I used to want an electric car, hell if 2020 hadn't happened I might have sold my second car and bought one. Really glad I didn't. I've turned and run from electric cars. I don't want one at all even though I totally expect them to get forced. I'm even getting sick of literally everything that still runs on gas having a turbo now. Right now want to get my hands on something with a V8 or maybe a Porsche at the bottom of it's depreciation. New cars are too concerned with sucking all the fun out of cars.
Electric is being pushed really hard. Every car commercial or tech video on cars has involved some kind of electrical motor system. I just saw a video of an electric delivery van with over 2000 HP go against an F1 car. It was promoted by Red Bull.
Drag race is a bad use case for F1 cars too. They typically only have to do a launch once per race. Start going around corners, and an F1 car will run away from everything out there by huge gaps.
Except I don't think it's going to actually save anyone money. If it were going to it might actually be good. Instead they're paperclip maximizing because it helps the MBAs hit some metric some other MBAs assigned to them because it was "trendy" to do so.
I used to want one because in many ways they're much simpler than a gasoline car. But between the inevitable forced obsolescence that comes with replacing batteries and Our Betters wanting to have some way of controlling where and when we can drive, I think my current plan will be to try to keep my current car and truck running as long as I can.
My main fear in that regard is that gasoline eventually becomes a specialty item in a way I don't see happening to diesel.
Diesel is used too much commercially to be phased out. No battery is going power a cargo ship and the US government has intentionally regulated nuclear into the ground to the point that there are no US nuclear powered commercial cargo ships even though one was successfully used from 1962-1972 after Eisenhower commissioned the project.
I would be wary of nuclear commercial cargo ships too, if they're going to be manned by third-worlders and sailing past Somalia without authority to shoot every pirate stupid enough to lay eyes upon them.
Well that would require actually having a second amendment again. Commercial ships were expressly allowed to arm against pirates and hostile actors for most of US history.
The NS Savannah wasn't even a cargo ship, technically - it was classified as a merchant ship, and was basically a cargo/cruise ship combination.
One big propaganda barge, basically.
Still, the engineering they put into the thing was hella cool. But it basically failed commercially - weirdly enough, some nations have issues with nuclear power plants rocking into their port cities. Wonder why...
some nations have issues with nuclear power plants rocking into their port cities. Wonder why...
Because they’re morons who bought anti nuclear propaganda much like you 😂. Especially considering that all those same ports have had far larger nuclear reactors rocking in port in the form of aircraft carriers
See what I liked from that era while I'm sure a lot was not viable or propaganda, it was still effort to do cool things. Nuclear cargo ship, turbine car, going to the moon. Now they'd rather launder money for effort into corruption pockets while screaming about race.
Right, which is why if you worry about the long-term continued availability of fuel for non-electric vehicles, diesel is probably a better bet than gasoline.
I used to want an electric car, hell if 2020 hadn't happened I might have sold my second car and bought one. Really glad I didn't. I've turned and run from electric cars. I don't want one at all even though I totally expect them to get forced. I'm even getting sick of literally everything that still runs on gas having a turbo now. Right now want to get my hands on something with a V8 or maybe a Porsche at the bottom of it's depreciation. New cars are too concerned with sucking all the fun out of cars.
Electric is being pushed really hard. Every car commercial or tech video on cars has involved some kind of electrical motor system. I just saw a video of an electric delivery van with over 2000 HP go against an F1 car. It was promoted by Red Bull.
Found it
https://youtu.be/ADs8tvU2xDc
I don't doubt it. They need an ad that shows their van is overpowered. Niggling with reality helps them do that.
Drag race is a bad use case for F1 cars too. They typically only have to do a launch once per race. Start going around corners, and an F1 car will run away from everything out there by huge gaps.
Modern environmentalism has become an engine for various paperclip maximization projects, like CO2 reduction and the electrification of everything.
That's large organizations for you. If it saves 3 cents per person it saves millions and inconveniences everyone.
Except I don't think it's going to actually save anyone money. If it were going to it might actually be good. Instead they're paperclip maximizing because it helps the MBAs hit some metric some other MBAs assigned to them because it was "trendy" to do so.
I used to want one because in many ways they're much simpler than a gasoline car. But between the inevitable forced obsolescence that comes with replacing batteries and Our Betters wanting to have some way of controlling where and when we can drive, I think my current plan will be to try to keep my current car and truck running as long as I can.
My main fear in that regard is that gasoline eventually becomes a specialty item in a way I don't see happening to diesel.
Diesel is used too much commercially to be phased out. No battery is going power a cargo ship and the US government has intentionally regulated nuclear into the ground to the point that there are no US nuclear powered commercial cargo ships even though one was successfully used from 1962-1972 after Eisenhower commissioned the project.
I would be wary of nuclear commercial cargo ships too, if they're going to be manned by third-worlders and sailing past Somalia without authority to shoot every pirate stupid enough to lay eyes upon them.
Well that would require actually having a second amendment again. Commercial ships were expressly allowed to arm against pirates and hostile actors for most of US history.
The NS Savannah wasn't even a cargo ship, technically - it was classified as a merchant ship, and was basically a cargo/cruise ship combination.
One big propaganda barge, basically.
Still, the engineering they put into the thing was hella cool. But it basically failed commercially - weirdly enough, some nations have issues with nuclear power plants rocking into their port cities. Wonder why...
Because they’re morons who bought anti nuclear propaganda much like you 😂. Especially considering that all those same ports have had far larger nuclear reactors rocking in port in the form of aircraft carriers
See what I liked from that era while I'm sure a lot was not viable or propaganda, it was still effort to do cool things. Nuclear cargo ship, turbine car, going to the moon. Now they'd rather launder money for effort into corruption pockets while screaming about race.
Right, which is why if you worry about the long-term continued availability of fuel for non-electric vehicles, diesel is probably a better bet than gasoline.