28 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

  1. So what does this do for white privilege? Oh, I forgot–whites are responsible for climate change, aren’t they, so they’re obligated to fight it as well.

  4. D’ya wanna BET that the CoolSeal product is owned by leftist who has donated $ tens of thousands to Democrap politicians? Yeah, that’s a safe bet.

  5. I can’t help but wonder how much CO2 is released during the manufacture and repeated application of the paint.
    Not that I consider that to be an issue. A far bigger concern would be the lack of traction on painted surfaces when wet. Oh well, it will only be San Franciscans run over by cars that can’t stop.

    1. i made the slippery when wet comment at another site. i wonder can they get any dumber?

    2. Didn’t the The Reverend Musk just tell California that they needed better lane markings? I wonder if this is part of that…

  6. They’ve just lengthened stopping distances. Look for the first lawsuits on the accidents it causes later this week.

    1. “CoolSeal does pass the California skid test in addition to the slip test for wet traction…”

      Urban heat zones are not imaginary. In a sunny urban climate with miles and miles of asphalt they are significant. The product will produce the desired effect of reducing pavement temperatures. This is the plus side.

      The salient questions mostly relate to cost…… cost of product, cost of application, cost of durability (i.e., reapplication time), cost to benefit. But then when you are saving the earth, no price is to much to pay…. so there is that.

      Shade trees would be a much better solution as in addition to screening the asphalt they are also a carbon sink but they require water and, as Californians hear over and over and over, there isn’t enough.

      On the other hand, I understood that we were going to pave all of our streets with solar panels ….. yeah, that was a brilliant idea but the glass surface couldn’t pass the “skid test” (and for no other reason)……

      1. The article claimed a 10% reduction in temperature emanating from the pavement. This seems a curious example of a solution in search of a problem. Are “hot” cities a problem? When? In the summertime? What about the effect this would have of cooling cities in the winter? Is it wise to reduce city street temps in the dead of winter?

        BTW … every Mechanical Engineer knows that the single largest HEAT LOAD on a building HVAC system is … people. Yep. Our warm bodies generate the most heat, in most buildings. Sooooo irrational Global Warmists … if you want to reduce urban temperatures … just remove the … people. By any means necessary. The Warmists insist that we should all live like lab rats in congested urban spaces. But we are causing “heat islands” by doing so. Well … all the people are gathered together in small spaces … so it will be really easy for the Dr. Mengeles (aka “climate scientists”) to march millions of people into the “showers” … to cool them down. As in shut off their metabolic engines.

  7. Does this product comply with the cancer warning requirement printed at every intersection.

  9. Painting the asphalt. I wouldn’t mind having that coating on an asphalt driveway in Phoenix.

    But then, ALL the driveways in Phoenix are concrete. Already white. Because in the summer, an asphalt driveway will often -melt- and start to ooze up over your sneakers. The roads don’t seem to melt, which I find very impressive. But asphalt roads, even expressways, will develop lane ruts over the years from the heavy trucks and the heat. Makes life interesting when it rains.

    Still, a driveway coating on the roads, instead of concrete roads? I guess the paint guy has a friend on City council and the concrete guy doesn’t.

    One comment from the original site was hilarious. The guy says “wait until the graffiti ‘artists’ discover this.” Bwaha!

    1. Exactly. Look at the photo in the article … it looks like they are painting a light grey concrete street with white paint (soon to be darkened by dust, dirt, grime, tire rubber, oil drips, etc.). The article claims a 10% reduction in heat … between what and what? Black asphalt and pristine white paving? What about two-year old “white” paving that has been darkened from use? Now what is the cooling %?

      Here’s an idea! Let’s replace all our paved roads with gravel roads (white marble gravel). Let’s reduce heat, and vehicle speeds at the same time! Now THAT would be a Warmists wet dream … taking civilization BACKWARD a couple hundred years.

      1. I can picture some hot rodder in California licking his lips at the thought of taking out his Little Deuce Coupe and seeing how much rubber he can lay on those pristine white roads.

          1. Mmmm. Donuts!

            That would make pretty short work of those white roads. On the plus side, it would keep road painters perpetually busy until they retire on a $150k pension.

          2. Indeed! My CA schoolteacher wife retires on 10% of her highest salary, after years of no COLA pay increases … and is eclipsed by the Prison Guards, CHP, Cal Trans, “Climate experts” in the DWR and Air Quality Board retiring on 90% of their highest salaries – spiked – with massive overtime in their final work year. And I expect you are correct … now Street Painters will join the GOLD-plated pension club … because they are doing the oh-so-important work of “saving the planet” … uggggh … I HATE this leftist State government. Yes, HATE. They are my ENEMIES.

            The Leftist politicians give great lip-service to Teachers and Education … but refuse to PAY FOR IT. My wife has a BScience degree, Teaching credential, and every added bit of continuing education possible … and prison guards still out earn and out pension her. Disgusting.

  10. This is nothing but a payoff. Some connected Democrat, wanted to sell white paint at $25 a gallon.

  13. Painting the planet isn’t polluting the planet? lol I’m down with stupid…. I have air conditioners out on my front lawn running right now so I’m doing my part.

  14. This old boy remembers a program back in the late Fifties, early Sixties where the scientific community were so concerned about the coming Ice Age that they were spreading coal dust on the icecaps of Greenland to prevent the caps from radiating the suns heat back into space. that worked so well we now have to reverse the program./sarc

    Maybe we shouldn’t let these idiots in charge have so much control. If they all had to prove their theories were infallible before any remedies were attempted they’d all still be slinging hamburgers at Mickey Dees. Then again most of them are incapable of flipping a hamburger, but that again could be a silver lining. If they couldn’t get a real job they might succumb to starvation. Yeah that’s the ticket let them all get a job where they have to produce something of value and most of them would starve.

  15. I thought white was the racist colour . . . . . .
    I really need a friggin program on a daily basis now to keep up with the ‘stage play’.

    1. What’s gonna happen when the driver of the car in front of me is “triggered” by the change of pavement color, and jams her brakes on? Geeze … I foresee my insurance rates skyrocketing.

  17. The police are going to need different color chalk to outline the bodies of all the pedestrians killed by drivers blinded by the glare.

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