Priorities

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Gunter- Here are more signs of how cultist our green thinking has become

Vancouver is giddy about being the first city in the country to receive an all-electric fire truck.

The new e-truck will cost $300,000 more than a comparable diesel model, pump 40 per cent less water and have such a short range (30 km) because of its enormous weight that it will have to have backup diesel power in case it runs out of juice on the way to a blaze.

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  1. That makes a lot of sense (if you have no mind of your own, and believe everything the media spouts). So what are we going to call a truck that can’t make it to the destination, and if it does, can’t do the job required? A Justin?

    1. So, a fire truck that will probably fail if used in the depths of winter cost 300 Big ones?

      Which way did the “traditional “spillage” flow?

      2. Vancouver doesn’t really have depths of winter. Monsoons, yes.
        Snafoover needs to be burned to the ground, so no worries.

  4. Of course they’re giddy about it, this is just another expensive virtue signal that they don’t have to pay for.

  5. What total idiots.
    Suppose there is the suspense of seeing if it can bring down some underground parking garage by inadvertently driving over its roof. Then there is the small matter of the battery crapping out past warranty with all the costly elements needed to make a replacement for it heading ever skyward, pricewise.

  7. Politicians and bureaucrats live on a separate planet. Especially when they are never held to account for their deliberately disastrous decisions.

    1. Relevant to the fat and ugly topic,this what happens when men on men are elected into power..As is SO popular in Vaincouver.

  8. Would wager that the LIV’s will never know. There will be those that will think, that’s the way it is supposed to be.
    There are those that will insist that it’s not so.
    Those interested in the affairs of men are few, the only thing they can throw in, is a good argument.

  10. What will power the water pumps when the Pumper Truck actually lumbers out to the scene? You know, the actual job of the “Pumper Truck?” How will they actually put lots and lots water on the fire and the surrounding buildings to prevent the fire from spreading? Sometimes thousands of gallons per minute for hours and hours and hours? Will they run an extension cord to the neighbor’s house?

  12. Supposing it goes out to a (nearby) fire and does actually manage to put it out. Then it lumbers back to the firehall and plugs in to recharge. But what if there’s a call to another fire a half hour later?

    Not only is this white elephant overly costly, they also need to add the cost of another (fossil fueled) back-up pumper to replace it when it isn’t charged.

    1. “Not only is this white elephant overly costly, they also need to add the cost of another (fossil fueled) back-up pumper to replace it when it isn’t charged”
      —

      Shouldn’t be an issue as long as they don’t schedule fires too close together.
      They need to leave at least five hours between fires.

      1. See! This kind of thinking is how problems get solved.

        We’ll set up an office for the regulation of fires and make sure that all fires are properly documented and scheduled BEFORE they start, instead of running around trying to put them out afterwards like a typical right wing reactionary nutjob.

    2. according to the specs which are buried in the marketing material, it has a 100kWh battery, so it can drive for 15 km and then operate it’s pumps for 30 minutes, for a total usage of 90 kWh of it’s 100kWh battery, and then using a 150kW charger, it can recharge the battery by 30% in only 15 minutes.

      if they are relying on the built in 6 cylinder diesel range extender, it should only take 5 hours or so to recharge it with it’s 18kW power output

      Hopefully any fires in Vancouver will adhere to the specs and go out in the 30 minutes that are allotted to the use of this vehicle to pump water

  13. It’s a beautiful idea.
    When this electric fire truck’s batteries start blazing away it can put itself out.
    Good thinking!I

    See, that’s why you aren’t one of the elites…..

  14. When the sucker fails to perform it’s intended job, the law suits may make the stuffed suits think a little harder!

  15. I can’t wait for the insurance cancellations for all structures within the service radius of where this e-fire truck is stationed.

    After all … insurances have been cancelled throughout California where wildfires can no longer be prevented, or stopped. Thanks Gavin Newsom!

  16. I think thats a pretty typical Vancouver municipal government decision. Not very high on practicality

  19. It is no coincidence that this ridiculous virtue-signalling, over-expensive monstrosity appears after a female fire chief is employed.
    The entirety of Vancouver is now just a third world virtue-signalling entity. Free drugs, tent cities, hoboes sleeping in downtown shop entrances, mandatory renaming of historical places to unpronouncable indigenous names, every minority grifting about past supposed inequities we have it all.
    The mayor is an ex NDP-NFG MP, which explains all the idiocy, his wife recognizes an easy grift and is running as a council member in the current elections.

  20. Enjoy no natural gas for heating/cooking in Van. A natural extension of that logic.
    The wet coast likes to one up Kalifornication.

  21. Saint John NB, the wacky other side of the country, is also the proud possessor of a brand new explosive Electric Bus.

    The fun kicker is that it will be stored in the 70 bus Saint John Transit Taj Mahal.

    So named as it was so large and expensive that they tried to CYA by turning a large portion into a Library.

    EV Bus and millions of books.

    Marshmallows anyone?

  22. The Lower MAOland…no surprise whatsoever.

    Only solution to it is either an asteroid or the overdue BIG ONE.

    I’M not particular which…

  24. The serious conversion to an electrified future including the maintaining of the era of the personal automobile (hint: not in the cards) entails the scaled up use of fossil fuels like never before and it’s why the plans for tripling the grid capacity with the only high density energy system capable of self replication (nuclear power) is not happening. Gang Green know that the only way to get away from fossil fuels while maintaining prosperity is to use significantly more and given the barely positive return of energy of wind and solar, increasing their capacity means using 50 times more fossil fuel energy than that required in increasing nuclear capacity relative to the energy produced over their life cycles. Gang green have concluded, as have the elected sociopaths virtue signaling for the deception of such a grand conversion, that their obsession over their war on CO2 necessitates deindustrialization, depopulation, impoverishment, and a shrunken and state-dependent middle class to maintain power. This coincides with the documented goals of the world-elite of the WEF, UN etc.

  25. I can just imagine the kind of big time cash some green scam corp made developing this albatross . I’ll guarantee something else and that is the Fire Chief doesn’t have the balls to tell city hall where to stick it . This is another example of pure Kabuki theatre much like shut downs and the wearing of face diapers.

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