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I’ve joked about the various electric vehicles being coal-powered cars before. Glad to see that meme picked up in the press.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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October 24th, 2010 at 10:18 am
It’s not a joke, it’s a bloody reality. The carbon dioxide inquisition wants to shut things down one power source at a time.
And then the Greens step in. Have you noticed, lately, the plaints about windmills? Ugly, noisy, they kill birds and spoil the ambiance? Solar covers vast acreages of precious desert, making life harder for the desert tortoises? And don’t get me started on tidal power!
October 24th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
They have only one clear vision of our energy future: treadmills. Fol the day, fol the digee-oh.
October 24th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Here’s the Plan: Obama takes over the Auto Industry, thus saving tens of thousands of Union Jobs and Pension Plans. They get pushed into making Electric cars that get an 100 mile range and cost twice as much to keep the Treehuggers happy and voting. To encourage this, the GAO announces that the Gov’t will buy thousands of these cars, thus keeping the Union Thugs working, even though the Gov’t is paying itself to make the purchases. Then comes the kicker: The EPA starts shutting down Coal Mines (which is happening even as we speak in West Virginia, check the news) because “Cap+Tax” wasn’t going through the Congress. Then to save Energy, the Smart Grid will be implemented by the Energy Czar, forcing Coal Plants to be shut down and idled (as First Energy announced here in Ohio a couple of weeks ago). This so-called “Energy Shortage” that was created by the Administration in the first place will allow them to start rationing other sources of energy so that the U.S. citizen will be forced to follow the Marxist Agenda of Obama.
Think this is Far-Fetched? Here is what Karl Marx wrote in 1848 in the Communist Manifesto as part of his 10 Point Plan:
“Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measure, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable….#6. Centralization of the means of communication (bye bye Juan Williams!) and TRANSPORTATION in the hands of the State”.
Know Thy Enemy.
October 24th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I want a Stanley Steamer, no matter what the physic professors say.
October 25th, 2010 at 8:47 am
I first heard it at C&D, I think, some decade or two ago.
It’s good to see it break out of the automotive media ghetto.
October 25th, 2010 at 9:36 am
nk – I’ve ridden in several Stanley Steamers. They’re nice. Also quiet, as long as you don’t use the whistle.
October 25th, 2010 at 11:27 am
I have a nuclear powered lawnmower — I love it.
(We get our electricity from the TVA.)
October 25th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
I want a nuclear powered SUV.
Preferably with a small pebblebed SR-90 powerplant. None of this powerplant at the end of a thousand miles of powerline bull.
October 25th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
The question, from a greeny point of view, would be how much does using an electric vehicle (or plug-in hybrid, a la the Volt) reduce your carbon emissions.
I don’t know whether it does or not, but in theory electric drive is more efficient than internal combustion drive (less energy wasted as heat) and the coal fired plant down by the river is a boatload more efficient than the small power plant in your car.
So coal powered yes, but it’s possible it means less shit has to be burned to get you to work every day. That’s not to say I buy all the hype… I’d burn spotted owls in my car if I could before I’d walk. But electrically driven cars could probably be more energy efficient if the technology worked well enough.
October 25th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
It is a valid “meme” if and only if you don’t understand calculus and all that other inconvenient shit.
October 26th, 2010 at 10:00 am
And that’s a valid point, for [and only for] certain values of “calculus.”
That sulfite scale on a battery plate? It’s called calculus. You so schmott, you save us now please.