Electric Cars

Lately I have been dealing with the urge to go ahead and just buy a new freaking car, but then I shop for one and decide not to… actually I exclaim “fuck this” and then I sulk for a few minutes until something shiny distracts me for long enough to start the cycle over again.

The problem as I see it is our economy has degraded to the point that getting a loan for a car thrusts you into indentured servitude to your masters at your job site. I know its a bleak way to look at things and I admit that I have a tendency to be a bit dramatic whenever people have the ability to hold anything over me, but cmon, do I really have to be in debt simply to go to work only to pay my debt? It really is a vicious cycle.

So last night I was having trouble sleeping, as always, then it hit me. I have all this free time lately, I am going to make a god damned electric car. Most electric cars (or conversions) only have an approximate range of 40 miles, but really thats all I need to get to and from work and if I were to charge the car at work then I would get approx 80 miles of range per day, which is more than enough. So I am going to start shopping for a good car to convert.

Addendum:

I will just start riding my bike.  Making an electric car is just as bad as the other problem I was having, and bad for the world.

Zombie Nation

The wife and I decided that we needed some things from Target today. This is never a good idea. On the way we witnessed about 30 different cars that were driving erratically. It seemed as though these, when confronted by any obstacle, could only cope with the sudden change in the traffic or any other such distraction was to stop in the middle of the road.

I am already of the opinion that the majority of Americans should not legally be allowed to drive. The tests and screening should be more relative to the potential harm that a distracted person could cause. People, now more than ever, are more distracted while driving their monster trucks than ever before.

Every single day I can see more than 20 people on my 15 mile commute (both ways) smoking, talking on the phone and drinking beverages. That means you are doing too many things than you have hands. You needs hands to manipulate the wheel in order to not careen off the side of the road into the cyclist or pedestrian.

We need stricter regulations and more public transportation and less 90lb women driving tanks.