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Old 12-22-2017, 09:30 PM   #654 (permalink)
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Oh and the polar ice caps were supposed to be long gone by 2010.
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They were all pretty close. Give it another 50 years... And they will hate us for wasting everything we did have on cruise ships and football stadiums.There is no gleaming techno salvation for 11 Billion people. We need to wake up and focus what we have left.
When I was a kid in the 80s, the Northwest Passage was a thing in history books like El Dorado- a nonexistent thing that Great Men died searching for.

Now it's just another route for cruise ships:
https://www.adventure-life.com/northwest-passage
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Transmission type Efficiency
Manual neutral engine off.100% @MPG <----- Fun Fact.
Manual 1:1 gear ratio .......98%
CVT belt ............................88%
Automatic .........................86%