Lipdrag Posted February 5 Posted February 5 “The EV subsidy is so poor at cutting CO2 emissions, it is like paying $2,072 for a latte.” https://thepostmillennial.com/washington-states-ev-rebate-program-a-failure-study?cfp What a bunch of multi-tasking overachievers. Being expensive AND worthless at the same time. People who tolerate me on a daily basis . . . they are the real heroes.
Lipdrag Posted February 5 Posted February 5 (edited) From the "bang ourselves in the balls with a balpeen hammer" department, the EU finds ways to further punish people who are just not EV enough! Stupid is as stupid does and drives its economy further into disrepair in the ongoing manmade disaster known as the climate hoax: https://www.autonews.com/ev/ane-phev-utility-factor-higher-emissions/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter-ANEDontMiss-20250205 A very telling term is "revised emissions measurement . . . CO2 ratings". An emissions measurement that was 100% off shows just how much guessing and imposing and mandating and non-fact based this whole hoax is. What the hell is a CO2 rating? When bureaucrats get involved the credits and counts and ratings are all a game and may the best gamer win. Oh, and things that are measurably good for the environment - like VW's and others small diesel engines that got incredible gas mileage - get thrown on the trash heap because VW figured out how to win the silly game to the embarrassment of the game-makers. Edited February 5 by Lipdrag 1 People who tolerate me on a daily basis . . . they are the real heroes.
wrestlingguy Posted February 5 Posted February 5 On 1/25/2025 at 4:20 AM, Husker_Du said: anyone got an answer to this? Probably because they just keep raising the rates.
Lipdrag Posted February 5 Posted February 5 1 hour ago, wrestlingguy said: Probably because they just keep raising the rates. The idea of windmills and dreamcatchers facing the sun as energy sources are not new. In fact, they are some of the oldest technologies in capturing/converting energy from one form to another. The issue is that they are not nor ever will be efficient and effective. Therefore, the free wind and free sun rays cost more than the other energy sources. This is not news. It is physics. You know, science. While I am very sure that there are hucksters and hooligans (might we call them Hoaxsters - Al Gore comes to mind) getting rich being a Carney Caller about the "renewable" energy sources they are not causing the price of the inefficient electricity to be so high. People who tolerate me on a daily basis . . . they are the real heroes.
Lipdrag Posted February 7 Posted February 7 Some of my colleagues who work in our German locations were the most Greenie happy people in the world. They were all over sustainable everything and touting how perfect the world would be with the Green Miracle economy. Now physics and reality seem to have hit them square in the face and they are realizing they've been hoaxed. They are not happy. Elections have consequences. Choose wisely. The copied comments below are translated from German: 1 People who tolerate me on a daily basis . . . they are the real heroes.
Lipdrag Posted February 8 Posted February 8 Porsche executives are simply saying: Our stupidity cost us money to do and now it is going to cost us money to fix it. This is not a surprise. The surprise will be if the executives who made the first stupid move are still around and are the ones trying to fix it. Automotive news is such a loonie-left rag that it cannot even write this neutrally. Note the wording below "being forced". Crazy! Government mandates are not considered force by these nutjobs but reality, physics, and customers' desires are couched in very negative terms. https://www.autonews.com/volkswagen/porsche/ane-porsche-profit-ice-phev-evs-margins/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter-ANEDontMiss-20250207 People who tolerate me on a daily basis . . . they are the real heroes.
Lipdrag Posted February 10 Posted February 10 2 hours ago, Husker_Du said: lol This just shows that the climate is a climate denier! HOW DARE the weather destroy something Greta needs and wants so much? Can't someone mandate something to get the weather under control and to behave in line with climateer theories and desires?!? People who tolerate me on a daily basis . . . they are the real heroes.
Interviewed_at_Weehawken Posted February 10 Posted February 10 12 minutes ago, Lipdrag said: This just shows that the climate is a climate denier! HOW DARE the weather destroy something Greta needs and wants so much? Can't someone mandate something to get the weather under control and to behave in line with climateer theories and desires?!?
Offthemat Posted February 10 Posted February 10 3 hours ago, Husker_Du said: lol Who’s idea was that?
Lipdrag Posted February 11 Posted February 11 6 hours ago, Offthemat said: Who’s idea was that? The guy who repairs and replaces solar panels. "Hey, I have and idea . . . let's put the panels on the most unstable setting possible: THE OCEAN!! That's the ticket. The panels won't use up valuable crop land nor endanger any desert habitat nor have any reason not to produce gads and gads of free electricity so long as there is a sun and the ocean is there. Can we get the legislature to mandate that winds and waves and tides and currents remain exactly constant at near zero? Then everything will be great." 1 1 People who tolerate me on a daily basis . . . they are the real heroes.
Offthemat Posted February 11 Posted February 11 1 hour ago, Lipdrag said: The guy who repairs and replaces solar panels. "Hey, I have and idea . . . let's put the panels on the most unstable setting possible: THE OCEAN!! That's the ticket. The panels won't use up valuable crop land nor endanger any desert habitat nor have any reason not to produce gads and gads of free electricity so long as there is a sun and the ocean is there. Can we get the legislature to mandate that winds and waves and tides and currents remain exactly constant at near zero? Then everything will be great." Was he also Chinese?
Caveira Posted February 11 Posted February 11 1 minute ago, Offthemat said: Was he also Chinese? I’ve only slept with one Chinese spy. I won’t do it again I promise.
WrestlingRasta Posted February 11 Posted February 11 19 hours ago, Lipdrag said: This just shows that the climate is a climate denier! HOW DARE the weather destroy something Greta needs and wants so much? Can't someone mandate something to get the weather under control and to behave in line with climateer theories and desires?!? MTG seems to have an in road to weather controls… 1
mspart Posted February 11 Posted February 11 I don't know who, but the city of Seattle or the State of WA or King County decided it was a good idea to take away lanes on the I-90 floating bridge and put light rail here. It is probably Sound Transit who is a 3 county pseudo government that is not elected that made this decision. They are WAY over budget and WAY behind schedule because someone didn't take into account that a floating bridge moves. They have no sure foundation on which to put their light rail. All for climate change. Never mid that no one rides the lines they have up in other area in puget sound. They allow fentanyl addicts to light up in the trains and they haul those homeless people for free. It is not a safe environment. Such is crazy Seattle Leftism. mspart
Lipdrag Posted February 12 Posted February 12 3 hours ago, mspart said: Never mind that no one rides the lines they have up in other area in puget sound. Maybe they can get fartless oxen to pull the light trains back and forth with the homeless addicts inside and be really really good climateers. So long as those oxen do not exhale CO2 nor leave cowpies everywhere then they'll have the cleanest lightest bestest useless rail system in the climateer world. People who tolerate me on a daily basis . . . they are the real heroes.
ionel Posted February 12 Posted February 12 6 minutes ago, Lipdrag said: Maybe they can get fartless oxen to pull the light trains back and forth with the homeless addicts inside and be really really good climateers. So long as those oxen do not exhale CO2 nor leave cowpies everywhere then they'll have the cleanest lightest bestest useless rail system in the climateer world. Mules don't fart correct? Have you ever heard a mule fart? Let's use mules. 1 .
Lipdrag Posted February 12 Posted February 12 Why can't Canadian winters get onboard with global warming? Stoopid Canadian winter climate deniers! Justin Trudeau is going to be very very upset with Canadian winters over this: People who tolerate me on a daily basis . . . they are the real heroes.
Lipdrag Posted Thursday at 12:29 AM Posted Thursday at 12:29 AM Pissing away billions. The Dutch Tulip mania of 1634 was more rational than this. And at least the Dutch government did not get involved by mandating tulips and subsidizing just the right kind of tulips and otherwise infringing on the freedom and treasure of its citizens. And the people got to enjoy the tulips for a week or so to assuage their idiocy. EVs, not so much. From Automotive News. Note the idiotic statements "startup ... needs credibility". How about startup needs a product that people want to buy at the price you can sell it? That might be a thing startups need, AutoNews. THEN they get credibility, ya bunch of cotton headed ninny muggins. Another telling statement, "the disappointing demand for EV's" implies the public is the problem. A more truthful and accurate statement would be "the unnaturally overinflated supply and demand for EV's due to bird brained public policies, subsidies, mandates, carbon credits, and other silliness was still unable to convince BorgWarner to keep pissing away money". Nikola goes bust as another Tesla gold rush chase fails Electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla died in 1943, but more than 80 years later his surname generates headlines around the world every day, if not every hour. And some days, both his first and last name make news. Today was one of those days. Troubled Arizona electric truck maker Nikola Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy — another once high-flying Tesla gold rush chaser whose fortunes plunged amid scandal, cash burn and disappointing demand. The company’s fourth CEO, Steven Girsky, has been a respected veteran executive in automotive circles, but his attempt to keep this company afloat the last few years was doomed. Here’s why. For a startup company such as Nikola to survive, it needs credibility. Early in its days as a public company in 2020, the shares skyrocketed and its market value reached about $29 billion. It was frequently featured on CNBC. This company was so red hot that General Motors wanted a piece of the action. It sought an 11 percent stake in Nikola as part of a cash-free deal in exchange for providing access to fuel cell technology and for manufacturing the startup’s electric pickup, the Badger. At the time Nikola said it couldn’t make the Badger without a deal with GM. That deal failed late in 2020 and questions began to rise. Then founder and CEO Trevor Milton became the center of a federal fraud scandal for misrepresenting the capability of a key truck product, as exposed by Bloomberg. Ultimately, he was indicted, found guilty and sentenced to four years in federal prison. How can a startup survive after something such as this? Even without major existential scandals, other EV startups suffered the same fate as Nikola, including Fisker Inc., Lordstown Motors and Canoo Inc. The sad thing is that there is still a long-term future for electric vehicles and hydrogen propulsion technologies. It’s a good bet that someday a technology first developed by a failed company such as Nikola ends up being successful. Meanwhile, the disappointing demand for EVs claimed 188 more jobs in the Detroit area today as supplier BorgWarner Inc. confirmed plans to close two small EV battery parts plants. People who tolerate me on a daily basis . . . they are the real heroes.
mspart Posted Thursday at 01:08 AM Posted Thursday at 01:08 AM 38 minutes ago, Lipdrag said: THEN they get credibility, ya bunch of cotton headed ninny muggins. You musty moo moo moo!! mspart 1
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