Electric Cars -- anyone own one?

[Brians356]

"Wall, baby, wall!"
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[Larry Koch]

Going to be interesting, Joe going to tear down 5 Hydro Electric dams so the Salmon can spawn. I thought that was resolved. What can be more economical than Hydro Electric Power Plants.? Going back to wood stoves.

 

[Brians356]

Going to be interesting, Joe going to tear down 5 Hydro Electric dams so the Salmon can spawn. I thought that was resolved. What can more economical than Hydro Electric Power Plants.? Going back to wood stoves.

Uh, not so fast. "The Biden administration ... pledged to fund dam removal studies." And "Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who participated in the news conference, didn’t commit his support for dam breaching ...".

All this does for now is give $1B to some Indian tribes suing the Federal government, and they agreed to gulp hard but take the extortion money, and "pause" their lawsuits for 5 to 10 years. Very big of the Indians, as a billion doesn't really buy much these days, and we all know they have expensive taste in lavish homes and fancy cars.

This is called kicking the can down the road, and virtue signalling to the fish huggers and Indians.
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[jimmymac]

Our energy problem is a unique combination of stupidity and Naiveté’.

You forgot corruption.

 

[Rick300]

 

[SGK]

Dateline 14 Dec 2023: Tesla is recalling more than 2M vehicles after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration determined that its Autopilot driver-assistance system does not go far enough to keep drivers engaged. The recall follows an NHTSA investigation into a series of crashes involving Autopilot.
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Over the air software update...

 

[NorCalMikie]

Just saw where Nuclear power plants (in California) (???) got a reprieve for another 5 years??

 

[Brians356]

Just saw where Nuclear power plants (in California) (???) got a reprieve for another 5 years??

I thought there was only one remaining in Kalifornia.
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[Brians356]

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[ern.santos]

I thought there was only one remaining in Kalifornia.
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was thinking Rancho Seco, but it's been shut down since '89. I pass by it every time I shoot a match in Sac.

 

[NorCalMikie]

I thought there was only one remaining in Kalifornia.
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All I heard was the plants got a reprieve for 5 years.

Where they are all located, not sure.

 

[Larry Koch]

How lucky we are to have Dumb and Dumber, both in the White House.

 

[BlueWater]

Over the air software update...

And, I would hope, $refund of what it cost buyers to have gotten that feature on the car in the first place. But, we'll see.

 

[max evans]

anyone have a horses carredge, i may get one

 

[Brians356]

anyone have a horses carredge, i may get one

1895 Duryea, winner of America's first automobile race.




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[rwj]

anyone have a horses carredge, i may get one

Nah… environmentalists claim they emit too much flatulence!

 

[Kracken McGraw]

How lucky we are to have Dumb and Dumber, both in the White House.

 

[Dgd6mm]

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Dang that's funny!

 

[Knotwild]

How lucky we are to have Dumb and Dumber, both in the White House.

They are there to keep us occupied. Someone (obama) is in the background telling them what to do.

 

[wedgy]

All I heard was the plants got a reprieve for 5 years.

Where they are all located, not sure.

Diablo Canyon is the only one remaining, go figure it puts out power cheaper and cleaner than other sources.... so lets close it !

The plant has two Westinghouse-designed 4-loop pressurized-water nuclear reactors operated by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Together, the twin 1100 MWe reactors produce about 18,000 GW·h of electricity annually (8.6% of total California generation and 23% of carbon-free generation), supplying the electrical needs of more than 3 million people.[5] The plant produces electricity for about 6 cents per kWh, less than the average cost of 10.1 cents per kWh that PG&E paid for electricity from other suppliers in 2014.[6]