Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Demands <i>Energy Companies Do Their Part and Start Producing More Energy</i><br>Flashback: "If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you"

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Demands Energy Companies Do Their Part and Start Producing More Energy
Flashback: "If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you"

The absolute balls.

Recall that just one week ago, Jennifer Granholm said flatly that the higher costs of energy we were suffering was just something we were going to have to get through as we "transitioned" to an economy that did not run on oil and gas, but on made-up, imaginary sources of energy that child-minded progressive smoothbrains prefer.

So this is their entire plan. As Barack Obama admitted -- or proudly declared -- that under his plan of punishing real energy production, "energy prices will necessarily skyrocket." They intended to artificially inflate the costs of real energy by several times in order to make the sky-high costs of fake energy appear competitive with it.

But then, when people start feeling the pain of this deliberate policy, they start making excuses, like this being "Putin's price hike."

Which all of the NPCs then start repeating.

And they also start talking about workarounds to the intended consequences of their own policies, like releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

They could achieve a much larger effect by simply rolling back their oil-limiting policies, of course, but they will not even consider that: They intend their energy-punishing policies to be permanent. Temporary band-aids like releasing some oil from the petroleum reserve are intended to just be temporary, something to get the energy-destroyers past a bad couple of weeks of polling while they wait for the public to accept the New Normal of Permanently Elevated Energy Prices.

So here's Jennifer Granholm making another one of these temporary token workaround efforts while refusing to even consider rolling back her own Department's energy-destroying measures which are driving the high cost of energy.

Which was the entire intended point of them.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm publicly called on oil and natural gas producers in the United States to boost output while the country is on a "war footing."
President Biden's most senior energy official made the remarks as the administration looks for ways to reduce gas prices, which have skyrocketed even further during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"We are on a war footing," the energy secretary told an economic forum in Houston on Wednesday. "We are in an emergency, and we have to responsibly increase short-term supply where we can right now to stabilize the market and minimize harm to American families."

Notice -- we have to increase "short-term supply."

They want to keep long-term supply limited, because they want energy prices to "necessarily skyrocket."

But there are crisis points when the public begins showing signs it is no longer quiescent and may just rebel, and at those crisis points, you have to mollify them with a short-term palliative and pretend you "care."

Before going right back to performing painful deductive surgery on them, forever.

Lefties were swarming that tweet by a local CBS news station, pointing out that it's known to be one of the highest-price gas stations in California.

Why you can still get gasoline at $5.60 at most places, they say.

Oh!

Oh. I did not realize they were just giving gas away these days!

See what I mean about slowly getting the public to accept the New Normal of Permanently Elevated Gas Prices?

Biden’s Energy Secretary in May: “If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you”

pic.twitter.com/v277n1c6oH
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 10, 2022

Thanks to alexthechick.

Nitter link thanks to m.

Granholm in November: Gas will be $3.05 per gallon by December, so we don't have to increase oil production.

Posted by: Ace at 03:06 PM

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1 yep

Posted by: micky at March 10, 2022 03:07 PM (3byMq)

2 Damn it! I read the content!

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 10, 2022 03:07 PM (a/dOO)

3 I could have been a first-tender!

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 10, 2022 03:08 PM (a/dOO)

4 Make bricks bitches, who needs straw?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at March 10, 2022 03:08 PM (ObFlJ)

5 How about fracking companies?

Can they?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:08 PM (LvTSG)

6 These assholes just keep winding up the rubber band. Keep winding it up.
Soon...sometime, its gonna snap.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 03:08 PM (axyOa)

7 >Want a solution? Ride a bike. Walk. Get an electric bike. Move closer. Get solar. Need more?

https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/
1501722461242486789

Paris Hilton's "just stop being poor" updated for $CURRENT_YEAR

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:08 PM (L9uv7)

8 Don't worry guys, we won't do that much in your mouth. Just a little and a little bit more.

Posted by: Mitch the Turtle at March 10, 2022 03:09 PM (QYPq3)

9 Recall that just one week ago, Jennifer Granholm said flatly that the higher costs of energy we were suffering was just something we were going to have to get through as we "transitioned" to an economy that did not run on oil and gas, but on made-up, imaginary sources of energy that child-minded progressive retards prefer.

So this is their entire plan. As Barack Obama admitted -- or proudly declared -- that under his plan of punishing real energy production, "energy prices will necessarily skyrocket." They intended to artificially inflate the costs of real energy by several times in order to make the sky-high costs of fake energy appear competitive with it.

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They're still operating by polls because, for some reason after most of the things that allowed for months of mail in ballot cheating from 2020 were repealed in one way or another across the country at the state level, they are acting like voting matters. Also, there's no consistency to this approach because no one is actually in charge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:10 PM (LvTSG)

10 noodled

Posted by: micky at March 10, 2022 03:10 PM (3byMq)

11 That graphic omits the "Inflation is fake news" phase.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 03:10 PM (S5d3L)

12 >>>Why you can still get gasoline at $5.60 at most places, they say.

It's akin to 1984's "increasing your chocolate rations" and they expect to be thanked.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2022 03:10 PM (k8wcX)

13 I nooded.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 10, 2022 03:10 PM (a/dOO)

14 >"We are on a war footing," the energy secretary told an economic forum in Houston on Wednesday.

Say, where did Jonah Goldberg steal the idea that the left loves to make all of their policy preferences "the moral equivalent to war"? Because that was a good insight, but I know it didn't come from him.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (L9uv7)

15 >>>10 noodled
Posted by: micky

thanks for ennoodlating

Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (0G13K)

16 'You should be thanking me' -- Barky

Posted by: micky at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (3byMq)

17 Just back from food shopping and topping off the tank.

Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (ZLI7S)

18 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

19 The Dem gamble is that the GOP will take the house, but the Dems can just camp out in the WH and bureaucracy for the next two years and prevent anything from being undone, so that by the time 2024 rolls around it's accepted.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (wmDcS)

20 Gas-lighting.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (LKTKP)

21 Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm publicly called on oil and natural gas producers in the United States to boost output while the country is on a "war footing."
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So increased energy output and lower prices and a greater degree of energy independence is good when there's a war on, but not good - in fact, it is so not-good that it is in fact so bad it borders on criminality - when there isn't.

What a stupid, venal, absurd hyper-bitch retard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (DU+/6)

22 14 >"We are on a war footing," the energy secretary told an economic forum in Houston on Wednesday.

Say, where did Jonah Goldberg steal the idea that the left loves to make all of their policy preferences "the moral equivalent to war"? Because that was a good insight, but I know it didn't come from him.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (L9uv7)

=======

I think Insty regularly credits the original author of the quote. It was some lefty from the 1910s or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (LvTSG)

23 >>>These assholes just keep winding up the rubber band. Keep winding it up.
Soon...sometime, its gonna snap.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 03:08 PM (axyOa)

They're counting on it. Can't say I'm concerned about giving it to them.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (QYPq3)

24 The clip of her smirking about well everyone should just by EVs is maddening.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (GbPPJ)

25
Putin's price hike.

*chants creepily*

The greater good...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (N+OGf)

26 I was just thinking about that. Our field techs drive a lot of miles doing installs and trouble tickets. At some point, we're going to have to raise prices.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 03:12 PM (5HBd1)

27 You can always buy an electric car instead of a gas guzzling suv. Electric hummer?

Posted by: raimondo at March 10, 2022 03:12 PM (1eMlg)

28 So where are our electric buses bitch?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 03:12 PM (2graF)

29 "It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it."

Posted by: m at March 10, 2022 03:12 PM (k8wcX)

30 "Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Demands Energy Companies Do Their Part and Start Producing More Energy"

Yes, because energy companies just exist to do the bidding of the US government, or rather exist to help the polls of whichever idiot Dems are in office at the moment. Also they need to do this because we're on a "war footing" (we declared war on Russia?). Of course the energy companies aren't blameless in this either, having gone full envirotard but still.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 03:12 PM (Rl7KJ)

31 Here's the clip (sorry for the Twat link)

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1501709925168431111

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at March 10, 2022 03:13 PM (GbPPJ)

32 19 The Dem gamble is that the GOP will take the house, but the Dems can just camp out in the WH and bureaucracy for the next two years and prevent anything from being undone, so that by the time 2024 rolls around it's accepted.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (wmDcS)

=========

There are going to be a lot of new Republicans in state houses with election integrity apparently becoming one of the most important issues driving the electorate for the midterms. (https://tinyurl.com/ycy2th5j)

The 2024 election is not going to play out at all like 2020, methinks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:13 PM (LvTSG)

33 You can't move closer. Closer costs more, and more is what you can no longer afford because the inflation and fuel bite is killing your income.

Imagine a pay cut and six dollar gas, and how you will cope.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 10, 2022 03:13 PM (KiBMU)

34 Wow, Fox News unwatchable. All Ukraine cheerleading all the time... nothing else.

23/7 pushing a War I don't give a shit about... (23 is not a typo, because... Tucker).

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 03:13 PM (oHd/0)

35 My lawn care company sent a letter stating that they would be adding fuel surcharges now to our monthly bill.

I shall immediately send them a letter back stating that we're on a war footing and they should buy electric vehicles!

Thanks Jen!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 03:13 PM (LKTKP)

36 The oil industry spokesman was on CNBC earlier saying productive leases are pumping at an all time high utilization rate.

What's missing, they say, are new leases of federal land. Two federal courts ordered the Biden administration to comply with law and auction new leases, but the administration has flat out ignored those courts, according to the industry dude.

TL

R The Junta is lying, and starving us of energy on purpose.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 03:13 PM (1xYm9)

37 I saw Insane Clown Posse open for Butthole Surfers at The Music Factory in '98.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

38 And I think the good days of delivered groceries and meals is also probably over. Can't imagine that you can compensate drivers enough.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (5HBd1)

39 Granholm was involved with a company that made electric buses. Every city that bought one (with federal grants) has retired them after only a short while because they were such pieces of shit. They either caught fire or the frames cracked, and they never had any useful range.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (Y5qcH)

40 Retardo, where's all the energy needed for those electric cars going to come from? How about all the rare earths needed to make the batteries and such?

Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (Rl7KJ)

41 Queue the "Do something...do something...do something" scene from Spaceballs.

Government passing the buck, uh, efficiency and delegation, at its finest.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (TNyrE)

42 Jeez, all the trolls are out today.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (Ez6QX)

43 Doesn't a 'war footing' mean Dems are gonna torch some businesses?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (2graF)

44 We can increase output with rope, lampposts, Biden Administration, some assembly required.

Posted by: JROD at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (SMyjc)

45 39 Granholm was involved with a company that made electric buses. Every city that bought one (with federal grants) has retired them after only a short while because they were such pieces of shit. They either caught fire or the frames cracked, and they never had any useful range.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (Y5qcH)

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But the virtue signaled was great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (LvTSG)

46 thank alexthechick.

Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (0G13K)

47 Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 03:12 PM (Rl7KJ)

One of the defining traits of Fascism was that industry (business) and the State, would work together for the good OF the State.

Some assembly required.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 03:15 PM (oHd/0)

48 Sorry to go OT, but can anyone explain the sidebar wheelchair/pole dancer gal's improbable ass? That's got to be cosmetic surgery or implant related, right?

Posted by: Xander Crews at March 10, 2022 03:15 PM (MpOGS)

49 31 Here's the clip (sorry for the Twat link)

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1501709925168431111
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at March 10, 2022 03:13 PM (GbPPJ)

now nittered and tinyurled

https://nitter.net/bennyjohnson/status/1501709925168431111

https://tinyurl.com/4ct4ej8a

Posted by: m at March 10, 2022 03:15 PM (k8wcX)

50 39 Granholm was involved with a company that made electric buses. Every city that bought one (with federal grants) has retired them after only a short while because they were such pieces of shit. They either caught fire or the frames cracked, and they never had any useful range.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (Y5qcH)

But you know she got paid.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 10, 2022 03:15 PM (a/dOO)

51 48 Sorry to go OT, but can anyone explain the sidebar wheelchair/pole dancer gal's improbable ass? That's got to be cosmetic surgery or implant related, right?
Posted by: Xander Crews at March 10, 2022 03:15 PM (MpOGS)

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Squats and barre exercises, probably.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:15 PM (LvTSG)

52 38 And I think the good days of delivered groceries and meals is also probably over. Can't imagine that you can compensate drivers enough.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (5HBd1)

Thank heavens COVID is officially over! Otherwise those COVID shut-ins would be effed

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 03:15 PM (LKTKP)

53 Biden's Energy Secretary in May: "If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you"

Hey dipshit. What's the price of the electricity coming into my house that CHARGES said electric car. MORE EXPENSIVE?!?

Fuck you you dumb illiterate cuntbag. Die. Soon.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

54 The absolute balls.

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BALLZZZZ!

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (v72l5)

55 "We're working through an energy transition"

So will we be hitting up the Strategic Solar Reserve or the Solar Wind Reserve?
This broad's on crack.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (SVUeu)

56 In case you didn't know it, Granholm was one of the largest single stockholders of Proterra, maker of electric city buses. She was a stockholder at the time she gave a large federal grant to Proterra. She has since sold her shares, using a government official only tactic that allowed her to exempt herself from capital gains taxes on the stock that she caused to skyrocket.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (5kI0z)

57 Step a) "Oil companies are greedy capitalists who ruin the earth. We should put them all out of business! Maybe put them in prison!"
Step b) "Please PUMP MORE OIL!!!! For the love of God!"

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (jTmQV)

58 The good news -- to the extent there is any -- is that oil and gas are largely futures markets. The current cost of gas, for example, is largely dependent on what the industry expects the future costs to be. The gas that's currently at the pump has already been paid for and produced at whatever the price was at the time.

Why is this (somewhat) good news? Because if someone gets their fucking heads out of their jive turkey fartclams and opens up domestic production like Trump did, gas prices at the pump will fall quickly. We won't have to wait for the lower oil prices to ripple through the production process. But who will that somebody be? [crickets chirping]

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (iFTx/)

59 Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at March 10, 2022 03:13 PM (GbPPJ)

Come outside, Alex. We have a surprise for you!

Posted by: Parachuting Hand-Size Spider at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (ZGrMX)

60 Granholm:

"Most of you will have to live in penniless squalor, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."

The WEF globalists aren't kidding that they intend for you to live a hyperurban pod, eat bugs, live alone and atomized, and never travel.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (L9uv7)

61 This is coordinated. Multiple outlets are calling for more production and citing the number of rigs available. This is true and misleading; it doesn't matter how many rigs you have if you CANT SHIP IT!

Posted by: Lexistexas at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (hRBhw)

62 Posted by: raimondo at March 10, 2022 03:12 PM (1eMlg)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

63 Fuck these people in their skulls with a rusty tire iron.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (SH2Zi)

64 Not only does Mexico not send us their best folks, neither does Canada.

Posted by: huerfano at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (MzKgG)

65 It's a good plan, sad to say.

America put up with shutting down the economy, armed militias burning cities, forced vaccinations killing mpre people than the disease "protected" against, keeping us from being with our sick and dying loved ones, and a stolen election, with not a single "kinetic" response or a single "elected" "representative" being discomfited in any way.

We'll all just sit here on our asses and whine, and the elections in 2022 and 2024 will be stolen just as 2020 was. Then they go full communist and we'll never have another election.

Will the shooting finally start then? Nope.

Buy guns and ammo!! Indeed.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (B1Vad)

66
Met Jennifer once when she was Governor of Michigan.

Came up through Attorney General Frank Kelly's office.

Anyone wanna guess what the rumors were about her office function?

Hope she got rid of the face moles, you had to stare...

Posted by: Auspex at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (bQvYf)

67 19 The Dem gamble is that the GOP will take the house, but the Dems can just camp out in the WH and bureaucracy for the next two years and prevent anything from being undone, so that by the time 2024 rolls around it's accepted.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

Well, that's what they did on Obamacare and it worked.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (GZ/yK)

68 I don't see what all of the fuss is about. You go to the gas station and pump the gas out of the ground.

It's like going to the grocery store to get steaks. You don't have to murder a cow to get steaks.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (oWZwa)

69 Also, how should I interpret Granholm's "war footing" stuff? Is it a stupid and irrelevant excuse that she's using to try to mask the catastrophic fuckup in lease cancellation and fracking restrictions, or is she signaling that we're about to be at war in Europe?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (DU+/6)

70 What a pompous ass bitch she is.

Liberals suck. royally.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

71
Hope she got rid of the face moles, you had to stare...
Posted by: Auspex at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (bQvYf)

Was Granholm considered attractivish for a Democrat at one time?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (eGTCV)

72 Hope she got rid of the face moles, you had to stare...

Posted by: Auspex at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM

The moles are gone but if she could flap those ears, she could be in the circus.

Posted by: huerfano at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (MzKgG)

73 69 Also, how should I interpret Granholm's "war footing" stuff? Is it a stupid and irrelevant excuse that she's using to try to mask the catastrophic fuckup in lease cancellation and fracking restrictions, or is she signaling that we're about to be at war in Europe?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (DU+/6)

=========

Theory:

Biden will involve us in a "limited hangout" or whatever right after the midterms, like December, in an effort to recast the entire next Congress as Republicans wishing for failure in war for the 2024 elections.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (LvTSG)

74 This is coordinated. Multiple outlets are calling for more production and citing the number of rigs available. This is true and misleading; it doesn't matter how many rigs you have if you CANT SHIP IT!
Posted by: Lexistexas at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (hRBhw)

Or crews to work them. Or refinery capacity.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (4I/2K)

75 Does everyone use some spellchecker/helper/hinderer nowadays? Lazy.

Been seeing lots of: threw vs through
ex. She through it away. nein!

One looks through a window
and
That guy threw that punk JG through that window. Serves xer right, too.

Posted by: micky at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (3byMq)

76 I remember the days when I scrambled to collect change in my car and put in less than a dollar of gas to get me around for a couple of days. There is something to the 'good ole days' .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (XntMs)

77 Say, where did Jonah Goldberg steal the idea that the left loves to make all of their policy preferences "the moral equivalent to war"? Because that was a good insight, but I know it didn't come from him.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen

The Moral Equivalent of War, better known by its acronym, "MEOW".

Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (B1Vad)

78 69 Also, how should I interpret Granholm's "war footing" stuff? Is it a stupid and irrelevant excuse that she's using to try to mask the catastrophic fuckup in lease cancellation and fracking restrictions, or is she signaling that we're about to be at war in Europe?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (DU+/6)

Yeah, um, about that... hasn't the US Army been in constant combat operations for the last 20 years?

But LESS now, then anytime in a couple of decades?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (oHd/0)

79 Jenny SCOFFS in your general direction!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un5N690N3MY

PS FUCK YOU PEASANTS

Posted by: Jenny Queen of Scoffs at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (yrol0)

80 Oh, AtC, content warning about Adrian Tchaikovsky's books Children of Time and Children of Ruin.

Spoilers ahead:

Spiders. Big, superintelligent spiders.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (PiwSw)

81 76 I remember the days when I scrambled to collect change in my car and put in less than a dollar of gas to get me around for a couple of days. There is something to the 'good ole days' .
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (XntMs)

Gas cost the same as when I was in college.

5 bucks

Posted by: Jenny Queen of Scoffs at March 10, 2022 03:20 PM (yrol0)

82 It's absolutely asinine to use battery powered electric buses when electric cable car technology has been around for over 100 years.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:20 PM (Y5qcH)

83 So their goal is a zero emission energy grid in 13 years.

There is literally not enough money in the entire world to make that happen nor is there enough raw materials and manufacturing capacity to switch even 10% of the grid to "renewables" by 2035.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2022 03:20 PM (bVYXr)

84 Wasn't Gramholm on the Dating Game way back in the day?

Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 03:20 PM (x6uUk)

85 67 19 The Dem gamble is that the GOP will take the house, but the Dems can just camp out in the WH and bureaucracy for the next two years and prevent anything from being undone, so that by the time 2024 rolls around it's accepted.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

Well, that's what they did on Obamacare and it worked.
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (GZ/yK)

If there was an opposition party, presuming the House and Senate go to the Rethugicans (with more than a narrow margin), it would be good to start impeachment proceedings. Just because F-You.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 03:20 PM (N39Ws)

86 Btw, overproducing a formation can ruin it. So can shutting it in.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (4I/2K)

87 I saw the Child-Minded Progressive Smoothbrains open for The Monkeys at the the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in '68.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (v72l5)

88 There is literally not enough money in the entire world to make that happen nor is there enough raw materials and manufacturing capacity to switch even 10% of the grid to "renewables" by 2035.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2022 03:20 PM (bVYXr)
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Forget the money, the chemistry and technology don't work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (DU+/6)

89 85 If there was an opposition party, presuming the House and Senate go to the Rethugicans (with more than a narrow margin), it would be good to start impeachment proceedings. Just because F-You.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 03:20 PM (N39Ws)

=========

If we're going to have pointless theater that ultimately accomplishes nothing, it might as well be luxuriously pointless theater that accomplishes nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (LvTSG)

90 is she signaling that we're about to be at war in Europe?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (DU+/6)

I think that a European war isn't really possible for us, and that Putin will present a fait accompli before that could come to pass.

But I now have 0 doubts that our government really, really wants a war in Europe to be a thing. They clearly have the war boner raging.

My hope is that reality imposes itself shortly, and people like Lindsey Graham will have to settle for just pounding their wieners to snuff films for release.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (SKVme)

91 71
Hope she got rid of the face moles, you had to stare...
Posted by: Auspex at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (bQvYf)

Was Granholm considered attractivish for a Democrat at one time?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (eGTCV)

Old and Busted: A face made for Radio.
New Hotness: A Face made for Butt Stuff

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (oHd/0)

92 "If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you."

Economic illiteracy. The cost of oil and gas effects pretty much every single thing you buy. Almost everything that exists in the world was created, transported, and/or consumes oil or gas. The higher the price of oil, the higher the prices of every product or service available for sale in the country.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

93 Jennifer Granholm has an extremely, extremely punchable face.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (sVtYq)

94 In HS my gas money came from gleaning construction sites for returnable bottles. It worked too.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (2graF)

95 Rig counts is about half of 2108 or 2019.

I post the monthly number last week.

Posted by: Jenny Queen of Scoffs at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (yrol0)

96 Oh, AtC, content warning about Adrian Tchaikovsky's books Children of Time and Children of Ruin.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (PiwSw)

Tchaikovsky? Sounds Russian. Should probably be cancelled.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (Ez6QX)

97 "you can always just buy an electric car"

Yes, you Poors, just buy a brand-new car that costs a minimum of $50k. Not even an inconvenience. Do you assholes even hear yourselves? Of course not.

Not to mention that even if even a few percentage of those driving an ICE car did that, we don't have the infrastructure to charge them.

But you got your Sick Fucking Burn in, didn't you?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (L9uv7)

98 There is literally not enough money in the entire world to make that happen nor is there enough raw materials and manufacturing capacity to switch even 10% of the grid to "renewables" by 2035.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2022 03:20 PM (bVYXr)

There's also no such f'king thing as catastrophic global warming.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (Y5qcH)

99 go away scrunt sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (yrol0)

100 The Dem gamble is that the GOP will take the house, but the Dems can just camp out in the WH and bureaucracy for the next two years and prevent anything from being undone, so that by the time 2024 rolls around it's accepted.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (wmDcS)
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This is what they did to Trump and they had neither house of Congress nor the WH when they did it. It didn't exactly work because Trump still won the election, but they had other means of overcoming that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (DU+/6)

101 If there was an opposition party . . .
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

hahahahaha-- have you seen the GOPe??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (GZ/yK)

102 Has Senile Joe mentioned the time he spent working on the rigs?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (eGTCV)

103 My hope is that reality imposes itself shortly, and people like Lindsey Graham will have to settle for just pounding their wieners to snuff films for release.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (SKVme)

Fox news follows the GOPe playbook... almost like they are tied at the hip.

Fox News is all in on War drums... 23/7.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (oHd/0)

104 Wait!
Did you people not budget for inflation?
What are you, poor?

Posted by: Well at March 10, 2022 03:23 PM (hsTBS)

105 Whatcha all gone do when your milk costs 11 bucks next month?

Vodka pundit has the vidya

https://tinyurl.com/yc7h6n6j

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 03:23 PM (LKTKP)

106 I've dispatched Kamala Harris to deal with these Oil Men in her own special way. She's promised me that "the spigots will soon be open, spraying much needed energy all over her face and breasts".

Posted by: President Joey Biden, Ice Cream at March 10, 2022 03:23 PM (XkuN6)

107 Are we on a war footing? Well, that would explain the internment camps in Washington, I guess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 03:23 PM (sW8lo)

108 If there was an opposition party, presuming the House and Senate go to the Rethugicans (with more than a narrow margin), it would be good to start impeachment proceedings. Just because F-You.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 03:20 PM (N39Ws)

(R) is shorthand for the Washington Generals!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 10, 2022 03:23 PM (yrol0)

109 Old and Busted: A face made for Radio.
New Hotness: A Face made for Butt Stuff
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (oHd/0)

or ATM

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 03:23 PM (N39Ws)

110 Come outside, Alex. We have a surprise for you!
Posted by: Parachuting Hand-Size Spider at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (ZGrMX)

Yes. Basically all of the Twats made sure to tell me.

Oh, AtC, content warning about Adrian Tchaikovsky's books Children of Time and Children of Ruin.

Spoilers ahead: Spiders. Big, superintelligent spiders.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (PiwSw)

Of. Fucking. Course.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at March 10, 2022 03:23 PM (GbPPJ)

111 It's absolutely asinine to use battery powered electric buses when electric cable car technology has been around for over 100 years.

To say nothing of foot-powered cars!

Posted by: F. Flintstone at March 10, 2022 03:23 PM (ZsR3z)

112 If there was an opposition party, presuming the House and Senate go to the Rethugicans (with more than a narrow margin), it would be good to start impeachment proceedings.

--

I literally don't think they care about anything but sending $billions of US taxpayer dollars all over the world every time some group of people gets a boo boo.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 03:23 PM (sVtYq)

113 There's also no such f'king thing as catastrophic global warming.

The suppression of the University of East Anglia info dump proving that the climate scientologists are exactly as trustworthy as Dianetics was the media's warmup for today's suppression.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:23 PM (ZGrMX)

114 Has Senile Joe mentioned the time he spent working on the rigs?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (eGTCV)

Roustabout? Roughneck? Toolpusher?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (4I/2K)

115 Economic illiteracy. The cost of oil and gas effects pretty much every single thing you buy. Almost everything that exists in the world was created, transported, and/or consumes oil or gas. The higher the price of oil, the higher the prices of every product or service available for sale in the country.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (iFTx/)
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Economic illiteracy? Yes. Also energy illiteracy, chemistry illiteracy, industrial illiteracy, transportation illiteracy and agricultural illiteracy. At least.

Perfect choice for an energy secretary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (DU+/6)

116 Not to mention that even if even a few percentage of those driving an ICE car did that, we don't have the infrastructure to charge them.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (L9uv7)

And this right here is the biggest issue that they never address.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (Ez6QX)

117 Oh great. More electric car stupidity.

Its the FUTURE.

Invent a room temperature super conductor that is about as easy to produce and utilize as copper wire and then you have something. you simply do not have the ability to replace petroleum based energy with current tech, and power distribution. That's not to say you can't make a car that runs on electricity. That's to say you can't make and support 100's of millions of electric cars. The toxic mining, electricity generation and distribution capability isn't feasible. Its like "he's going to cure cancer guys". FFS - wake up.

Posted by: if we all just inflated our tires . . . at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (L3fzk)

118 retardo pulls his pud to brown kids toiling in rare earth mines for $0.10/day pay so he can pretend to be in the Urban Striver class.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (L9uv7)

119 >>>There is literally not enough money in the entire world to make that happen nor is there enough raw materials and manufacturing capacity to switch even 10% of the grid to "renewables" by 2035.

>We are going to harvest meteors for the raw materials that we need to upgrade the grid.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (oWZwa)

120 "If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you."

Economic illiteracy. The cost of oil and gas effects pretty much every single thing you buy. Almost everything that exists in the world was created, transported, and/or consumes oil or gas. The higher the price of oil, the higher the prices of every product or service available for sale in the country.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 10, 2022 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

And just where do they think Electricity comes from? Unicorn Farts?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (oHd/0)

121 They've taken most of the production offline through regulatory attacks. The permit process has been weaponized against drillers. New exploration on federal lands is non existent. They have specifically attacked fracking with environmental Tom foolery and, what people also don't mention is they've gone after refining. This was a very deliberate process and they had a plan before taking over. You don't get a complete attack on the entire chain without planning it. They've done everting I think their power to avoid any pushback from Congress. That's before we get to the fact they shutdown several LNG terminals, the Keystone pipeline which had 8 months before completion and other related infrastructure projects. So f them and their lies.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (nkAm6)

122 I hate to admit my ignorance but to you pay at the EV charging stations?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (XntMs)

123 >>There's also no such f'king thing as catastrophic global warming.

!

Posted by: Alderaan at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (lhr6a)

124 People on the Left can not and will not ever admit that they made a mistake. It would literally kill them.

They have never ever admitted that their policies caused more harm than good. They are so certain of their rightness, that reality appears to them like a conspiracy.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 03:25 PM (p+1gI)

125 >> 93 Jennifer Granholm has an extremely, extremely punchable face.

She tends to smirk a lot.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 10, 2022 03:25 PM (uWF4x)

126 What this dumb scrunt fails to mention is that even though she and others may drive an electric vehicle, everything else that you use is likely delivered via gas powered truck. Their higher costs will be passed on to the consumer, even ones that drive a EV. Never mind that the electricity to charge their EVs will be higher too.

Posted by: CDR M (retired) at March 10, 2022 03:25 PM (ssJXH)

127 The transition to "renewables" is for the general population, not the elites. They know damn well it's a farce. But in order to have a pliable and compliant population you must restrict their ability to move about. The plandemic op taught them that. This can be more permanent.

It also drives a lot of people onto government assistance. With that assistance comes certain requirements such as what you'll be permitted to eat, drink, drive, think, etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 03:25 PM (BFigT)

128 116 Not to mention that even if even a few percentage of those driving an ICE car did that, we don't have the infrastructure to charge them.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (L9uv7)

And this right here is the biggest issue that they never address.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (Ez6QX)

Last summer Californians were cautioned about recharging their cars, due to stress on the Grid.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 03:25 PM (oHd/0)

129 >>She tends to smirk a lot.

they ALL do. they share this trait with pedophiles.

Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 10, 2022 03:25 PM (0G13K)

130 Are you afraid of a little increase in gas costs?! I'm not, suckers! I bought an $85,000 electric car, complete with batteries made with minerals mined by 9 year old kids in African slave camps owned by Chinese overlords. Yum!

Posted by: Stephen Colbert at March 10, 2022 03:25 PM (sW8lo)

131 >>>Come outside, Alex. We have a surprise for you!
Posted by: Parachuting Hand-Size Spider at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (ZGrMX)

>>>Oh, AtC, content warning about Adrian Tchaikovsky's books Children of Time and Children of Ruin.
Spoilers ahead: Spiders. Big, superintelligent spiders.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (PiwSw)

Aww, that's so nice of you two.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2022 03:26 PM (k8wcX)

132 >> Jennifer Granholm has an extremely, extremely punchable face.

She's like a Hummel version of Elizabeth Warren.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 03:26 PM (lhr6a)

133 122 I hate to admit my ignorance but to you pay at the EV charging stations?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (XntMs)

Not only do you pay, but you have to find something to do for an hour. And that's if you there is a free terminal when you get there and don't have to wait for someone else.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:26 PM (Y5qcH)

134
they ALL do. they share this trait with pedophiles.
Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 10, 2022 03:25 PM (0G13K)

Yeah, that and all the child grooming.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 03:26 PM (SKVme)

135 Spoilers ahead: Spiders. Big, superintelligent spiders.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 10, 2022 03:19 PM (PiwSw)

Of. Fucking. Course.
Posted by: alexthechick -
==
Oh wait. You probably shouldn't ever read Vernor Vinge's A deepness in the sky series. Yeah, not your cup of tea.

Posted by: anthropomorphizing spiders - turns out you can do it in book format at March 10, 2022 03:26 PM (M0QqG)

136 >>She tends to smirk a lot.

they ALL do. they share this trait with pedophiles.
Posted by: Capital-A Ace because damnit I deserve it at March 10, 2022 03:25 PM (0G13K)

Like that FBI guy in those hearings. Creepy,

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 10, 2022 03:26 PM (4I/2K)

137 I hate to admit my ignorance but to you pay at the EV charging stations?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (XntMs)
++++
Depends on the station, but increasingly yes. At my old office, they had 4x chargers in the lot. They were free, but you had to register and get a little card to activate them. About 18 months in, they started charging. The ones that are like gas stations do charge, as far as I know. The chargers in parking lots at the mall will vary. Sometimes "free," sometimes full freight, sometimes subsidized, etc.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (DU+/6)

138 Innocent pedestrians won't even hear the terrorists running them down in their EVs.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (eGTCV)

139 Buy guns and ammo!! Indeed.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (B1Vad)

Bought the littles The game of Risk, today. I must teach them about world domination.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (SH2Zi)

140 Temporary band-aids like releasing some oil from the petroleum reserve are intended to just be temporary, something to get the energy-destroyers past a bad couple of weeks of polling while they wait for the public to accept the New Normal of Permanently Elevated Energy Prices.

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... and bare supermarket shelves, but mostly bare supermarket shelves.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (v72l5)

141 They do realize the cost of electricity to power that electric car is affected by the price of oil and gas- right? I believe recharging that electric car still costs more then filling a comparable tank of petrol.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (nkAm6)

142
What a stupid, venal, absurd hyper-bitch retard.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

What do you expect... isn't she a Canadian 'elite'?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (onc9E)

143 123 >>There's also no such f'king thing as catastrophic global warming.

!
Posted by: Alderaan at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (lhr6a)

Omelets Eggs.

Posted by: Grand Moff Tarkin at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (PiwSw)

144 I hate to admit my ignorance but to you pay at the EV charging stations?

The first owner of a Tesla gets free charging at Tesla's chargers (which only work with Tesla's cars). Teslas can also use other chargers, and they pay there. If you buy a used Tesla, you also have to pay at Tesla's chargers.

All other EVs you just pay at the charger.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (ZGrMX)

145 Flashback: "If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you"

If we all drove electric vehicles, there wouldn't be enough electricity.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (Ecl8U)

146 I used to drive an eighteen wheeler.

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden, My Diaper Runneth Over at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (sW8lo)

147 Good.

I want $14.00 per gallon of gas.

People will learn the hard way. Or not.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (sDz6A)

148 Last summer Californians were cautioned about recharging their cars, due to stress on the Grid.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 03:25 PM (oHd/0)

In the UK the forbade charging cars during peak grid load times. Which is the evenings when ppl are home from work.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (Y5qcH)

149 hate to admit my ignorance but to you pay at the EV charging stations?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:24 PM (XntMs)

Not only do you pay, but you have to find something to do for an hour. And that's if you there is a free terminal when you get there and don't have to wait for someone else.
==
Imagine, if you will, a gas line, in which every car ahead of you takes an hour to fill.

Posted by: The GREEN TWILIGHT ZONE at March 10, 2022 03:28 PM (XvSwn)

150 What do you expect... isn't she a Canadian 'elite'?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (onc9E)
++++
I expect exactly what we have. It doesn't change the facts, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:28 PM (DU+/6)

151 OLD: If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you.

NEXT MONTH: If you eat only grubs and grasshoppers, this would not be affecting you.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 03:28 PM (axyOa)

152 So they're sticking with the new 'we have no bananas-labs in Ukraine' story huh?

Nuland misspoke is my guess. Odd she is featured in that Oliver Stone footage.

Posted by: micky at March 10, 2022 03:28 PM (3byMq)

153 "If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you."

You would also be having no luck with the ladies. A hot sportscar gets them every time.

:-)

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 10, 2022 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

154 The Bolivian soldier who pulled the trigger to execute famed revolutionary guerrilla and murderer Ernesto "Che" Guevara died on Thursday at age 80, according to his friends. Mario Teran "simply complied with his duty as a sergeant of the army," said retired Gen. Gary Prado, who led the group that captured Guevara in 1967 after a months-long pursuit. Speaking to Radio Companera, he said Teran had died after a long illness. He is survived by his wife and two children.

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 03:28 PM (RHGPo)

155 Also...can you just up and buy a Tesla right now?

Like, purchase at a dealership or online and have it in your driveway within 24 hours?

Isn't there a waitlist still?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:28 PM (LvTSG)

156 Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Demands Energy Companies Do Their Part and Start Producing More Energy
______________

Did I mention that I'm totally off female politicians? Are there ANY who are worth a pinch of dry shit?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (YqDXo)

157 Did Jen Psaki show us a smidgen of cleavage? I hope this is the start of a trend. I want to see some more of those zeppelins.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (oWZwa)

158 Are they just going to be allowed to steamroll us again?

Posted by: Jak Sucio at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (g/Dto)

159 High petroleum prices put extra profits in Putin's pockets.
Brandon is financing Russia's invasion by throttling domestic oil production

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (dos9t)

160 Putin's price hike? They spelled Biden wrong.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (KATBx)

161 I want $14.00 per gallon of gas.

People will learn the hard way. Or not.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Posted by: B. Franklin at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (ZsR3z)

162 You would also be having no luck with the ladies. A hot sportscar gets them every time.

A Tesla Model S Plaid is faster than every hot sportscar made. I mean, they do have their positives.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (ZGrMX)

163 Putin's price hike? They spelled Biden wrong.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (KATBx)
++++
Racist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:30 PM (DU+/6)

164 But there are crisis points when the public begins showing signs it is no longer quiescent and may just rebel, and at those crisis points, you have to mollify them with a short-term palliative and pretend you "care."

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"LET THEM EAT ELECTRIC CARS!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 03:30 PM (v72l5)

165 Times like these that I miss Ross Perot. Don't we have anyone on our side able to explain this stuff to the rubes?

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 03:30 PM (5HBd1)

166 Isn't it odd to hear Democrats spouting the talk that Republicans were known for 15 years ago?

Not so much that the parties "switched" but that it was always just one big same old POS party.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 03:30 PM (NoTe9)

167 154 The Bolivian soldier who pulled the trigger to execute famed revolutionary guerrilla and murderer Ernesto "Che" Guevara died on Thursday at age 80, according to his friends. Mario Teran "simply complied with his duty as a sergeant of the army," said retired Gen. Gary Prado, who led the group that captured Guevara in 1967 after a months-long pursuit. Speaking to Radio Companera, he said Teran had died after a long illness. He is survived by his wife and two children.
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Job well done Sergeant.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (2graF)

168 Innocent pedestrians won't even hear the terrorists running them down in their EVs.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (eGTCV)

I'm actually really careful walking through the parking garage, because a lot of retards around here drive Teslas.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (Ez6QX)

169 ... and bare supermarket shelves, but mostly bare supermarket shelves.
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis!

Don't we buy some insane amount of fertilizer from Russia? And isn't it made of petroleum?? I am actually worie about food shortages, if farmers get charged triple or worse for fertilizer, will they even be able to plant crops? It's not just the price of food going up, are their crops so fertilizer intensive you couldn't recoop your costs if you tried to grow them?

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (GZ/yK)

170 Tesla opened up a new dealership not too far from me.
They had many cars in the lot.
Don't know about any wait list, as I am not in the market for one.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (jTmQV)

171
Did Jen Psaki show us a smidgen of cleavage? I hope this is the start of a trend. I want to see some more of those zeppelins.

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No way, dude. Psaki hit the wall, hard, back in the Obama years. She's totally gross, now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (SKVme)

172 By "transitioning" they mean we'll still be an oil and gas economy but we'll just "identify" as green, yes?

Posted by: Robert at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (a/6gc)

173 Like, purchase at a dealership or online and have it in your driveway within 24 hours?

Isn't there a waitlist still?

Last I heard, the waiting list was 4-8 weeks. A lot of ICE cars are currently in the 2 year range if what you want isn't on the lot.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (ZGrMX)

174 When I lived in France and Germany had was about $8 a gallon when converted from Euros and liters. At first it was like whoa that shit is pricy. After a while it just became normal. Then back home it was like $3? Holy shit that is cheap.

Also why in Europe you can tell who is rich and who is not. Big cars equals rich. Small cars equals poor. Hs nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with who can and cannot afford lots of gas. Having a V8 is a status symbol there.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (cf5w/)

175 Maybe a nickel a mile for a Tesla, for the electricity. If gas was $3/gal and car got 30 mpg, that would be a dime per mile.

That does not figure the initial extra $30K for electric cars, nor the subsidy involved for EV. Nor the lifespan of the vehicle, or of the battery.

Those factors make the EV more expensive, even assuming electricity does not skyrocket along with gas prices, and that enough electricity is available, and that you don't need to drive more than 100 miles at a time.

But regardless, the smug "this would not affect you if you drove electric" ignores all the other costs going up, and the potential depression dangers ... that would certainly affect even the Davos oligarchs.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (Cus5s)

176 A Tesla Model S Plaid is faster than every hot sportscar made. I mean, they do have their positives.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (ZGrMX)

OK, now take it from Green River West along I-70... a drive I've done about 30 times...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (oHd/0)

177 Spiders. Big, superintelligent spiders.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

Both Children of Time and Children of Ruin are outstanding, the first better than the second. Creeped me out reading them, of course, because meter-long spiders with bladed legs, but man, excellent stories.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (B1Vad)

178 Did Jen Psaki show us a smidgen of cleavage? I hope this is the start of a trend. I want to see some more of those zeppelins.

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No way, dude. Psaki hit the wall, hard, back in the Obama years. She's totally gross, now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (SKVme)

I'd like to see them.

I like tits.

Posted by: Robert at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (9W5xf)

179 141 They do realize the cost of electricity to power that electric car is affected by the price of oil and gas- right? I believe recharging that electric car still costs more then filling a comparable tank of petrol.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (nkAm6)

It has the appearance of being cheaper because the battery only hold like the equivalent of 2 gallons of gas. ICE engines are only like 10-15% efficient. Battery electricity to motor is quite efficient, 80-90%.

The electric car owner is not seeing the least efficient part of the cycle. High efficiency power stations are only ~30% efficient.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (Y5qcH)

180 Did I mention that I'm totally off female politicians? Are there ANY who are worth a pinch of dry shit?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (YqDXo)

If they're present or past Governors of Michigan, I'd say, "nyet."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (PiwSw)

181 Speaking of ev and hybrids (Prius). I just learned that as long as a prius doesn't burn more than 1 qt. of oil per 1200mi it's 'in spec'.

Well now.

Posted by: micky at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (3byMq)

182 A Tesla Model S Plaid is faster than every hot sportscar made. I mean, they do have their positives.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (ZGrMX)

Until they make my Miata sized EV.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (XntMs)

183 Depends on the station, but increasingly yes. At my old office, they had 4x chargers in the lot. They were free, but you had to register and get a little card to activate them. About 18 months in, they started charging.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Who pays for the infrastructure to put in 200 charging station for everyone there?

Or are they willing to let all of the employees play musical chairs all day long jockeying for a charger?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (Ecl8U)

184 I want $14.00 per gallon of gas.

Coming right up!

Posted by: Commiefornia at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (ObFlJ)

185 If no one else has mentioned it, here's a recent article about a lawsuit regarding Her Jenniferness and hubby Daniel Mulhern's involvement with "green" energy.

Her Jenniferness laughs because she and Mulhern have fingers in all the "green" pies, plus no one gets information on how many pies because she's strategically placed to block the information.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (fxCK2)

186 By the way, Putin is a midget. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (nkAm6)

187 "We are on a war footing," the energy secretary told an economic forum in Houston on Wednesday.
____________

No. We're on a whore footing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (YqDXo)

188 Even the "electric car" solution is largely bs. Because he made a shitty joke about it, I looked up how the electric utility in Stephen Colbert's home town in NJ generates the electricity that he outs into his car. 60%+ is generated by burning fossil fuels, and virtually all of the rest is nuclear. Almost none of it is generated from "green" sources of energy.

Posted by: Anotheranon at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (geoTH)

189 Did Jen Psaki show us a smidgen of cleavage? I hope this is the start of a trend. I want to see some more of those zeppelins.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (oWZwa)

8 billion honkers in the world and you have to go with the ones attached to Pippi Riefenstahl?

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (NoTe9)

190 https://tinyurl.com/4m9uz98e

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (fxCK2)

191 Store then getting gas from points, can't wait to see how much.

Posted by: Skip at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (2JoB8)

192 Also why in Europe you can tell who is rich and who is not. Big cars equals rich. Small cars equals poor. Hs nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with who can and cannot afford lots of gas. Having a V8 is a status symbol there.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 03:31 PM (cf5w/)
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And then sub-hierarchies. Big car with diesel is lower than big car with gas. No car at all is way more common. It was when I went to Europe that I learned that other rich countries are nothing like this rich country.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (DU+/6)

193 Did I mention that I'm totally off female politicians? Are there ANY who are worth a pinch of dry shit?
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With Hillary you gets tons of dry shit.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (2graF)

194 Because of the Left, we are living American life going from crisis to crisis to crisis. No moment's rest. No luxury of taking your eye off the ball on what they're doing, on what they're destroying. It's a nonstop ball of utter chaos. It's no wonder we have any sanity left at all.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 03:33 PM (sVtYq)

195 >>A Tesla Model S Plaid is faster than every hot sportscar made. I mean, they do have their positives.

When one can finish the Canonball Run in inder 3 days, we can talk.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 03:33 PM (lhr6a)

196 Record inflation, Biden's dick caught in the door over these bioresearch labs. Joe having a bad day. Guessing Fauci has a problemo here as well..

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 10, 2022 03:33 PM (oWBc3)

197 Oh, and the Chevy Volt is a piece of shit.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

198 176 A Tesla Model S Plaid is faster than every hot sportscar made. I mean, they do have their positives.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (ZGrMX)

Only in 0-60 runs. They can't even finish a lap at most race tracks without going to limited power mode to keep from over heating.

You get a few hard pulls, and then they have to cooldown. They aren't sports cars.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:34 PM (Y5qcH)

199 Also, how should I interpret Granholm's "war footing" stuff? Is it a stupid and irrelevant excuse that she's using to try to mask the catastrophic fuckup in lease cancellation and fracking restrictions, or is she signaling that we're about to be at war in Europe?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:17 PM (DU+/6)

The usual meaning of "war footing" or "moral equivalent of war" is "don't ask questions, traitor."

Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 03:34 PM (eoQWY)

200 Who pays for the infrastructure to put in 200 charging station for everyone there?

Or are they willing to let all of the employees play musical chairs all day long jockeying for a charger?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (Ecl8U)
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At that office, the chargers were put in by the property management firm and yes, it was musical chairs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:34 PM (DU+/6)

201 as a prius doesn't burn more than 1 qt. of oil per 1200mi it's 'in spec'.

Second look at Harley Davidson?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at March 10, 2022 03:34 PM (ObFlJ)

202 This is not idiotic policy gone wrong, this is not an accident.

This is official democrat policy for the American people, this is what they want to happen to you. They want to hurt you.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 03:34 PM (5kI0z)

203 ??A Tesla Model S Plaid is faster than every hot sportscar made. I mean, they do have their positives.

I've seen a few videos of them racing various vehicles. They smoke everything off the line because they are all torque but after about a 1/4 mile things changes and after a half mile the get smoked.

So if you want to win off the line, electric. If you want to win in the real world, not so much.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2022 03:34 PM (ZLI7S)

204
Guessing Fauci has a problemo here as well..
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 10, 2022 03:33 PM (oWBc3

Nah - their only problem is bad PR, and that doesn't really affect Anthony Lysenko. He'll never be held to account for a single fucking thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 03:34 PM (SKVme)

205 He's waited 40 years for this moment:

https://i.___flip.com/59fa6b.jpg

Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 10, 2022 03:34 PM (uWF4x)

206 The usual meaning of "war footing" or "moral equivalent of war" is "don't ask questions, traitor."
Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 03:34 PM (eoQWY)
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Yup. Unless the president is a Republican.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:35 PM (DU+/6)

207 For those that missed out on Steven Den Beste, here's why this doesn't work:

https://tinyurl.com/2zjfe86n

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 03:35 PM (5HBd1)

208 Are there any electric motorcycles on the road? They could be dangerous for the rider.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 10, 2022 03:35 PM (eGTCV)

209 I remember a brand / series of toys that came out in the 80s that was supposed to run on water. Cars, mainly.

Power something or other...

'Pow-Pow-Power makes it go' was the jingle.

They didn't work for shit and disappeared as quickly as they cam on the market.

EVs always reminded me of those things.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 03:35 PM (lhr6a)

210 A Tesla Model S Plaid is faster than every hot sportscar made. I mean, they do have their positives.

When one can finish the Canonball Run in inder 3 days, we can talk.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 03:33 PM (lhr6a)

This will NEVER happen. And any time you ask that Tesla Model S to do that, your range drops pretty damn dramatically and we all know what that means.

HOTEL FOR THE NIGHT and hope it has a charging station.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

211 Until they make my Miata sized EV.

Quite a few people have taken the drivetrain and battery from wrecked Teslas and put them in other cars, including Miatas.

The best swap of all time is Rich Benoit's V8 Tesla though. He dropped a Chevy LS4 and a sequential manual into a Tesla Model S and it looks completely stock. The Tesla whizzy screens all work and everything.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:35 PM (ZGrMX)

212 Almost none of it is generated from "green" sources of energy.
Posted by: Anotheranon at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (geoTH)

I know you put green in quotes but Nuclear is as Green as you can get. We could have doubled the grid size and cut CO emissions by 90% if we had gone Nuclear. I hate the woke Left .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:36 PM (XntMs)

213 Look the economic turmoil in Venezuela was a good thing. The country lost like an average of 20 lbs per person. /fnm from my vague recollection 4 or 5 years ago.

So I expect to see glowing articles about how higher energy and food prices are paying health dividends for the USA by forcing people get more exercise and lay off the Fritos any day now. Of course Amazon and grocery chain delivery undermines this but I'm sure the FNM are salivating at the thought of delivery service being priced out of the range of the proles.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at March 10, 2022 03:36 PM (3cGpq)

214 Granholm in November: Gas will be $3.05 per gallon by December, so we don't have to increase oil production.

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TBF, she meant in the country for whom she actually works: Chy-na.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 03:36 PM (v72l5)

215 I want to drive a vehicle that, when it catches on fire, most fire departments can't put it out, said nobody ever.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 03:37 PM (nkAm6)

216 212 Almost none of it is generated from "green" sources of energy.
Posted by: Anotheranon at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (geoTH)

I know you put green in quotes but Nuclear is as Green as you can get. We could have doubled the grid size and cut CO emissions by 90% if we had gone Nuclear. I hate the woke Left .
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:36 PM (XntMs)

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"But in 10,000 years, the nuclear waste will still be toxic! That means we should use solar panels that are toxic as waste within years of manufacture instead!"
-Bill Nye, the science guy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:37 PM (LvTSG)

217 Where did this Granholm bitch come from? And can MI please take her back?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 03:37 PM (qnVBz)

218 >>This will NEVER happen.

I know.

But you CAN do it in a Pinto.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 03:37 PM (lhr6a)

219 The only way to make the green friendly energy sources palatable is to raise the price of oil. A guy I knew who worked for a laminate manufacturing plant in central Texas was horrified by what they were spending on electricity for the plant and looked into converting to solar. Turned out, solar was not competitive until the price of electricity went up 150%. This was back in 2001.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (3TihK)

220 This blonde in her car neither has nor wants an EV, she wants strong oil production and lower gas prices:
https://is.gd/bvhP8B

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (DU+/6)

221 I'd like to see them.
I like tits.
Posted by: Robert at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (9W5xf)

Yup, what were they like anyway? They looked pretty good, are they real? Are they built for speed or comfort? What'd you do with them? Motorboat? You play the motorboat?
You motorboatin son of a bitch! You old sailor you!

Brrrrrrrpppppp!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (sDz6A)

222 217 Where did this Granholm bitch come from? And can MI please take her back?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 03:37 PM (qnVBz)

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There is something rotten in the state of Michigan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (LvTSG)

223 So their goal is a zero emission energy grid in 13 years.

There is literally not enough money in the entire world to make that happen nor is there enough raw materials and manufacturing capacity to switch even 10% of the grid to "renewables" by 2035.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2022 03:20 PM (bVYXr)

You have no imagination. Ask yourself this question, how many people need to die so that we can have a zero emission energy grid in 13 years.

See? Doable.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (U7wke)

224 >This is official democrat policy for the American people, this is what they want to happen to you. They want to hurt you.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 03:34 PM (5kI0z)

They want to hurt you and psychologically beat you down enough that you ask for all the punishment they can heap upon your racist, sexist, homophobic, privileged ass.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (L9uv7)

225 These lefties all act like if everyone had an electric car then everyone could just plug in wherever there is an outlet. Like hobos on the floor of the airport with a multiplug in the socket the staff uses for the vacuum. Electricity is just there like magic.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (lfOHV)

226 If you look at the data kept by the EIA, most of the "green" energy that they cite come from hydroelectric and biofuels. Wind and solar ain't doing shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (Y5qcH)

227 No, bitch, we are NOT "on a war footing". If we're on a war footing, best get to fighting the war, no ?

Here's a tip, scrunt - the American people are PISSED about gas prices - AND - also not interested in fighting a war with Russia on behalf of fucking Ukraine.

Posted by: deadrody at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (/jrmI)

228 Are there any electric motorcycles on the road? They could be dangerous for the rider.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 10, 2022 03:35 PM (eGTCV)

Yes but I haven't heard of any fire problems.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (XntMs)

229 So increased energy output and lower prices and a greater degree of energy independence is good when there's a war on, but not good - in fact, it is so not-good that it is in fact so bad it borders on criminality - when there isn't.

What a stupid, venal, absurd hyper-bitch retard.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:11 PM (DU+/6)

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They said climate change is the greatest national security threat and we needed to cut back on fossil fuels because of THAT.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (eMEkg)

230 A typical EV battery requires 8 kg of lithium, 35 kg of nickel, 20 kg of manganese and 14 kg of cobalt. Electric motors in EVs utilize kilograms of magnetic rare-earth materials like neodymium and dysprosium, which are expensive, produce lots of waste and have various mining concerns. Much of the nickel currently comes from Russia, the lithium and rare-earth from China.

Put these pro-EV politicians on record saying they support the mining operations in the US required to make these EVs domestically or by child labor in the 3rd World.

You can't make EVs with "unobtainium".

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (RHGPo)

231 An electric crotch rocket that no driver can hear approaching would be a killer.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (eGTCV)

232 It is so convenient that the automakers are all coming out with new electric car offerings. Coincidental high demand for new production.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (qnVBz)

233 Increase production! That's an order!

Oil and gas producers definitely like the higher prices of their products but they are just now recovering from the sh*tstorm of covid oil price drops.

I'm sure they are chomping at the bit to invest millions in new production only to see the greenie Biden administration come along later and shut them down, either actually limiting production or hurting them through carbon credit nonsense and taxes.

Posted by: Sphynx at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (rXie1)

234 The best swap of all time is Rich Benoit's V8 Tesla though. He dropped a Chevy LS4 and a sequential manual into a Tesla Model S and it looks completely stock. The Tesla whizzy screens all work and everything.

Problem is, Rich killed the Tesla S's performance by that one simple trick.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (lD3vL)

235
But you CAN do it in a Pinto.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 03:37 PM (lhr6a)

Well, you CAN do it in a battery car, it will just take you a month and a half to do it.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

236 180 Did I mention that I'm totally off female politicians? Are there ANY who are worth a pinch of dry shit?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (YqDXo)

If they're present or past Governors of Michigan, I'd say, "nyet."
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM (PiwSw)
_____________
Jenny Durkan. London Breed. Lori Lightfoot. Muriel Bowser. Keisha Bottoms. Senator Gray Beaver. AOC. Alopecia Pressley. Ilhan Omar. Jennifer Granholm. Nancy Pelosi. Maizie Hirohito. Stacey Abrams. Hillarhoid. Kristi Noem. Nikki Haley.

I'm sure there are more. These are just off the top of my head.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

237 205 He's waited 40 years for this moment:

https://i.___flip.com/59fa6b.jpg
Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 10, 2022 03:34 PM (uWF4x)

https://i.IMGflip.com/59fa6b.jpg

Posted by: m at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (k8wcX)

238 If you look at the data kept by the EIA, most of the "green" energy that they cite come from hydroelectric and biofuels. Wind and solar ain't doing shit.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:38 PM (Y5qcH)
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Yup, because hydro is extremely efficient and a great source of power. It's just limited because there is only so much water and you can only build so many dams. We could have more of it than we do, but it can't be all hydro.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (DU+/6)

239 >Yup. Unless the president is a Republican.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:35 PM (DU+/6)

Dissent is patriotic. Until it's not.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (L9uv7)

240 I want to drive a vehicle that, when it catches on fire, most fire departments can't put it out, said nobody ever.

Given everyone's phone uses the same batteries, just less of them, you can make that into the Horde-friendlier "I want to wear pants that, when they catch on fire, most fire departments can't put them out". Or as Ace calls it, Thursday.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (ZGrMX)

241 Have you noticed the Biden presidency* has picked the worst of the worst candidates to fill his major positions. Harris, Granholm, BootyGig, etc.

Literally no one with any indication of how the presidency works.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (bkUtD)

242 Speaking to Radio Companera, he said Teran had died after a long illness. He is survived by his wife and two children.

Posted by: SMOD

I'd like to buy a t-shirt with his face on it. And then have to explain who he is to every commie/lib who asks.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (B1Vad)

243 Democrats - it is too expensive to drive to polling places, we need mail in voting this fall.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (5kI0z)

244 In those famous words of the "Little Rascals" ...

LETS PUT ON A SHOW

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (RHGPo)

245 I'm sure they are chomping at the bit to invest millions in new production only to see the greenie Biden administration come along later and shut them down, either actually limiting production or hurting them through carbon credit nonsense and taxes.

Hard to amortize pipelines from distant fields to point of use when your event horizon is classified as "short term".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (lD3vL)

246 Most of these liberal women ride an electric vehicle every night.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (LKTKP)

247 Gonna repeat--until the alternative that eclipses ALL the advantages of I/C is invented, we will be using those engines.

Enjoy your present mode of transportation.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (KATBx)

248 "If you drive an electric car, this wouldn't be affecting you"

Because once you get past the motor, the drivetrain, and the tire rims everything else on an electric vehicle is made out of candy floss and unicorn giggles.
And while we're at it let's ignore that it takes anywhere from 20 to 40 liters of petroleum to make one tire. I guess the plan is we're going to start making tires out of hemp now, right?
Every line and angle of this bitch's entire world is surrounded by synthetics derived from petroleum and she's oblivious to it all because she has an IQ just shy of hitting 90. She needs to be running an earring kiosk in a mall somewhere.
All of these idiots have an appointment coming with reality.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (W3VUu)

249 This just in: Jennifer Granholm demands that all trips be downhill, to minimize global warming.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

250 Tchaikovsky? Sounds Russian. Should probably be cancelled.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 03:22 PM (Ez6QX)

My local classical station isn't scrubbing Rooskies from its playlist, but it is going out of its way to find performances of their works by Uke orchestras and saying so pointedly.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (dfRN6)

251 Someone linked a video of a guy who put a small electric bike in his kitchen. Looked like a "Nest" video. The bike later smoldered and caught fire.
Owner rushes out and throws water on it.
Then, it really exploded into flame.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (jTmQV)

252 Also, good to know that electricity for charging EVs is now magically free and that the price for electricity is not DIRECTLY tied to the cost of fossil fuels, primarily natural gas.

Here's another tip to the fucking EINSTEINS in the Biden Junta - electricity is primarily generated by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas. When the price of oil goes up, so does the price of electricity.

The fact that you fucktards think giving away free electricity to the niche market for EVs is sustainable - or more likley that you're too fucking dumb to have even considered that point is HILARIOUS

Posted by: deadrody at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (/jrmI)

253
https://i.IMGflip.com/59fa6b.jpg
Posted by: m at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (k8wcX)

LOL.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

254 Problem is, Rich killed the Tesla S's performance by that one simple trick.

True, but even Elon thought it was hilarious. And he has plans to drop a supercharger in it.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (ZGrMX)

255 Because of the Left, we are living American life going from crisis to crisis to crisis. No moment's rest. No luxury of taking your eye off the ball on what they're doing, on what they're destroying. It's a nonstop ball of utter chaos. It's no wonder we have any sanity left at all.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 03:33 PM (sVtYq)

This started about a month into Ofuckstick's administration. I remember it well and described it here at the time. It's nothing to do with Twitter or Facebook. It's psy ops.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (XchO1)

256 24 months ago Trump asked for and got the biggest oil production cuts in history from OPEC + because he thought oil was to cheap for American oil companies.
Why doesn't Ace mention THAT?
Oil companies are making record setting profits
Is that "inflation" or price gouging?

Posted by: Kurt at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (KXsJK)

257 And then sub-hierarchies. Big car with diesel is lower than big car with gas. No car at all is way more common. It was when I went to Europe that I learned that other rich countries are nothing like this rich country.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM

And big, American SUVs are way up there as a status symbol, at least if the Netherlands was anything to go by.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 10, 2022 03:42 PM (RkC6l)

258 Weekend movie pick: Atlas Shrugged

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 03:42 PM (5kI0z)

259 241 Have you noticed the Biden presidency* has picked the worst of the worst candidates to fill his major positions. Harris, Granholm, BootyGig, etc.

Literally no one with any indication of how the presidency works.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (bkUtD)

Trump picked some losers, but Biden seems to be deliberately picking the worst he can find.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:42 PM (Y5qcH)

260 246 Most of these liberal women ride an electric vehicle every night.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (LKTKP)
_________

Yeah, but it's made out of petroleum.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:42 PM (YqDXo)

261 And pass this one around. Real time energy generation for BPA and what actually supplies the energy.

https://tinyurl.com/59f49c3w

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 03:42 PM (5HBd1)

262 W.H.O. Chief Tedros:
i'M nOT dONE sUPPRESSING yOU
Pandemic "Far from Over"

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 03:42 PM (RHGPo)

263 Posted by: Kurt at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (KXsJK)

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What does 24 months ago mean for today? I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:42 PM (LvTSG)

264 Re Putin's price hike and his "unprovoked" aggression. Would we have found it acceptable for Canada to join the Warsaw Pact?

Posted by: Lieutenant Dan at March 10, 2022 03:43 PM (9KXDf)

265 And then sub-hierarchies. Big car with diesel is lower than big car with gas. No car at all is way more common. It was when I went to Europe that I learned that other rich countries are nothing like this rich country.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM
_____________

Shorter version: Europeans by and large are poor by American standards.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:43 PM (YqDXo)

266 Posted by: Kurt at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2022 03:43 PM (bVYXr)

267 Posted by: Kurt at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (KXsJK)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 10, 2022 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

268 W.H.O. Chief Tedros:
i'M nOT dONE sUPPRESSING yOU
Pandemic "Far from Over"

He can say what he wants. The Dems are gonna follow the polling, which is massively against lockdowns.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:43 PM (ZGrMX)

269 World Economic Forum Severs Russian Ties over Ukraine Invasion

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 03:43 PM (RHGPo)

270 If you live in CA it's time to invest in electric taco trucks.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 03:43 PM (v0R5T)

271 The only real solution is electric busses and light rail. And force people out of the suburbs into high density urban apartments. Nobody needs 1/4 acre.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 03:44 PM (qnVBz)

272
The junta's destructiveness
Makes me want to puke
Fuck all this bullshit
Launch all the nukes

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 03:44 PM (II3Gr)

273 I think you guys are close to assessing what the Left want. Yes they want our combustion vehicles replaced by EVs but not all of them. They want mass transit. EVs will only be for the wealthy.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:44 PM (XntMs)

274 241 Have you noticed the Biden presidency* has picked the worst of the worst candidates to fill his major positions. Harris, Granholm, BootyGig, etc.

Literally no one with any indication of how the presidency works.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (bkUtD)
____________

Making a point of selecting black women, and white faggots.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

275 Those charging stations would be free just like at public libraries and govt buildings, right?

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2022 03:44 PM (MxEKc)

276 The only real solution is electric busses and light rail. And force people out of the suburbs into high density urban apartments. Nobody needs 1/4 acre.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 03:44 PM (qnVBz)

Damn I basically Schumered you .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:45 PM (XntMs)

277 You can make the case that the regenerative braking hybrids are at least feasible. You don't plug them in and they recharge on kinetic energy. Some cars have independent electric motors on each wheel and they boost take off power. 50 hp per wheel. You can get off the line quickly. Its more like boost power or emergency power if you run out of gas. Or to power down the big gas power plant if you are sitting in stop and go traffic for miles. Its a nifty little adjuct technology. Its not a replacement for petrol. It. ISN'T.

Posted by: The GREEN TWILIGHT ZONE at March 10, 2022 03:45 PM (UbHrE)

278 Solution to energy crisis: force antifa, BLM, feminists, etc. to ride stationary bikes connected to generators.

I know. It's a gift.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

279 Again, as has been said, switching to "cleaner sources of energy," is a preposterous fantasy.

These, so-called, "alternative" sources of energy are inefficient, unreliable and not scalable.
Plus these maniacs don't take into account things like, industry, agriculture, materials, etc.

You're not going to build an electric combine, you're not going to build an electric tractor that can haul 53k pounds across the country, you're not going to build an electric jet, an industrial park cannot be powered by solar panels or wind.
There is also the problem that the infrastructure doesn't currently exist, also because of the supply chain issues these maniacs have created, you cannot get any of this in sufficient quantity, OR AT ALL.

They are also in the process of cancelling the countries that would supply the components and finished products to enable their fantasy.

This is all marxist bullsh*t fantasy jazz hands and spirit fingers.

I detest these people.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2022 03:45 PM (IxmT+)

280 I also like how granholm casually slips in there that we are "on a war footing".

The dems are all insane. They really are trying to reduce the world population by 50%. Just keep rolling out wars, fuel shocks, pandemics up next famine in the breadbasket if the world. Thanks Brandon.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 10, 2022 03:45 PM (lfOHV)

281 Those charging stations would be free just like at public libraries and govt buildings, right?

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2022 03:44 PM

define "free".

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2022 03:45 PM (bVYXr)

282 I hate these people. Almost as much as they hate me. They shouldn't try to invert that.

Posted by: Minuteman at March 10, 2022 03:45 PM (LaNzR)

283 I think trump asked opec to pump more in order to price russian oil out of the market.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 03:45 PM (qnVBz)

284 I get so tired of the left. Here it is again.

Microsoft profit margin last year: 36%
Coca-Cola profit margin last year: 25%
Exxon profit margin last year: 8%
Chevron profit margin last year: 9%

Oh yeah, those evil oil companies are raking it in.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (5kI0z)

285 You have no imagination. Ask yourself this question, how many people need to die so that we can have a zero emission energy grid in 13 years.

See? Doable.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

All the left. And a goodly portion of the right.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (Ecl8U)

286 >Here's another tip to the fucking EINSTEINS in the Biden Junta - electricity is primarily generated by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas. When the price of oil goes up, so does the price of electricity.

Posted by: deadrody at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (/jrmI)

It's a primary feature of leftist "thinking" that if you shift the icky costs of things to somewhere out of their sight, it magically no longer exists.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (L9uv7)

287 I think you guys are close to assessing what the Left want. Yes they want our combustion vehicles replaced by EVs but not all of them. They want mass transit. EVs will only be for the wealthy.

Close. Vehicles will only be for the wealthy, period.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (ZGrMX)

288
Problem is, Rich killed the Tesla S's performance by that one simple trick.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 10, 2022 03:39 PM (lD3vL)

Meh. Changed the 0-60 time. The weight on the front likely made it turn better, but the RANGE has been improved SIGNIFICANTLY.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

289 This is all truly awful but on the bright side....

There are daffodils and dandelions blooming here!!! Yay! Spring is coming!

Wait, WHAT????? Waddaya mean the low temp tomorrow night is 15 degrees? Snow flurries tomorrow and high temp of 25 on Saturday?!?! Fuck.

Welcome to Indiana!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (Vxu+H)

290 under my plan, democrat pol necks would neccessarily skyrocket to lamp post heights.

Posted by: x at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (uQFwj)

291 There can be no mercy, there can be no quarter given to evil...

Posted by: Reality... at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (05Lgc)

292 Well.

I just got back from a walk into the middle of downtown Seattle. I went down to the famous Pike Place Market. It's an outdoor farmers' market with flowers, produce, seafood and local artists and their wares.

Masks required. Outside. So. I didn't go in

The new mayor of Seattle, bruce Harrell, ran on cleaning up the city. Well. The tents are gone from 3rd and 4th Ave. but. The zombies remain. There was drug use on the street, people passed out on the sidewalk and lunatics everywhere. It was not safe.

I don't see how Seattle comes back from this. Honestly. We are broken. And no amount of sweeping the situation under the carpet is going to fix it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (CjO2G)

293 "War footing." Jeezus.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (H8QX8)

294 and you thought shootouts at the pump were a thing of the past, think again.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (GYllL)

295 Trump picked some losers, but Biden seems to be deliberately picking the worst he can find.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:42 PM (Y5qcH)
___________

So he won't stand out.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:47 PM (YqDXo)

296 Here's another tip to the fucking EINSTEINS in the Biden Junta - electricity is primarily generated by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas. When the price of oil goes up, so does the price of electricity.

---------------------------------------

Very few oil burners left in the US. They may all be gone by now. The heaviest oil from the refining process (e.g. 6 oil, residuum) can not be burned in the US, by EPA decree. It is all shipped overseas and burned in foreign countries. And they are almost getting it for cost.

Another example of the govt just pissing away something for the benefit of foreigners.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:47 PM (UuD2k)

297 What they are doing indicates that they have totally discounted the fixed income vote.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 03:47 PM (EjQb2)

298 My local classical station isn't scrubbing Rooskies from its playlist, but it is going out of its way to find performances of their works by Uke orchestras and saying so pointedly.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (dfRN6)
++++
How stupid and foolish. In my opinion, the finest rendition of Tchaikovsky's violin concerto (sadly, the only one he wrote because it was hated and universally panned in his own time) was performed by David Oistrakh in 1954. He played it on an instrument in the USSR's preposterously named "People's Stradivarius" collection. The USSR was an evil empire built on an evil philosophy and Oistrakh was a brilliant violinist who was then used for propaganda by that same evil government.

But you know what? It's sublime. It's nearly transcendental. It is in my library and I listen to it routinely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:47 PM (DU+/6)

299 >>>Making a point of selecting black women, and white faggots.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Prager said this today, and I agree. Demanding you will only pick a woman of color is racist.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 10, 2022 03:47 PM (bkUtD)

300 I think you guys are close to assessing what the Left want. Yes they want our combustion vehicles replaced by EVs but not all of them. They want mass transit. EVs will only be for the wealthy.
==
No the wealthy will still get petrol bro. Still fly their jets etc. The servant class with get EV. You'll get a bike. With peddles. Maybe.

Posted by: The GREEN TWILIGHT ZONE at March 10, 2022 03:47 PM (Abixs)

301 265 And then sub-hierarchies. Big car with diesel is lower than big car with gas. No car at all is way more common. It was when I went to Europe that I learned that other rich countries are nothing like this rich country.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:32 PM
_____________

Shorter version: Europeans by and large are poor by American standards.
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Americans don't have a VAT on top of Income and Property Taxes.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 03:47 PM (2graF)

302 Kunt, we already showed last thread that you were lying with statistics. Now kindly fuck all the way off and die from your clot shot, please.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:47 PM (L9uv7)

303 Iuliia Mendel, a former press secretary to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted Thursday it would be a "tragedy" if Vice President Kamala Harris were to become president.

Mendel was quote-tweeting a video clip of Harris's press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday, where the vice president laughed when asked a question about Ukrainian refugees. Mendel apparently later deleted her tweet.

.. no kidding

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 03:47 PM (RHGPo)

304 Solution to energy crisis: force antifa, BLM, feminists, etc. to ride stationary bikes connected to generators.

I know. It's a gift.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

One of the better Rick and Morty episodes.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:47 PM (XntMs)

305 "Oil companies are making record setting profits "

Idiot leftist talking point. If they cut their profits 100% it wouldn't offset half price increase we saw last week.

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2022 03:47 PM (MxEKc)

306 Meh. Changed the 0-60 time. The weight on the front likely made it turn better, but the RANGE has been improved SIGNIFICANTLY.

With the size of the fuel cell he used and the engine tuned for power over everything else, I'm not sure the range actually is much better.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:48 PM (ZGrMX)

307 >>I don't see how Seattle comes back from this. Honestly.

Pure Fentanyl FTW !

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 03:48 PM (GYllL)

308 But you CAN deal with this. You need to accept things the way they are. Build communities, so you have more support. Build resilience by learning how to do things yourself, building food storage. Start thinking about how the new underground economy will work, because I guarantee you'll see one. People have been through far worst times. We need to get tougher.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 03:48 PM (5HBd1)

309 Kamala CACKLES hysterically in Europe, then her brain SNAPS with CRINGE when asked about Russian War Crimes.

Oh Dear God. This is a total disaster.

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 03:48 PM (RHGPo)

310 Want to know which societies don't use gas and oil?

Primitive societies.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 10, 2022 03:49 PM (lKAqb)

311 Granholm left Michigan trashed after her term as Governor. It is why the state elected Rick the Nerd Snyder governor. It took someone with business experience to try to turn it around. And the Flint water crises was 100% Democrat doing.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 10, 2022 03:49 PM (ms9Sg)

312 These, so-called, "alternative" sources of energy are inefficient, unreliable and not scalable.
Plus these maniacs don't take into account things like, industry, agriculture, materials, etc.

You're not going to build an electric combine, you're not going to build an electric tractor that can haul 53k pounds across the country, you're not going to build an electric jet, an industrial park cannot be powered by solar panels or wind.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

We have the 72 story Green Monster in downtown Dallas. How big of a solar farm and battery bank do you need to cool and electrify that building every day?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 03:49 PM (Ecl8U)

313
Look, in a situation like this, there's only one thing the Energy Secretary needs to do.

She needs to dyke out real quick, marry a chick, adopt a kid, and then go on leave for several months and demand everyone celebrate her strong and brave family while her post is neglected during a crisis.

It's the American way.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 03:49 PM (SKVme)

314 KAMALA HARRIS: "I am here, standing here on the northern flank, on the eastern flank, talking about what we have in terms of the eastern flank and our NATO allies, and what is at stake at this very moment, what is at stake this very moment are some of the guiding principles..."

.. word salad

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 03:49 PM (RHGPo)

315 81 million ballots counted everyone. 81 million ballots counted.

Posted by: Revenant at March 10, 2022 03:49 PM (LRhmV)

316 It's still all fun and games for these people as long as it only impoverishes the bottom layer of society. It will stop being fun when the stock market crashes along with all the retirement funds and accounts. That's when the middle class will start wailing and gnashing of teeth, the ones who voted for Dems and still think Biden is a legitimate president.

Billionaires, of course, will be fine no matter what. Even if they are reduced to a tenth of what they are worth now they will still be insulated from the consequences of their actions.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (VVqfM)

317 This just in: Jennifer Granholm demands that all trips be downhill, to minimize global warming.++++++++

I blame Ed McNamara

Posted by: Central Scrutinzer at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (vI+F1)

318 287 I think you guys are close to assessing what the Left want. Yes they want our combustion vehicles replaced by EVs but not all of them. They want mass transit. EVs will only be for the wealthy.

Close. Vehicles will only be for the wealthy, period.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (ZGrMX)

This. The Lairds will drive by with their wheeled conveyance while the serfs (whose population has necessarily declined) huddle in carefully maintained, wired, monitored apartment buildings.

This will allow them to enjoy nature (and the underage children of serfs who will be enjoyed and then discarded.)

They will be as Gods. Maybe that will show Dad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (QCwhW)

319 Seeing Granholm I look forward to Whitmer lying to us in the next dem president's term in office. Yes, it can get worse. Wait I forgot about Mayor Pete.
All kidding aside the situation we are in is horrendous. I grew up in the lower middle class with a mother who was the bread winner. Age 17 to 65 in a factory. We were never hungry due to the help from my grandparents on both sides. My maternal grandfather besides being frugal grew most of the produce they ate and he fished. We were never going to starve. You think that will happen today? There will be a lot of people like we were that will not be able to make ends meet. This is just the start of abject misery for many.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (2NHgQ)

320 This switching everything to electric is humorous because you need to remember diesel electric trains basically burn fuel to make electricity to turn wheels. How you gonna do that with wind?

They just think E just appears out of thin air...wait it does. Kites and keys is the answer!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (lfOHV)

321 Look, in a situation like this, there's only one thing the Energy Secretary needs to do.

She needs to dyke out real quick, marry a chick, adopt a kid, and then go on leave for several months and demand everyone celebrate her strong and brave family while her post is neglected during a crisis.

It's the American way.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 03:49 PM (SKVme)
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:: weeps ::

Hokum-based society indeed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (DU+/6)

322 Very few oil burners left in the US. They may all be gone by now. The heaviest oil from the refining process (e.g. 6 oil, residuum) can not be burned in the US, by EPA decree. It is all shipped overseas and burned in foreign countries. And they are almost getting it for cost.

Modern environmentalism is really just NIMBY writ large. Pollution is fine if it's not happening in the Hamptons or NYC or LA.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (ZGrMX)

323 Commies just don't want to understand that for-profit enterprises REQUIRE profits to continue to exist.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (lKAqb)

324 Also, good to know that electricity for charging EVs is now magically free and that the price for electricity is not DIRECTLY tied to the cost of fossil fuels, primarily natural gas.

Here's another tip to the fucking EINSTEINS in the Biden Junta - electricity is primarily generated by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas. When the price of oil goes up, so does the price of electricity.

The fact that you fucktards think giving away free electricity to the niche market for EVs is sustainable - or more likley that you're too fucking dumb to have even considered that point is HILARIOUS
Posted by: deadrody at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (/jrmI)
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But the Sun! Solar power is the wave of the future!

- Idiot environmentalists everywhere

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (3TihK)

325 Microsoft profit margin last year: 36%
Coca-Cola profit margin last year: 25%
Exxon profit margin last year: 8%
Chevron profit margin last year: 9%

Oh yeah, those evil oil companies are raking it in.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (5kI0z)

How about Pfizer and Moderna?

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (H8QX8)

326 I suck cock by choice.

Posted by: Chem Jeff at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (GMueY)

327 we are "on a war footing".
.......

Huh. Good thing I saved that link to NukeMap.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (v0R5T)

328 I've been looking at the photo of the Ceaucescu's being executed more and more lately.

Posted by: Tasty Burger at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (N/oGZ)

329 Meh. Changed the 0-60 time. The weight on the front likely made it turn better, but the RANGE has been improved SIGNIFICANTLY.
Posted by: Sponge
*

Can they run multiple laps at medium length racetracks and get better times than a 1990 Civic HX yet?

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (cUuEU)

330 So this is the way they're going to handle it--blame the oil companies for not producing while all the time the radicals had their boot on oil's neck.

Will people really believe that? If so they deserve what they get.

Posted by: pj at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (G1dq6)

331 It takes a very high grade of moron--weapons grade even--to be both clueless and as callous as Ms. Granholm. I know there's a lot of competition for the most feckless and useless among Biden's Cabinet picks, but she's close to the front of the list.

Posted by: GlendaleGreybeard at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (cn6vO)

332 Only a socialist believes that profits are immoral.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (lKAqb)

333 July 9th, 2021:

California ordered a stage 2 power grid emergency - one step away from rolling blackouts - as a searing heat wave drives temperatures into triple- digits and sends demand for electricity soaring

The state's grid operator called for the measure as wildfires - including the Bootleg Fire in south-central Oregon - threaten transmission lines bringing power into California. It comes as a historic drought grips the Western US and temperatures reach record levels in parts of the region.

Posted by: Azathoth at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (W3VUu)

334 Fumbling bumblestick FJB could release the American energy kraken tomorrow.

But fumbling bumblestick.
And his legion of junior bumblesticks-in-training-yet-still-making-decisions.

The long hike out of this stupidity begins later this year.

It will be a long hike.

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (aoFfE)

335 286 >Here's another tip to the fucking EINSTEINS in the Biden Junta - electricity is primarily generated by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas. When the price of oil goes up, so does the price of electricity.

Posted by: deadrody at March 10, 2022 03:41 PM (/jrmI)

It's a primary feature of leftist "thinking" that if you shift the icky costs of things to somewhere out of their sight, it magically no longer exists.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (L9uv7)
___________

Bull's eye. For leftists, out of sight = out of mind.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

336 There will be MLB - Players signed the owners deal and the lockout is over.

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (exHjb)

337 How come nobody in this administration can even fake empathy? It's all smirks, and sneers and dismissed.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (eGTCV)

338 Well I want you to listen here, energy is the thing that powers the environment that we all live in together. And living together in the environment is one of the things we as people are supposed to do, that we need to do. So doing what we are supposed to do and need to do will lead to more energy and to better energy. Because energy is not just important to our lives, and ourselves, it is important to us as mothers, as fathers, as daughters, and as sons. Without energy, none of us could be those things that we aspire to be in our dreams.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (IzxvC)

339 Dems are behaving as if they don't expect to pay an electoral price when the bill comes due at the ballot box. Their policies are overwhelmingly unpopular, and given their explicit anti-prosperity agenda, they can't grow their way out of their problems. So are they so deluded that they can't see the beginning of the end or will they simply suspend elections?

Posted by: mea culpa at March 10, 2022 03:52 PM (6pR+W)

340 This is just the start of abject misery for many.

They scrawl that on the walls and masturbate to it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 10, 2022 03:52 PM (lD3vL)

341 From a written statement issued today by Joe "Not My Fault" Biden:

'As I have said from the start, there will be costs at home as we impose crippling sanctions in response to Putin's unprovoked war, but Americans can know this: the costs we are imposing on Putin and his cronies are far more devastating than the costs we are facing,' he added.

Well, alrighty then! I guess this means we're in an economic devastation race to see who cries "Uncle!" first. It is comforting to know our Dear Leader cares a lot more about us than Putin cares about the Russian People! Right? Right???

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 03:52 PM (AMIL/)

342 For anyone who wants to listen to Oistrakh's rendition of Tchaikovsky's violin concerto, I looked and it turns out it's on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/IFdP5AFIAVU

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 03:52 PM (DU+/6)

343 331 It takes a very high grade of moron--weapons grade even--to be both clueless and as callous as Ms. Granholm. I know there's a lot of competition for the most feckless and useless among Biden's Cabinet picks, but she's close to the front of the list.
Posted by: GlendaleGreybeard at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (cn6vO)
_______________
Kamala Sutra and Mayor Buttplug say, "Hold my beer."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:52 PM (YqDXo)

344 I get Social Sec. it did go up 5.9%
The deductions that come out (medicare, etc) took more. My check is about $50 less this year.

Posted by: free tibet at March 10, 2022 03:52 PM (VXTO0)

345 They will be as Gods. Maybe that will show Dad.

One thing I don't have a theory for: once all of this is set up, how the fuck do Our Betters expect it to keep going as they age out? You already see in the Democrat Party that everyone who's anyone is over 65 and the alleged younger crowd are too stupid to keep the graft going.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:52 PM (ZGrMX)

346 Why isn't Bill Barr pushing his poisonous tome on CNN, NBS, ABC, CBS? After all, he did what they wanted.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at March 10, 2022 03:52 PM (VVqfM)

347 Time to update another Fishbone song?

B1tch queen of DC?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 03:52 PM (ZjMb1)

348 Could somebody please explain how I am supposed to charge an electric car from my apartment.

Run an extension cord out the window?

Posted by: Diesel Jones at March 10, 2022 03:53 PM (Vu7A1)

349 331 It takes a very high grade of moron--weapons grade even--to be both clueless and as callous as Ms. Granholm. I know there's a lot of competition for the most feckless and useless among Biden's Cabinet picks, but she's close to the front of the list.
Posted by: GlendaleGreybeard at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (cn6vO)

She is not stupid- she is just lying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 10, 2022 03:53 PM (QCwhW)

350 >>They will be as Gods.

If tht was a Fromm ref. it was nicely played.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 03:53 PM (lhr6a)

351 The only "Russian" music I like is t.A.T.u and ANJ.

Better not ban them!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 10, 2022 03:53 PM (sDz6A)

352 United Airlines just cracked.

Unvaccinated workers are asked to come back.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 03:53 PM (5kI0z)

353 Tesla, Inc. increased the price for Model 3 and Model Y this week after nickel prices skyrocketed in the most epic short squeeze in history.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:53 PM (UuD2k)

354 175

Ugh where do you get an extra $30k for an ev?
You can get an EV FOR $30k, lol. Not an extra $30 compared to a comparable ICE car.

Where do people come up with this shit?

I think it is because people assume every EV is a $100k Tesla. Which would be like saying every ICE car is a BMW 7 series.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 03:53 PM (cf5w/)

355 >>336 There will be MLB - Players signed the owners deal and the lockout is over.

They can all suck each others dicks in the locker room for all I care. I hope they go broke.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (GYllL)

356 There will be MLB - Players signed the owners deal and the lockout is over.
Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (exHjb)

I'm happy for the morons here where the MLB is an important escape from the real world for them but personally had wished for a lock out.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (XntMs)

357 Billionaires, of course, will be fine no matter what. Even if they are reduced to a tenth of what they are worth now they will still be insulated from the consequences of their actions.
Posted by: President Select Decaf

Hope they can eat and digest that "insulation" when there's no food. Don't matter how much money you have if there's nothing to buy.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (Ecl8U)

358 I get Social Sec. it did go up 5.9%

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And inflation decreased by going up 7.9%, so you got a -2% raise!

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (cUuEU)

359 N.L Urker. Because we don't have the theatrical genius Justin "Fidel" Trudeau leading our nation. I'm sure he practices his sincerity in front of a mirror daily, probably in Indian garb and black face. Our rulers don't bother.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (2NHgQ)

360 >>Time to update another Fishbone song?

La la-la la la-la-la-la-la!

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (lhr6a)

361 I went down to the famous Pike Place Market.
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Loved that place. Never had better piece of salmon from those guys in the first booth. I hope they're all still in business.

Posted by: dartist at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (+ya+t)

362 There will be MLB - Players signed the owners deal and the lockout is over.

They can all suck each others dicks in the locker room for all I care. I hope they go broke.
Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (GYllL)

Probably already do.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (II3Gr)

363 Come on guys! We are doing, everyday, things that we have been doing to create a sustainable future for tomorrow and next week and next year! Part of this future is working together to come together and plan the future we are working on right now!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (PiwSw)

364 Much of the nickel currently comes from Russia, the lithium and rare-earth from China.
==
Well I can't get my 10% from petroleum pumped in the USA JACK!!!!

Posted by: President 10% it all about the money at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (xkG2O)

365 Only a socialist believes that profits are immoral.

For you. As for their personal portfolios, it is of the gods.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (lD3vL)

366 Well I want you to listen here, energy is the thing that powers the environment that we all live in together. And living together in the environment is one of the things we as people are supposed to do, that we need to do. So doing what we are supposed to do and need to do will lead to more energy and to better energy. Because energy is not just important to our lives, and ourselves, it is important to us as mothers, as fathers, as daughters, and as sons. Without energy, none of us could be those things that we aspire to be in our dreams.
Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (IzxvC)
______________

"And we need to focus in inventing technology that hasn't been invented yet, instead of inventing technology that's already been invented."

We'll get those womyn's studies major cracking on inventing that technology.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (YqDXo)

367 Something about a Michigan woman? Granholm? Whitmer?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (oWBc3)

368 Eh, the US Gov executive actions as to leases and drilling permits only really effects things at the margins, mostly offshore (federal) and in the states probably in New Mexico (federal lands in the Permian). The feds own no lands for lease in the Great State of Texas, which is where most of the activity is currently located in the permian basin and Eagle Ford shale. What it does effect is investor's willingness to spend.
(I'm currently an energy attorney for Texas)

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (7Z5/k)

369 So the Russian economy collapsed in 1998. Do you think there are people still alive there that know how to live through hard times? I suspect that they were smart enough to put some systems in place that didn't rely on the global economy

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 03:55 PM (5HBd1)

370 IT'S GETTING TOO HARD TO KEEP UP RAAWWK!

Posted by: Propaganda Parrot at March 10, 2022 03:55 PM (vrz2I)

371 When is someone going to figure out how to steal the electricity needed to charge their EVV?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 03:55 PM (eGTCV)

372 371 When is someone going to figure out how to steal the electricity needed to charge their EVV?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 03:55 PM (eGTCV)

Siphon it from other people's EVs

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 03:55 PM (II3Gr)

373 She is not stupid- she is just lying.
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So is Lieawatha. She's going on about investigating oil companies for price gouging. She gottem big Injun balls.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 03:55 PM (sWM8x)

374 363 Come on guys! We are doing, everyday, things that we have been doing to create a sustainable future for tomorrow and next week and next year! Part of this future is working together to come together and plan the future we are working on right now!
Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (PiwSw)
___________

"After all, we are the people we've been waiting for. The future - that's where we're going!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

375 Bill Barr is a ridiculous buffoon.

These people are just complete assh**les.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (IxmT+)

376 United Airlines just cracked.

Unvaccinated workers are asked to come back.

I think the numbers of people they claim have gotten the clot shot is yet another lie because we keep seeing stories like this.

The one that really was a tip off here was that Boston removed their clot shot/vaxport mandate for restaurants, even though the official numbers say 90% of Bostonians/80% of massholes have been clot shotted.

So...losing 10or 20% of their business made the local restaurant industry push hard enough on the leftard mayor to break her? Sounds pretty damn unlikely.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (ESjRY)

377 365 Only a socialist believes that profits are immoral.

For you. As for their personal portfolios, it is of the gods.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (lD3vL)

========

I'm pretty sure they cover their basic expenses with their paychecks and then give the rest to the homeless person down the street so they can buy heroin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (LvTSG)

378 For all you DDG fans out there -- looks like they have jumped on the "disinformation" bandwagon:

https://tinyurl.com/2p9djz79

Posted by: kallisto at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (1A0tH)

379 One thing I don't have a theory for: once all of this is set up, how the fuck do Our Betters expect it to keep going as they age out? You already see in the Democrat Party that everyone who's anyone is over 65 and the alleged younger crowd are too stupid to keep the graft going.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:52 PM (ZGrMX)

Feudal system. Their sons and daughters will take over their empires. After they die, they also do not care because there is nothing after (to them.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (QCwhW)

380 Ugh where do you get an extra $30k for an ev?
You can get an EV FOR $30k, lol. Not an extra $30 compared to a comparable ICE car.

I have three vehicles, a 2021 F150, 2010 Avenger & a 2007 Ranger. All owned outright. Forcing me to buy a $30,000 EV means I have to come up with an EXTRA $30,000 that I'm not spending now.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (Ecl8U)

381 Because of the Left, we are living American life going from crisis to crisis to crisis. No moment's rest. No luxury of taking your eye off the ball on what they're doing, on what they're destroying. It's a nonstop ball of utter chaos. It's no wonder we have any sanity left at all.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Do you think this is by accident????
Do you think it is planned?
Choose one and think about it.

Are you not entertained by it all?

Biden was installed as President in a rigged election, to create chaos and wreck the country. And here we sit, snarking on the internet.
So, it's working.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (vcOmj)

382 They can all suck each others dicks in the locker room for all I care. I hope they go broke.

Hang on, this is baseball, not the Woke Navy.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (ZGrMX)

383 I'm pretty sure they cover their basic expenses with their paychecks and then give the rest to the homeless person down the street so they can buy heroin.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (LvTSG)

Mmm...heroin...nom nom nom.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (II3Gr)

384 All these companies "canceling" Russia feels totally orchestrated from a central authority. Incredibly short sighted as well - nothing like isolating a naturally xenophobic and paranoid culture.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (oWBc3)

385 Any talk of opening the SPR?

I think this qualifies as a disruption.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (ZjMb1)

386 Posted by: Jollyroger at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (7Z5/k)

And I assumed Texas is where most of the oil is being pumped. No pipeline barrier either.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (XntMs)

387 You can go buy a 100 mile range Nissan Leaf today for the low, low price of $30-$35K. It exists. It is out there for people to not buy as we speak.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (cUuEU)

388 Yay. Bring on the Nephilim. Front row tickets to Complete Disclosure, AKA The Great Deception.
Wanna hear Styx Come Sail Away now for some reason. Or read my Bibles and watch some Chuck Missler PBUH.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (UNMbE)

389 But there are crisis points when the public begins showing signs it is no longer quiescent and may just rebel, and at those crisis points, you have to mollify them with a short-term palliative and pretend you "care."
_________

Which is to say, actual crises. Not to be confused with unwastable "crises", which are actually as phony as the jobs of the people exploiting them.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (R0Tis)

390 383 I'm pretty sure they cover their basic expenses with their paychecks and then give the rest to the homeless person down the street so they can buy heroin.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (LvTSG)

Mmm...heroin...nom nom nom.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (II3Gr)

=======

*preps new footlong line of primo Columbian nose powder*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (LvTSG)

391 Pitch Meeting, The Batman:

https://youtu.be/6F1B7fdT5H8

Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (B1Vad)

392 These electric cars that most people cannot afford use a hell of a lot of plastic in production. Lots of food and beverages use plastic containers - milk, water, juices, alcohol - bread, margarine, yogurt, salad dressing, peanut butter, oils, cheeses, meat, etc., etc. Look around you, if it isn't made of wood or glass, or some metal, it is plastic.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (0W3z4)

393 I don't see how Seattle comes back from this. Honestly. We are broken. And no amount of sweeping the situation under the carpet is going to fix it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 10, 2022 03:46 PM (CjO2G)

Sorry. I know how much you love the place that used to be. I gave up on it long ago, as you know. We need to start talking PNW MoMe, I think. Central, Chelan?, hotelish, AirBNB large house, I don't know.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (SH2Zi)

394 Just heard from the step daughter in CA. Someone attempted to or did steal her catalytic converter overnight. Also, cut through her brake lines. It's a truly mad world we live in.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (2NHgQ)

395 Don't matter how much money you have if there's nothing to buy.
Posted by: rickb223

Don't be silly darling, the world is full of food and fuel. We'll just have it flown in on our jet.

Posted by: Reech Beech at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (ahZUa)

396 Feudal system. Their sons and daughters will take over their empires. After they die, they also do not care because there is nothing after (to them.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (QCwhW)

For a great majority, these are the sons and daughters

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (xhaym)

397 Was Granholm the one that gave a very "high energy" (coked-up) speech at the DNC a few years back?

Posted by: Ktgreat at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (AD3JT)

398 When is someone going to figure out how to steal the electricity needed to charge their EVV?

*

Tons of people in section 8 and trailer parks are already way ahead of you.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (cUuEU)

399 355 >>336 There will be MLB - Players signed the owners deal and the lockout is over.

They can all suck each others dicks in the locker room for all I care. I hope they go broke.
Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (GYllL)
____________

This.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (YqDXo)

400 *preps new footlong line of primo Columbian nose powder*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (LvTSG)

*rolls up dollar bill*

Yeah, it's declasse, but inflation's out of control.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (II3Gr)

401 I think we need better and more transparent negotiations with the Mother Ship.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (UNMbE)

402 You know, gas prices today remind me of what I'd pay at the very top restaurants back in my dating days. At places I'd take a girl only if I REALLY liked her.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (R0Tis)

403 Gee I wonder how much money Mr. EV - stock broker has invested in Tesla?

Posted by: Hope you do well tho at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (L3fzk)

404 Was Granholm always a retard or did chugging massive amounts of Slick's jizz cause it? Or was removing that mole/wart where her cortex was lodged?

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (y7DUB)

405 >>348 Could somebody please explain how I am supposed to charge an electric car from my apartment.

Run an extension cord out the window?
Posted by: Diesel Jones

Just stick one of those magical Iphone chargers under it?

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (GYllL)

406 >They will be as Gods. Maybe that will show Dad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 10, 2022 03:50 PM (QCwhW)

You think that the Georgia Guidestones were just some expensive troll? I doubt it. These monsters are deadly serious.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 03:59 PM (L9uv7)

407 The cheapest Tesla Model 3 is $46,490. On their website, right now.

The only electric car anywhere near 30K is the Nissan Leaf. And it's a POS that won't get you more the 80 miles a day.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:59 PM (UuD2k)

408 These electric cars that most people cannot afford use a hell of a lot of plastic in production. Lots of food and beverages use plastic containers - milk, water, juices, alcohol - bread, margarine, yogurt, salad dressing, peanut butter, oils, cheeses, meat, etc., etc. Look around you, if it isn't made of wood or glass, or some metal, it is plastic.

That's 100% true of modern gas cars as well. They're *all* wiring if you peek around inside the dash or under the carpet.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:59 PM (ZGrMX)

409 And I assumed Texas is where most of the oil is being pumped. No pipeline barrier either.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

Texas has no federal land, and most of the drilling is done on private land anyway. However, the feds have told the banks not to loan for any new drilling, so it has to be done by venture capitalists who are not afraid of an audit.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 03:59 PM (5kI0z)

410 >>>They can all suck each others dicks in the locker room for all I care. I hope they go broke.
Posted by: Capital Eff

Totes.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 10, 2022 03:59 PM (VWp7G)

411 400 *preps new footlong line of primo Columbian nose powder*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (LvTSG)

*rolls up dollar bill*

Yeah, it's declasse, but inflation's out of control.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (II3Gr)

=======

*breaks out $2 bill that has been saving since grandfather gave it to self twenty years ago that's been just transferring from one wallet to the next ever since*

It's all I have left.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:59 PM (LvTSG)

412 The feds own no lands for lease in the Great State of Texas, which is where most of the activity is currently located in the permian basin and Eagle Ford shale. What it does effect is investor's willingness to spend.
(I'm currently an energy attorney for Texas)
Posted by: Jollyroger

Big capital investors that were previously financing a lot of horizontal drilling and fracking operations are not putting out any money now.
The word is out (go green), and driller, etc., are having a hard time getting financing to do anything.

Now that Democrats see their ugly political lives threatened, they are doing the usual. Threaten other people to fix the problem they created.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (vcOmj)

413 Was Granholm the one that gave a very "high energy" (coked-up) speech at the DNC a few years back?
Posted by: Ktgreat at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (AD3JT)

Yes

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (y7DUB)

414 " Just heard from the step daughter in CA. Someone attempted to or did steal her catalytic converter overnight."

We are going to start hearing more about holes drilled in gas tanks which probably costs even more to replace.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (vrz2I)

415 How come nobody in this administration can even fake empathy? It's all smirks, and sneers and dismissed.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 03:51 PM (eGTCV)

They just stole an election and got away with it. They don't feel they owe you a fucking thing.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (Zan64)

416 Anyone want to place an over/under on the percentage of bills Joey Mushmouth vetos in the second half of his term?

Posted by: Octochicken at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (oCS0o)

417 Biden was installed as President in a rigged election, to create chaos and wreck the country. And here we sit, snarking on the internet.
So, it's working.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at March 10, 2022 03:56 PM (vcOmj)

Snarking is better than the prospect of prison . For now.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (XntMs)

418 > When is someone going to figure out how to steal the electricity needed to charge their EVV?

In S America and Jamaica and places like that, you can see some places where they remove the meter and bridge the gap with meal bars. It's dangerous as hell, of course.

I'm sure I've seen a device somewhere that special forces use. They throw this sharp hook thing over a power line. It cuts through the outer sheath and connects directly to the line. They can then power whatever devices they need. Some EE somewhere could figure out how to replicate this thing.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (VCz/u)

419 The cheapest Tesla Model 3 is $46,490. On their website, right now.

*

The Unicorn model? I think I've read about that one.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (cUuEU)

420 You can go buy a 100 mile range Nissan Leaf today for the low, low price of $30-$35K. It exists. It is out there for people to not buy as we speak.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (cUuEU)

You can buy a 2-300 mile range motorcycle for about $4-6K, which I honestly expect to see as gas prices continue on their current trajectory.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (SH2Zi)

421 "376 United Airlines just cracked.

Unvaccinated workers are asked to come back."

Will they demand daily testing?

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (H8QX8)

422 386 Posted by: Jollyroger at March 10, 2022 03:54 PM (7Z5/k)

And I assumed Texas is where most of the oil is being pumped. No pipeline barrier either.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (XntMs)

Yep. Mostly to Houston or Corpus Christi. Natural gas is also a biproduct of oil drilling and we have the highest gas prices since '08. That's really where electricity comes from. I'm pretty happy as I own interest in gas wells.

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (7Z5/k)

423 Here she is,
the erudite Vice President Kamalala Harris

https://is.gd/VNPkKC

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (EjQb2)

424 Just go look at South Africa to see our future. This is Klaus wants.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:01 PM (2graF)

425 332 Only a socialist believes that profits are immoral.

------------------

Of course even though the bible encourages it, both old and new testaments. But pedophilia must be celebrated.

With all the turmoil and disasters I think God is teaching us a gentle lesson, he could have just unleashed SMOD.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at March 10, 2022 04:01 PM (VVqfM)

426 394 Just heard from the step daughter in CA. Someone attempted to or did steal her catalytic converter overnight. Also, cut through her brake lines. It's a truly mad world we live in.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (2NHgQ)

My place of employment circulated an email a week or two ago warning everyone to be on the lookout in case people targeted their car's catalytic converters for theft. What a world we live in now, yes?

Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 04:01 PM (Rl7KJ)

427 423 Here she is,
the erudite Vice President Kamalala Harris

https://is.gd/VNPkKC

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (EjQb2)

If anyone could suck the electricity out of an EV it would be her.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 04:01 PM (II3Gr)

428 And then the future comes, we can see it with our own eyes! With our own eyes!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 04:01 PM (PiwSw)

429 I seriously doubt anyone who buys an EV in the next 6-12 months will have done any research on its upkeep, charging requirements and costs. The simple virtue signaling having one presents will suffice... until they actually have to rely on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 04:01 PM (BFigT)

430 " Just heard from the step daughter in CA. Someone attempted to or did steal her catalytic converter overnight."

*

I've got a tow truck driver buddy who is preaching to everyone who will listen that if your car breaks down, have it towed immediately. Don't let it sit on the side of the road, because your catalytic converter will be gone in three to four hours.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 04:01 PM (cUuEU)

431 Tesla Model S Plaid is faster than every hot sportscar made.

Say what you like about Elon Musk, but he has gone farther with a Spaceballs reference than any Moron(tm) dreamt.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2022 04:02 PM (44ww/)

432 Only a socialist believes that profits are immoral.
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They believe *your* profits are immoral. Theirs are not only moral but justified and in fact owed to them as debt.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 04:02 PM (Zan64)

433 Yay. Bring on the Nephilim. Front row tickets to Complete Disclosure, AKA The Great Deception.
Posted by: Denny Crane! at March 10, 2022 03:57 PM (UNMbE)

This doesn't sound nearly as crazy to me as it did a decade ago.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 04:02 PM (L9uv7)

434 Apparently Willie Brown's semen causes brain damage.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 04:02 PM (II3Gr)

435 I hope the Cloud People in California are ready for a new wave of carjackings where people get attacked after being followed from a gas station where the perp drives the car off someplace to siphon the gas and then dump the car.

They get the gas, the car gets returned, and the amount stolen is far below what the cops give a shit about.

Think that's impossible? Then you must not have been around in the 70s when the idea of a lockable gas cap was invented to prevent gas theft because gas had hit a buck a gallon.

Good times.....

Posted by: Azathoth at March 10, 2022 04:02 PM (W3VUu)

436 Big capital investors that were previously financing a lot of horizontal drilling and fracking operations are not putting out any money now.
The word is out (go green), and driller, etc., are having a hard time getting financing to do anything.

Now that Democrats see their ugly political lives threatened, they are doing the usual. Threaten other people to fix the problem they created.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (vcOmj)

Correct. I spoke to a number of private equity folks in the last few weeks and at NAPE, and the general feeling was Green was bullshit and transition will be slow, and the money is coming back to oil

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 10, 2022 04:02 PM (7Z5/k)

437
Electrolux was a refrigerator manufacturer that had a plant in Greenville Mi when the bitch was gov.

Dems had a MI OSHA office camped out in the plant writing citations for... nothing.

They moved to Mexico. she came up and gave hugs.

The town never came back

Posted by: Auspex at March 10, 2022 04:02 PM (bQvYf)

438 >>>Was Granholm the one that gave a very "high energy" (coked-up) speech at the DNC a few years back?

>I thought this was the chick who was shacking up with two lesbos and posting her sexual exploits on social media.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 04:02 PM (oWZwa)

439 434 Apparently Willie Brown's semen causes brain damage.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 04:02 PM (II3Gr)

That and Marxism.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (LKTKP)

440 The cheapest Tesla Model 3 is $46,490. On their website, right now.

I'm showing $40,690 for a base Model 3. The average transaction price for a new car is around $45k last I heard (there's a scary number of $70k F150s out there).

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (ZGrMX)

441 The cheapest Tesla Model 3 is $46,490. On their website, right now.

The only electric car anywhere near 30K is the Nissan Leaf. And it's a POS that won't get you more the 80 miles a day.
==
Would you stop getting facts all over Mr. Stock Broker's very strong opinions based upon very strong opinions.

Posted by: A strong opinion is undisturbed by reality at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (VIj48)

442 Just heard from the step daughter in CA. Someone attempted to or did steal her catalytic converter overnight. Also, cut through her brake lines. It's a truly mad world we live in.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (2NHgQ)

My place of employment circulated an email a week or two ago warning everyone to be on the lookout in case people targeted their car's catalytic converters for theft. What a world we live in now, yes?
Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 04:01 PM (Rl7KJ)

So because I don't know jack shit about cars, why are catalytic converters always being stolen? Are they small and easy to fence or what?

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (Ez6QX)

443 Texas has no federal land, and most of the drilling is done on private land anyway. However, the feds have told the banks not to loan for any new drilling, so it has to be done by venture capitalists who are not afraid of an audit.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Pray we don't TEXIT and take our toys with us.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (Ecl8U)

444 Tesla Model S Plaid is faster than every hot sportscar made.

*

Briefly. It's interesting the same way the Dodge Hellcat is interesting, except without the interesting sounds.

There's a reason they can't set records on long tracks.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (cUuEU)

445 I'd rather bet on whether the GOP will send "Joe" a bill worth billions to "build the wall".

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (Zan64)

446 But mainly the Marxism

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (ZjMb1)

447 I do hope the oil industry responds with a huge FU to these idiots.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 04:04 PM (LKTKP)

448 Say what you like about Elon Musk, but he has gone farther with a Spaceballs reference than any Moron(tm) dreamt.

It's hilarious that he's becoming more based by the day because the Biden junta refuses to admit Tesla exists while pushing EVs.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:04 PM (ZGrMX)

449 Catalytic converters have platinum or palladium in them that's worth several $100. The can be removed pretty easily with a battery powered sawsall.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 04:04 PM (UuD2k)

450
With the size of the fuel cell he used and the engine tuned for power over everything else, I'm not sure the range actually is much better.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:48 PM (ZGrMX)

Well, in 15 minute intervals, you can fill the tank when required, leaving the EV in the dust. I find that better.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

451 "My place of employment circulated an email a week or two ago warning everyone to be on the lookout in case people targeted their car's catalytic converters for theft. What a world we live in now, yes?"

Meth heads were doing this years ago. Also tapping of gas tanks will probably see a resurgence.

Posted by: goodluckduck at March 10, 2022 04:04 PM (pCXlW)

452 So because I don't know jack shit about cars, why are catalytic converters always being stolen? Are they small and easy to fence or what?
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Precious metals. Silver I think

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:04 PM (2graF)

453 Catalytic converters have platinum in them

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 04:04 PM (ZjMb1)

454 My place of employment circulated an email a week or two ago warning everyone to be on the lookout in case people targeted their car's catalytic converters for theft. What a world we live in now, yes?
Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 04:01 PM (Rl7KJ)
____________

We need Vlad the Impaler as AG.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:05 PM (YqDXo)

455
Literally no one with any indication of how the presidency works.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp

That should be "how the world" works.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 10, 2022 04:05 PM (onc9E)

456 So because I don't know jack shit about cars, why are catalytic converters always being stolen? Are they small and easy to fence or what?
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (Ez6QX)

Yes, and they contain small amounts of precious metals.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 04:05 PM (II3Gr)

457 But you know what? It's sublime. It's nearly transcendental. It is in my library and I listen to it routinely.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Thanks. I love Tchaikovsky.

Posted by: MkY at March 10, 2022 04:05 PM (cPGH3)

458
So because I don't know jack shit about cars, why are catalytic converters always being stolen? Are they small and easy to fence or what?
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (Ez6QX)

Precious metals. They're worth a bit of money because of it.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

459 "This is our most desperate hour. Help me, OPEC Exxon Chevron. You're my only hope."

Posted by: aelfheld at March 10, 2022 04:05 PM (Zy9Yy)

460 Can I sue Tesla and Musk if I get sticker shock?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 04:05 PM (oWZwa)

461 So because I don't know jack shit about cars, why are catalytic converters always being stolen? Are they small and easy to fence or what?

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (Ez6QX)

The catalyst is made of platinum and other valuable metals, for which a market exists, with few controls and little downside for tweakers.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 04:05 PM (SH2Zi)

462 Texas has no federal land, and most of the drilling is done on private land anyway. However, the feds have told the banks not to loan for any new drilling, so it has to be done by venture capitalists who are not afraid of an audit.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Thats true to a degree. The State has a lot of land out in the Permian that checkerboards the area, and then there is my boss who I think is the largest landowner in the state. (Hook EM')

Posted by: Jollyroger at March 10, 2022 04:05 PM (7Z5/k)

463 So because I don't know jack shit about cars, why are catalytic converters always being stolen? Are they small and easy to fence or what?

They contain platinum, which is so expensive it's worth whatever process they use to reclaim it from the cats.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:05 PM (ZGrMX)

464 452 So because I don't know jack shit about cars, why are catalytic converters always being stolen? Are they small and easy to fence or what?
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Precious metals. Silver I think
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:04 PM (2graF)
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One of the platinum metals (Pd, Pt, Rh, Ir, Ru). Rhodium, I believe.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (YqDXo)

465 Bwahahahahahahaha! Breath
Bwahahahahahahaha!

Building management just sent an email to everyone about a "black Tesla that has been parked at the north charging station longer than the expected charging time". Please move your shit.

I may have changed the last word.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (Ecl8U)

466 A guy down the road has an 07 Jeep Compass with 190K for $4K. Pretty good shape, good air. For another $4000 you could buy about 800 gallons of gas @ 5/gallon and go 20,000 miles. 40 cents per mile. Less if the price of gas goes back down.

A Tesla will cost over about $3.50 per mile for those first 20,000 miles, not counting charging cost.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (vrz2I)

467
It's hilarious that he's becoming more based by the day because the Biden junta refuses to admit Tesla exists while pushing EVs.
Posted by:

I am not a fan Boi, but he has always been based, that is why he is building rockts and cars and the biden bunch cannot figure iut gas prices

Posted by: Y5 at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (5f2+O)

468 Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 04:01 PM (cUuEU)

Houston is a center for catalytic converter theft. They just had a police chase yesterday where they nabbed three guys running a ring.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (XntMs)

469 Saw a brilliant post earlier about a guy in New York registering voters at the gas station. My local GOP is slacking...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (Srlpc)

470 >>418 > When is someone going to figure out how to steal the electricity needed to charge their EVV?

In S America and Jamaica and places like that, you can see some places where they remove the meter and bridge the gap with meal bars. It's dangerous as hell, of course.

I'm sure I've seen a device somewhere that special forces use. They throw this sharp hook thing over a power line. It cuts through the outer sheath and connects directly to the line. They can then power whatever devices they need. Some EE somewhere could figure out how to replicate this thing.
Posted by: bonhomme

I know farmers out west used to and probably still do induce power from high tension overhead lines to run their irrigation pumps. Big fines if caught. Need miles of cable too.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (GYllL)

471 >>> " Just heard from the step daughter in CA. Someone attempted to or did steal her catalytic converter overnight."

That's not just CA. It's everywhere. My division gets ten to fifteen of these jobs a day.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (VWp7G)

472 Tesla Model S Plaid is faster than every hot sportscar made.

They should dominate the 24 hours of LeMans, then. Oh, wait...

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (5kI0z)

473 My eyes are on. *v*

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 04:07 PM (EjQb2)

474 @TheBabylonBee 7m

'Let Them Drive Teslas!' Says Pete Buttigieg Clad In Elaborate 18th-Century Royal Gown

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2022 04:07 PM (zWpOF)

475 Snarking is better than the prospect of prison . For now.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

Until enough of us decide otherwise, this will go on.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at March 10, 2022 04:07 PM (vcOmj)

476 I don't care how fast Tesla's are.

Until they can compete in the 24 Hours at LeMons or Daytona, they're useless. WITHOUT switching cars like that stupid Formula E shit.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)

477 469 Saw a brilliant post earlier about a guy in New York registering voters at the gas station. My local GOP is slacking...
Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (Srlpc)

NICE!

Posted by: m at March 10, 2022 04:07 PM (k8wcX)

478 The inappropriate smile and laugh is a female thing. Women are taught as girls to smile and rarely taught to distinguish when it's not good to do so. They get funerals, but one difficult thing was to get female colleagues in all disciplines not to smile. Telling someone ," if you don't swallow this pill, I have to give you an injection", never goes over well if the staff involved are grinning.

Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 04:07 PM (ONvIw)

479 Just got back from the Raleigh/Durham Tech Triangle.

It's like Flash Gordon meets Repoman meets The Beverly Hillbillies

Posted by: Regular joe at March 10, 2022 04:07 PM (nnp+f)

480

They should dominate the 24 hours of LeMans, then. Oh, wait...
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (5kI0z)

Fucking horde mind is a REAL thing.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)

481 So because I don't know jack shit about cars, why are catalytic converters always being stolen? Are they small and easy to fence or what?
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (Ez6QX)

They're relatively easy to remove from cars, since usually they're underneath vehicles towards the exhaust. The catalytic converters have platinum, rhodium, and palladium, which can fetch 200-500$ on the market.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 04:08 PM (Rl7KJ)

482 471 That's not just CA. It's everywhere. My division gets ten to fifteen of these jobs a day.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 10, 2022 04:06 PM (VWp7G)

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I don't know how well you can generalize across all of America by just pointing at CA and Philly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 04:08 PM (LvTSG)

483 They should dominate the 24 hours of LeMans, then. Oh, wait...

That's very Boomer of you. The modern benchmark is the Nurburgring, which the Model S Plaid indeed has finished.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:08 PM (ZGrMX)

484 >>My local GOP is slacking...

My local GOP is busy giving handies to the DNC leaders.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 04:08 PM (GYllL)

485 471 >>> " Just heard from the step daughter in CA. Someone attempted to or did steal her catalytic converter overnight."

That's not just CA. It's everywhere. My division gets ten to fifteen of these jobs a day.
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Wyatt, are they using a jack to get under the cars? Most cars have really minimum space under them these days?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:09 PM (2graF)

486 Apparently Willie Brown's semen causes brain damage.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 04:02 PM (II3Gr)
......

lol
tertiary stage syphilis

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

487
That's very Boomer of you. The modern benchmark is the Nurburgring, which the Model S Plaid indeed has finished.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:08 PM (ZGrMX)

The immediately prior model was the Model S Ludicrous.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 04:09 PM (II3Gr)

488 The weird thing is that electric cars aren't very environmentally friendly at all. If this was really about concern for the environment, we'd be transitioning to CNG for our cars.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 04:09 PM (sWM8x)

489 You can take off a catalytic converter on certain models with a Sklizsaw in a matter of minutes.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 04:09 PM (XntMs)

490 You want more production supply chain issues? Wait till everyone is sitting for hours waiting to charge their vehicles.

Sorry boss. Out of juice. Be back in the office at 3pm

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 04:10 PM (LKTKP)

491 But you know what? It's sublime. It's nearly transcendental. It is in my library and I listen to it routinely.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Joe, I can't find your original post.
Name and the suite? (Please)

Posted by: MkY at March 10, 2022 04:10 PM (cPGH3)

492
That's very Boomer of you. The modern benchmark is the Nurburgring, which the Model S Plaid indeed has finished.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:08 PM (ZGrMX)

"Faster than all the supercar."

What was it's time compared to actual supercars?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:10 PM (Zz0t1)

493 And again, before anyone thinks I'm anti tesla, I like them. I just find them fairly dull as one trick ponies, similar to the hayabusa motorcycle. Interesting trick, but big and heavy is boring, especially with no engine note.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 10, 2022 04:10 PM (lIk+J)

494 You can take off a catalytic converter on certain models with a Sklizsaw in a matter of minutes.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 04:09 PM (XntMs)

Obviously Skilsawz must be banned!

Posted by: MkY at March 10, 2022 04:11 PM (cPGH3)

495 Joe, I can't find your original post.
Name and the suite? (Please)
Posted by: MkY at March 10, 2022 04:10 PM (cPGH3)
++++
Tchaikovsky's violin concerto, performed by David Oistrakh in 1954.
https://youtu.be/IFdP5AFIAVU

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 04:11 PM (DU+/6)

496 Wyatt, are they using a jack to get under the cars? Most cars have really minimum space under them these days?

There's a steady stream of news stories about people found squished to death under cars when the owner gets up in the morning.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:11 PM (ZGrMX)

497 That's very Boomer of you. The modern benchmark is the Nurburgring, which the Model S Plaid indeed has finished.

Posted by: Ian S

A top fuel dragster beats the hell out of a Tesla, until you reach the first corner.

And a Tesla is awesome, until the temperature gets outside of 40-80F, or you need to go more than 80 miles.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 04:11 PM (5kI0z)

498 Let's get those solar panels up (what's the sq. ft. footprint?), those wind turbines turning (ask Tx. how well turbines handle cold) , then plug it into a "grid" that fails (at least here in Pa.) if there's rain/sleet/wind/snow. Oh, and re-wire your house so you can charge your car. Dude's brilliant!

Posted by: pahound at March 10, 2022 04:11 PM (uF/xP)

499 493 And again, before anyone thinks I'm anti tesla, I like them. I just find them fairly dull as one trick ponies, similar to the hayabusa motorcycle. Interesting trick, but big and heavy is boring, especially with no engine note.
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You have to be a fucking jockey to ride the Hayabusa. The ergos suck.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:12 PM (2graF)

500 "The modern benchmark is the Nurburgring, which the Model S Plaid indeed has finished."

You know who else finished Nurburgring? Probably made more than 5 laps too.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:12 PM (vrz2I)

501
They believe *your* profits are immoral. Theirs are not only moral but justified and in fact owed to them as debt.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 04:02 PM (Zan64)

I need a piece of granite somewhere so I can engrave this on it.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 04:12 PM (TdMsT)

502 There's a steady stream of news stories about people found squished to death under cars when the owner gets up in the morning.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:11 PM (ZGrMX)

So long as the cops overlook the hole created in the cranium by a .45ACP

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 04:12 PM (N39Ws)

503 Electric cars are fast. Can't deny that. Instant torque. But also very impractical in a system designed for petrol.

And the odds of an electric jet carrying you to Davos is slim and none.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 04:12 PM (LKTKP)

504 496 Wyatt, are they using a jack to get under the cars? Most cars have really minimum space under them these days?

There's a steady stream of news stories about people found squished to death under cars when the owner gets up in the morning.
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So Philly has good news? That's great.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (2graF)

505
So because I don't know jack shit about cars, why are catalytic converters always being stolen? Are they small and easy to fence or what?
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 04:03 PM (Ez6QX)

They contain a small amount of platinum, and they can be removed easily from the exhaust system using a reciprocating saw. Bing, bang, pocket full of coin to buy tequila and chicharrones.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (SKVme)

506 Catalytic converters have platinum or palladium in them that's worth several $100. The can be removed pretty easily with a battery powered sawsall.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 04:04 PM (UuD2k)

Ah. Makes sense. I wasn't sure what are in them, but I suspected it was for the raw materials rather than the actual device. Kind of like stripping copper from unfinished houses.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Pugs are goofy at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (x8Wzq)

507 yep, her car is a Prius with very little room underneath. They probably had 4 guys lift it up by hand.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (2NHgQ)

508 Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm publicly called on oil and natural gas producers in the United States to boost output while the country is on a "war footing."

Did any reporter, any reporter at all, even from Hog Farmer's Monthly, -

ask this stupid cow, if there were plans to militarily attack Russia or send troops to fight in the Ukraine cuz that's what a "war footing" implies?

Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (OMayC)

509 Spaki looks like the awful woman from Oblivion.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (44ww/)

510 You know who else finished Nurburgring? Probably made more than 5 laps too.
Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:12 PM (vrz2I)

Literally Hitler?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (II3Gr)

511 You want more production supply chain issues? Wait till everyone is sitting for hours waiting to charge their vehicles.

Yeah I explained this to my kids a few days ago. They were like.. wha????

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (nxdel)

512 503 Electric cars are fast. Can't deny that. Instant torque. But also very impractical in a system designed for petrol.

And the odds of an electric jet carrying you to Davos is slim and none.
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U Boats with wings is the next thing.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (2graF)

513 Damn, Joe!
Like the Flight of the Bumblebee for violinists!
Never hear it.

Posted by: MkY at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (cPGH3)

514 my truck has a catalytic converter and a full 40 gallon tank, or as I called it, a legal baited field.

Posted by: x at March 10, 2022 04:14 PM (uQFwj)

515 So all I've got to do is spend $150k and I can get a car that I can drive 180 miles before I need to park it, and I can't take it to racetracks as a private citizens because they can't fight the fires.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 10, 2022 04:14 PM (lIk+J)

516 >>>I don't know how well you can generalize across all of America by just pointing at CA and Philly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa

True enough. I assume many big blue cities have the same issues. Cut it, take it, and sell it to a scrap yard.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 10, 2022 04:14 PM (VWp7G)

517 Thanks for the explanation, all.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 04:14 PM (Ez6QX)

518 >>"Faster than all the supercar."

>>What was it's time compared to actual supercars?

I'd like to see one take a VW GTI Club Sport. Those fuckers are fast at Nurburgring

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2022 04:14 PM (ZLI7S)

519 (there's a scary number of $70k F150s out there).
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10,
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But you can buy one with a V8 and everything you need for $40K

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 04:14 PM (EjQb2)

520 Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm publicly called on oil and natural gas producers in the United States to boost output while the country is on a "war footing."

Biden said the other day that there are over 9000 active oil and gas permits so it's not his fault. He didn't mention that zero have been issued since he stole the election.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:14 PM (ZGrMX)

521 Clamp that EV charger cable to the converter and let the perp make the short to ground. Call it a burnt offering.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 04:15 PM (GYllL)

522 Why can't we all just get nuclear powered cars?

Navy has been running on nukes for decades.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 04:15 PM (LKTKP)

523 I may or may not have done the bars in the meter thing for power at job sites, just need good gloves

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 10, 2022 04:15 PM (/6GbT)

524 The good news is your car will still run but you will hear the difference.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 04:15 PM (XntMs)

525 503 Electric cars are fast. Can't deny that. Instant torque. But also very impractical in a system designed for petrol.

And the odds of an electric jet carrying you to Davos is slim and none.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 04:12 PM (LKTKP)

And what about the flatbed tow truck needed to fetch the electric car from the side of the road because the driver misjudged how much charge he has left in the batteries.

It won't be an EV car hauler delivering the Teslas from the factory either.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 04:15 PM (N39Ws)

526 The weird thing is that electric cars aren't very environmentally friendly at all. If this was really about concern for the environment, we'd be transitioning to CNG for our cars.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 04:09 PM (sWM8x)

This has always blown me away why they dont go to NG.

I know a guy who commutes and has a NG Honda civic. He loves it

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2022 04:15 PM (M+Lyo)

527 Faster than all the supercar

*

And you'll still just have a Tesla.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 10, 2022 04:16 PM (lIk+J)

528 It is worse because after they force the transition to all electric, they plan on limiting how much electricity is available.

The same time this takes place, people would be wondering why everything made from petrochemicals is more expensive.

Instant third world country.

Posted by: wodun at March 10, 2022 04:16 PM (lFga6)

529 Even if solar power can be made to work, it will NOT be small individual system on people roof. Just complicated and inefficient and expensive to maintain, unlike huge solar arrays. Individual system will be as successful as Mao's attempt to increase iron production with millions of small, backyard furnaces. (Yes, that was actually tried)

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2022 04:16 PM (MxEKc)

530 >>>I'd like to see one take a VW GTI Club Sport. Those fuckers are fast at Nurburgring

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2022 04:14 PM (ZLI7S)

My kids and I have nickname for an infamous barrier wall. We call it the Bimmer wall, because without fail all Bimmers find a way to hit it head on.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at March 10, 2022 04:16 PM (QYPq3)

531 >>> 522 Why can't we all just get nuclear powered cars?

Navy has been running on nukes for decades.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 04:15 PM (LKTKP)

Seriously.

Where is my Mr Fusion dammit?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 04:16 PM (llON8)

532 Catalytic converters have platinum or palladium in them that's worth several $100. The can be removed pretty easily with a battery powered sawsall.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 04:04 PM (UuD2k)

Ah. Makes sense. I wasn't sure what are in them, but I suspected it was for the raw materials rather than the actual device. Kind of like stripping copper from unfinished houses.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Pugs are goofy at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (x8Wzq)

New catalytic converters can cost in the neighborhood of $1200 Trump dollars (probably $2400 Brandon dollars) installed. So there may even be a secondary market for them. At 200K miles or so, our Subaru converter was ailing, and a decent used one was even pretty pricey.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 04:16 PM (SH2Zi)

533 Thanks for the explanation, all.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 04:14 PM (Ez6QX)

You sure you don't need about 20 more?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (XntMs)

534 Fellow shot a guy, from his apartment window, who was in the process of stealing his car.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (EjQb2)

535 You want more production supply chain issues? Wait till everyone is sitting for hours waiting to charge their vehicles.

Sorry boss. Out of juice. Be back in the office at 3pm
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Wait until 200 people are jockeying for 10 charging stations.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (Ecl8U)

536 If I'm going to choose to be stranded on the side of the road with electrical failures for $40k, I choose an Aston Martin.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (lIk+J)

537 511 You want more production supply chain issues? Wait till everyone is sitting for hours waiting to charge their vehicles.

Yeah I explained this to my kids a few days ago. They were like.. wha????
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 10, 2022 04:13 PM (nxdel)
___________

Leftists uniformly seem to lack the ability to foresee developments and consequences.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (YqDXo)

538 >>> 528 It is worse because after they force the transition to all electric, they plan on limiting how much electricity is available.

The same time this takes place, people would be wondering why everything made from petrochemicals is more expensive.

Instant third world country.
Posted by: wodun at March 10, 2022 04:16 PM (lFga6)

There are too many of you.

Posted by: Great Resetters at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (llON8)

539 The weird thing is that electric cars aren't very environmentally friendly at all. If this was really about concern for the environment, we'd be transitioning to CNG for our cars.

Toyota and Yamaha have a working hydrogen ICE. The exhaust is just water. The ChiComs are very interested because there's some part of the South China Sea that's especially amenable to extracting hydrogen.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (ZGrMX)

540 Instant third world country.
==
That is the unifying principle of all that they have been doing to us.

They want to make everyone equal. Miserable. But equal.

Posted by: so you got that going for ya at March 10, 2022 04:18 PM (Ccvzh)

541 537
Leftists uniformly seem to lack the ability to foresee developments and consequences.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (YqDXo)

========

Nah, that's just bad luck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

542 >>> Fellow shot a guy, from his apartment window, who was in the process of stealing his car.

Posted by: Braenyard

Nice shootin', Tex!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 10, 2022 04:18 PM (VWp7G)

543 536 If I'm going to choose to be stranded on the side of the road with electrical failures for $40k, I choose an Aston Martin.
------------------
You can do that with an MG (everday) for $2k.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:18 PM (2graF)

544 530
My kids and I have nickname for an infamous barrier wall. We call it the Bimmer wall, because without fail all Bimmers find a way to hit it head on.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at March 10, 2022 04:16 PM (QYPq3)

The fact that BMW drivers have no idea what a turn signal is probably contributes to this.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 04:18 PM (N39Ws)

545 So all I've got to do is spend $150k and I can get a car that I can drive 180 miles before I need to park it, and I can't take it to racetracks as a private citizens because they can't fight the fires.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Nobody needs to drive 180 miles! Racing is a waste of time and resources which could be put to better use taking care of the needs of the collective!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 04:18 PM (SOy5O)

546 At 200K miles or so, our Subaru converter was ailing, and a decent used one was even pretty pricey.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 04:16 PM (SH2Zi)

It's illegal, at least in Texas as I found out, to clean them. You used to be able to do that. Can't anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:18 PM (Zz0t1)

547 >>> 540 Instant third world country.
==
That is the unifying principle of all that they have been doing to us.

They want to make everyone equal. Miserable. But equal.
Posted by: so you got that going for ya at March 10, 2022 04:18 PM (Ccvzh)

Yes.

But some of us are more equal than the rest of you.

Posted by: Great Resetters at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (llON8)

548 Instant third world country.

That's the WEF's 2030 plan in a nutshell.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (ZGrMX)

549 Individual system will be as successful as Mao's attempt to increase iron production with millions of small, backyard furnaces. (Yes, that was actually tried)
Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2022 04:16 PM (MxEKc)
__________
Yep. The Chinese melted farm implements into useless lumps of slag. And they then starved because ... no farm implements.

Pure genius.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (YqDXo)

550 Ideally, vehicles would be powered by hydrogen, and lighting would be powered by nuclear, but they don't actually want low emissions, they want poverty.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (5kI0z)

551 "Toyota and Yamaha have a working hydrogen ICE."

Compressed hydrogen. Don't park it next to your Volt.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (vrz2I)

552 That's it!

Liberals are the Borg.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (LKTKP)

553 You can do that with an MG (everday) for $2k.

*

Ha. Yeah, I've served my time.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (lIk+J)

554 Russia! Russia!! Russia!!!

Posted by: Hacky Psaki at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (aoFfE)

555 Toyota and Yamaha have a working hydrogen ICE. The exhaust is just water. The ChiComs are very interested because there's some part of the South China Sea that's especially amenable to extracting hydrogen.
Posted by: Ian S.
Ha! Figure out those storage solutions, and you may have something.

Posted by: MkY at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (cPGH3)

556
Lady YD's ex had the wheels stolen off of his van recently, in the parking lot of his apartment building, in a """good""" part of Denver Metro (Arvada).

Property crimes are up 150% from last year, across the metro area. Drug crimes I think are up about 80%. I think we're watching Denver's moment as a super-desirable city pass... Detroit showed how fast the richest city on Earth can turn into one of the poorest in America. Less than a generation.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (SKVme)

557 In fact, don't park anything next to your Volt.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (vrz2I)

558 It won't be an EV car hauler delivering the Teslas from the factory either.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

The Tesla Factory Service Van is ICE. Saw a picture on Facebook of one.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (Ecl8U)

559 You want more production supply chain issues? Wait till everyone is sitting for hours waiting to charge their vehicles.

Sorry boss. Out of juice. Be back in the office at 3pm
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Wait until 200 people are jockeying for 10 charging stations.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (Ecl8U)

Evacuating the city because of, Blizzard, Hurricane, Nuclear War, SMOD, Zombies, over abundance of bunny rabbits? In an EV? Good Luck, pal.

Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (gmo/4)

560 MISS ME YET !!

Posted by: Donald Trump at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (RHGPo)

561 What's the difference between a BMW owner and a cactus?

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (GYllL)

562 They want to make everyone equal. Miserable. But equal.
Posted by: so you got that going for ya at March 10, 2022 04:18 PM (Ccvzh)

Favorite Churchill quote

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (XntMs)

563 Fellow shot a guy, from his apartment window, who was in the process of stealing his car.

Posted by: Braenyard

Check your privilege! He wasn't stealing it. He was redistributing resources.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (SOy5O)

564 539 Toyota and Yamaha have a working hydrogen ICE. The exhaust is just water. The ChiComs are very interested because there's some part of the South China Sea that's especially amenable to extracting hydrogen.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (ZGrMX)

Just one more example of failing to learn from history. Doesn't anybody know of the Hindenburg? Can you imagine the explosion of a hydrogen powered car got into a wreck? If you think the pot holes in Cleveland are bad, wait until you see the crater that gets created from that.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (N39Ws)

565 541 537
Leftists uniformly seem to lack the ability to foresee developments and consequences.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (YqDXo)

========
Nah, that's just bad luck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 04:18 PM (LvTSG)
__________

"We just didn't go far enough left!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (YqDXo)

566 You can go 360 mls. on a single charge! Unless you need heat/defroster/wipers/lights or a/c. BTW, if your wipers are on you need the lights on (its the law).

Posted by: pahound at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (uF/xP)

567 423 Here she is,
the erudite Vice President Kamalala Harris

https://is.gd/VNPkKC

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (EjQb2)

I don't need any more proof than what I've seen on TV that Putin committed war crimes!

- VP of the US, Member of the Bar in California, Former Cali Atty General, Former San Fran County District Atty, former San Fran County DA Office attorney.

Jeebus.

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (AMIL/)

568 MotorTrend write up on the Telsa model S Plaid at the Nurburgring:

https://tinyurl.com/2p82929j

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (BFigT)

569 The cactus can't help being a prick?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (LKTKP)

570 OMG I just realized Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is a clone of Geraldine Ferraro.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (uWF4x)

571 $4.46, got it for $3.56 and still was $89 to fill truck

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (Qk7up)

572 Dementia Joe doesn't even know what day it is

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (RHGPo)

573 "What's the difference between a BMW owner and a cactus?"

Something something pricks?

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (vrz2I)

574 ___________

Leftists uniformly seem to lack the ability to foresee developments and consequences.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (YqDXo)

They're evil. They see it, they just don't care.

They feel they'll be part of the elite ruling class and won't suffer from it while you're locked in camps getting retrained to be a second class citizen, working to support them.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (Zz0t1)

575 Millions of vehicles with 10,000 psi hydrogen tanks! Yes!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (SOy5O)

576 561 What's the difference between a BMW owner and a cactus?
Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (GYllL)

The BMW has the prick on the inside?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (N39Ws)

577 Detroit showed how fast the richest city on Earth can turn into one of the poorest in America. Less than a generation.
----------------
It wasn't the Jap cars that did that. It was the local joggers in the neighborhood capturing City Hall that did that.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:22 PM (2graF)

578 y'know junk mail works great for your home steam-fired boiler!

Posted by: Hacky Psaki at March 10, 2022 04:22 PM (aoFfE)

579 Lady YD's ex had the wheels stolen off of his van recently, in the parking lot of his apartment building, in a """good""" part of Denver Metro (Arvada).

A lady I volunteer with had the catalytic converter stolen from her car while she was eating at Cheddars.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 10, 2022 04:22 PM (nxdel)

580 Just one more example of failing to learn from history. Doesn't anybody know of the Hindenburg? Can you imagine the explosion of a hydrogen powered car got into a wreck? If you think the pot holes in Cleveland are bad, wait until you see the crater that gets created from that.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (N39Ws)
____________

Hydrogen-filled balloons go "pop!" when ignited.

Balloons filled with a hydrogen/oxygen mixture go BLAMMMMM!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:22 PM (YqDXo)

581 I have known some perfectly nice BMW owners. And Subi owners. The car someone drives doesn't necessarily tell you all about them.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:22 PM (vrz2I)

582 "You can do that with an MG (everday) for $2k.

Posted by: Puddinhead'

My first car was a 1968 MGB fun car and the girls s loved it, when it actually worked. It literally spent more time being fixed than driven.

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2022 04:22 PM (MxEKc)

583 All correct. LOL

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 04:22 PM (GYllL)

584 It's illegal, at least in Texas as I found out, to clean them. You used to be able to do that. Can't anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:18 PM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, I was thinking a pick and pull or Craigslist part out that has decent life left in it. I wonder what the cleaning entails. High temps and O2 environment?

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 04:23 PM (SH2Zi)

585 People are comparing our decline to Venezuela but I think it's more like South Africa.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 04:23 PM (XntMs)

586 Trump's next slogan should be "Make America Brandon-less Again" or MABA.

Something like that. You know, something funny, clever, and with edge.

"Go to hell" would be another idea I've been kicking around.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 10, 2022 04:23 PM (Q3oNv)

587 522 Why can't we all just get nuclear powered cars?
---
But cereally, a nuclear engineer told me a couple of years ago that nuclear could be providing virtually all of our electricity needs if the nuclear industry had been left free to innovate. He said government regulation after Three Mile Island strangled everything, and nuclear would be much cheaper and much safer today had that not happened.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 04:23 PM (sWM8x)

588 This seems significant......

One caveat: As Tesla has proven time and time again with the Model S Plaid, it's best to approach its claims with a healthy dose of skepticism until they've been independently verified. Take the company's stated 1.99-second 0-60 mph and 9.23-second quarter-mile times for the Plaid, which as it turns out require a sticky, prepared launch box used for drag racing to achieve. We tested the car both in this Tesla-approved manner and using our usual methodology-so, on an unprepped surface like that of pretty much any road in the world-and found the car to be slower in the truer-to-life scenario. Of course, slower is a relative term here, as it still managed a blistering 2.07-second 0-60 run and a quarter time of 9.34 seconds.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:23 PM (Zz0t1)

589 People don't realize that they won't be able to drive their cars at certain times because the batteries are being used for the grid.

It's irritating because we had it figured out. We could be headed to a golden age. Instead we are discussing nuclear war and eating bugs, and for nothing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 10, 2022 04:23 PM (lIk+J)

590 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (SKVme)

Wife and I used to love visiting Denver on weekends. So much fun a decade or so ago. Now? closest we've gotten is north of 120th.

Last time I was downtown was because of jury duty at the Feral courthouse, 2 or 3 years ago. I was shocked at how many tweakers and crazies there were in a ten block area.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Pugs are goofy at March 10, 2022 04:24 PM (x8Wzq)

591 Millions of vehicles with 10,000 psi hydrogen tanks! Yes!
==
Pressurized hydrogen requires very expensive tanks. Which have to be replaced over time, because the tiny hydrogen worms it way in between the metal molecules and makes the metal brittle. Catastrophic tank failure, is that a problem?

TANSTAAFL

Posted by: so you got that going for ya at March 10, 2022 04:24 PM (Abixs)

592 Leftists uniformly seem to lack the ability to foresee developments and consequences.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:17 PM (YqDXo)

Back the Blue, and Love It or Leave It.

We - for some definition of We for those not of the Boomer or Silent Generations - are caught in the death throws of the most belligerent, most stupid ideological fight since the French Revolution. Neither side has the ability to look in the mirror, think about all they bitch about regarding their opponent, and recognize for the slightest moment that they behave the exact same damn way.

Posted by: Statistics at March 10, 2022 04:24 PM (AtNGU)

593 "Toyota and Yamaha have a working hydrogen ICE."

That's terrific! Hydrogen is freeee!!!! It's like, all around us and all over the sun!

Posted by: AOC at March 10, 2022 04:24 PM (AMIL/)

594 What's the difference between a BMW owner and a cactus?
Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (GYllL)

Neither one can drive?

Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2022 04:24 PM (gmo/4)

595 Hydrogen-filled balloons go "pop!" when ignited.

Balloons filled with a hydrogen/oxygen mixture go BLAMMMMM!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Avoid I-95 this afternoon. There's a 752 car chain reaction explosion accident.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 04:24 PM (Ecl8U)

596 "I wonder what the cleaning entails. High temps and O2 environment?"

You take the converter off and use a piece of rebar to bust all of the catalyst out then put it back on.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:24 PM (vrz2I)

597 People speak of our decline but I say this, "California Girls." Who's got that, huh? We've got the best, most beautiful girls in the world and they all know it.

Wait, this is not 1965? Wut?

Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 10, 2022 04:25 PM (Q3oNv)

598 Avoid I-95 this afternoon. There's a 752 car chain reaction explosion accident.
Posted by: rickb223

*

Talk about it in terms of electric car range, please.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 10, 2022 04:25 PM (lIk+J)

599 Archer

One has pricks on the outside, and the other is a BMW?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 04:25 PM (u82oZ)

600 My best friend drives a Subaru. Everyone assumes she's a lesbo. She's not.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 10, 2022 04:25 PM (nxdel)

601 But cereally, a nuclear engineer told me a couple of years ago that nuclear could be providing virtually all of our electricity needs if the nuclear industry had been left free to innovate. He said government regulation after Three Mile Island strangled everything, and nuclear would be much cheaper and much safer today had that not happened.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 04:23 PM (sWM8x)
__________

And why did/does the left so strongly resist nuclear power? Could it be because the USSR/Russia derives a lot of its foreign exchange from selling petroleum?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:26 PM (YqDXo)

602 You take the converter off and use a piece of rebar to bust all of the catalyst out then put it back on.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:24 PM (vrz2I)

lol

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 04:26 PM (SH2Zi)

603 I'm probably ahead my time here but I'm working a car run by the gas from beans.

who wants in?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 10, 2022 04:26 PM (XlDSe)

604 522 Why can't we all just get nuclear powered cars?

Navy has been running on nukes for decades.

================================
Battleship gray cars don't sell well.

Posted by: stuckInCalifornia at March 10, 2022 04:26 PM (7BGok)

605 You can buy or make a "test pipe" to replace the catalytic converter on your car. It's supposed to be just for temporary or "off road" use.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:26 PM (vrz2I)

606 The decline/fall in America cannot be compared to Ven or SA, ours will be LAF.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 10, 2022 04:26 PM (oWBc3)

607 We could make a reel of dem politicians saying "the quiet part out loud" and then the crowd applauding or laughing.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (44ww/)

608 I say cars with sails. Wind power, baby!

Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (Q3oNv)

609 My best friend drives a Subaru. Everyone assumes she's a lesbo. She's not.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 10, 2022 04:25 PM (nxdel)

Nurse STILL has my wife calling them Lezbaru's.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

610 My best friend drives a Subaru. Everyone assumes she's a lesbo. She's not.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 10, 2022 04:25 PM (nxdel)

Assumed to be a lipstick lesbian? Say yes.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (XntMs)

611 I'm probably ahead my time here but I'm working a car run by the gas from beans.

who wants in?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 10, 2022 04:26 PM (XlDSe)

I want in on the fartclam mining rights

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (XvPQV)

612
Last time I was downtown was because of jury duty at the Feral courthouse, 2 or 3 years ago. I was shocked at how many tweakers and crazies there were in a ten block area.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Pugs are goofy at March 10, 2022 04:24 PM (x8Wzq)

Yeah. The zombies were contained in Civic Center Park for years, But they've broken out big time. The undead own everything from the Capitol to the Art Museum in upper downtown, the length of 15th, 16th, and 17th Streets, and the whole Union Station area in LoDo. It's apocalyptic. Downtown is unrecognizable from even five years ago.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (SKVme)

613 Mao wasn't trying to meet iron smelting production quotas.

He was melting anything the peasants could use as a weapon.

Posted by: Regular joe at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (nnp+f)

614 582 "You can do that with an MG (everday) for $2k.

Posted by: Puddinhead'

My first car was a 1968 MGB fun car and the girls s loved it, when it actually worked. It literally spent more time being fixed than driven.
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My first was a 59 T-Bird. Thing weighed close to a Sherman Tank. The backseat was covered in soda bottles so I could keep feedin it gas. Chicks liked it though.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (2graF)

615 Avoid I-95 this afternoon. There's a 752 car chain reaction explosion accident.
Posted by: rickb223

*

Talk about it in terms of electric car range, please.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

You won't be able to drive past it without your batteries dying.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (Ecl8U)

616 That would be Lesbaru in Austin.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 10, 2022 04:28 PM (oWBc3)

617 And why did/does the left so strongly resist nuclear power? Could it be because the USSR/Russia derives a lot of its foreign exchange from selling petroleum?

Nah. The same reason they'll oppose solar, if it ever starts to scale. And they'll hate Fusion from Day One. Cheap energy equals more personal freedom. They can't stand that.

Posted by: Statistics at March 10, 2022 04:28 PM (AtNGU)

618
================================
Battleship gray cars don't sell well.
Posted by: stuckInCalifornia at March 10, 2022 04:26 PM (7BGok)

What? I see Chargers and Toyota pickups in that color all over the place.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:28 PM (Zz0t1)

619 I'm probably ahead my time here but I'm working a car run by the gas from beans.

who wants in?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 10, 2022 04:26 PM (XlDSe)

I want out.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 04:28 PM (SH2Zi)

620 Avoid I-95 this afternoon. There's a 752 car chain reaction explosion accident.
Posted by: rickb223

*takes notes*

Posted by: Michael Bay at March 10, 2022 04:28 PM (44ww/)

621 In fact, don't park anything next to your Volt.
Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:19 PM (vrz2I)
.........

Unless it's lawn chairs for a weenie roast.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 04:28 PM (v0R5T)

622 "lol
Posted by: flounder"

That's really how you do it. Sometimes the catalyst will break up on it's own and pieces will come out of your tail pipe.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:28 PM (vrz2I)

623 But cereally, a nuclear engineer told me a couple of years ago that nuclear could be providing virtually all of our electricity needs if the nuclear industry had been left free to innovate. He said government regulation after Three Mile Island strangled everything, and nuclear would be much cheaper and much safer today had that not happened.

Insty pushes that a lot. All existing nuclear reactors are 1960s technology. State of the art has gotten a zillion times better since then (reactors that can't melt down, notably) but nobody wants to go against the environmental lobby and build them.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:28 PM (ZGrMX)

624 I prefer the southern girls with the way they talk, and the northern girls with the way they kiss who keep their boyfriends warm at night.

Posted by: pahound at March 10, 2022 04:29 PM (uF/xP)

625 Pressurized hydrogen requires very expensive tanks. Which have to be replaced over time, because the tiny hydrogen worms it way in between the metal molecules and makes the metal brittle. Catastrophic tank failure, is that a problem?

Maybe. - James A. Lovell Jr.

Posted by: Archer at March 10, 2022 04:29 PM (gmo/4)

626 I say cars with sails. Wind power, baby!
Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (Q3oNv)

Cars with wind turbines. As you drive, the turbine charges the batteries. You're driving forever.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:29 PM (Zz0t1)

627 609 My best friend drives a Subaru. Everyone assumes she's a lesbo. She's not.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 10, 2022 04:25 PM (nxdel)

Nurse STILL has my wife calling them Lezbaru's.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

The lesbian tennis players at my club call my Subaru the lezbaru.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 04:29 PM (TdMsT)

628 Granholm must think she's Joey Heatherton in the Seventies. Same haircut, same ditzy blonde mannerisms. She also knows exactly as much as Joey ever did about the energy sectors of the US and global economies.

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 04:30 PM (AMIL/)

629 It's irritating because we had it figured out. We could be headed to a golden age. Instead we are discussing nuclear war and eating bugs, and for nothing.
==
We're always headed for a golden age. Call it progress, but whatever you think you are doing by way of the world, human nature hasn't changed. You might be able to fly to florida or get a big mac on every freaking corner, but that's not winning. You can't take any of this shit with you. Your wealth is in your heart and between your ears, and if you are lucky under your roof when you walk in the door and they say "welcome home".

Posted by: so you got that going for ya at March 10, 2022 04:30 PM (GZHvo)

630 623 Insty pushes that a lot. All existing nuclear reactors are 1960s technology. State of the art has gotten a zillion times better since then (reactors that can't melt down, notably) but nobody wants to go against ~~the environmental lobby~~ paid Russian stooges and build them.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 04:28 PM (ZGrMX)

=======

FIFY

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 04:30 PM (LvTSG)

631 567 423 Here she is,
the erudite Vice President Kamalala Harris

https://is.gd/VNPkKC
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (EjQb2)

I don't need any more proof than what I've seen on TV that Putin committed war crimes!
- VP of the US, Member of the Bar in California, Former Cali Atty General, Former San Fran County District Atty, former San Fran County DA Office attorney.
bus.
Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (AMIL/)

Director somewhere: "Cut! Print! That's a wrap!"

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 04:30 PM (axyOa)

632 People are comparing our decline to Venezuela but I think it's more like South Africa.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

unlike sa, i don't think wipepo here in the ussa are gonna go quietly.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at March 10, 2022 04:30 PM (IJES/)

633 591 Millions of vehicles with 10,000 psi hydrogen tanks! Yes!
==
Pressurized hydrogen requires very expensive tanks. Which have to be replaced over time, because the tiny hydrogen worms it way in between the metal molecules and makes the metal brittle. Catastrophic tank failure, is that a problem?
___________

Here's your calibration. Chemists sometimes use catalytic hydrogenation to reduce olefins, aldehydes, ketones, etc. Chemistry departments traditionally have had special sheds to carry out such hydrogenations remote from the main building so that they don't blow up the entire department if someone makes a mistake.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:30 PM (YqDXo)

634 Has Bearclaw Vindman and his fat tub of a putrid wife left to fight the Russians yet?

Posted by: Jak Sucio at March 10, 2022 04:30 PM (g/Dto)

635 Battleship gray cars don't sell well.
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Actually, I've notice a big increase in Navy gray cars lately. I don't think its sailors buying them, either. Confederates is a possibility.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:30 PM (2graF)

636 I want in on the fartclam mining rights

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 04:27 PM (XvPQV)

Ya know when I posted that I thought, MAE will hold out for the FCMR's because he's just got that savvy business sense.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 10, 2022 04:30 PM (XlDSe)

637 "Cars with wind turbines. As you drive, the turbine charges the batteries. You're driving forever."

I likie. I likie a lot. Perpetual motion machines are highly underrated. On another note, I'm getting into a great pyramid scheme. Getting in early, I might add. Wanna join me? Send my a hundred bucks and I'll tell you more.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 10, 2022 04:31 PM (Q3oNv)

638 Cat cleaners

https://is.gd/B2sjJC

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 04:31 PM (EjQb2)

639 Hold on. Lesbo's have moved on from Mini Coopers?

Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 04:31 PM (VpIIl)

640 579 Lady YD's ex had the wheels stolen off of his van recently, in the parking lot of his apartment building, in a """good""" part of Denver Metro (Arvada).

A lady I volunteer with had the catalytic converter stolen from her car while she was eating at Cheddars.

=================================
Would you believe it, it's gotten so bad we had catalytic converters stolen from our church parking lot... during Mass.

Posted by: stuckInCalifornia at March 10, 2022 04:31 PM (7BGok)

641 "Actually, I've notice a big increase in Navy gray cars lately."

Me too. Chrysler has a particularly ugly shade.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:31 PM (vrz2I)

642 unlike sa, i don't think wipepo here in the ussa are gonna go quietly.
------------------
I don't we go at all. The others, maybe leave early.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:31 PM (2graF)

643 I'm probably ahead my time here but I'm working a car run by the gas from beans.

who wants in?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 10, 2022 04:26 PM (XlDSe)

I'll be rich I tell ya. RICH!

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 10, 2022 04:31 PM (AiZBA)

644
Now that I think about it, the outline of the hellscape in downtown Denver is pretty much dick-shaped. A big ol' zombie wang, fucking the city's best commercial district to death.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 04:31 PM (SKVme)

645 Someone oughta' ask Psaki when the White House is going to abandon "The Beast" presidential limo for an EV.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 04:32 PM (BFigT)

646 What's the difference between a BMW owner and a cactus?
Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 04:20 PM (GYllL)
........

The Mexican leaning up against the cactus is wearing a sombrero.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 04:32 PM (v0R5T)

647 /sock

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2022 04:32 PM (44ww/)

648 632 People are comparing our decline to Venezuela but I think it's more like South Africa.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

unlike sa, i don't think wipepo here in the ussa are gonna go quietly.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at March 10, 2022 04:30 PM (IJES/)
___________

I really don't understand why the bruthas want to run things. They're terrible at running anything, as e.g., South Africa, Zimbabwe, Detroit, and Chicago prove. They'd be better off if they just said, "Nah, let the honkies run it."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:32 PM (YqDXo)

649 Wait for someone to sell Brandon the click-clack steel balls perpetual "motion machines"-"hey, and there free folks!"

Posted by: pahound at March 10, 2022 04:32 PM (uF/xP)

650 Cars with wind turbines. As you drive, the turbine charges the batteries. You're driving forever.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:29 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
I'm weeping.

Posted by: Laws of Thermodynamics at March 10, 2022 04:32 PM (DU+/6)

651 The fact is that by restarting the Keystone XL pipeline prices would go down now if though it would not be running for at least 2 years. The reason is that more of the current crude oil would be refined now knowing that the pipeline will provide refills soon.

Posted by: Roland F Hirsch at March 10, 2022 04:32 PM (oMkPq)

652 Here she is,
the erudite Vice President Kamalala Harris

https://is.gd/VNPkKC
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 04:00 PM (EjQb2)

I just shot myself and missed......holy fuck that's embarrassing.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:32 PM (Zz0t1)

653 >>> 638 Cat cleaners

https://is.gd/B2sjJC
Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 04:31 PM (EjQb2)

Since when can you bathe a cat?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 04:32 PM (llON8)

654 My question is, is this what it was like living in the Soviet Union? Cause it is.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 10, 2022 04:32 PM (Q3oNv)

655 Nood - Jen Griffin's "reporting".

Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 04:33 PM (Rl7KJ)

656 "Since when can you bathe a cat?"

Since like yesterday. I gave my cat a bath, she enjoyed it, I enjoyed it (but didn't like the hair it left on my tongue, tbh).

h/t to Steve Martin

Posted by: MaxMBJ at March 10, 2022 04:34 PM (Q3oNv)

657 Nood
Ace is in capital form.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 10, 2022 04:34 PM (NYMg5)

658 New thread - NOOD.

Posted by: gdgm+ at March 10, 2022 04:34 PM (k6jXd)

659 ++++
I'm weeping.
Posted by: Laws of Thermodynamics at March 10, 2022 04:32 PM (DU+/6)

What. You can't build a perpetual motion machine?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 04:34 PM (Zz0t1)

660 "Here she is,
the erudite Vice President Kamalala Harris

Posted by: Braenyard"

You get the impression she is utterly bored by this stupid little spat between white people and just wants to blather about some woke shit and oppressed people.

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2022 04:34 PM (MxEKc)

661 Hey Wyatt, Carson Wentz is a Redskin. Thanks for fucking up my day.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 04:34 PM (2graF)

662 IF the Rs take both houses convincingly, they could threaten the Executive agencies with drastic cuts in funding if they don't reverse insane policies. Congress controls the money.

(laugh my head off) I know, a majority of sensible, strong willed, honest Rs is absurd. Fuck them all with a roll of rusty barbed wire.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at March 10, 2022 04:34 PM (JNTt1)

663 I want out.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 10, 2022 04:28 PM (SH2Zi)

wait you were in and now you're out? Okay but we're just getting the wind in our sails.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 10, 2022 04:34 PM (XlDSe)

664 Would you believe it, it's gotten so bad we had catalytic converters stolen from our church parking lot... during Mass.
Posted by: stuckInCalifornia at March 10, 2022 04:31 PM (7BGok)
___________

Actually, that makes perfect sense. The thieves know the owners won't come back for an hour. In most shopping center parking lots, they take the chance that the owner is just popping in to pick up something and will be right back in a minute.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 10, 2022 04:34 PM (YqDXo)

665 If your cat is worn out no amount of cleaner is going to fix it. If it's clogged up because of gunk from the engine you have other problems but some pour in cleaner may help. I've never seen it work though.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 04:34 PM (vrz2I)

666
nood

Posted by: Cake at March 10, 2022 04:35 PM (DUIap)

667 639 Hold on. Lesbo's have moved on from Mini Coopers?
Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 04:31 PM (VpIIl)

When the car manufacturer has models such as:
Butchback (outback)
FORESTers (for the lesbians who don't shave)

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 04:35 PM (N39Ws)

668 Well, if by "Public" you mean the leftist hive swarm that is overloading on the required "Buzz" of Putin/Russia EVIL and Zelensky Saint/Martyr and Covid19 Plaque/epidemic larger and more deadly than the Latinox Flu of the 1918s. Or the Jan 6 Revolt/Terrorist attack (altho they're letting that one perk along with only now and then alerts)

Man it must be exhausting to remember one's lines for all their special history and current events.

Posted by: jakee308 at March 10, 2022 04:35 PM (9RkRx)

669 And again, before anyone thinks I'm anti tesla, I like them. I just find them fairly dull as one trick ponies, similar to the hayabusa motorcycle. Interesting trick, but big and heavy is boring, especially with no engine note.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 10, 2022 04:10 PM (lIk+J)

I hate them - or more specifically most of the drivers (some of their plates are a plea for a face full of tire-iron). The things are ubiquitous in the bay area, 1:5 cars is a tesla. And I have to assume that brakes and turn signals are an unaffordable option. The drivers love to do the dragstrip thing, but as soon as the road gets twisty, they're lost (not the car's fault).

I'd have a real problem spending $120k+ on a car that is identical to the one on your left, or the one on the right, or the one you're behind. With a bad paint job. I can go weeks without seeing my model of car, but I can't go 3 minutes without seeing a white Tesla S (I would actually bet money on this). Besides the limited lifespan of the battery - I have to wonder just how long the electronics in that car are good for. It's like a fast iPad. Bricked by an update.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at March 10, 2022 04:35 PM (wAnMi)

670 40 Retardo, where's all the energy needed for those electric cars going to come from? How about all the rare earths needed to make the batteries and such?
Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 03:14 PM (Rl7KJ)

Fox Business played a clip of some subhuman chuckling about buying rare earths from the Congo instead of China, and recommending buying Glencore stock. Mark Rich and Frank Giustra's business, right? Definitely hyper-ethical folks there!

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at March 10, 2022 04:36 PM (fpzDt)

671 Chemistry departments traditionally have had special sheds to carry out such hydrogenations remote from the main building so that they don't blow up the entire department if someone makes a mistake.

********

Oh the Humanities Department!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 10, 2022 04:36 PM (m45I2)

672 Is it just me or does Granholm remind you of Marcy Darcy from Married With Children?

Posted by: jakee308 at March 10, 2022 04:36 PM (9RkRx)

673 Wanna join me? Send my a hundred bucks and I'll tell you more.
---
That reminds me: We're certain to see a resurgence of those ads that promise 200 mpg by adding water or some shit to your gas. You know--that technology that Exxon bought the rights to in 1959. The bastards.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 04:36 PM (sWM8x)

674 >> 597 People speak of our decline but I say this, "California Girls."

1965:
The West coast has the sunshine,
and the girls all get so tanned.
I dig a French bikini on Hawaii island,
dolls by a palm tree in the sand.

2022:
The West coast has a famous lawyer
who's now Vice President.
She could do a job on Willie's knob -
That's the path to advancement.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 10, 2022 04:37 PM (uWF4x)

675 Hey Kamala, send in UN peace-keepers so they can rape the survivors...

Posted by: pahound at March 10, 2022 04:37 PM (uF/xP)

676 I'm particularly fond of the magnet that goes around your fuel line. It aligns the molecules and shit.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 04:38 PM (sWM8x)

677 It's like a fast iPad. Bricked by an update.
==
*Shrieks*

MUH TEZZ LUH!!!!

Posted by: super Tesla fan boy at March 10, 2022 04:38 PM (Ccvzh)

678 Those Black Folk got a way with words.

A bit repetititive. But that's okay.

Posted by: jakee308 at March 10, 2022 04:42 PM (9RkRx)

679 I'll tell ya what we're gonna see a resurgence of; gas can sales, rubber hose sales, sales of the jerking kind of siphon, and gas cap locks.

Posted by: jakee308 at March 10, 2022 04:45 PM (9RkRx)

680 unlike sa, i don't think wipepo here in the ussa are gonna go quietly.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at March 10, 2022 04:30 PM (IJES/)

Do you live in a big city ?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 04:47 PM (XntMs)

681 Is there a democrat policy out there that's not solely intended to either solidify their own power or manipulate the plebes' behavior?

Posted by: red speck at March 10, 2022 04:57 PM (gS3OW)

682 241 Have you noticed the Biden presidency* has picked the worst of the worst candidates to fill his major positions. Harris, Granholm, BootyGig, etc.

Literally no one with any indication of how the presidency works.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 10, 2022 03:40 PM (bkUtD)

Trump picked some losers, but Biden seems to be deliberately picking the worst he can find.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:42 PM (Y5qcH)

This is typical of incompetents. They never choose someone who threatens them by being skilled.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 05:26 PM (eoQWY)

683 You know, gas prices today remind me of what I'd pay at the very top restaurants back in my dating days. At places I'd take a girl only if I REALLY liked her.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 10, 2022 03:58 PM (R0Tis)

So now to impress her you get dressed up and go to a drive thru and drive around all night.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 05:57 PM (eoQWY)

684 Why did Biden select this Noodle-Nosed Bean Brain anyway?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 10, 2022 06:10 PM (wGqjj)

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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Demands Energy Companies Do Their Part and Start Producing More Energy
Flashback: "If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you"