recommend the Maple Hill Manor Bed & Breakfast for a great weekend trip.
4.4 on September 14, 2015
Our family planned a weekend getaway including the bourbon trial and murder mystery dinner. I can't express how much fun we had, we rented the entire house and played the murder mystery dinner game. Everyone had costumes and props. This place was amazing! It was clean, beautiful, and authentic, built in 1859. The service was outstanding and the food was simply delicious. The innkeepers and owner made sure we had a great time, we will plan another trip like this one.
4.8 on August 31, 2015
My first stay at B&B & Maple Hill Manor has set the bar very high.
4.4 on June 03, 2015
Just what we needed to relax and enjoy spending time together.
5 on June 02, 2015
Maple Hill Manor is a truly magnificent "Old Kentucky Home" nestled into one of the commonwealth's most scenic regions. Although you are only an hour from Louisville and Lexington, the rustic setting and gracious Southern hospitality transport you 1,000 miles from the bustle of life.
First floor room which offers a beautiful, luxurious 7-layer blissful queen-size bed. The decor is embellished with mementos of the famous Kentucky horse breeding industry and surrounding countryside. It features a whirlpool tub for two. Rate: $199-$229. Add a VIP Dining Certificate to they area's best romantic restaurant for only $55.
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First Floor Room featuring a luxurious 7-layer blissful, four-poster, queen-size canopy bed. A beautiful Victorian love seat invites you to lounge before the gas log fireplace. Plush white carpet, reproduction turn of the century rose-frosted chandelier and privacy shutters beckon you into a private world of elegance and ultimate comfort. Rate: $189-$199. Add a VIP Dining Certificate for only $55 more.
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Second Floor Room featuring an ornate half-tester, luxurious 7-layer blissful queen-size bed and gas-log fireplace. Two walls of floor-to-ceiling mahogany bookcases containing over 600 books and interesting antique collectibles. The original hardwood floor is graced with antique tables and chairs, loveseat, and several reading lamps. WiFi, Satellite TV, FREE Movies, CD Player/CDs, Radio/Alarm Clock. Rate: $179-$189. Add a VIP Dining Certificate to they area's best romantic restaurant for only $55.
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Second Floor Room featuring a beautiful, luxurious 7-layer blissful queen-size wrought-iron canopy bed and gas-log fireplace. Also included is a massive antique dresser and loveseat. Three 9' windows provide panoramic views of the neighboring racehorse farm and our Alpaca Fields. WiFi, TV, DVD/Movies, CD/Alarm Clock. Rate: only $179-$189. Add a VIP Dining Certificate to they area's best romantic restaurant for only $55.
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Second Floor Room features a beautiful french-style four-poster, luxurious 7-layer blissful, queen-size bed. Also, this spacious room offers a luxurious 7-layer blissful, full-size canopy bed. Ancient maple trees, right outside the 9' windows, provide shade from the summer sun and the sweet whisper of Kentucky breezes in their leaves. A beautiful views of the fruit orchard, neighboring lake, Gazebo/Flower Gardens, and Alpaca fields. WiFi, Satellite TV, CD/Alarm Clock. Rate: only $149-$159. Add a VIP Dining Certificate to they area's best romantic restaurant for only $55.
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Second Floor Room featuring an antique luxurious 7-layer blissful queen-size bed and two twin beds with inlaid wood and six legs. The lovely wall covering is designed with tea roses. There are two 9' windows which overlook the patio, Gazebo/Flower Gardens, scenic countryside, and lake with an idealic view of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' WiFi, Satellite TV, CD/Alarm Clock. Rate: only $149-$159, $35 for each add'l Guest beyond double occupancy. Add a VIP Dining Certificate to they area's best romantic restaurant for only $55.
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Whether it's your honeymoon, anniversary or a much needed romantic weekend escape, this room is pure romance with its added privacy and enhanced amenities. Featuring a luxurious 7-layer blissful queen-size bed and 600 thread-count Eqyptian Cotton linens, Jacuzzi for 2, Fireplace, Satellite TV, DVD Player/FREE Movies, Docking Station and FREE WiFi. An entry room with coffee maker/mini-frig/microwave, private entrance, and private sunset deck will create a special romantic memory. Rate: $209-$229. Add a Private, Add a VIP Dining Certificate to they area's best romantic restaurant for only $55.
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Accessible from Bluegrass Parkway(13 miles), I-65(25 miles), I-64(35 miles). Conveniently located near Bardstown(15 miles), Bloomfield,(15 miles), Lebanon(7 miles), Perryville(10 miles), Harrodsburg(20 miles), Danville(20 miles), and Campbellsville(25 miles). Just an hour from Louisville and Lexington. Only 2 hours from Nashville or Cincinnati. Only 2 1/2 hours from Knoxville or Indianapolis. Located on 2941 Perryville Rd./U.S. 150, 2 miles from downtown Springfield.
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Skip to comments.Are whites racially oppressed?
Posted on 03/06/2011 12:13:07 PM PST by triumphant values
They marched on Washington to reclaim civil rights.
They complained of voter intimidation at the polls.
They called for ethnic studies programs to promote racial pride.
They are, some say, the new face of racial oppression in this nation -- and their faces are white.
"We went from being a privileged group to all of a sudden becoming whites, the new victims,'' says Charles Gallagher, a sociologist at La Salle University in Pennsylvania who researches white racial attitudes and was baffled to find that whites see themselves as a minority.
"You have this perception out there that whites are no longer in control or the majority. Whites are the new minority group."
Call it racial jujitsu: A growing number of white Americans are acting like a racially oppressed majority. They are adopting the language and protest tactics of an embattled minority group, scholars and commentators say. They point to these signs of racial anxiety:
A recent Public Religion Research Institute poll found 44% of Americans surveyed identify discrimination against whites as being just as big as bigotry aimed at blacks and other minorities. The poll found 61% of those identifying with the Tea Party held that view, as did 56% of Republicans and 57% of white evangelicals.
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Gallagher referring to Whites as "privileged", used in this manner so often on the left, is the equivalent of calling a family privileged for living in a home built by the father's own hands.
"The new victims" my shiny white hiney!
They just figured this out?
I seem to have lost my taxes.
It was always the intentions of the left to subjugate everybody. It just took 40 years to finally get whitey.
There seems to be a new tree in the forest. THANKS!
Rule of thumb: distrust anything coming from CNN. There's always an agenda, and it's never a conservative one. The article cites Morris Dees' hate group a couple of times as the authority on which other groups are "hate groups."
And the point would be...
this thread is oppressive....oppressive I tell ya!
The law now favors certain classes over others.
This is the stuff violent revolutions are made of.
I don't think whites are oppressed, but it's not "OK" to be white. If you are caucasian, there is, according to society, NOTHING to be proud of in your heritage. Forget all of the liberty and technology and progress made in the past by people with pinkish skin. You must be ashamed and you must give preferential treatment to those with darker hues.
It's kind of stupid. I like the whole colorblind idea far better than all this Racial Pride, like Sotomayor and her "wise Latina," as if her heritage had anything to do with her wisdom. Let's forget about race. The 2010 census had about 50 different combinations of races, and it's getting ridiculously out of hand.
Race? HUMAN. Period.
Yes, Whites are victims of racial oppression. We will soon be a minority - indeed, we are a minority in various areas.
Note well that Whites are victims of hate crimes, but the perps are not charged under the hate crime provisions. Rather, they are subject to lesser charges.
It also gives a fair treatment of Peter Brimelow for a bit of balance though.
This is about as balanced an article on this subject as you'll get in the MSM. Sometimes you take what you can get and hope the goalposts move just that little bit.
I missed this show. Did it come on right after the last installment of "Black in America" where I was told the reason I own a house is because my family is white and passed their wealth down to me. I found that premise interesting since Mom still lives in her house, I am paying a mortgage on mine, and my brother, who wasn't first born, is worth more than both of us put together.
"A recent Public Religion Research Institute poll found 44% of Americans surveyed identify discrimination against whites as being just as big as bigotry aimed at blacks and other minorities."
That might mean they see an equal *lack* of discrimination against whites. I think the author may be reaching here.
" Nobody knowwwwws, the troubleI've seeeeen."
It's human nature. To think that human beings won't sort themselves by genetic lineages and traits as they have been doing for all of recorded history is the most utopian idea ever to come out of liberalism.
Is "gringo" a racial slur?
You might have to wait a couple centuries for that idea to take hold. What to do until then? Keep in mind the average melanin content of the population continues to climb with each passing year, which is fine except that progressive continually take advantage of it and foment racial discord at ever turn. I'd say a more defensive attitude in in order.
Especially the White skinned (albinos) in Africa!
Can we get a GIF of a little white kid yelling, "That's Racist"?
When you do a Google.com search for "latina", and then flip it to "image" you'll notice they are MOSTLY hootchy-kootchy girls.............. So, what then is a "wise latina"? Maybe she's a "gold digger" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xWl8Mpgma4
I wish that were true, and most whites may feel that way but the reality is most races don't.
To blacks and most Hispanics ethic pride, tribalism or whatever you want to call it trumps all. Freedom, Liberty, the Constitution are just meaningless terms to them. They will vote for their race over their country every time.
Did you know that?
I wonder if when my grandfather became a citizen of the United States, it was explained to him that once he took the oath, he would share the blame for slavery and every oppression suffered by non-whites in America throughout history?
>>hootchy-kootchy girls
Now that's a phrase you don't hear much anymore!
Know what?
But if I say the n word....I'm out of a job...
Go to any city of 100,000 or more people, with more than 20% being minorities. Then apply for work at the postal service, the transit authority, the county courthouse. See where that gets you.
Now apologize and pay reparations for being racist.
Or get waited on...
It doesn't rise anywhere near the level of past wrongs committed in this country against Blacks, but there is deliberate discrimination in an attempt to blame innocent living Whites for the crimes of dead Whites.
"I dont think whites are oppressed"
Most large companies have quotas for hiring 'minorities' which amounts to anyone not a white male. Less qualified is ok. White is not ok.
Been through the Atlanta airport recently? There are essentially no whites working there.
Disenfranchised, fer sure. But we'll fix that. We always do.
In the 2012 presidential election whites need to do what blacks did in 2008 and stick with their own race in massive (90+ percent) numbers. That's all. Nothing to this whole "civil rights" thing. It's easy. Next time, vote white.
In our area, Southern California, we hear "cracker" now. My daughter has taken to calling herself a "European-American", to be consistent with her middle-school peers who are "hyphens".
Oh yeah. I forgot about that one. The U.S. Attorney General's Black Pampers boys calling us "crackers". I guess it's impossible to throw a racial slur at whitey.
How would you explain the legalized discrimination in terms of hiring/promotion (initially in the public sector, now forced on the private sector), college admissions?
It is legalized discrimination, and generates a lot of hate and division. On the flip side, it has done nothing for those it was to benefit, as they are treated as sub-humans by their "benefactors". The soft bigotry of lowered expectations has damaged them; nobody takes them seriously, and as long as this situation exists, any smart person should question their intelligence and capabilities. Would you like one of these potential tokens operating on a loved one?
"Go to any city of 100,000 or more people, with more than 20% being minorities. Then apply for work at the postal service, the transit authority, the county courthouse. See where that gets you."
You're absolutely right; even worse, in my town the civil servants were forced (via NAACP lawsuit) to allow Newark residents to apply, while Newark kept a residency requirement which precludes our residents from applying there. This is open war on whites - and has done nothing to benefit the people it was supposed to aid. They are now legally inferior, and this includes Latinos, women, etc.
Very true...especially if you live in cities like SF, LA, etc. I know this, because unfortunately I'm still in one. The hate seeps.
Next question...
And the most twisted irony is Whites were the ones who developed the concept that any of those things were crimes in the first place.
The rest of the world kept right on doing them without remorse and much of it still does today.
You'd be hard pressed to find a Han Chinese self-flagellating over Tibet like the English do over Pakistan, India or South Africa.
Yes I am oppressed.
The Fed owes me reparations for 100 years of violence and hatred against "my people".
An elderly white woman and her son in some crap neighborhood in a Delaware city would beg to differ on the priveleged account. On Youtube they just yanked a video filmed by some black racists (who need to be executed) who decided to lynch some "priveleged."
What gets to me is that after electing a man who was supposed to "heal" the wounds of a nation. He has picked at the scab and it has festered to a point that even CNN can't ignore it.
Imagine if the Head of the Justice department was white. refused to prosecute white people claiming that they were "his people". Would the media let that slip and just leave it alone for the most part?
Affirmative action had a place in our country. Up until about 20 years ago. Now it just works against qualified people regardless of their skin color.
I don't think I would want a job or any special consideration just because of my skin color.
But apparently it has become a very desirable license for many people that can't do or get things on their own merit.
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