Bush Almost Blows Himself Up, Ford CEO Saves Him. Ford Stock To Plummet

[DeSwiss]

Do you remember hearing the joke that was making the rounds after Hurricane Katrina, where it was asked whether if you saw President Bush drowning and being swept away by a rising tide of water? Would you use color film for its graphic presense or B & W for the realism? Well, this story is something like that.

SOURCE: The Detroit News

Plug It In, Fire It Up, Mr. President

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Pic of the "almost" political correction:
http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C3&Date=20070407&Category=AUTO01&ArtNo=704070338&Ref=V2&Profile=1148Q=100&MaxW=500

Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.

Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford's hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. Ford wanted to give the Commander-in-Chief an actual demonstration of the innovative vehicle, so the automaker arranged for an electrical outlet to be installed on the South Lawn and ran a charging cord to the hybrid. However, as Mulally followed Bush out to the car, he noticed someone had left the cord lying at the rear of the vehicle, near the fuel tank.

"I just thought, 'Oh my goodness!' So, I started walking faster, and the President walked faster and he got to the cord before I did. I violated all the protocols. I touched the President. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front," Mulally said. "I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen This is all off the record, right?"

more: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070407/AUTO01/704070338/1148

*** - No this is not off the record chump!!! And thanks a lot!!!

Of course there's still Cheney....

[Kolesar]

1. wtf is a "hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid" ?

An enviro-buzz-word generator?
No offense, DeSwiss :hi:

[DeSwiss]

4. Hmmmm....

...now that you mention it. Maybe they want to have enough of these cars to blow up so we'll all go running back to gasoline engines? That way they'd knock out the electric-car and hydrogen-car people in one fell swoop.

Naw, that's too ingenious for this lot. It requires foresight and planning. Two characteristics we KNOW that they do not have....

[jmowreader]

13. I think you know already.

A lot of y'all on this fine board have been wanting Toyota to create a "plug-in hybrid" version of the Prius. The idea here is to be able to charge the car's batteries on off-peak electricity. Also, if the batteries were even bigger you could drive around town for a hundred miles or so before the engine started, which would force us to devise a new specification for fuel efficiency--you can't exactly call it "miles per gallon" when you fill up once every four months whether it needs it or not.

And another lot of y'all really like the idea of hydrogen-powered cars. (These two groups intersect--a lot of hydrogen people like plug-in hybrids too.)

So...why not combine the two ideas in one car? Build a plug-in hybrid and run the engine off hydrogen? Sounds like a good idea to me.

And a reasonably safe idea, just so long as they don't sell one to George Bush.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. So let me get this straight...

Ford has designed a hydrogen car that EXPLODES if you accidentally do something trivial. Call it the Pinto II.

[DeSwiss]

5. Well it seems...

...that Ford wants to make a big noise in hydrogen cars. This ought to do it.

[Clark2008]

10. No - it was a photo op plug.

Nothing really to do with the car.

BTW, I've had nothing but great luck with my Fords - so has my whole family. My father still has his 1987 Mustang and it's in great shape. My Mom still has her 1987 Ford Escort - it needs some minor work, but, hell, it's got more than 300,000 miles on it (it still runs, though) and my last Mustang - a 1995 - didn't even need new brakes until it was 10 years old.

I just, last summer, got a new Mustang and expect it to hold up as well as all my family's other Fords.

It's a myth that foreign cars are more dependable, now. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, that was true, but, now, with Toyota holding the record for the most recalls - eh... not so much.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. This is not the right thread for that particular argument. n/t

[jmowreader]

12. Plugging the cord into the hydrogen tank is NOT trivial

The port for the hydrogen nozzle is apparently in the back of the car; the connector for the electric cord is on the front quarterpanel. The two would look nothing alike--they're probably just using a regular socket for the electricity so you can get a contractor-grade extension cord from Home Depot or somewhere to charge it. You would have to be a grade-A complete idiot to attempt to plug an extension cord into the hydrogen filler.

It's pretty sad when the president of the United States really is a grade-A complete idiot.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

14. Indeed.

[Kolesar]

16. Oh, that's killer!

There are *so* many messages in that image you posted. :rofl:

[moggie]

3. Bit of a design flaw there

Bush isn't the only person dumb enough to make that mistake. The headline might as well be "Ford CEO admits new car is fireball waiting to happen, denies design code-name was 'Super-Pinto'".

[DeSwiss]

6. Well,

"Bush isn't the only person dumb enough to make that mistake."

Yeah but if Bush makes the mistake it's different.

Let Providence do what we seem unable to. I can live with that....

[Swamp Rat]

7. Near the fuel tank it says "HYDROGEN" and it has no receptacle for an electrical plug

Does Mulally think Bush is that dumb, or is he trying to act as if he is some sort of hero? ... or did he just want to touch Bush?

[DeSwiss]

8. I think he's just trying to get people to buy Fords....

[Swamp Rat]

9. That goes without saying.

I like your smilie... zzzt!! :D

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. Probably all of the above. Oh and sell Fords, too.

[Kolesar]

17. Look at who is adverstising in the Google ads on this web page

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