Show Notes for September 23, 2015

"The South Bay’s largest water provider, the San Jose Water Company, which serves most of San Jose and the neighboring Silicon Valley suburbs, has prohibited customers from filling new swimming pools as well as draining and refilling existing ones, with some exceptions. Violators face fines of up to $500 a day."
"The city of San Jose has passed an additional ordinance limiting residents from topping off their pools with more than 1 foot of water."

Session IPA, typically 3.2 - 4.6 percent alcohol
Fat Tire is made by New Belgium Brewing Company, "located in Fort Collins, Colorado", "as of 2012, it was the third-largest craft brewery"

Leaving the Church, podcast episode where Sam Harris interviews Megan Phelps-Roper about her experience leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
Pope Francis, in Washington
Mike Huckabee: Obama pretends to be a Christian

"under normal driving conditions, the emissions controls are suppressed, allowing the engine to produce more torque and get better fuel economy, at the expense of emitting up to 40 times more nitrogen oxides than allowed by law"
"seven billion dollars would be earmarked to deal with the costs of rectifying the deceptive software at the heart of the fraudulent pollution statements"

"35,000 Model S cars were produced in 2014"
"Tesla came into 2015 with over 10,000 Model S orders and nearly 20,000 Model X reservations."
"Tesla expects to deliver 55,000 vehicles in 2015"
"100%-electric car sales increased 44% in the US in 2014"
Nissan Leaf

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