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  • More Low-Mileage Electric Vehicles with Minor Damage Being Written Off, Increasing Premiums and Negating ‘Green’ Benefits

    03/22/2023 12:47:58 PM PDT · by rktman · 47 replies
    cnsnews.com ^ | 3/22/2023 1455 hrs edt | Craig Bannister
    A growing number of electric vehicles are reportedly being written off when even the slightest damage is done to their batteries - driving up owner costs and negating any environmental benefit of going “green.” As Reuters reports, insurance companies are writing off more and more low-mileage electric vehicles that have only minor damage, because any harm to the battery packs can’t be accessed or repaired. With some Tesla models, for example, the battery packs are actually glued into the car’s structure, making them difficult to remove, replace or repair. "A Tesla structural battery pack is going straight to the grinder,"...
  • Revolution against 'rich parasites' at utopian Burning Man Festival as 'hooligans' attack(T)

    09/05/2016 6:59:34 AM PDT · by rktman · 95 replies
    telegraph.co.uk ^ | 9/5/2016 | Nick Allen
    It is supposed to be a utopian vision of peace and love but this year's Burning Man Festival has been marred by "hooligans" carrying out a "revolution against rich parasites". The festival plays out each year in Nevada's Black Rock Desert where 70,000 people build a city in a week, burn a giant wooden effigy of a man, and then restore the arid playa to its original state. In recent years it has become popular with Silicon Valley millionaires, and billionaires. Luxurious so-called "plug-n-play" camps have sprung up which use hired staff like cooks, builders and security, and allow international...
  • Act by 'martyr' to protest war in Iraq a futile gesture ('JUST DAMN' ALERT)

    11/09/2006 4:03:16 AM PST · by Chi-townChief · 45 replies · 1,231+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times "The Bright One" ^ | November 9, 2006 | RICHARD DOPEY ROEPER Sun-Times Columnist
    According to some who knew the man who set himself on fire along the Kennedy Expressway last Friday, it wasn't a suicide. They're calling it the act of a martyr. The man who doused himself with gasoline and lit himself near a 25-foot-tall sculpture titled "Flame of the Millennium" was Malachi Ritscher, 52, a local musician and anti-war activist. The medical examiner ID'd Ritscher on Wednesday through medical records. Friends were already convinced it was him. One admirer of Ritscher sent me an e-mail with the Subject Header: "It was Martrydom, Not Mental Illness." "Do you remember the Buddhist monks...