Riverboats would be encouraged as one of the main alternatives to petrol cars
h/t Larry
27 Replies to “The World Is Being Run By Crazy People”
They’ll all be camel jockeys in 40 years, so what’s the problem?
Samuel Clemens should be happy… cept for that unfortunate racist deal.
It’s amazing how many commenters at the link think we are going to run out of oil.
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime.
Who would have thought that a Canadian Prog rock band could predict this.
Many people advocating hydrogen cars seem blithely unaware that hydrogen gas must be manufactured, and that this manufacturing is just as environmentally damaging as more conventional means of propulsion.
Packing boats and trains with commuters is going to make some juicy targets of opportunity for the future Jihad when the numbers of Muslims in Europe get high enough and they decide to pull an Israeli style Intifada on European soil.
rabbit
Hydrogen is the main element in unicorn farts…little known fact.
syncrodox – once these morons have impoverished the entire continent with their ideas, it would be Charles Dickens wanting to crawl out of his grave to write new novels with an abundance of material
That’s a great idea.
I’ve always thought that any good idea can be made great if only the process is sped up, so my challenge to the E.U. is this: If it’s a good idea to do this by 2050, why not make it a great idea by implementing it by 2030, and stop all new production of petrol driven autos by the end of 2020. Oh sure I’m just pulling numbers out of a hat, but as always, it’s for the children.
I too, recall Neil Peart’s words from “Red Barchetta” … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barchetta
I wonder if news like this will be enough to rouse somnolent Europeans out of their collective stupors? Probably too late though because the EU governmental body is no longer *directly* accountable to the people it supposedly represents.
On a positive note, there’ll be more oil for us here in North America.
Greg..this seems appropriate..
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
English novelist (1812 – 1870)
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to visit midievil Europe. Now I’ll get to find out!
syncrodox:
Unicorns died out due to their habit of sitting around campfires eating beans. Little know fact.
Oh, the … unicornity!
Lol
Way down upon the Swanee river….
steve nails it @ 10:57 and so does Robert @ 12:09.
A darkness is descending on Europe in two ways and Obama, Ignatieff and Layton would like to do the same here.
It no longer matters how people vote in the EU countries as the power has been given to the bureaucrats. You all remember the British EU Mp David Hanon tearing a strip of van Rump.
Im keen on burning hydrogen myself. my preference ,however, is to burn 4 hydrogen with one carbon for my house , and about 14 Hydrogens for every 6 carbons in my truck.
Good jobs for oxcart drivers, too!
“Those darn Estonians!”
He/She has the right of it.
Of course, official government vehicles will be exempted but they will only be able to use the designated ‘official vehicles only’ lane equipped with exhaust fans to pull those obnoxious CO2 emissions into special duct work under the surface. If ever more reason was needed for getting out of the EU, this is it. As the former Soviet Bloc enjoys new freedoms, Europe is becoming more & more like the old USSR by the day. Escape now while you can still travel!
– Geordie, Bermuda, 28/3/2011 17:20
Ken (Kulak)
British EU Mp David Hanon
…….missed that…..I thoroughly enjoyed Nigel Farange ripping that weasel, Von Rompey, a new one…..
“Who are you? No-one here has ever heard of you!”
That EU setup is not only undemocratic but a bizarre, bureucratic, dictatorship.
Does anyone here know how many windmills it will take to produce electricity for those pollution-free electric cars in all of Europe? I don’t have that many fingers and toes.
And on days the wind is quiet,I guess people who don’t have their cars charged can simply take the day off,call it a natural stat holiday,with pay of course.
I’m beginning to think maybe we shouldn’t allow immigration from Europe any more lest some slip in here and infect us with their lunacy.
Being of Belgium descent…I must admit to a vehemous dislike for those antwerps.
Anyone hiring rickshaw drivers yet?
How will they park their riverboats in the driveway?
At the rate Europe is going they’ll all be insolvent long before such measures can take effect and will be too broke to bother with such nonsense.
Me! Me! Me! My car! My human right to drive! No one will take that from me-me-me-me-me!
Anybody else remember what the streets of Calgary smell like after the Stampede parade goes through?
Its gonna be something like that. Bull Transit
They’ll all be camel jockeys in 40 years, so what’s the problem?
Samuel Clemens should be happy… cept for that unfortunate racist deal.
It’s amazing how many commenters at the link think we are going to run out of oil.
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime.
Who would have thought that a Canadian Prog rock band could predict this.
Many people advocating hydrogen cars seem blithely unaware that hydrogen gas must be manufactured, and that this manufacturing is just as environmentally damaging as more conventional means of propulsion.
Packing boats and trains with commuters is going to make some juicy targets of opportunity for the future Jihad when the numbers of Muslims in Europe get high enough and they decide to pull an Israeli style Intifada on European soil.
rabbit
Hydrogen is the main element in unicorn farts…little known fact.
syncrodox – once these morons have impoverished the entire continent with their ideas, it would be Charles Dickens wanting to crawl out of his grave to write new novels with an abundance of material
That’s a great idea.
I’ve always thought that any good idea can be made great if only the process is sped up, so my challenge to the E.U. is this: If it’s a good idea to do this by 2050, why not make it a great idea by implementing it by 2030, and stop all new production of petrol driven autos by the end of 2020. Oh sure I’m just pulling numbers out of a hat, but as always, it’s for the children.
I too, recall Neil Peart’s words from “Red Barchetta” … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barchetta
I wonder if news like this will be enough to rouse somnolent Europeans out of their collective stupors? Probably too late though because the EU governmental body is no longer *directly* accountable to the people it supposedly represents.
On a positive note, there’ll be more oil for us here in North America.
Greg..this seems appropriate..
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
English novelist (1812 – 1870)
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to visit midievil Europe. Now I’ll get to find out!
syncrodox:
Unicorns died out due to their habit of sitting around campfires eating beans. Little know fact.
Oh, the … unicornity!
Lol
Way down upon the Swanee river….
steve nails it @ 10:57 and so does Robert @ 12:09.
A darkness is descending on Europe in two ways and Obama, Ignatieff and Layton would like to do the same here.
It no longer matters how people vote in the EU countries as the power has been given to the bureaucrats. You all remember the British EU Mp David Hanon tearing a strip of van Rump.
Im keen on burning hydrogen myself. my preference ,however, is to burn 4 hydrogen with one carbon for my house , and about 14 Hydrogens for every 6 carbons in my truck.
Good jobs for oxcart drivers, too!
“Those darn Estonians!”
He/She has the right of it.
Of course, official government vehicles will be exempted but they will only be able to use the designated ‘official vehicles only’ lane equipped with exhaust fans to pull those obnoxious CO2 emissions into special duct work under the surface. If ever more reason was needed for getting out of the EU, this is it. As the former Soviet Bloc enjoys new freedoms, Europe is becoming more & more like the old USSR by the day. Escape now while you can still travel!
– Geordie, Bermuda, 28/3/2011 17:20
Ken (Kulak)
British EU Mp David Hanon
…….missed that…..I thoroughly enjoyed Nigel Farange ripping that weasel, Von Rompey, a new one…..
“Who are you? No-one here has ever heard of you!”
That EU setup is not only undemocratic but a bizarre, bureucratic, dictatorship.
Does anyone here know how many windmills it will take to produce electricity for those pollution-free electric cars in all of Europe? I don’t have that many fingers and toes.
And on days the wind is quiet,I guess people who don’t have their cars charged can simply take the day off,call it a natural stat holiday,with pay of course.
I’m beginning to think maybe we shouldn’t allow immigration from Europe any more lest some slip in here and infect us with their lunacy.
Being of Belgium descent…I must admit to a vehemous dislike for those antwerps.
Anyone hiring rickshaw drivers yet?
How will they park their riverboats in the driveway?
At the rate Europe is going they’ll all be insolvent long before such measures can take effect and will be too broke to bother with such nonsense.
Me! Me! Me! My car! My human right to drive! No one will take that from me-me-me-me-me!
Anybody else remember what the streets of Calgary smell like after the Stampede parade goes through?
Its gonna be something like that.
Bull Transit