Drew Dowdell

I thought you had a fairly cushy accounting job....

Link Situation 1. US refiners set to dramatically increase fuel production over next few weeks 2. At least 6 oil refineries restarting major processing units, 3% of US capacity 3. Should cause gasoline prices to drop as supply increases 4. Crude demand will increase now that refineries coming back on line 5. But July 4th peak driving season increases demand 6. Crude already up $1/bbl on anticipation of stronger demand Significant Points 1. Stretch of refinery maintenance, unplanned outages plagued industry since winter 2. Resulting in gasoline stockpile crunch in middle of summer driving season 3. Raw crude inventories climbed to highest level since 1998 4. Oil refineries running at 89.4% of capacity in week ended June 22, norm 95% Link 2 Among the biggest refinery restarts, Exxon Mobil is planning to fully restart a 240,000-barrel-per-day crude oil processing unit at its refinery in Beaumont, Texas, by early July. BP is also in the process of restarting a 75,000 bpd crude unit at its refinery in Whiting, Indiana -- the fourth largest oil refinery in the United States -- a source familiar with the plant said. The unit is one of two that has been shut at the plant since a fire in early April.

my post count is only about 4,800

I'll say again, my Cadillac dealer *always* goes the extra mile for me.

In this case the wheels are more about efficiency and less about looks. If people cared about looks in their hybrid purchase, don't you think the Civic Hybrid would have been the one to sell over 100k instead of the Pruis?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that your typical hybrid buyer is not going to care so much about the wheels.

it was a setup and you took it.....

and watch those designs and interiors go down the tu........oh.......wait....

The 2009 Hudson Wasp The 1953 Hudson Wasp

I have a little saying.... "It's not mean if it's true."... it certainly applies here. Toyota does in fact have some legendary off road vehicles. The Tundra isn't one of them.

Car and Driver beat the living snot out of that poor car and I feel sorry for whoever the poor sap is who ends up with it. They managed to get the mileage on the Aura Greenline lower than the mileage on the Saturn Vue Greenline with the identical power train.

I'm going to have to extrapolate the hell out of this one, but hear me out. The Malibu hybrid is most likely going to be cheaper than the Aura Greenline. Virtue of being a Chevy. Aura Hybrid bases at 22k so I'll take a stab at the Malibu Hybrid being 21k. Aura Greenline official EPA numbers are 28/35. Assuming the Malibu matches those, you end up with an almost Impala sized sedan for 21k that gets better city mileage than the Camry by a 4mpg and 1mpg better then Camry on the highway <acknowledging that hybrids to better in city over highway>.

oh yeah... well you should check out my engine....

This is a vast right wing conspiracy..... a prius obviously can't go that fast.

The Olds and the Chrysler look ok but the MC is just terrible. I've never noticed it before but the front wheel opening on the MC looks substantially larger than the rear.... maybe that makes it look even worse??

a-duh! It's an Asian car... of course it's not a flop.

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and the rudder on the titanic cranks drastically to the right.....

There isn't a link back to here... and if it's only coming from one guy it won't cause a site war.

A husband and wife were going at it one night and he asked if he could @#$ in her ear. She said, "NO! I might go deaf!" He replies, "I @#$ in your mouth all the time and you haven't shut up."

I don't have an account there and I have no intention of making one. But post this: "A locking differential is not the same as a limited slip differential. In very low grip situations a locking diff is superior to a limited slip diff is superior to an open diff. The point of this demonstration was to show what Chevy can do in 2-wheel drive while the Tundra requires 4 wheel drive."

The whole point of the video was to show what chevy could do in 2 wheel drive that the Tundra requires 4-wheel drive.. As for: Toyota's had... what 8 months in the full sized market? Get back to us chicky when the bed rattles itself off the back of the truck.

I think I'll go for a walk! I feel happyyyyyy!

I can probably attend

a bit excessive, no?