Saturday On Turtle Island

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1. PM Weirdeau will become more and more shrill about the oh so scary right-wing Conservatives.
   As will the media and the NDP and the Climate Doomers.
   The clock is ticking and Tarface sees the end of his luxury and lifestyle.
   He and his party will only get louder and more desperate.
   Its all they have.
   Well that and some type of emergency…

   1. Buddy, I must be the scariest old conservative in Canada.

2. Dear cousin Mohammad, come to Ireland, it’s awesome. We rape their women and stab their kids then they burn busses and cars, fight the police and the government defends us.

3. EV versus Gas:

   95% of charging is at home versus using superchargers.
   Batteries won’t need to be replaced after 120k miles. More like 300-500k miles. And with less NVH than with an ICE car, the EV will last much longer.

   Article is fake news. Buy a Tesla and relax.

   1. So how do you know EVs will last longer Future Boy?
      The example didn’t use superchargers as the go to it used one as a needed recharge. Very expensive kind of like gas is $1.50 a gallon but if you really need more you’re charged 5 times as much.
      And this story doesn’t even speak to 20 below temperatures in Canada.
      Don’t be a dimwit.

      1. Have an open mind.

         And stop with the ad hominem attacks. Not a good look and it’s a tell for cognitive dissonance.

         Believe me when I tell you: Tesla is 10 years ahead of of everyone else and a Tesla EV is way cheaper to own and operate than an ICE vehicle.

         But, they are not for everyone.

         1. Wrong.

   2. If they are going to last 300k to 500k miles, why is tesla only providing a warranty for 100k/120k/150k on the battery?

   3. Buy a Tesla and relax.

      Please, do. The more of you virtue signalling Fruit Loops & Whackos who buy electric, the more reliable ICE cars there are for the rest of us & the shorter the line-ups at the gas station.

      1. And the less gas stations there are. The West side of Vancouver has a dearth of gas stations. The latest to go, Esso at 16th and Arbutus.

         1. Is that a function of fewer ICE cars or something else? Like, say, fuel prices?

            ‘Sides, good for them! They voted for this shit. Give it to ’em, good & hard. Next? Natural gas being shut off in the Lower Mainland.

         2. “And the less gas stations there are. The West side of Vancouver has a dearth of gas stations. The latest to go, Esso at 16th and Arbutus.”

            That’s for sure. They have actually been closing gas stations for years now all over the city, but more so where the land price is highest. More efficient engines consuming less gasoline was the original reason, I think.

   4. Getting a hook-up costs money.
      If everybody has a battery car, not everybody will be able to charge them when they want.
      The Grid will be a shit-show.
      Richie Rich in Rockcliffe Park will be able to whenever he wants and the various levels of government will have priority and then company vehicles delivering goods and services will get their place a long time before the lowly serf that I am can plug in my fcking toaster let a lone a car that the Climate Doomers say I can’t have in the 15 minute Shitty City, so there’s that.

   5. What a load of shit.

4. Ref: turdo’s new Goebbels.

   “Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to take this bowl of vomit and make it palatable.”

5. The common denominator driving the wind / solar / electric vehicle mania is climate change. Carbon emissions are warming the planet, and catastrophe will result unless we dramatically reduce carbon emissions, or so we are told.

   Anyone daring to question the *settled science* of climate change is dismissed as a loon or censored. Meanwhile, the big carbon emitters, China et al, continue to burn coal.

   Wind / solar power generation is variable, but few point out the consequences of that: grid collapse caused by replacing reliable thermal generation with variable wind / solar coupled with a huge increase in load caused by mass migration to EVs.

   Once the rage, demand for EVs now tapers off as battery issues, battery range, charge time, cost, etc. become known.

   Against this background The Sustainable Organic Church Of The Carbon Apocalypse exiles heretics daring to challenge church dogma, and demand that we do more, faster.

   What could possibly go wrong?

6. Math is hard.. I don’t buy a car to save gas.. I don’t even buy a car to save money.. I buy a car to save time and bring comfort and convenience into my life.. It’s nothing more than a tool to get a job done..

   The important thing is what are you asking from this tool.. Grocery store two times a week or a 250 km daily commute.. Or a work vehicle that’s on the road all day.. It is not one size fits all.. The grocery store is going to rot out before it burns out and the commuter is going to burn out before it rots out..

   EVs have their place providing you willing to sacrifice convenience and cost.. Lifestyle, how many can you plug in at night.. Three working adults in one home. That’s inconvenient.. I guess you could go to a charging station and play with your phone for a half hour.. That’s two hours a week, eight hours a month.. You just added one more working day a month.. As if you don’t have enough to do.. Babysit your EV instead of your own kids :)..

   Rich or single, short commute.. A private garage to charge your EV in the winter months.. Oh look it works.. Everybody should be a Vegan :).. Sorry, everybody should live my life even though that’s not possible..

   Are we really down to this?.. Demanding the wrong tool for the job because so and so has a electric twanger?..

   1. A private garage to charge your EV in the winter months..
      ___________________________

      Just pray it doesn’t go poof.

7. So had a look at the price of a Ford Lightening here in Calgary.

   $ 103, 300 CAD List
   $ 94, 800 CAD after “discount”

   Range: 386.2 to 515 km battery-only. (Likely only in Summer with Zero passengers, zero load….(& no Trailer with a 4500kw Genny)

   TOW Capacity: 10,000 lb. (for how far.?…city limits maybe.??)

   New Battery Cost: $35,960 USD + $675 USD Labour
   $35,960 USD for battery pack.
   Labour: $675 USD.
   Yep…Such a “deal” I tell ya…

   So let’s have a comparison.
   ’23 Lightening $ 94, 400
   ’07 GMC Duramax. $ 20k after OutO Prov & new Rear Diff.

   Calgary to Winnipeg:

   Call it Summertime..

   Duramax: @ 120km/hr 11.5L/100. (Titan Tank 193L).
   MT to Full TanK: $ 300 @ Costco East Hills Calgary
   My load is easily 1500lbs – 2 Stops ~16 hrs total
   (Add a cpl stops to relieve ones self and grab A BITE.) 2 hrs Max

   Lightening: Lets give it a load of say 1000lbs
   And go half way for range:
   I’m Betting this Aluminum pile of Scrap will have to charge at least 4-5 times.

   Heres whats available:
   Calgary:
   Leaves City with full charge: Avg mileage lets say ~ 300-350 kms before it needs charging.

   Bossano: 140km. Stns: 6 Tesla 120kw
   Brooks: 189km Stns: 2 @ 50kw, 1 @ 7.2kw (useless)
   Med Hat: 293km Stns: 2 @ 350kw, 2 @ 100kw. Stop 1
   Swift Curr. 516km Stns: 2 @ 175kw, 2 @ 100kw. Stop 2
   Moose J. 687km Stns: 2 @ 200kw, 2 @ 100kw
   Regina. 756km Stns: 2 @ 350kw, 2 @ 100kw Stop 3
   Brandon. 1122km Stns: 2 @ 180kw, 2 @ 100kw. Stop 4
   Portage LP 1245km Stns: 2 @ 175kw, 2 @ 100kw
   Winnipeg 1332km Stns Final Destination – Lots of stns

   So 4 stops in total at Best, lets call it a Min 2 hrs each
   total time….if there is no LINE-UP..?? Likely 2 Full 12 hr Days…. + a Hotel stay for 2. Let alone the costs of using super Chargers and Food.

   Utterly Laughable.
   Utterly USELESS.
   …and dead as a doornail within 8 yrs.
   Buh bye EV’s

   My only question is this, JUST How Flipping STOOPID does one have to be to actually consider buying this JUNK.??

   1. They are libs. Brain power is not required.

   2. Steakman, I am going to say it once again. These morons who think that electric vehicles will save all life on planet earth are as dumb as a bag of rocks and less useful.
      The idiots ignore, constantly, the fact that the damn things cannot be produced without massive mining, coal to smelt the metals used , oil to produce the plastics, gas to transport a lot of the material and workers, heat the plants and generate the electricity. Then they are stupid enough to think that wind turbines and solar panels are renewable energy, both requiring massive input of fossil fuels, in fact, more fossil energy input than they will ever produce. F*** man the world will die if these idiots are not shut down permanently. No matter how many times you point out the truth they are way to dumb to grasp it.
      I HATE STUPID PEOPLE.

8. Reality slowly overtakes perception:

   https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/in-a-win-for-real-science-cnbc-dismantles-its-climate-desk/

   As the green energy dominoes continue to fall, one of the major climate cult propaganda machines falls with them.

   1. I expect that the main desk will now be climate crisis 24/7. They no longer need a separate department when the prime time anchor will espouse the climate change crisis for 46 minutes every hour.

9. The do something politics / business plan of climate change has overrun the science (spit) of global warming.. No warming feedback, just more politics than we know what to do with.. Our goose was cooked (real warming) the moment colleges and universities started offering green degrees, think commissars.. Green jobs that our? government was obliged to borrow money to “create” jobs for.. It can be said that this situation is welfare for the rich.. Or more accurately make work for their children.. The cart before the horse..

   A economic coup based on what, from where and for who?.. Open those borders and put a dress on it.. Important stuff while they rob you blind.. We call this progress..