Comments on: GM, Segway Unveil Their ‘Obama-Mobile’

By: AbingtonJim

AbingtonJim — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:25:47 +0000

This won’t happen because GM will be a memory by 2011

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:36:15 +0000

Thanks, artboy! Me, too. Young, that is…

By: artboyusa

artboyusa — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:55:41 +0000

“burning urns of churning funk…” excellent use of obscure James Taylor reference, colonel! I’d completely forgotten that song or that I ever owned one of his albums. Hey, it was the 70s. I was young. I didn’t know any better…plus I was on drugs a lot of the time, just like Barack.

By: Liberals Make Great Speedbumps

Liberals Make Great Speedbumps — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:27:01 +0000

That’s right arb, and if your claim gets turned down by Medicare, The Scooter Store will give you your Obama-Mobile at absolutely no cost to you!

By: Liberals Make Great Speedbumps

Liberals Make Great Speedbumps — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:23:21 +0000

…..umm…. not that there’s anything wrong with that.

By: canary

canary — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:24:06 +0000

If the original sedgeway took 15 min. charge to go 1 mile, imagine what this would take. Families would need to buy several, and have outlets, and businesses and stores would have to have huge outlet posts. Wonder what Sedgway Charge Sations, will charge for customers to sit for 10 hours a day charging their cars.

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:49:58 +0000

Begging your indulgence, but I have to post this one more time: this is why God let us invent the internal combustion engine and granted us the incredible efficiency and abundance of fossil fuels. No need to even mention the electric guitar (Fender Stratocaster, of course) or Jimi Hendrix…

God bless America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYjPvd9IFt8

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:38:22 +0000

Bravo, Pole. Not to get all laced up on testosterone, but holy mother-of-pearl! Doesn’t it say something to their collective psyche when they want to make crappy, wimpy, electric, riding gyroscopes instead of burning urns of churning funk? Santa Maria…

By: Colonel1961

Colonel1961 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:31:42 +0000

Please, if you see me driving one of those, you’ll know the pod people have taken over my body. Shoot me!

Will have to miss the NYC car show – busy protecting my azaleas from the freezing temperatures (global warming, ya know) and watching The Masters…

By: Anonymoose

Anonymoose — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:20:21 +0000

Ack! I’ve seen those commercials. Being able to “roll” is about all that thing has going for it.

By: Anonymoose

Anonymoose — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:15:06 +0000

With that flimsy roll over windshield and front panel it looks just great for driving in rain and cold weather. And if someone starts harassing you then don’t bother locking the doors.

And if we’re going to be green, why does it need to balance on two wheels? Can you think of the amount of battery power it takes to keep it doing that? And what about the computers to keep it balance? Suddenly an old three wheeler with a motorcycle engine starts looking very green compared to this.

Target market: Upscale libs and trendy “Greeners,” who’d ride it once in a blue moon in fair weather to save the environment, otherwise they’d be going with the SUV or chauffeur.

By: AmericanIPA

AmericanIPA — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:40:01 +0000

Now you’re talking! How soon can we get them all to NYC? Next stop, Washington DC.

Wouldn’t this little bugger be great at hauling around the kids and groceries? Another in a long line of examples of how out of touch the people who make policy really are. Now they’re dictating what industry is to do. How wrong could that possibly go?

By: caligirl9

caligirl9 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:39:45 +0000

And you “drive” those things on the streets or the sidewalk?

Heaven help a person if they live in an area will lots of illegals without driver’s licenses (and insurance) and (not meaning to be racist, but my East Indian friend tells me this is true!) lots of Asian drivers (bad drivers!).

Not for me here in the Bay Area. I’d be dead in a week!

By: Trialdog

Trialdog — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:54:57 +0000

Another famous socialist is credited with stimulating the design of a motor vehicle intended to be fuel efficient and built for the masses. The vehicle is the People’s Car. We refer to these cars today as Volkswagens. The famous politician was a National Socialist. Recently, his economic policies were touted by the paper of record, the New York Times. The socialist politician’s name was Adolf Hitler. I think it appropriate to refer to this unsafe, unappealling, impractical piece of junk as the “Obama-Mobile.”

By: Yarddog1

Yarddog1 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:53:23 +0000

I think the government screwing around with natural selection is what got us in this mess in the first place. Many among us would not be here today without the assistance (forced dependence) on Ole’ Uncle. How on earth could certain “underclasses” (read sorry, lazy, leeching – and on and on) have survived without the gov-ment’s help