Well great job not making it clear, or explaining it in your response.  Sorry, I was just trying to respond to the literal words you used.  I’ll use my imagination next time instead. :P

Rude take: Buying any amount of dirt in a small plastic bag is completely idiotic, unless you are filling up a couple flower pots on your apartment balcony.

Reading fail, but ok. I ran my diesel VW on pure biodiesel for 8 summers in a row (20% in winter to avoid gelling). I was a huge biodiesel nerd, handing out pamphlets and such. Then the federal $1/gal tax subsidy expired, and interest completely dried up. Plus new diesel emissions requirements, necessitating late…

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Because if they quote a high price over email/phone, you walk away.  If they sucker you into the dealership, they start working the mind games and have a better chance at getting you stuck at the higher price

Sad but true. Privileged folks get to sit back and wait out the shit show, while people in need suffer. I want to buy a new(er) compact tractor, same situation; gotta wait it out another year or so probably.

No one actually “needs” to race though.

The front wheel in the ak47 pic is pretty clear. Rear wheel is blurry. Whipping shitties, fo sho.

There’s no fucking way our BEV battery production supply chain (mineral mining, refinement, transportation, assembly) will be able to make 10 million battery packs by 2029.  no fuckin way.  It’s not good enough for this moron journalist who has no idea how the world works.

It’s a reasonable goal, but frankly there’s no way that the global battery production supply chain will be able to mine enough minerals to produce 40 million battery packs per year (half of global sales) let alone 8 million (half of us sales).  I don’t understand why everyone sets goals based upon wishes instead of…

I agree with you completely and like the idea of imposing permanent emissions requirements if any large ships want to enter our waters; the international shipping industry would probably rather comply than lose access to our ports. However, retrofitting such giant powerplants that were engineered for specific fuel and…

No need to mansplain it, we’re all on the same page here.

Oh it definitely runs on bunker. You can’t even source enough biodiesel or synthetic diesel to cruise this thing across the ocean. It’s “dual fuel” so they can claim a PR win and occasionally switch to less smoky stack output near ports.

But they wont. Because those cost more, are often hard to source in such huge volumes, and no one on the ship will actually care at all. It’s gonna guzzle bunker fuel like all the other huge disgusting ships for rich people.

They probably wont even staff or use the research lab. It’s just there for warm feelings as the rich folks plunk down deposits to escape reality while the world burns.

Lawrence, my man, don’t tell me you swallowed that greenwashing PR BULLSHIT about a 900 foot, bunker-fuel guzzling luxury behemoth being anywhere close to sustainable. There is ZERO sustainability here. ZERO.

No, you nailed it.  My parents are sitting at around that figure after my fathers 4 decades as a professor, and living pretty frugally.  This includes their house and retirement savings.  It could get eaten up by health care costs over the next couple decades, no problem.

I used to have this grand idea for an additional license certification. Show up at a controlled parking lot, calibrate your drinking to between 0.1-0.12 BAC (BMI based shot intake at the center?), then pass a series of even more grueling driver maneuvers. You’d pay like, $250 for the privilege of attempting this. If…

Yeah it’s true, Erik’s snark is so dry and vapid sometimes, that you can’t even tell what he means or whether it is sarcasm.

FCA Tigershark 2.4L in a jeep Cherokee with the new (at the time) 9-spd trans was pretty awful. We had 4 adults trying to get up to Lake Tahoe and it had to scream at 5000 rpm just to pull us up there. Buzzy, brash engine with no redeeming qualities.  The transmission had no idea what gear it was supposed to be in at…