36 Replies to “We Don’t Need No $60K Paperweights”

  1. Piss off the government. Buy horses instead. The time it takes to get from point A to B would be the same as using an EV once you include the down time charging up.

    1. “Buy horses instead.”

      But won’t we be up to our knees in horse manure by 2030 if everyone did that?

  3. Wait until government revenue from gasoline taxes decreases. What will replace it?

    They’ll tax electricity.

    They’ll also tax peak electricity demand.

  4. At least they’re being used. Usually when I drive past an EV charger there’s no one there.

    1. Now imagine being at the back of the line of 30 or so vehicles having to wait for one of 10 charge stations three of which have worn charge connectors and charge slow. In Canada. At -30C. With kids in the back seat. Happy times ahead. But at least those charge stations are being used!

  5. The whole world is learning about the velocity of energy transfer.

    One 65 litre tank of gasoline contains 578.5 kWh, takes less than 5 minutes fill up and gives my Dodge Grand Caravan a highway range of 800km.

    The battery of the Tesla Model 3 Standard Range has an estimated total capacity of 50 kWh and gives a range of 265km. The best charging speed from a 220v home charger averages 8 hours. Tesla superchargers can now charge in just 15 minutes, but there aren’t many of them around. Calgary has one nearby, but north of city limits. You’d burn half your charge getting there and going home. Even 15 minutes is 3 times as long as a gasoline fill.

    We don’t have the infrastructure for E-Vehicles and the Greens refuse to include the cost of that infrastructure when they promote E-vehicles.

    The Greens are both stupid and liars, the most toxic group of religious maniacs since the Christians of the Inquisition and even worse are the grifters taking advantage of this mania for their personal benefit without a care for what will happen to our civilization if the Greens win. And I include Elon Musk in that tribe of grifters.

    2. Fast charging doesn’t help the battery life either. Short charging isn’t good for them as well.
      You cannot just put $5 in to get home with an EV and expect to always get full range with a complete charge.

    4. FZ

      I pretty much agree with it all, right down to the actual act of filling up the tank with Premium, at 5 minutes.

      Ever filled up at Costco on a weekend? Next time, spend a half hour to get in line, and watch the brain dead zombies, sheep, and cattle try to figure out how to pull up to the pump, figure out which way their Costco card goes in, figure out that its the ol IN AND OUT with said card, then, choose the correct card to pay with, try the hard decision between Tap or Insert card, find the Mastercard, and insert and try to remember the pin. …..SUCCESS.

      I’ve watched dimwits, everytime I fill up here at Victoria Costco, not have a clue how to perform this transaction. This, despite the fact full service fillups have been extinct for over 20 years. Its quite something when every sheep and lemming in line takes 5 minutes how to figure out how to finish their transaction, then fill up the tank.

      Want to know why this country is so feccked up? Watch the idiots perform this challenging feat, next time on a busy weekend at the Costco gas line. As simple a task as there is, but then, I’ve watched the same crowd not know how to check their tire pressure, or check their oil level. These are your NDP and Liberal voters

      1. Costco always has long line-ups because it is 4 to 6 cents a litre cheaper. People go to Costco because they feel that the half hour to get a 50 -litre fill up is worth $2-3 savings. Usually the non-filling up partner is in the Costco warehouse getting a start on filling up the shopping cart that will cost $200-500

        PS . At the longest Costco line-up I don’t think I have spent over 15 minutes.

      2. Have you ever been behind an old person buying lottery tickets? I don’t know how they manage to turn it into a 5 minute ordeal. Mind you, it’s way quicker than women only looking at a restaurant menu until after 10 minutes when the waiter returns. Then ten minutes later it’s pick item by item changing their mind at least twice. Some people simply cannot anticipate a series of events.

    5. People with electric cars spend 90% less time waiting to fill their vehicles than gas users. When you get home you spend 5 seconds plugging in your car and then it is full every morning. You do not have to drive way out of your way to find a gas station. A few times a year when you go on a long trip you use a fast charger for 15 to 30 minutes. Internal combustion vehicles need to find a gas stations and wait to fill at least once a week. Add up all the wasted time and gas burnt to get to the station and it costs us billions.

    6. Be careful with any electric fast charging claim of only 15 or 25 minutes …. usually when you look at the fine print u find they assumed u showed up with a 30 % charge in the vehicle battery and then only charged to 80 or 85 % charge …. that is how the liars can claim the fast charge times …. not charging empty batteries and not charging to a full charge and then claiming super speedy. It seems the only certainty of “green things” is that the efficiency is lied about.

      Show up with an almost empty battery and charge to almost full and u will be over an hour charging every time.

  6. Most Teslas get free charging at Tesla stations.
    Now imagine the line up of Hyundai’s if a Hyundai sponsored gas station gave away free gas.

    2. I think you are wrong with your “most” comment … I don’t think any Model Ys or most Model 3s get free charging and it was only on the early Model S & X vehicles and even they were time limited for most although there were some lifetime free a long time ago.

  7. The first real breakdown in public order I recall was the 1973 oil crisis when there were fistfights at gas stations, normal people going at each other, almost all other public disorder probably before and since was simply left wing violence trying to push the government’s agenda along.

    How long before the charging stations turn into fightnight?

    Will the virtue signalling little girls be going at each other soon?

  8. Wawa PetroCan charge stn was marked $0.33/kwh in 2019. No other options.
    Yeehaw

  9. Currently, Manitobans pay 14 cents a litre in provincial gas tax when they go to the pumps. Manitobans pay 29 cents in federal taxes, which includes 11 cents of the carbon tax. The governments every where will have to start charging fees on registrations of EVs to recoup all the gas tax money they will lose. Saskatchewn already has a $150 dollar fee per year on their registration of EVs as well as a bunch of US states.349 litres of gas in Manitoba to equal the $150 fee in Saskatchewan. There is a long way to go in the raising of the EV fee to recover what they will lose and to make it fair.Of course the government will have to raise it slowly so they can get as many switched over to electricity before they hammer them like they do to us in gas tax.Bend over everyone.
    https://winnipegsun.com/news/news-news/manitoba-has-no-plans-to-pause-provincial-gas-tax-finance-minister-slams-federal-carbon-tax
    https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2021/april/20/new-annual-fee-of-$150-on-electric-vehicles

    1. Simple fix for that.
      The governments are thinking of putting a GPS tracker in every vehicle and charging you for every mile/km the wheels turn.

      1. “GPS TRACKER” Then they know where you are always. Sounds like the government.

  11. I have listened to many, many, many eminently intelligent, reasonable, voices speaking about the inefficiency and inconvenience of EV’s. “Who killed the electric car?” … it killed itself. We’ve known this since the turn of the 19th century. “Big Oil” didn’t kill the electric car … as often claimed by the greenies … it committed suicide. Suicide by Free Market choice. The EV simply cannot DO … what we all need being done. It’s a fine novelty for those who have the time and money to invest in an expensive golf cart for local grocery shopping … but for the rest of society? Hardly.

    We will NEVER catch up with the infrastructure necessary to make these things even marginally practical for more than single, short, round trips from home. And the power grid necessary ? We simply cannot afford it. We are being LIED to … but as the Bible warns … those LIES tickle our ears … and make us feel as though we can all have a “clean, green, future – free of dirty oil”. It sounds good … so we WANT to believe it. It’s one thing to be a forward-looking believer in technology and mankind’s advancement … it’s quite another to be a fool and be (willingly) fooled. Satan would NEVER tell the public to just Buck Up and Take It! Nope … Satan would tell us … 6uild 6ack 6etter …

  12. I counted 15 Teslas waiting in line

    I doubt all 4 charging stations are the super fast ones that take 15 minutes ( and harm the battery , shorten its life )

    so charging should take 35 to 40 minutes…times 15, that is 8 to 10 hours

    let s be optimistic and say it is 8 hours

    then 8 hours divided by 4 charging stations

    the wait time should be 2 hours and then another 35 to 40 minutes charging you Tesla

    Imagine doing that in Canada in the middle of winter…can you sit in your EV for 2 hours and 40 minutes with the heater on? probably not as it would drain the battery totally

    As some of us have been saying ; Green energy is not ready yet…maybe in 10 or 20 years it will be great but as it is now, it is not ready for real life.

    One more thing

    by the time all those 15 Teslas had their turn and got a full charge from 4 stations, 128 gasoline cars had time to fill up their tanks at 4 pumps.

    and they will go further and longer with their full gas tanks than those EV S will…with or without the heat and heated seats on…

    yeah green energy is sooo efficient ! haha!

    1. So, aren’t these chargeups all FREE or next to FREE? They can all afford their 50k to 70k, but too cheap to pay for their power.

      That’s why they don’t charge at home, which is another option. They would have to pay home power rates. Better to felch off of the Grid instead.

    3. Obama ushered in our new clean green future in 2008 … when the seas stopped rising… right? I believe he and his ilk claimed that in only 20-30 years “technological advances” focused on new, green energy would free us from our “addiction to oil”

      … well … that was 14 years ago. So how are coming along with the “magic (green) technology”? Batteries are now; cheap, plentiful, and more efficient than oil? Nope. How about all that “cheap” green energy? My PG&E bill has doubled as their green energy component has octupled. So … now we’re just 6-16 years from the “magic green technology”? I’m so excited for my PG&E bill to redouble …

  13. BTW … that looks like The Madonna Inn at San Luis Obispo.

    https://www.tesla.com/findus/location/supercharger/sanluisobisposupercharger

    Cal Poly just had the first public graduation (since COVID) a few weeks ago. I was there attending a friend’s son’s graduation in Architecture. The town was packed … no vacancy anywhere. OMG! Colleges have become “the enemy” … the graduation opened with apologies to the local Indian tribes for “occupying their lands” (does Tesla make the same apologies? Or just pay royalties to the local tribes?) and each speaker informed us of their pronouns … although their speeches were not a “conversation” … so I would never be “offending” them by using the “wrong” (anti-biological) pronouns. The speeches by the college professors were all wayyyyyy leftist. One speaker’s theme was telling the graduates to NOT “be successful”. To never TRY to “be successful” – yecccch, she said … that is an awful way to use your degree. Well … she’s evidently succeeded in being unsuccessful … she’s an adjunct professor.

    So, I am sure there were many Tesla drivers attending the graduation from across The Golden State. All driven by people “successful-enough” to purchase a $60k (and up) novelty car. And I will guarantee you that EVERY SINGLE Tesla driver was HAPPY to join all the other Tesla drivers on queue. They were probably all chatting away in the Madonna Inn Lounge … sharing how they were doing their part to “save the planet”. And they would all vehemently deny they were “successful” … or ever “TRIED to be successful” … that it just happened to them, because they are good people. Good to the planet. Good to the cause.

  14. Just wait till a tornado or ice storm or solar flare fuks everything up.
    Then the shit be gettin real.

  15. With the current technology set, EVs with a grid of so called renewables is a total fantasy combination. Combined with a serious winter it is complete BS, and dangerous BS at that.

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