Having worked in the mining industry, I would like to point out that, as a general rule, you need roughly 1 ton of copper wiring per megawatt of power produced by a wind turbine. Also, solar panels are roughly 40% copper. High end electronics frequently *electric cars and hybrids* use significant amounts of gold…

This is already the case over most of the country. There are few places in the US where an electric car is worse than a Prius, and things are only swinging further toward the electric car’s favor.

“Put another way, for 45 percent of the United States population, an E.V. will generate lower levels of greenhouse gases…

Just FYI: Even if you charge an electric car solely on the single dirtiest coal powerplant in the country, its polluting about the same as a gasoline car getting about 24 mpg, which is better than the current national average.

Thank you. I feel like a lot of car guys only want to look at the car part. For environmentalists, the dream isn’t just “get an electric car” like it is with us when we say “get a Porsche.” Their dream is fully green power generation and production from beginning to end. Most of them know that there’s a transition…

To me the real problem is that to get the batteries we are doing the same strip mining for rare earth metals instead of oil. Then there’s the issue of where those are located and whether or not we just created a new OPEC.

As the whole tree hugging movement pushes for electric cars they continue to overlook the facts. Making electricity, for the most part in the US, is done by burning coal or use of atomic power. Both of these come with an entirely different set of problems. Adding everyones car to the electrical grid would require us…

Geschäft up front, fête in the back.

“It’s advocating co-ed showers.”

I would like to know more.

Oh it can tow 5500lbs. but stopping is not gauranteed.

Well, if you’re willing to take a gamble on the shifter staying in neutral, I’d imagine it would be okay. Whilst not the best idea, I once towed a ‘79 300SD on a dolly like this, never had any issues over the ~50 miles I towed it with my ‘99 Dakota 5.9 R/T.

No, as long as the driveshaft’s not connected. Though, since the set-up pictured is limited to 20 mph, putting it in neutral should be fine.

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I'm looking at a 2003 A4 Hatchback. It has 149,000 miles but it's only $3,500, would you reccommend it?