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Order it breaded - covers up the tire marks.With a lot of BBQ sauce? Or should I order it spicy?
Order it breaded - covers up the tire marks.With a lot of BBQ sauce? Or should I order it spicy?
Maybe that'll clarify the harvest method...Which would you prefer, whitewalls or dark [-]meat[/-] tread?
Reading this thread - and also reading the blog of the lady who travels in, and lives out of, her Prius, got me to wondering how long it will be before we see hybrid RV's.
The type of Class C that I'm interested in typically gets around 10-12 mpg. A class C that gets 20-25mpg would be a wonderful thing methinks - especially with a full complement of solar panels on the roof helping the efficiency.
That may be true, but keep in mind that armadillos love to dig up and eat underground yellow jacket nests, that is, the larvae.Tire threads aside, here's why one should be careful with armadillos: leprosy!
Here's some info from the Web (bold-faced words are mine). I guess BBQ sauce would not be sufficient to make the meat safe.
A little background first: armadillos are one of the few animals, aside from human beings, that carry the leprosy-causing bacteria. The disease itself — which is characterized by disfiguring skin sores and nerve damage — is extremely rare in the U.S., with about 150 cases diagnosed annually. Most Americans who contract leprosy have worked in areas overseas where leprosy is endemic, such as parts of Brazil, the Congo and India; these cases are considered imported.PS. Leprosy should now be added as another item in the list of hazards for living in Texas.
But, then, health authorities found that up to one-third of U.S. cases appeared to have been contracted in country — even in victims who didn’t seem to have had any contact with a human leprosy patient. These cases were most common in the states of Texas and Louisiana, but the range is now slowly expanding. Armadillos — almost by process of elimination — were suspected, but there was no solid evidence.
The NEJM researchers — from the Global Health Institute and Louisiana State University — drew up a study that included 33 wild armadillos known to have the disease, and 50 leprosy patients. They found a new strain of M. leprae, called 3I, in 28 armadillos and 22 patients who had never been abroad (and thus could not have contracted the disease from other people with leprosy). After sequencing the new strain and comparing it to other known strains from around the world, the researchers concluded that the leprosy patients and the infected armadillos had the same strain. The fact that eight of the patients recalled having contact with armadillos, including one who frequently hunted and cooked the animals for meat, only bolstered the researchers’ confidence.
I thought UPS was using hydraulic hybrids, designed to optimize savings during stop & go driving. Looks great for delivery routes but not sure how applicable that technology might be to the world of RV's.Around here the UPS brown delivery trucks are all hybrid and they look similar in size to small RV's so maybe it won't be too long.
But it is really hopeless for the conventional brick-like class C. As I described in an earlier post, the terminal velocity of my class C is only around 65mph going down a 6% slope. That's when the aero drag is equal to the gravity pulling the vehicle down.
So, when traveling 65mph on level ground, overcoming that aero drag requires the same force as pushing a perfectly streamlined vehicle up a 6% slope. That's terrible!
I thought UPS was using hydraulic hybrids, designed to optimize savings during stop & go driving. Looks great for delivery routes but not sure how applicable that technology might be to the world of RV's.
Class C RV makers do not even bother to round-off any edges of the MH body, except for premium makers like Chinook and some other brands.Perhaps we're in for a future of aerodynamically streamlined class C's? I'm thinking we're probably a way off from that.
Does Ford know that?Chuckanut, I have a Lincoln MKZ hybrid. It's sweet!!! It has more room than the
Prius and consistently gets between 39 and 42 mpg over the two years I've owned it. We drove it from NJ to Cape Cod and back last year and it was a dream.
The 2013 model is improved - supposed to get up to 47 mpg with lithium ion batteries.
Go for it! The Lincoln is the smoothest and most spacious hybrid on the road today - and its 100% American made.
Final assembly location Hermosillo Stamping and Assembly Plant, Mexico
Yeah, I do admit we have plenty of them around where I live. But they are pretty widespread - I see plenty of armadillos in Georgia, for example.Tire threads aside, here's why one should be careful with armadillos: leprosy!
PS. Leprosy should now be added as another item in the list of hazards for living in Texas.
Go for it! The Lincoln is the smoothest and most spacious hybrid on the road today - and its 100% American made.
Does Ford know that?
http://media.lincoln.com/images/10031/2012_MKZHybrid_Specs.pdf
I found scads of other websites confirming Mexico...
I guess I need to find Japan on a map again, didn't realize it was in North America...North American...
I guess I need to find Japan on a map again, didn't realize it was in North America...
Is any volume production car 100% American any more?