66 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars”
Yeah, just wait. Electricity is about to become a luxury item.
The day they make it almost impossible to buy a gasoline car or to buy gasoline, and we all have to drive electric cars, they will raise the price of electricty three fold or maybe even higher because there will be nothing we can do about it.
It is all part of their plan.
They are not trying to save the planet, they are getting rich by running a scam.
Actually the scam has run its course and they’re now trying to figure out how to crash the system without causing us peasants to revolt.
well. l just had a record high hydro bill.
kathleen wyynedfarm’s legacy.
Funny how there is no talk in Rick Anderson’s mindless babbling about the cost of power itself going through the bloody roof. But then it’s almost impossible for the “woke” to hold two thoughts in their mind. I am so sick of the mindless nonsense that comes out of some of these morons.
…or when we start having brown/blackouts because everyone is plugging their sparky cars in and the already near capacity electrical grid can’t handle the additional load.
A barrel of oil contains 1.4 billion calories of energy. There is no energy source, save for perhaps uranium, that is both as energy dense AND as portable as petroleum is. BOTH of those qualities are necessary for transportation…the ability to carry your energy source along with you when you move is HUGELY important.
Also electricity is NOT an energy source, it’s an energy CARRIER. These nit-wits need to learn the difference. A carrier still requires a SOURCE of energy, and what’s that going to be?
Rent seeking Rick lists all the rent available to be had on an EV, and still only urban soy boys want them. Trust me Rick, a real girl will bail out of an EV and into my Escalade, because she knows a good ride when she sees one, and she likes the car.
Besides Rick being an arrogant douche nugget ( I always wondered why in the past the Reform Party would hire a life long Liberal operative like Anderson as an adviser ) …
Andersons bottom bitch is that satanic psychopath, Dawna Freisen the news reader over at Globalist News…. all globalist “news” all the time.
I guess old Rick isn’t much of a “reformer” any more… wink wink, he never was.
I attended the Reform convention in Vancouver. There was a presidents meeting with Manning. A respected member asked Preston why was Anderson there and perhaps he should be replaced. Manning responded ” we will look at that”
Always dumbfounded when I hear city folks and politicians talk about EVs for anybody but themselves. They really don’t have a clue about what us rural folks face living in the country.
One of my sons has a friend with a Tesla, just out of warranty. Replacement headlight, $1500. He has also replaced front wheel bearings and front links. He says they are crap vehicles.
Just wait until the battery conks out.
And the resale market? Anyone who buys a USED Tesla has rocks in their head … and will soon be broke
True for ANY EV. Why the values of used ones are in the toilet.
The rebuilt batteries only last a few years, because of the high percentage of original old cells.
Explain cause and effect to a liberal.
They simply can’t connect the two.
They probably consider cause and effect thinking to be white supremacism.
Leftists are that strange
What EV has an MSRP of $37,890? A Nissan Leaf? Possibly the WORST automobile ever conceived. And GM has basically recalled and stopped making their EV’s as they try to sort out their defective LG (ChiCom) batteries. And the Tesla Model 3 … the “peoples” EV? The $30,000.00 EV? Uh, yeah … never happened. Tesla never manufactured any of those BASE models as their batteries were too small. And now the base Model 3 MSRP is > $55,000.00. Yeah … “the peoples” EV.
// I’m not sure any of the cars on your list would make it, or if I could pull a 2000lb cow in a trailer to the vet with any of them. //
This is a list of the CHEAPEST EV’s: Kia, Mini-cooper & the like
I think the following could pull your trailer: ‘would 664 HP do?
FORD https://www.ford.ca/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022/
F-Series has been Canada’s best-selling line of pickup trucks for 56 years* for a reason.
And now, it’s going electric with the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning® .
It offers all the brawn and capability you need coupled with an electric powertrain that can help you work smarter and in more places.
GENERAL MOTORS
Turns out the GMC Hummer EV and SUV were a little taste of what we’ll see from Chevy’s upcoming all-electric Silverado.
They’ll be built under the same roof, with the Silverado also using GM’s Ultium battery pack and offering up to 400 miles on a single charge.
The Silverado EV will be offered from a fleet-oriented work truck trim to fully loaded RST models with 664 horsepower.
Its -14 in Central Saskatchewan this morning, so the claimed range on the F-150 Lightning is immediately reduced by 20%. Then there’s the small matter of the trailer and that 2,000 pound cow.
I just wanna see a 2000 lb cow. We raised beef. 2000 lb bulls? Yeah, occasionally. Cows? Not even close.
To be fair EVs do have tons of torque but…
“range of up to 400 miles” means in ideal conditions, meaning mild temperature, driving at a constant speed of 55 miles per hour, not using AC, not using heated seats etc etc…
and NOT pulling a 3000LBS trailer
in real life conditions the 400 miles drops to aproximately 200.
in cold harsh Canadian winter the battery loses about 40% of its range, then the more you use heated seats, wipers, etc etc, and the heavier the trailer you pull, the more the range is reduced
I am not making this up.
I have read about 30 different articles from sources such as Road and Track, Car& Driver,Consumers report, Scientific American and watched about 30 videos made by engineers and people who work in those fields ; they all admit ( some do very quickly hoping we miss it ) that the advertized range is never achievable.
Even those who LOVE electric cars do admit the estimated range is much higher than what real life experience is with the EV.
And another (scientific ) fact; those rechargeable batteries lose about 1 to 2 % of range per year…
The more you fast charge them ( 30 to 45 minutes) the more you shorten the life of the battery
charging slowly on 120 volt is ideal but takes 3 days
charging less slowly on 220 volt takes at least all night
There is a lot of hype out there about EVs, I prefer verified scientific facts.
EVs are not as magical as they want us to believe.
They always have overestimated “expected” mileage on gasoline vehicles when you look at the sticker.
Lying’s all part of the corporate structure.
And not only does QuickDick want to get that cow to market, he wants to get home afterward. The nerve of that guy. Such expectations of entitlement. (You can’t have what your grandfather had in 1935.)
Shut your dickhole. Every EV is a piece of shit. Every single one, now, in the past and in the future. By definition. You cannot get the flexibility and freedom of an ICE car from a fucking toaster on wheels. You do not get any privacy while traveling, you are constantly monitored. You may as well let the fucking robot drive you and be stuck in a Futurama like vacuum tube.
I understand that for a millennial douchenozzle , glued to his smartphone 24/7 who needs to get from his shoebox condo to subway daily, to do his dose of sucking a corpo dick or publik service, EVs are the shit. That’s because you have already sold out, you whore.
Those of us who are human recognize is that EVs are just means of restricting our freedom and eliminating our lifestyle for the purpose of restricting our freedom and eliminating our lifestyle. You’re destroying one of the greatest achievements of western civilization for the purpose of destroying it and civilization. FOAD.
BTW it is the torque not horsepower that matters for towing.
Ditto for “automated driverless trucks”.
So dumb.
I wish someone could isolate the stupid gene that causes leftists and design a bat virus that’ll kill ’em. Humanity would thrive without leftists.
It’s going to come to that. Won’t need a virus – people will do it with their bare hands when they have to.
The question is, what will make them have to?
I hear many people struggle to understand what benefit Gang Green could possible have for civil society..Let me tell you.
Fertilizer.
For these parasites are stunningly full of shite,extremely mobile..They could be of enormous benefit to farmers faced with crippling costs for more conventional fertilizers.
The meanness is upon me.
The Great Carbon Tax..
Designed I am told to “encourage me” to use some other fuel than diesel.
That no practical alternate is available seems not to matter.
Unobtainium shall fuel our alternate dreams..from the same idiots who insist a battery produces energy.
However “Biodiesel” can be made to work,with a lot of kludges to produce the ease and effectiveness of actual diesel..
And Biodiesel can be made from a (currently)commonly available resource ..
Mammal Fat.
And none are fatter through the skull than Gang Green.
In fact the whole “Grievance Industry” shares this feature.
So in these “modern times” of guilt by association,kill the other and retroactive rule changing,we can score a “Societal Twofer”.
Forget Solent Green,we have “Greasy Loser Biodiesel”,guaranteed to establish your “Environmental Credentials” in all the best of ways.
Now if any righteous citizen should find this concept too extreme and evil…
Good for you.
You really should have left me alone.
I did ask you,ever so politely, but it seems listening is not a skill Assault Style Morons ever learn.
When a State forgets everything that allowed it to exist.
It gets destroyed.
The Mob is a mindless beast ,made up of many individuals.
When those individuals forget their responsibilities,the beast runs wild.
We are living the dream.
This is the natural result of absolving the individual of their choices.
A bunch of greedy whiny killers all chanting “Look what you made me do”.
So only 25000 Trudeau Bucks after subsidies for my very own electric yard ornament.
I foresee great potential in such devices.
Meh.
When constructive actions are forbidden?
Bring out the tools of pain.
Destruction is so easy.
And Producing ethanol ( from corn ) uses about as much energy as it produces…emits about as much co2 as it reduces…
and Ethanol/ gasoline mix ( usually 10 or 15 % ethanol ) is not recommended in vehicles that are not used regularly
because when ethanol sits in the tank for weeks or months, not only is ethanol attracting water like a sponge , but it starts separating the water from the rest…then this causes corrosion and other problems…
It is not recommended to use ethanol 10 or ethanol 15 in small engines ( lawn mowers, snow blowers etc etc ) for mainly two reasons – 1 – because they sit unused for months every year….-2- because ethanol can melt some plastics!
The gum or sludge from ethanol is harder to get rid of than from gasoline alone.
And it reduces power on your car or truck thus increases how much fuel you burn to drive the same distance
Ethanol has more down sides than up sides.
Those who don t believe me should read this AMSOIL article,
So true, the ethanol boondoggle and bio fuels, another useless leftist invention that we have never stopped paying for despite it being obvious for decades that it is a universally bad idea.
Internal combustion engines are far less efficient than electric motors , but in a very cold climate they do have a big advantage called HEAT , a byproduct of the combustion , which provides the climate control in the car and helps to cool the engine .
EV’s on the other hand must get 100% of the car climate control from the battery which is the only source of power. The battery is less efficient at cold temperatures , but also is also required to generate more power to heat the car .
If your EV runs out of battery power in the boonies , the only option is an expensive tow . Gas or diesel , on the other hand , is usually available at most households.
The Green fanatics seem to thing electricity is somehow completely free and obviously grows on wires.
I know their ignorance is beyond astounding, in NS they still use coal to produce electricity so how does that make it clean energy?
I described it as the VW Beetle gasoline fired heater. The Beetle travelled a long time unless you needed the heater. Then the tank emptied rather quickly.
” only option is an expensive tow”
ummm, now, is that tow powered with diesel or electric?
if electric, and the tow truck stalls for lack of power, do they send another 2 electric tow trucks?
at what point does hydrocarbon fuel reenter the picture?
jist askin’ . . . . .
You absolute ninny. Who cares if and electric motor is more efficient in a theoretical sense? If the juice is in the battery, combustion of some type took place somewhere else, unless hydro, so the loss happened there, then the transmission of the juice with those losses, then the innate inefficiency of batteries, etc, ad infinitum. The only efficiency measurement that should matter is for instance a gallon of diesel burned in a truck, vs the same gallon burned to generate electricity, then used to charge the car then finally turned into kinetic. I’m betting on the ICE truck.
I may not have a 2000 pound cow to haul around, but I do need:
1000+ km daily total range, even with multiple recharges.
100+ kph capability.
At down to -40 degrees.
No more than a 10 minute recharge time.
Exactly. I’m driving 1,200 – 1,400 miles a week. No EV will suffice.
Good grief would someone please explain to the EV fanatics that electricity is NOT produced by unicorn farts and fairy dust-they use coal the other enemy of the green fanatics. I can barely afford the power bill now, if the greenies get their way I’ll be burning coal and candles.
Here in Kimberley we have a charging station with an 8 ft. square solar
panel on top . The Mayor said we don’t have to charge for its use because the charger is
solar powered.
Let me guess, Rick Anderson is on the list of ‘approved’ journalists getting a payout from Justin.
Once forced by authoritarian government to go EV, the home charging stations will get a separate power meter. That way an additional tax can easily be levied for “road costs”.
I always ask the new proud owner – especially when he says he’ll save on gasoline – how much will his power bill go up. They all respond with the fact they didn’t even think about it until I brought it up.
They also don’t think about not being able to travel like they did before. Road trips are out. The time to recharge is hours as opposed to minutes to re-fuel. What used to take a day becomes two days. Then, as the batteries age through use, the time and distance between charges gets shorter but the time to recharge remains the same.
Checked out Mr. Anderson’s info. He doesn’t have the common sense to wipe his own ass.
Ev’s make sense if you think food comes from the grocery store, believe you don’t need a car because there is public transit, and live in a high rise so you don’t need a single family home with a yard.
Some of them even live rent free squatting at the Rideau cottage.
While I’m here, let me ask. I’m thinking of moving from Ontario to Saskatchewan. Looking at Conquest, Saskatchewan, of all places.
I guess my Hyundai Elantra GT Sport isn’t going to cut it, is it?
Need at minimum all wheel drive. And a working interior heater…
And room for coveralls, heavy boots, a couple gallons of water, and a snow shovel.
Every day I wonder how someone as shallow, pathetic and downright stupid as Trudeau can be elected as town dog-catcher never mind Prime Minister. Then I read a load of verbal diarrhea such as Rick Anderson’s that rivals Trudeau in the categories of shallow, pathetic and stupid and I begin to understand the mindset of a Trudeau supporter. Ongoing maintenance? I can replace the battery on my vehicle for about $150 and it will last a long, long time considering that its biggest chore is to turn over the starter. Try replacing the battery on an electric vehicle for $150. I wonder where Anderson thinks the power comes from for charging his vehicle. I would guess from a coal or natural gas fired power plant. He would probably say from an outlet on a charging station therefore it’s free. And finally the good old government subsidies and incentives that drastically lower the price of electric vehicles. Where does that money come from? Do governments have a secret money tree from which these subsidies can be plucked? That money tree is the Canadian taxpayer, plain and simple and I take great offense to contributing to Anderson’s indulgence in virtue signalling. If he wishes to go electric then so be it. However he would be well advised to refrain from scolding and using one-dimensional arguments to justify his decision. I guess I shouldn’t wonder why we’re saddled with such blatant stupidity in Ottawa.
Rick Anderson is a Trudeau Cult member. If you attempt to explain the problem with his thinking, he will start chanting.
How about Rick walks over to one of his neighbours and takes their car for a spin or walks into the house and helps himself to some food watches the view on their big screen tv and takes a few hundred bucks out off his neighbour’s wallet. Even Rick would think that that is unexceptional behaviour. But somehow having us pay for part of his car is not just ok but righteous.
“Canadians can buy a new EV for as low as $37,890 MSRP, less $5,000 federal rebate, less additional provincial incentives in BC or Quebec = as low as $24,890.”
so, corporate welfare from the government for 5k, that’s we the people, and then provincial incentives, again we the people.
all so a few people can virtue signal in their new ev, which on a cold day has half the advertised range. got it.
If an EV is that good, why do all governments need to subsidise them?
Plus you have to heat the EV which means more power taken for that same battery.
The time for the west to head out on it’s own draws ever closer.
Hey Rick.
Do you understand the power required to push a 4X4 truck? Yes EV can be fast, but towing requires a bunch of power.
Then you have two little matters to deal with. (1) You need to heat the truck for you to stay alive, which requires energy from that same battery trying to push that truck and trailer thru snow. (2) batteries don’t do well is cold places, so now the battery life has been reduced and you are still pushing that 4X4 truck with the trailer thru snow.
Stick to the comedy channel.
Sane people have no where to hide, or survive unless they are capable of extreme violence.
OK, Sarc on (big time)
It’s simple. Tow a trailer behind the EV, and on the trailer, you have a generator and a large gasoline fuel tank. When you’re traveling, you keep the battery topped up with the generator running. Of course, there is the extra expense of the gasoline, and probably a replacement generator every couple of months, but the virtue signal level will be sky high. Plus if you get an EV truck you wouldn’t even need a trailer….unless you actually need to haul something. Gee, I dunno why I didn’t think of this before…..OK, Sarc off.
Call me as soon as they come up with an electric pickup that can hold 2 face cords of hardwood and will run at 100kph for 6 non-stop hours at -30.
It’s obvious to me that Rick is part of the EV ownership class who use it to drive to the grocery store and back.
I wouldn’t be caught dead piling my 3 children into an EV and driving into rural Saskatchewan for a hockey tournament… or any of a dozen other things I use my truck for… anyone who does this should have their kids taken away from them.
I notice in the video that windscreens in Saskatchewan look just like windscreens in Montana!
L – That hole in the windshield is so you can see out to drive in the event the windshield ices up e.i. during freezing rain. In Saskatchewan, we think of everything.
I am pretty sure the convoy of Russian tanks parked outside of Kyev are recharging their batteries. Long extension chord from Chernobyl. They will be back on their way in a couple more days with the side bonus of having somebody else pay for their electricity just like all the other smug EV owners.
Yeah, just wait. Electricity is about to become a luxury item.
The day they make it almost impossible to buy a gasoline car or to buy gasoline, and we all have to drive electric cars, they will raise the price of electricty three fold or maybe even higher because there will be nothing we can do about it.
It is all part of their plan.
They are not trying to save the planet, they are getting rich by running a scam.
Actually the scam has run its course and they’re now trying to figure out how to crash the system without causing us peasants to revolt.
well. l just had a record high hydro bill.
kathleen wyynedfarm’s legacy.
Why can’t the cow just walk?
Asking for Chelsea.
Hahahahaha
Perhaps it would be more like this? Meow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE
Funny how there is no talk in Rick Anderson’s mindless babbling about the cost of power itself going through the bloody roof. But then it’s almost impossible for the “woke” to hold two thoughts in their mind. I am so sick of the mindless nonsense that comes out of some of these morons.
…or when we start having brown/blackouts because everyone is plugging their sparky cars in and the already near capacity electrical grid can’t handle the additional load.
A barrel of oil contains 1.4 billion calories of energy. There is no energy source, save for perhaps uranium, that is both as energy dense AND as portable as petroleum is. BOTH of those qualities are necessary for transportation…the ability to carry your energy source along with you when you move is HUGELY important.
Also electricity is NOT an energy source, it’s an energy CARRIER. These nit-wits need to learn the difference. A carrier still requires a SOURCE of energy, and what’s that going to be?
Rent seeking Rick lists all the rent available to be had on an EV, and still only urban soy boys want them. Trust me Rick, a real girl will bail out of an EV and into my Escalade, because she knows a good ride when she sees one, and she likes the car.
Besides Rick being an arrogant douche nugget ( I always wondered why in the past the Reform Party would hire a life long Liberal operative like Anderson as an adviser ) …
Andersons bottom bitch is that satanic psychopath, Dawna Freisen the news reader over at Globalist News…. all globalist “news” all the time.
I guess old Rick isn’t much of a “reformer” any more… wink wink, he never was.
I attended the Reform convention in Vancouver. There was a presidents meeting with Manning. A respected member asked Preston why was Anderson there and perhaps he should be replaced. Manning responded ” we will look at that”
Always dumbfounded when I hear city folks and politicians talk about EVs for anybody but themselves. They really don’t have a clue about what us rural folks face living in the country.
https://babylonbee.com/news/let-them-use-batteries-says-pete-buttigieg-clad-in-elaborate-18th-century-royal-gown/
One of my sons has a friend with a Tesla, just out of warranty. Replacement headlight, $1500. He has also replaced front wheel bearings and front links. He says they are crap vehicles.
Just wait until the battery conks out.
And the resale market? Anyone who buys a USED Tesla has rocks in their head … and will soon be broke
True for ANY EV. Why the values of used ones are in the toilet.
The rebuilt batteries only last a few years, because of the high percentage of original old cells.
Explain cause and effect to a liberal.
They simply can’t connect the two.
They probably consider cause and effect thinking to be white supremacism.
Leftists are that strange
What EV has an MSRP of $37,890? A Nissan Leaf? Possibly the WORST automobile ever conceived. And GM has basically recalled and stopped making their EV’s as they try to sort out their defective LG (ChiCom) batteries. And the Tesla Model 3 … the “peoples” EV? The $30,000.00 EV? Uh, yeah … never happened. Tesla never manufactured any of those BASE models as their batteries were too small. And now the base Model 3 MSRP is > $55,000.00. Yeah … “the peoples” EV.
// I’m not sure any of the cars on your list would make it, or if I could pull a 2000lb cow in a trailer to the vet with any of them. //
This is a list of the CHEAPEST EV’s: Kia, Mini-cooper & the like
I think the following could pull your trailer: ‘would 664 HP do?
FORD
https://www.ford.ca/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022/
F-Series has been Canada’s best-selling line of pickup trucks for 56 years* for a reason.
And now, it’s going electric with the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning® .
It offers all the brawn and capability you need coupled with an electric powertrain that can help you work smarter and in more places.
GENERAL MOTORS
Turns out the GMC Hummer EV and SUV were a little taste of what we’ll see from Chevy’s upcoming all-electric Silverado.
They’ll be built under the same roof, with the Silverado also using GM’s Ultium battery pack and offering up to 400 miles on a single charge.
The Silverado EV will be offered from a fleet-oriented work truck trim to fully loaded RST models with 664 horsepower.
Its -14 in Central Saskatchewan this morning, so the claimed range on the F-150 Lightning is immediately reduced by 20%. Then there’s the small matter of the trailer and that 2,000 pound cow.
I just wanna see a 2000 lb cow. We raised beef. 2000 lb bulls? Yeah, occasionally. Cows? Not even close.
To be fair EVs do have tons of torque but…
“range of up to 400 miles” means in ideal conditions, meaning mild temperature, driving at a constant speed of 55 miles per hour, not using AC, not using heated seats etc etc…
and NOT pulling a 3000LBS trailer
in real life conditions the 400 miles drops to aproximately 200.
in cold harsh Canadian winter the battery loses about 40% of its range, then the more you use heated seats, wipers, etc etc, and the heavier the trailer you pull, the more the range is reduced
I am not making this up.
I have read about 30 different articles from sources such as Road and Track, Car& Driver,Consumers report, Scientific American and watched about 30 videos made by engineers and people who work in those fields ; they all admit ( some do very quickly hoping we miss it ) that the advertized range is never achievable.
Even those who LOVE electric cars do admit the estimated range is much higher than what real life experience is with the EV.
And another (scientific ) fact; those rechargeable batteries lose about 1 to 2 % of range per year…
The more you fast charge them ( 30 to 45 minutes) the more you shorten the life of the battery
charging slowly on 120 volt is ideal but takes 3 days
charging less slowly on 220 volt takes at least all night
There is a lot of hype out there about EVs, I prefer verified scientific facts.
EVs are not as magical as they want us to believe.
They always have overestimated “expected” mileage on gasoline vehicles when you look at the sticker.
Lying’s all part of the corporate structure.
And not only does QuickDick want to get that cow to market, he wants to get home afterward. The nerve of that guy. Such expectations of entitlement. (You can’t have what your grandfather had in 1935.)
Shut your dickhole. Every EV is a piece of shit. Every single one, now, in the past and in the future. By definition. You cannot get the flexibility and freedom of an ICE car from a fucking toaster on wheels. You do not get any privacy while traveling, you are constantly monitored. You may as well let the fucking robot drive you and be stuck in a Futurama like vacuum tube.
I understand that for a millennial douchenozzle , glued to his smartphone 24/7 who needs to get from his shoebox condo to subway daily, to do his dose of sucking a corpo dick or publik service, EVs are the shit. That’s because you have already sold out, you whore.
Those of us who are human recognize is that EVs are just means of restricting our freedom and eliminating our lifestyle for the purpose of restricting our freedom and eliminating our lifestyle. You’re destroying one of the greatest achievements of western civilization for the purpose of destroying it and civilization. FOAD.
BTW it is the torque not horsepower that matters for towing.
Ditto for “automated driverless trucks”.
So dumb.
I wish someone could isolate the stupid gene that causes leftists and design a bat virus that’ll kill ’em. Humanity would thrive without leftists.
It’s going to come to that. Won’t need a virus – people will do it with their bare hands when they have to.
The question is, what will make them have to?
I hear many people struggle to understand what benefit Gang Green could possible have for civil society..Let me tell you.
Fertilizer.
For these parasites are stunningly full of shite,extremely mobile..They could be of enormous benefit to farmers faced with crippling costs for more conventional fertilizers.
The meanness is upon me.
The Great Carbon Tax..
Designed I am told to “encourage me” to use some other fuel than diesel.
That no practical alternate is available seems not to matter.
Unobtainium shall fuel our alternate dreams..from the same idiots who insist a battery produces energy.
However “Biodiesel” can be made to work,with a lot of kludges to produce the ease and effectiveness of actual diesel..
And Biodiesel can be made from a (currently)commonly available resource ..
Mammal Fat.
And none are fatter through the skull than Gang Green.
In fact the whole “Grievance Industry” shares this feature.
So in these “modern times” of guilt by association,kill the other and retroactive rule changing,we can score a “Societal Twofer”.
Forget Solent Green,we have “Greasy Loser Biodiesel”,guaranteed to establish your “Environmental Credentials” in all the best of ways.
Now if any righteous citizen should find this concept too extreme and evil…
Good for you.
You really should have left me alone.
I did ask you,ever so politely, but it seems listening is not a skill Assault Style Morons ever learn.
When a State forgets everything that allowed it to exist.
It gets destroyed.
The Mob is a mindless beast ,made up of many individuals.
When those individuals forget their responsibilities,the beast runs wild.
We are living the dream.
This is the natural result of absolving the individual of their choices.
A bunch of greedy whiny killers all chanting “Look what you made me do”.
So only 25000 Trudeau Bucks after subsidies for my very own electric yard ornament.
I foresee great potential in such devices.
Meh.
When constructive actions are forbidden?
Bring out the tools of pain.
Destruction is so easy.
And Producing ethanol ( from corn ) uses about as much energy as it produces…emits about as much co2 as it reduces…
and Ethanol/ gasoline mix ( usually 10 or 15 % ethanol ) is not recommended in vehicles that are not used regularly
because when ethanol sits in the tank for weeks or months, not only is ethanol attracting water like a sponge , but it starts separating the water from the rest…then this causes corrosion and other problems…
It is not recommended to use ethanol 10 or ethanol 15 in small engines ( lawn mowers, snow blowers etc etc ) for mainly two reasons – 1 – because they sit unused for months every year….-2- because ethanol can melt some plastics!
The gum or sludge from ethanol is harder to get rid of than from gasoline alone.
And it reduces power on your car or truck thus increases how much fuel you burn to drive the same distance
Ethanol has more down sides than up sides.
Those who don t believe me should read this AMSOIL article,
https://blog.amsoil.com/how-to-fight-ethanol-problems-in-small-engines/
So true, the ethanol boondoggle and bio fuels, another useless leftist invention that we have never stopped paying for despite it being obvious for decades that it is a universally bad idea.
Internal combustion engines are far less efficient than electric motors , but in a very cold climate they do have a big advantage called HEAT , a byproduct of the combustion , which provides the climate control in the car and helps to cool the engine .
EV’s on the other hand must get 100% of the car climate control from the battery which is the only source of power. The battery is less efficient at cold temperatures , but also is also required to generate more power to heat the car .
If your EV runs out of battery power in the boonies , the only option is an expensive tow . Gas or diesel , on the other hand , is usually available at most households.
The Green fanatics seem to thing electricity is somehow completely free and obviously grows on wires.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a31739529/how-much-does-climate-control-affect-ev-range/
I know their ignorance is beyond astounding, in NS they still use coal to produce electricity so how does that make it clean energy?
I described it as the VW Beetle gasoline fired heater. The Beetle travelled a long time unless you needed the heater. Then the tank emptied rather quickly.
” only option is an expensive tow”
ummm, now, is that tow powered with diesel or electric?
if electric, and the tow truck stalls for lack of power, do they send another 2 electric tow trucks?
at what point does hydrocarbon fuel reenter the picture?
jist askin’ . . . . .
You absolute ninny. Who cares if and electric motor is more efficient in a theoretical sense? If the juice is in the battery, combustion of some type took place somewhere else, unless hydro, so the loss happened there, then the transmission of the juice with those losses, then the innate inefficiency of batteries, etc, ad infinitum. The only efficiency measurement that should matter is for instance a gallon of diesel burned in a truck, vs the same gallon burned to generate electricity, then used to charge the car then finally turned into kinetic. I’m betting on the ICE truck.
I may not have a 2000 pound cow to haul around, but I do need:
1000+ km daily total range, even with multiple recharges.
100+ kph capability.
At down to -40 degrees.
No more than a 10 minute recharge time.
Exactly. I’m driving 1,200 – 1,400 miles a week. No EV will suffice.
Good grief would someone please explain to the EV fanatics that electricity is NOT produced by unicorn farts and fairy dust-they use coal the other enemy of the green fanatics. I can barely afford the power bill now, if the greenies get their way I’ll be burning coal and candles.
Here in Kimberley we have a charging station with an 8 ft. square solar
panel on top . The Mayor said we don’t have to charge for its use because the charger is
solar powered.
Let me guess, Rick Anderson is on the list of ‘approved’ journalists getting a payout from Justin.
Once forced by authoritarian government to go EV, the home charging stations will get a separate power meter. That way an additional tax can easily be levied for “road costs”.
I always ask the new proud owner – especially when he says he’ll save on gasoline – how much will his power bill go up. They all respond with the fact they didn’t even think about it until I brought it up.
They also don’t think about not being able to travel like they did before. Road trips are out. The time to recharge is hours as opposed to minutes to re-fuel. What used to take a day becomes two days. Then, as the batteries age through use, the time and distance between charges gets shorter but the time to recharge remains the same.
Checked out Mr. Anderson’s info. He doesn’t have the common sense to wipe his own ass.
Ev’s make sense if you think food comes from the grocery store, believe you don’t need a car because there is public transit, and live in a high rise so you don’t need a single family home with a yard.
Some of them even live rent free squatting at the Rideau cottage.
While I’m here, let me ask. I’m thinking of moving from Ontario to Saskatchewan. Looking at Conquest, Saskatchewan, of all places.
I guess my Hyundai Elantra GT Sport isn’t going to cut it, is it?
Need at minimum all wheel drive. And a working interior heater…
And room for coveralls, heavy boots, a couple gallons of water, and a snow shovel.
Every day I wonder how someone as shallow, pathetic and downright stupid as Trudeau can be elected as town dog-catcher never mind Prime Minister. Then I read a load of verbal diarrhea such as Rick Anderson’s that rivals Trudeau in the categories of shallow, pathetic and stupid and I begin to understand the mindset of a Trudeau supporter. Ongoing maintenance? I can replace the battery on my vehicle for about $150 and it will last a long, long time considering that its biggest chore is to turn over the starter. Try replacing the battery on an electric vehicle for $150. I wonder where Anderson thinks the power comes from for charging his vehicle. I would guess from a coal or natural gas fired power plant. He would probably say from an outlet on a charging station therefore it’s free. And finally the good old government subsidies and incentives that drastically lower the price of electric vehicles. Where does that money come from? Do governments have a secret money tree from which these subsidies can be plucked? That money tree is the Canadian taxpayer, plain and simple and I take great offense to contributing to Anderson’s indulgence in virtue signalling. If he wishes to go electric then so be it. However he would be well advised to refrain from scolding and using one-dimensional arguments to justify his decision. I guess I shouldn’t wonder why we’re saddled with such blatant stupidity in Ottawa.
Rick Anderson is a Trudeau Cult member. If you attempt to explain the problem with his thinking, he will start chanting.
How about Rick walks over to one of his neighbours and takes their car for a spin or walks into the house and helps himself to some food watches the view on their big screen tv and takes a few hundred bucks out off his neighbour’s wallet. Even Rick would think that that is unexceptional behaviour. But somehow having us pay for part of his car is not just ok but righteous.
“Canadians can buy a new EV for as low as $37,890 MSRP, less $5,000 federal rebate, less additional provincial incentives in BC or Quebec = as low as $24,890.”
so, corporate welfare from the government for 5k, that’s we the people, and then provincial incentives, again we the people.
all so a few people can virtue signal in their new ev, which on a cold day has half the advertised range. got it.
If an EV is that good, why do all governments need to subsidise them?
Plus you have to heat the EV which means more power taken for that same battery.
The time for the west to head out on it’s own draws ever closer.
Hey Rick.
Do you understand the power required to push a 4X4 truck? Yes EV can be fast, but towing requires a bunch of power.
Then you have two little matters to deal with. (1) You need to heat the truck for you to stay alive, which requires energy from that same battery trying to push that truck and trailer thru snow. (2) batteries don’t do well is cold places, so now the battery life has been reduced and you are still pushing that 4X4 truck with the trailer thru snow.
Stick to the comedy channel.
Sane people have no where to hide, or survive unless they are capable of extreme violence.
OK, Sarc on (big time)
It’s simple. Tow a trailer behind the EV, and on the trailer, you have a generator and a large gasoline fuel tank. When you’re traveling, you keep the battery topped up with the generator running. Of course, there is the extra expense of the gasoline, and probably a replacement generator every couple of months, but the virtue signal level will be sky high. Plus if you get an EV truck you wouldn’t even need a trailer….unless you actually need to haul something. Gee, I dunno why I didn’t think of this before…..OK, Sarc off.
Call me as soon as they come up with an electric pickup that can hold 2 face cords of hardwood and will run at 100kph for 6 non-stop hours at -30.
It’s obvious to me that Rick is part of the EV ownership class who use it to drive to the grocery store and back.
I wouldn’t be caught dead piling my 3 children into an EV and driving into rural Saskatchewan for a hockey tournament… or any of a dozen other things I use my truck for… anyone who does this should have their kids taken away from them.
I notice in the video that windscreens in Saskatchewan look just like windscreens in Montana!
L – That hole in the windshield is so you can see out to drive in the event the windshield ices up e.i. during freezing rain. In Saskatchewan, we think of everything.
I am pretty sure the convoy of Russian tanks parked outside of Kyev are recharging their batteries. Long extension chord from Chernobyl. They will be back on their way in a couple more days with the side bonus of having somebody else pay for their electricity just like all the other smug EV owners.