Posted on 10/27/2023 9:18:54 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Now do the actual carbon foot print.
Funny I hear this from all my libtard relatives
In 1989 I was working for a mining company out of Sparks. My company pickup had a bad fuel pump, and had reached the point where I had to drive up steep hills in reverse and could only do about 60 on the highway. I finally got it fixed in Wendover, so the next morning I took it out on the flats to try it out.
No one ever talks about the cost to “green” mass transit..
Yeah, but they feel good about themselves.
Inflation Creation Act
RE: But we are all subsidizing these cars. Not so different than rooftop solar.
You meant on buildings and houses but there once was a modified car like that.
My memory turned out to be accurate that an Israeli found a way to put solar panels of a Renault LeCar.
Wacky idea.
https://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-living/green-transportation/solar-powered-car-zmaz80sozraw/
https://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-living/green-transportation/solar-powered-car-zmaz80sozraw/
Interesting point. I didn’t know that.
Around ten years ago the Futurist Magazine had a prediction about city life. It showed a row of things that looked like nested small motorcycles next to a sidewalk. Key to that was “You don’t need a car, you need a ride.” No one would own these, just rent them by the hour like those bicycles and scooters in many cities now. Room for one or possibly two adults.
Unsaid was if the government shuts down the vehicle you stop going where they didn’t permit you to go. And if you live in a rural or even far suburb who will set up these golf cart style vehicles for you to rent?
Me, either. It's as plain as the nose on your face. They are banning everything under the sun. If there is some pushback, they fall back for a little while, regroup, and come back with half the ban they started with. They just slow the tempo a bit. This "banning" movement will truly reach a tipping point where they shrug and just go all the way saying "We tried everything, but you people just didn't get the message. Therefore, consumer sales of fossil fuels are banned as of January 1, 2035."
Yep, my niece is an extreme libtard.
The irony is Fox is no conservative outlet for news.
Now, if they said something like “Where’d you hear that? FreeRepublic?” they’d be onto something.
[I used to see a late 60s Camaro, white with orange stripes, in a back yard on my way to work. There was a sign in the window...
“Not For Sale”
I guess the owner got tired of people trying to buy it!]
A bucket of rust Camaro with no motor or tranny is $7000
Mine with motor and tranny but no interior or paint is worth at least $22,000
In good shape it is worth $45,000
Pimped out it is worth $100,000. That will cost me less than $10k in improvements (posi, paint, subframe connector, disc brakes)
So yeah, I get offers for $3,000 all the time, cause I look like some kind of old fart idiot.
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima disasters,
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As a matter of fact, the nuclear energy is the safest of them all! NOBODY died in Fukushima or Three Mile Island. Less than 50 died in Chernobyl.
Lot more people died falling from roofs installing and fixing solar cells than all the victims of Nuclear power.
But falling from roof is known entity, nuclear radiation is unknown entity and most people are (unjustly) scared of it.
Sort of like many people are afraid of flying, despite that flying is the safes method of transportation known to man.
Right, home rooftop. I can’t blame the people who purchase these cars. I bought rooftop solar 10 years ago. $17,000 after subsidies and I have not paid a penny for electricity since. My bill was over $500/month before, so I’ve saved tens of thousands of dollars.
When COVID hit, I was considering buying my wife a Tesla, for about the cost of a Camry (subsidized). Her work has free charging (another subsidy), so I wouldn’t even need a home charging station. Her working from home tipped us back to ICE.
[a ‘68 Torino parked in the back yard, and I find myself lusting after it.]
Better than sex. and cheaper.
WHICH ‘68 Torino? Fastback? Vinyl “Hardtop”?
Power by — 428CJ, perhaps??
LOTS and lots of 302s and 351W plants in those Torinos.
We had an avocado green ‘69 GT with 351W power plant.
Pop sold it a year before I got my Permit ‘cuz he thought the transmission was getting a little slippy. Hell, it was a C6! A trip cross town to Art Carr (back when that name was reputable) and for the same money AAMCO would’ve charged to just rebuild it to OEM specs, we could’ve had it built to cope with 500HP!
Buuuut... Dad was from a line of folks that got rid of their cars every 4-6 years whether they needed to or not. ‘Cuz bogeymen, for all I could ever tell.
Thus it is that the family owned — and got rid of — multiple true classics. The Torino GT was just one, and they’re now kinda rare, and very collectible.
Mom had a ‘56 T-bird in black with Corinthian white interior and a conti kit. GONE.
Right outta the Army Dad owned a late ‘50s Skyliner. GONE.
My grandparents had a ‘63 Galaxie 500GT convertible with the 406, tri-power carburetion, and manual transmission. GONE.
Then they had a ‘67 Skylark sedan. GONE.
My other grandparents had a ‘60 Cadillac Sedan DeVille in white on white. GONE.
The only sane family were my Mom’s sister and husband: they had a ‘64 Mustang they held onto, and my cousin eventually bought it from them and kept it up.
I’ve managed to get my hands on a ‘63 Impala 4dr “Hardtop” Sport Sedan that I’m keeping roadworthy until I drop into a hole.
Ain’t no school like the Old School.
“‘63 Galaxie 500GT convertible with the 406, tri-power carburetion, and manual transmission”
I drove the Ford factory NASCAR stock version (not a convertible). IIRC, the car had belonged to a fellow who supported and/or was with Wood Bro.’s or Cale Yarborough racing, who managed a few cars in midwest oval tracks; one car for A.J. Foyt (on up thru the 1960’s).
Last car for that team, stored and maintained at a certain place that I frequented, was the ‘69 Ford Torino fastback, red and white paint.
Idle was 1,300 RPM. For the engine to run, your foot had to always be a bit on the gas; thus, clutch pedal work, if not in motion. The ‘63 simply would not run, “purring” at idle by itself. Lively cam.
Plenty of open country roads, for the drive on a summer day, long ago. At 100 mph, you had barely used the throttle.
“Mom had a ‘56 T-bird in black with Corinthian white interior and a conti kit. GONE.”
I think I’m gonna be sick!
You just might love these. Plenty of big Galaxie road racing action amid a mixed field:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeI9JsxZ5W8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeI9JsxZ5W8
bttt
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