65 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Frosty Sparky Cars”

  1. Every time a bell rings, a new conservative gets their wings. I’m trying to be an optimist this new year.

      2. One day, some guy with a Dodge Ram diesel and big-arse motor generator in the back is going to make a lot of money charging EVs stuck on the side of the road in an ice storm. $500 per charge. Bottled water? $12 bucks. Want some snacks? $8 bucks. Credit card, cash or bit-coin.

      1. Just out of curiosity, do you “think” there might perhaps more options, than just these two?

    1. yeah, but whose incompetence? A bunch of stupid people who should know to stay off the highways when it snows go out and block the road. Then VDOT can’t get through to clear the road.. If you lived in this part of virginia you’d know whose incompetence! Made worse by the fact that VDOT couldn’t pretreat the highways because we had twentyfour hours or so of heavy rains which would just have washed away the pretreatment. One wonders why NWS bothers to issue winter storm warnings since nobody seems to be smart enough to pay attention.

    2. I’m thinking a few key people who did not get vaccinated were forced to leave their critical jobs. This is what happens. Pareto rules…

    1. That is a Senator, and a moron associate of the Clinton Crime Family. Like President Peter Principle, he’s an alleged Catholic who totally supports abortion. Death Cult Trash.

        1. I have always considered him to be mentally defective, since he ran as Vice Presidential candidate with that other great western political conniver, Hillary Rob’em Clinton.

    1. These so called “Democrats” do put out one stupid meme after another and for some reason, they basically get away with it.
      Only Carlson pointed last night that the republican governor is not in the office until 15th of January.

  6. But Sockboy and low-rent Hans Gruber want to mandate electric cars for everyone in Canada (never mind that we don’t have, and can’t afford, the charging infrastructure or generating capacity to operate them). Remember that the next time you’re stuck on the 401 outside of Trenton or trying to get to work in Winnipeg at -40. I guess ‘the grid will balance itself’, right Mr. Edison?
    Oh and by the way, look up what happens to an EV when it runs completely out of juice on you while you’re sitting in traffic, at any temperature – it’s called ‘bricking’. And even if it’s something that “Tesla Mobile Services” can miraculously fix, they aren’t going to be able to get to you while you’re stuck on a highway in a snowstorm slowly freezing to death.

    1. If only they could install some kind of efficient on-board power generator on each one of these electric vehicles.

      1. Our regulation-compulsive government should OUTLAW driving any e-car when the outdoor temps fall below 40 deg.F. Think of all the stresses placed on our First Responders if they are overworked responding to stranded Tesla drivers? Something will have to be done! To flatten the curve.

        1. Makes sense. In BC you can’t go over the mountains unless you have snow tires or tire chains between October and April. Same thing should apply to EVs.

        1. Exactly.
          I guess I will have to cut back on the subtlety and start using the sarcasm font again.

      4. Great idea Chris, Get a EV truck, and install a permanent gas generator in the back, plus carry a 50 gallon fuel tank…..um, wait a minute, maybe just have a quality ICE vehicle, problem solved.
        I’m sure you’re comment was sarc, but you forgot the /s ending. 🙂 /s

  7. Kinda like the Universe: Death by fire or ice?

    Love my battery tools and electric motors are awesome.
    Had a job a few years ago when I had to build a temporary ramp out of grade A spf that had to be strong enough for a 15,000 lb man-lift to travel up and down. Lotsa screws. Killed a couple drill batteries because of the pace we worked at. A corded drill – annoying – would have been far better.
    Battery tech has improved since then and will continue to, no doubt, but my corded electric lawn mower I bought used for 40$ 20 years ago is not being replaced.

    I’d like a car you fill the “gas” tank with H2O.

    2. I’ve long considered goats to be the penultimate lawn mower.

      They’re fueled with beer; which I consume while watching them eat the grass.

  9. Good intentions will keep people from freezing to death in these situations. It’s like that line from Master and Commander about Admiral Nelson. “I need no coat sir, thinking of the green future of the planet sets my. heart aglow and is all I need to keep me warm.”

    2. OK, I guess it will never happen again, then.

      How many cars were just trapped on I95 between DC and Richmond, VA? Answer? A lot of them, thousands. Imagine now that they were all EVs left stuck there for hours and hours and hours, like the gas powered ones were.

      Imagine a Blizzard of ’78 with EVs.

      2. As others here have mentioned above, this was a huge story with lots going on, and of everything that happened, picking out a tweet about a Tesla-owner asking for blankets for his family is the part most worthy of attention? THAT was the purpose of my comment.

        tim, how absolutely shallow of you to assume my comment was in defense of EV’s, when in reality, I was merely pointing out how easy it is to get caught up in pushing a ‘narrative’.

        Also, it is arrogance to be contemptuous of stupid people driving EV’s in winter conditions while not being equally contemptuous of all of the stupid people that probably went out with 1/4 tanks in their ICE’s.

        BTW, speaking of ‘data’, it does not state anywhere that he ran out of power, but was only worried about it. One of the many negatives of EV ownership is clearly ‘range anxiety’ , so he is worthy of ridicule for playing it safe and taking extra steps to protect his family? It also states that first responders gave out assistance to many stranded motorists, I doubt that they were all EVs.

        I find it both amusing and sad that many on the right want to control your comments every bit as enthusiastically as any leftard does.

        1. No one on the right wants to control anyone’s comments; however we do maintain our right to, in turn, comment on them. Disagreement is the stuff of freedom – contrast this with leftist big-tech’s blanket banning of specific conservatives, and perhaps you will then understand the dramatic difference between left and right.

        2. Ha, in fairness, it is probably not fair to call anyone stupid when a 1/4 tank of fuel is probably all that they can even afford to put in.

          You need to talk less and listen more, rd.

          1. Yes, I have loads of time to bask in your insightful commentary, and it is delightful reading, despite “pushing the narrative.”

          2. Says the guy who has made almost a full third of all the comments on this thread, and the guy who just couldn’t let my simple comment go…. too damn funny.

            And not one of your replies has addressed my original point, BTW, you have offered nothing but personal slights to me.

            If you feel the overwhelming need to dominate threads, then please go start your own damn blog.

          3. See my comment above re: the need for government to place weather/temperature restrictions on driving an e-car. Why? For safety. Isn’t it the governments job to keep us all “safe”? Like from COVID and CAGW? I suggest the Tesla driver needed blankets because he COULDN’T operate his heater at all … lest he ‘brick’ his high tech saloon. Think of the chillllllldren and the chilly interior of that car?

            The government MUST do something to protect children from their self-virtuous Tesla-driving parents. This problem requires more than just a visit from CPS. After all … we prosecute parents who leave their children locked in HOT cars … so why not COLD cars?

      1. I’m pretty sure it was a Tesla, not a Prelude. Don’t know who makes the Swipe.

        Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

    4. EVs – apparently – stop Global Warming(tm)

      EVs stuck due to freezing conditions.

      Spot the irony?

      Global Warming may not have stopped the freezing conditions, but it would have made the symptoms Less Severer. Probably 😀

    1. Maybe they could install that device in the front or rear of the electric vehicle, thus saving weight from the extra axle, tires, and trailer hitch. You know, a sort of “hybrid” of battery and combustion-engine power train.
      If only we could come up with a name for that type of vehicle.
      Hmmm.

        1. The original Hummer.
          Four electric motors, diesel-fueled generator.

          Or any electric/ICE hybrid.

          Or just any plain ICE vehicle.

  12. Water and blankets? Pah! I’d have given him a small Jerry can of gas & a lighter. For the kids, weenies, marshmallows & roasting sticks.

    The father is obviously too far gone. The kids? Perhaps a little life lesson.

    1. These are the same virtue-signaling morons supporting political support of tax-sucking renewables. The life lesson leads to a grave.

    1. I wonder how that will play out with the well-kempt water system in Cali? Everyone remember Oroville?

    1. Conservatives helping out the needy used to be called Christian generosity but that is so 20th century

      1. Could have handed him a couple of AA batteries and said “it’s all I got”…………

  16. I would have given him a gallon of gas and told him to pour it all over the car then stand back and light a match. At some point the cars probably going to burst into flames anyway he would just be speeding up the process and he and his family could stand near by and feel global warming.

    1. The fire would last for three days.
      At least everybody within a quarter mile of him would not freeze to death!
      Dig out some marshmallows and the occasion would be downright festive!

  17. -7° Celcius? What a puss. That ecotard should thank his lucky stars he wasn’t in Alberta since Christmas.

  18. I almost hit a Tesla the other day. It was stopped kind of half way in the driving lane and half way on the shoulder. It was white and the snow was white and for some reason the flashers were not working.

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