>> In 2004 2.6 million new cars were sold in the UK.  There's 60 million 
>> people in the UK.
>
> Dude, how do you know all this??

Google?

> Mmm, interesting. I was told for example that some large freight train 
> used electric motors because if they used diesel motors they would need a 
> gearbox, and it would be impossible to make one strong enough...

Maybe for trains the air-drag is small compared to the other sources of 
friction that are constant wrt speed.

> Well no, the generator cuts in when the batteries get down to 80% or 
> something, charge them back up to 100%, then stop. [Unless you run out of 
> fuel. Don't do that! In ANY car...]

But if you're driving long-distance at high speed, there is no way the 
generator could refill the batteries as you would be using the electricity 
much faster than it could refill them!  You would still need to charge them 
when you got to your destination, just maybe a few miles further down the 
road due to using up the fuel.

> Er, actually... when I spoke to the nice lady at the recruitment agency, 
> she said "three MONTHS?! Jesus Christ!... Why so long?"

She obviously doesn't have much experience with people in proper jobs then - 
3 months is quite common, as it would take that long to find a replacement.

> I don't like being the support guy. Almost all problems that occur are 
> beyond my ability to fix, so everybody just hates me... Even when I fix 
> it, everybody is still pissed that I didn't prevent it from happening in 
> the first place. :-(

Why don't you try and learn some more (books, training courses) so that you 
can start to fix some of the problems that are beyond you?  I'm sure the IT 
directors of large companies (who are earning 6 or 7 figure salaries) 
started off somewhere like you.

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