(26-02-2010, 12:44 PM)Malcolm Wrote: Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on whatever topic of discussion is taking place and others should respect such opinions.

When differing opinions result in comments of a personal nature being brought into the discussion, the situation invariably deteriorates with derogatory comments being made that have nothing to do with the original topic.

Please keep to the topic, respect each others opinions and please refrain from making any comments that could be construed as being personal and antagonistic, as such comments will be deleted.


Malcolm.

I promise to try and behave Malcolm!

To EV Fan (or should I call you grid-iron from tt.com?) I am a member of the media at the TT and if any staff from some of the blue chip media organisations you mention had been present I'm sure I'd have caught a whiff of it - but I didn't... I said what I said because the same basic editorial content was getting repeated ad nauseum everywhere from national dailies downwards and that was being disseminated by TTxGP, who as previously mentioned would have called it a success even if no-one had finished! I think I've just had a belly full of people who weren't there telling someone who was what he knows to be patently untrue.

If I might borrow a line from Harry Turtledove:

"...if you feed me bullsh*t and tell me it's breakfast, don't be surprised if I puke it on your shoes..."

I don't believe I've insulted anyone for liking it although some of the pro lobby have insulted me for not liking it.

It's not true to say that TTxGP takes nothing away from the TT. I like MANY other TT supporters would very much like to see another class (like we used to have until recently) perhaps something along the lines of the new and growing Moto 450 / GP45 class but TTxGP or whatever it turns out to be is stopping that even being discussed. For the life of me I can't see it attracting a bigger grid than last year and it may even struggle to match last year's meagre effort and that for me is NOT the TT. I'm also not of the opinion that battery power is the correct long term solution anyway.

There are schools of thought that suggest lithium is an even more finite resource than oil and frankly the mining of it is so ecologically destructive that I don't think we have the moral right to be doing on the scale needed for EV transport. I believe fuel from algae is the way to go and as long as people keep banging on about batteries all that will serve to do is deflect budget and developmental talent away from where it would be better served in the long term.