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PostPosted: Today 4:48 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

good looking dog.
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PostPosted: Today 2:10 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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Sounds like you're talking about expanded steel.

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That's the word I was trying to retrieve from this old brain, thanks!

Ya, totally out of place. There is no radiator so no need for all the airflow. I cannot see it enhancing the aerodynamics. Quite the opposite I would suspect. If it was put there just for looks they missed that mark by a mile!


Reminds me of our screen front door growing up...
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If they wanted retro appeal, they should have gone "full V", but chickened out and tried to have it both ways. Fail.
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PostPosted: Today 1:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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Sounds like you're talking about expanded steel.

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That's the word I was trying to retrieve from this old brain, thanks!

Ya, totally out of place. There is no radiator so no need for all the airflow. I cannot see it enhancing the aerodynamics. Quite the opposite I would suspect. If it was put there just for looks they missed that mark by a mile!
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PostPosted: Today 8:59 am    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

I dont think,it is steel.
there is no bumper to protect it, easy to damage
it is ugly
it is artistically out of place, a very angular design on a rounded design front.
looks like crap on that bus.
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PostPosted: Today 7:16 am    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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No one designed that, you can buy it at any welding supply outlet. I forget the proper name for it but you use it when you build a headache rack your work truck. It keeps stuff in the box from breaking your back window. It's a stamped steel sheet you weld in place and you can still kind of see through it.

It's used on belt guards on industrial machinery too to keep fingers out of the pulleys.

Kind of like the latticework stuff you buy at your local lumberyard to hide the junk under your deck...

Somebody help me out with the name please!


Sounds like you're talking about expanded steel. Looks like diamond plate only made mostly of holes.

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PostPosted: Today 6:20 am    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

No one designed that, you can buy it at any welding supply outlet. I forget the proper name for it but you use it when you build a headache rack your work truck. It keeps stuff in the box from breaking your back window. It's a stamped steel sheet you weld in place and you can still kind of see through it.

It's used on belt guards on industrial machinery too to keep fingers out of the pulleys.

Kind of like the latticework stuff you buy at your local lumberyard to hide the junk under your deck...

Somebody help me out with the name please!
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PostPosted: Yesterday 10:39 am    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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I don't think the greenkeeper would be impressed with you driving a 2.7 ton vehicle on their grass!

Oh but it would make a great impression... Wink

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2.7 tons on the lawn is a depressing thought.

Gawd that front grill is so darn ugly, and ripe for extensive damage in even a minor parking lot bump. Looks like one large and likely pricey piece.

The designer of that grill should be dragged from his or her desk taken outside, tied to a post, and fed to wild dogs. It is that ugly. That grill of diagonal lines is puke, cyber truck like.
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PostPosted: Yesterday 9:11 am    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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I don't think the greenkeeper would be impressed with you driving a 2.7 ton vehicle on their grass!

Oh but it would make a great impression... Wink

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PostPosted: Yesterday 8:49 am    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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I saw my first one in the flesh yesterday at a VW dealership.


are we still talking about boobs here...?

as for the golf cart - I don't think the greenkeeper would be impressed with you driving a 2.7 ton vehicle on their grass!
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PostPosted: Yesterday 7:51 am    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

I saw my first one in the flesh yesterday at a VW dealership.

My reaction? Hot dog! That would be the perfect golf cart-limo for a group (company or family reunion game) round of golf! Can you just picture it out there on the green surrounded by a bunch of happy golfers? How many does it seat? Six, eight? Plus golf bags?

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 4:46 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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come to think about it, a thread about boobs, would be a lot better than a thread about electric vehicles.



Thread about Boobs? Shit, there's a few threads jam packed full of boobs in here but they are the same droopy, seen 'em before, set...


But combining them with cold temps can be... entertaining.



I did not consider that. I have now concluded I need to do everything possible to stop global warming. I am crushing my cars, going vegan, off the grid and protesting oil. We must keep the Earth cool for the sake of the boobs!!!!! Stop global warming NOW!!!!!!
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 3:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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come to think about it, a thread about boobs, would be a lot better than a thread about electric vehicles.



Thread about Boobs? Shit, there's a few threads jam packed full of boobs in here but they are the same droopy, seen 'em before, set...


But combining them with cold temps can be... entertaining.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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come to think about it, a thread about boobs, would be a lot better than a thread about electric vehicles.



Thread about Boobs? Shit, there's a few threads jam packed full of boobs in here but they are the same droopy, seen 'em before, set...
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 1:52 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

I went out in our -30*C weather yesterday to start the car, threw the key fob on the seat next to me and cleared the snow off before starting the car. The dash said "No key" when I got back in... the battery died in the key fob that quick!

Then when I got out on the road I checked my phone... it was dead too and I just took it off the charger before I left!

Go ahead and try to convince me that I NEED an E car here in the winter in Canada!
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2025 12:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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Seeing the rousing success of the EVs are bad thread I was thinking we might keep the love going with a religion thread! Razz Popcorn


my local god botherers have finally learned that my door is not worth their while knocking on.
my mother said it took them almost 10 years before they were willing to try her place, after l left.
there's not much in life that gets me an angry as god botherers do.
l don't care what brand, l despise them all equally.

Yep, nothing destroys spirituality quicker than religion.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:40 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

terrible movie ?
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l didn't think it was that bad.
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I had one of my posts get deleted for this reason, as well.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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And my comment was wiped out when I brought up the ice age, so I'll ty again.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why posts that refer to the ice age are being deleted?

I had one of my posts get deleted for this reason, as well.


It may have melted away.

Of course if it is CO2 ice, it may have sublimed away.

Or perhaps someone higher up put a freeze on discussing that subject.

Of course when I was but a lad, I first though a sublime was a deep sea citrus fruit. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

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And my comment was wiped out when I brought up the ice age, so I'll ty again.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why posts that refer to the ice age are being deleted?

I had one of my posts get deleted for this reason, as well.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 7:59 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

you can do better than that.

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well dam you!!!!! Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 6:07 pm    Post subject: Re: Electric vehicles are bad Reply with quote

Back on track

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/audi-unveils-...ngNewsSerp

Note that the writer states...
"But it's important to note that 16.5 billion tons of fossil fuels are dug out of the Earth every year. For comparison, the clean energy transition will require just 30 million tons of minerals per year."


Note that only 30 million tones of mineral will be required for a green transition per year. but remember that pure minerals are rarely ever found. you need to dig up a lot more ore than you get the mineral from that ore. so the above article is very deceptive, 16.5 billion "dug up" verses only 30 million!!!


Per this..

https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-pedia/how-much-earth-is-moved-to-make-a-tesla-battery/

one car needs 30 tons of ore just for the Colbalt, Nickle and Copper required, NOT counting the Lithium brine needed.

So that 30 million tones of mineral is misleading in the first story.
30 million tones of ore is only enough ore for one million electric cars, (not counting the Lithium)
One million electric cars will hardly make a dent in the market, as their is nearly 275 million car in the USA.

green washing deceptive writing to be sure.


Furthermore that 16.5 billion tons of fossils fuels is a total of coal, oil and gas. But not all of that is used for fuel, some of it is used for the chemical industry, to make plastics, fertilizers, paints, roads, roofing shingles, etc... and some of that is indeed used for the manufacture or use of electric cars, again more green washing of the truth

electric cars are not all that green afterall

do to the massive amount of ores required, an electric car has a much larger CO2 manufacturing foot print than normal cars too.

electric cars are not the solution for manmade global warming, even if there were such a thing, and that assumes that global warming is a bad thing too, it may not be so bad.

craziness.
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