Nice job ignoring my rebuttals to your posts. Don’t like facts do you? I’ve yet to see you post any, just your opinion. I like the personal insults too, that’s classy.

You’re the one cherry picking by wanting to avoid manufacturing because it doesn’t fit your narrative of electric cars being the savior of humanity. What matters is total environmental impact.

Ditto for electric cars. You need to look at the cost of mining and refining all the rare earth elements needed for electric cars. A Prius takes 2X as much carbon emissions to create as a regular car. Then there is the problem of what to do with that material once it’s worn out. You accuse me of cherry picking but the…

Here is a great article on boiler and energy production efficiency it’s just technical enough while breaking the complexities down:

The thing is no one ever looks at the total package. That’s like these people that gloat about how good their Prius is for the environment but ignore the massive manufacturing cost it puts on the environment. It takes 2x as much carbon emissions to make a Prius as it does to make a regular car.

It might, it might not, no one knows. Just like in the 70s global cooling was all the rage...

They’ve been saying the oil will run out for decades. They said it in the 60s, then The 70s, then the 80s, etc etc etc all the way up to today. Fact of the matter is is that drilling technology is now outpacing demand. Hence why we have cheap gas now.

Makes sense. Why burn energy dense fossil fuels directly at the vehicle to turn the shaft when we can burn them hundreds or thousands of miles away in a giant tea kettle with less stringent emissions rules. Use that to make steam, spin a turbine, pump that energy down a wire, store it in a battery, then pump it…

Dayum br0! Look at dat stance!!!

For the record, John Kerry, one of the greenies, came out on the record today at the Paris summit and said that the ENTIRE developed world could immediately cease production of “carbon emissions” and it wouldn’t matter. The developing world is the part of the world driving emissions. You know, places like China, where…

Depends on your definition of clean.

D’oh! Totally missed it. My bad!

I’ll have “creepy shit you read on the Internet” for $400, Alex.

Pagani. I mean, just look at it! It’s like the cockpit of a friggin spaceship... And not one built by humans!

I like all the future Darwin Award winners standing on the outside of that one corner.

The big question in all this:

It's used with 88,000 miles on it. I paid as much as a new Honda Accord, why wouldn't I buy that if I could afford it?

Bingo. US productivity has go up something like 250 percent the last 40 years, manufacturing pay has gone up 50 percent.

It doesn’t send my dollars to China. It sendsthem to countries that play by the rules. Would I prefer the US?Yes. I'm not opposed to sending it to Germany or Italy. As someone else said, even Mexico would be better, but, just by a little bit.

You’re entitled to your opinion. If me supporting countries that don’t engage in cyber terror, human rights violations, labor violations, suppression of free speech, currency manipulation, and communism (arguably) make me a snob, then I'm a snob, and proud of it.