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
Civilian operated nuclear powered ships are far more likely to be targets of opportunity than ones protected by feet of steel and thousands of military personnel
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.
Hell, there was an idea being floated around for a multi-national nuclear-powered airship moving around as a type of floating 'world convention' or some such.
...look, yeah, I know that airships had issues and whatnot, but goddammit, I would have loved to fly on the Graf Zepplin or Hindenburg just once.
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 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
Civilian operated nuclear powered ships are far more likely to be targets of opportunity than ones protected by feet of steel and thousands of military personnel
Hold the fuck up - yeah, no, you gotta be looking for someone else if you think I'm anti-nuclear.
You're not wrong about the propaganda, though.
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.
Airships.
Hell, there was an idea being floated around for a multi-national nuclear-powered airship moving around as a type of floating 'world convention' or some such.
...look, yeah, I know that airships had issues and whatnot, but goddammit, I would have loved to fly on the Graf Zepplin or Hindenburg just once.
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.