Evil is often absurd.
One recent example being the sight of people wearing multiple “masks” to “stop the spread” during that absurdly evil event styled “the pandemic.”
Another example of evil absurdity is the 2025 GMC Sierra Denali Device – i.e., the battery-powered thing that looks like a GMC Sierra pick-up. It weighs just shy of 9,000 pounds – that’s not a typo – before anyone gets behind the wheel.
That makes GMC’s device the heaviest device you can buy – assuming you can afford to pay $100,495 for one – that isn’t a Kenworth or something comparable. Even Elon’s absurd Cybertruck weighs “only” 6,800 lbs. – which is already about a ton more than the heaviest V8-powered, full-frame American land yachts of the ’70s that the “environmentalists” of the time excoriated for their wastefulness of fuel and natural resources weighed. An early ’70s Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham limousine – which was pretty much the biggest, heaviest and most consumptive of steel, glass and gas of the bunch – weighed “only” 5,102 pounds.
Believe it or not – as Jack Palance used to say.
Today’ “environmentalists” are silent about the surreal consumptiveness of devices such as the Cybertruck and others of even greater weight – and so, consumptiveness of raw materials as well as energy – such as the Rivian device (7,000 pounds) and the Ford Lightning device – which is the “lightweight”of the bunch at just over 6,000 pounds or a mere three tons.
But the new Sierra device takes the heavyweight belt – by a knockout.
It does so in order to be able to tout that it can get to 60 MPH in about 4 seconds – which is impressive, in the same way that seeing the Titanic bolt from the pier to 40 knots in the same timeframe courtesy of a dozen or so Saturn V F1 rockets strapped to its flanks would be impressive. But it is gratuitously wasteful – of raw materials and energy. It takes one of the largest and heaviest battery packs (205 kWh) yet installed in a device that isn’t a Kenworth to store the electricity necessary to get the Sierra to 60 that quickly. And to allow this device to tout a range of 460 miles in between charges.
Just as it took an eight liter V8 to move an early ’70s Caddy – but Cadillac (at the time) would never have had the audacity to claim its dreadnought was “green.” Everyone understood that dreadnoughts such as those were supposed to be consumptive. Meant to be outrageous. It was the whole point of owning something such as an early ’70s Fleetwood Brougham.
And it was honest.
People bought consumptive dreadnoughts because they wanted something big and powerful and cushy and ostentatious for the sake of those attributes, which they wanted because they could afford to indulge and maybe also because they wanted to let everyone else see that they could afford to indulge. But it would never have occurred to those people to pretend they were buying a 5,000 pound V8 powered dreadnought because they were “concerned” about “the environment.”
They’d have been laughed out of the room.
Why is no one laughing now?
More to the point, why is the “media” – and most particularly the car media – not excoriating the evil absurdity of devices that make an early ’70s Cadillac seem almost Pinto-like in terms of comparative restraint of gratuitous wastefulness of raw materials and natural resources?
We are told by “environmentalists” that we need to swap our vehicles for devices because of an existential threat to “the environment” they vaguely style “climate change.” This is interesting all by itself. How can there be a real – or certain – existential threat if all we know about it is that the “climate” is “changing”?
Meaning, we do not know. And neither do they.
How is it “changing,” exactly? No answer is forthcoming. How soon will it be “changing,” precisely? They do not say. Only that at some vague, indeterminate point in the future – which is always being pushed farther into the future as necessary – the “climate” will “change” in some existentially apocalyptic way.
It is interesting to note the similarities between the assertions made about the “climate changing” and the ‘Rona spreading. Also the absurd and evil measures pushed as palliatives.
Is it more – or less – absurd to insist that people wear “masks” (two of them, even) over their faces when they are not sick – and the sickness presents no meaningful threat – or to insist that a battery powered device that is heavier and more consumptive of raw materials and energy than the most obnoxiously consumptive dreadnougths of the ’70s ever were is “green.”
The good news – if you are one of those people who believes the “climate” is “changing” and that the only way to prevent it is for us to replace our vehicles with battery powered devices – is that you can calm down.
About the “climate changing,” that is.
Because clearly, it isn’t. If it were – if the people pushing us into devices really believed it were – that an actual existential crisis loomed – there is no way they would be pushing these gratuitously consumptive devices. For the same reason the captain of the Titanic would not advise his passengers to go back inside their warm cabins and have a good night’s sleep.
Unless, of course, Captain Smith was a fool. Or a psychopath.
Draw your own conclusions about the people pushing for these devices, which is more absurd – and evil – precisely because they are being pushed.
Back in the ’70s, the government didn’t push dreadnoughts such as the Fleetwood Brougham onto the market – and it did not push affordable, lightweight and so much-less-consumptive of raw materials and energy vehicles off the market, either.
But that was before the government turned red – and presented itself as “green.”
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I believe the Hummer EV weighs more than the Denali Just as absurd but hey it “crab” walks! lol
For some reason I visualised the dad from That 70’s Show saying
“You need a class D CDL to drive that thing”
If there were any “Truth in Engineering” laws applied to this massive beast, it’d have an 88 mm KwK 43 cannon on a turret mounted on top of the cab, and the entire skin covered in “Zimmeritt” anti-mine magnetic paste. GMC has revived the KONIGSTIGER (that’s mis-translated, though literal, as “King Tiger”, though that’s simply the German name for the BENGAL tiger, which is the largest and heaviest of tigers, so it is the “King” of tigers). I wonder how much they had to pay to Thyssen-Henschel to license it.
Can we just a small compact truck like the Toyota Hilux Champ? This is f*cking ridiculous.
When my son’s 1984 Toyota pickup was totaled by a stupid Lyft driver that pulled out in front of him, I though he was crazy to keep it to rebuild. Now methinks that was a sage move.
These people are so concerned with the Earth warming up and oceans rising that they’re buying beachfront property.
https://beatofhawaii.com/magnum-pi-home-set-to-become-obama-hawaii-retreat/
Global warming BS….
It could be the excuse that is going to be used…. for people falling over dead….after being poisoned by big food and big pharma…
When they croak….say it was the CO2..lol….
Eat what?…instead of big food gmo chemical filled, processed crap?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGvzUavHlP0
“…In the same way that seeing the Titanic bolt from the pier to 40 knots in the same timeframe courtesy of a dozen or so Saturn V F1 rockets strapped to its flanks would be impressive”.
That would be BAD ASS. I want someone to make it so immediately.
Cue Jeremy Clarkson.
Or, for that matter, rebuild and refit the USS New Jersey with twin A4W nuclear reactors and related steam turbines. Battlewagons still have a place in the Navy of a country that can afford them, as though smaller, lighter, CHEAPER vessels can carry the same missiles, like the Tomahawk, that BB-62 carried, there’s nothing like a 9-gun salvo from those big 16-inchers, each firing a ton of “fuck you!” at a range of up to THIRTY miles. When you need something at sea, on a small island, or near a shore pounded into oblivion, ain’t nothing like an Iowa-class battleship!
While mostly true and very awesome as I had a chance to visit the NJ, I fear all surface ships have been rendered obsolete against a peer enemy with these very accurate hypersonic tungsten rod weapons that have been apparently fielded. What will a battleship or any other ship do against a Mach 10 rod dropped from straight above like that Ukraine strike? That armor is meant for other battleship guns, and I think such a rod would go straight through the bottom. More so if it has depleted uranium mixed in to burn through the armor. The concept is the same through, a hunk of metal flying- whether from a naval gun or ballistic missile can’t be stopped.
Buddy of mine who was a Navy lifer: “ there are only two classes of ships now, submarines and targets.”
Carry a generator in your EV….
1 gal of gasoline in a generator will provide only 10 miles of driving range in a EV.
maXpeedingrods Inverter Emergency Generator 5500 W 240 V…. $1350.00
2.9 gallon tank 6.5 hr run time at 50% load….
a 5000-watt generator will typically consume about 0.75 gallons per hour at full load….2.9 gallons….. 3.8 hours….
So burn up 2.9 gallons….it takes 3.8 hours….and you only get 30 miles more range…lol
2.9 gallons…$9.00….to go 30 miles….
$9.00 worth of diesel in a diesel ice car gives 180 miles range….put $9.00 worth of diesel in the tank in 30 seconds….
https://ca.maxpeedingrods.com/products/maxpeedingrods-inverter-emergency-generator-5500-w-240-v-lightweight-for-camping-travel-construction-site
Recharging an EV with a small generator….
So burn up 2.9 gallons….it takes 3.8 hours….and you only get 30 miles more range…lol
If you did this on a 900 mile trip…you would recharge 30 times ….114 hr of just recharging time…. that is 4.75 days of just recharging…..plus 87 gallons of gas…about $261.00
In an ice diesel car you could go 900 miles at 90 mph….in only 10 hours…..15 gallons of diesel….about $45.00….
Subsidised cost versus real cost….
2.9 gallons…$9.00….to go 30 miles….
900 mile trip…87 gallons of gas….self charging with a portable gas charger….…about $261.00
900 mile trip…87 gallons of gas burnt….back at the utility plant……..…cost about $$$..???…at home charging you are paying $75.00….instead of $261.00….there is as huge tax payer subsidy in there….
when all ice cars are banned…it will cost $261.00…or far more…no more driving around…EV’s are a trap….
in the real world driving EV’s is they are getting 2.4 miles of range for every kwh
900 miles = 375 kwh….at 20 cents = $75.00…..at home charging…
900 miles = 375 kwh….at 40 cents = $150.00…..at public charging…
Diesel ice is far, far better…..In an ice diesel car you could go 900 miles …..burn 15 gallons of diesel….about $45.00….
In an EV…..900 mile trip…87 gallons of gas burnt….back at the utility plant……..…
In an ice diesel car you could go 900 miles …..burn 15 gallons of diesel….
EV’s wasting far more fuel…..polluting way more then ice vehicles…..
But…with 24/7 propaganda….costing billions of dollars…. the marxists have hidden this truth…they say EV’s are zero emission….lol…biggest lie ever….millions of people believe every word of it…..
burning 87 gallons of fuel is zero emission…lol
Four Tons of
GreenFarceEric’s photographic analogy to an 8-liter, pre-Oil Shock I Cadillac land yacht is apt. The Caddy, designed in the halcyon days of 30 cent per gallon gasoline, proved ill-adapted to quintupled fuel costs. It represented an extreme in size and displacement, soon to be reversed.
Likewise GMC’s moronic Sierra Denali is sending a message: this absurd extreme of size and weight is ripe for reversal. Among other things, it’s heavy enough to actually crack paved driveways. It’s also so ludicrously tall that the frunk — or whatever’s under the hood — is ergonomically useless. Got a ladder?
Un-ergonomic products are an insult to the customer. They don’t last on the market because people want convenience. This deformed giant truck is anything but convenient. Moreover, for me at least, it produces a negative halo effect: I don’t want to buy anything from a company that makes something this gobsmackingly stupid.
On a dark day, you can see General Motors burning on the horizon.
GM fell into a burning ring of fire
Ii went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire
— Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire
But ya gotta admit…IF you could afford the Caddy back in the mid-70s, likely the COST of the gasoline wasn’t the problem, it was AVAILABILITY. A problem exacerbated not only by the shocks of geopolitics of the time, but also the FedGov interference in the markets for petroleum and its products, gasoline especially. Remember the flub over the issuance of rationing coupons with the picture of “George”, and how they could be fraudulently used in dollar bill acceptors?
Still, those Caddilacs were “pure PUSSY”. Like driving a luxury hotel suite around. The point was, as absurd as the length and weight of these land yachts was, and that fuel-guzzling 500 cubic inch V8 (can you imagine the TORQUE that monster put out?), the largest full-scale production engine in the postwar era (Preston Tucker’s original engine for his Tucker 48, working the valves with oil pressure, came in at 589 cubes, but it was never made workable, and finally canceled), it was a tribute to American excess for those that could afford it and were willing to drive that battleship. It was, again the FREE MARKET at work.
One thing that the greens fail to realize, let alone discuss, is how environmentally wasteful a nearly 10,000 pound device on wheels is when you consider wear and tear on their brakes and tires, not to mention roads and bridges.
These dreadnought devices wear out tires and brakes much sooner than non-devices, which not only increases the particulate matter pollution from brake and tire dust in the air, water, and soil, but also increases the consumption of tires, brake pads, and rotors, among other things—all of which take energy and resources and create pollution to make—tires that last 60,000 miles pollute less than ones that last 30,000 miles.
Their extra weight also taxes roads and bridges beyond their limits. There are roads and bridges with weight limits of 3 tons in much of the rural community, FYI. Already medium duty trucks (6000 series trucks) and big rigs pay higher tolls and taxes to pay for the wear and tear they exact on roads and bridges—but this device is electric, so no gas tax revenue here. And repairing roads and bridges also means more resource consumption and pollution—I haven’t seen any electric graders, steam rollers, cement mixers, or bulldozers.
If the greens truly gave a hoot, like the old commercials say, they’d be pushing for lighter, simpler vehicles that last longer. But when do the greens ever do anything that actually works and makes sense?
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment,.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days.”
The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
The older lady said that she was right our generation didn’t have the “green thing” in its day. The older lady went on toexplain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But, too bad we didn’t do the “green thing” back then. We walked up stairs because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the “green thing” in our day.
Back then we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days.
Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the “green thing” back in our day.
Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power.
We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right; we didn’t have the “green thing” back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the “green thing” back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family’s $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the “green thing.”
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the “green thing” back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person. We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to piss us off… Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can’t make change without the cash register telling them how much.
Author unknown…
Too long – but spot on!
It didn’t seem so obvious back then but you’re right about all the things we did to reuse, reduce and recycle. It was mostly to save money but that just goes to show that invisible economic forces are more powerful than anyone can imagine.
Great story, anarchist, I heard the voice of Paul Harvey in the telling of it all the way until the end, then it went full Walt Kowalski..
If the much-feared EMP event ever takes out all the computers, calculators, and smartphones, at least I have a SLIDE RULE and know how to use it. I also know how to use trig and logarithm tables. And I still have my old drafting tools and pencils. If engineers have to go back to 1947 for awhile, I’m ready!
Another reason we drank sugary soda, drank whole milk, put CREAM in our coffee, and regularly had Bacon, Pork Chops, burgers, steaks, and FRIED CHICKEN, but we didn’t get fat, because we moved around, we WALKED instead of using our cars for short trips (which pollutes far more than lack of smog devices), kids rode their bikes, and, PLAYED OUTSIDE until it was dark. Most streets and cul-de-sacs saw a gathering of boys playing baseball in the spring/summer, and football in the fall. In fact, a rainy day in November was the PERFECT opportunity to gather at the school yard and play football until sundown, getting muddy. I’d come home, head-to-toe covered in dirt and mud, and my mother would have me stand on the patio and get hosed down. By then, I’d be shivering, so the tap water actually felt WARM!
Let your ten y.o. sons do that NOW, and the “Karens” would call CPS on you!
Yah, great comments, all. I thought of the bit, ‘The Seen & the Unseen’ while reading the story by anarchyst.
http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
Not sure what fits at the end of the true history Douglas wrote, in that, …I don’t ever recall any “Karens” back in those days, where did “Karens” come from? From an egg, like Mork’s? Only, an evil egg? Or, from under some rocks?
They kind of remind me of the recess monitor who would blow her whistle if the boys got into it too much, or the girls blew up while playing jacks, but the recess monitor didn’t have an ounce of malice in her.
Is that where Karens come from, they couldn’t land the job as a recess monitor & are taking it out on the world? Some kinda spiteful, ‘Stepford Wives’ reject? Idk.
This was my experience as well, Doug –
I and my friends were on the loose from the time we got home from elementary school until the sun began to go down and it was time to get home for supper. We rode our bikes to construction sites, caught critters in the pond, played pick-up football and were free. No one batted an eye when they saw a 12 year-old on a bicycle riding without their parents hovering nearby. The world was not run by neurotics then. It is now.
As young teens, we would ride in the open bed of Uncle’s pickup truck at 70 mph on the highway and hilly country roads. 4-8 of us at a time. Going back pre-1970.
irrigation football. Thats one thing I remember most. Every week in the summer they would flood the park with two inches of Tempe ditch water. All of us from the neighborhood would get together late afternoon for a game of tackle football. Occasionally it would result in a broken wrist or some stitches, but never remember any Karens, cops, or parents having anything to say about it.
Recently while visiting family in SoCal I went for a mountain bike ride in the nearby park. Riding around the edge of the park less than five minutes, I was ‘pulled over’ by a LA county sheriff and forced to show ID. Probable cause… Not wearing a helmet.
“Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room.”
And when they broke down we took them to a repairman instead of throwing them in the trash.
Perfect example of Orwellian double speak and double think
“That makes GMC’s device the heaviest device you can buy – assuming you can afford to pay $100,495 for one”
gM = dead man walking
Wonder if parking garages will need to put up ‘ maximum vehicle weight’ warning signs if these overweight devices continue to proliferate. Wouldn’t want to be parked on the first level with a bunch of EV’s over my head on the upper levels.
Four tons of green is like fourteen stone (196) of woman — a bit more than I want to handle.
When GM’s last factory closes, this idiotic vehicle should be put on a plinth in front, and labeled as the cause of death.
Depends upon the woman…if she 25-30 years old and has them “tig ol’ bitties” and a fine, round rump to “roast”, nothing like a little “cushion for the pushing”. Chubby girls are like mopeds…no matter how red-faced you get to be seen in public with one, they’re FUN to RIDE!
There was a peer reviewed study showing that CO2 has ZERO impact on climate change. And yet, we’re to believe that driving EVs that require far more mining than gas vehicles do just to get lithium for the batteries will somehow “Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave the planet”. It’s as moronic as thinking that eating bugs and lab grown/ plant based meat is healthier and better for the planet……
https://thehighwire.com/editorial/new-peer-reviewed-study-co2-has-zero-impact-on-climate-change/
80% of the all the EV’s are in China…80% of the electricity there is from coal…(in U.S. it was 40%)…
Most of the EV’s on the planet are powered by coal…lol
Manufacturing an EV and it’s battery is far more environmentally destructive then manufacturing an ice car…..
The greenest car?….get an old car and keep it running…extend it’s life….Cuba has the greenest cars….
IMPORTANT….. 1 gal of gasoline in a generator will provide only 10 miles of driving range in a EV. That same gal of gasoline in a Honda Civic gives you 3 time the range or around 32 miles…..that is the end to the 100 eMPG lies…….
Ah, but you’re forgetting that it can be charged with “green” energy like solar and wind. My solar setup has a dedicated car charging port that can be activated when my array is producing and stop when it isn’t. Of course this means I’m not putting power back into the grid for use credits at night (which defeats the whole purpose of getting solar to begin with, pre-paying my electric bills for the next 10+ years). And that assumes my array will produce enough power to provide any significant range. In the summer, when there’s 15+ hours of sunshine, probably. This time of year? Forget about it. And any cloud cover, snow cover, etc? That’s going to increase the charing time too.
So now we’re back to stuff that comes out of the ground. I guess one could make the argument that you’re running on natural gas turbines when there’s no wind or sunshine, so on net your carbon footprint might be slightly less. But then there’s still the weight issue and hauling all that around probably negates those gains too.
And what of “fast” charging at a commercial charging station? Maybe they offer a “green” option for purchasing “green” power, much like different grades of gasoline, I don’t know. But retail green power is a scam too, since if there’s no wind and no sun there’s no green production. Oh sure, “on net” your green energy supplier might eventually pump enough power into the grid (when it’s needed) that will offset the natural gas you used to charge up your behemoth, but as we’ve seen in Germany it will be decades until there’s enough installed capacity to have an “all green energy” day, and even then it will have to be a Goldilocks moment of just enough sun and just enough wind and just enough hydro.
Hi RK,
Sure, it could be charged using solar – but not at home, unless you have a mighty solar array. Which will probably cost more than the Sierra, itself. So you have to drive to the “fast” charger and wait 10 minutes – so fast! – to get 100 miles more range. This assumes you are not competing for electricity with other device owners in which case your wait will be much longer. But let’s say just 10 minutes 2-3 times a week. Compound that times 2-3 times per week and you must waste 30 minutes each week waiting – else wait at home for a day.
with standard 240V charging — or Level 2 charging, it takes 24 hours to charge….
You can only use every other day….so you need two…lol….$100,495 for another one
A 240V/30A charger would take even more to charge this behemoth’s 205 kW-hr pack. Probably closer to 30 hours for a full charge from zero. How convenient. If you had basically the biggest residential 19.2 kW option you’re still at 12 hours and that will take an 80A branch. That’s the folly of this whole scheme. My house has a 100A service panel, so if I wanted to replace my old gasoline F150 with this thing I’d have to upgrade my home’s service, which the utility says requires a new transformer on the pole and they don’t do that for free. So new transformer, a new larger drop, a new 200A service panel, a new branch pulled to the garage. And it’ll still be $30 a day to recharge this sucker. That’s stupid, 205 kW-hr is what the average home uses *per week* (the average U.S. home uses 10,500 kW-hr annually, so around 29 kW-hr per day) and this thing consumes that in just one full charge.
And they are pushing heat pumps…
Heat pump energy consumption….
Total Estimate: Add the heating and cooling consumption:
6,000 kWh (heating) + 4,500 kWh (cooling) = 10,500 kWh annually.
I was trying to play devils advocate, but you’re absolutely right.
Then there’s this little problem. Oversupply of solar energy when it’s not needed in California. Maybe Newsome will demand all the EVs pull over and top up when there’s extra sunshine. 🙄
https://ecoblock.berkeley.edu/blog/californias-growing-solar-and-wind-problem/#
If you had any idea of what it’d take to put in 220 Volt chargers in even 20 percent of American single-family residences and power them, you’d figure out quickly that it’d take 2-3 life cycles of EVs (about 20-30 years) to make that happen. If nothing else, our myriad of environmental laws and bureaucracy hampers any quick effort. We could never built the Saturn 5 rocket in the five years that it took, and not just because the Germans that actually designed it are dead and gone, for the same idiotic reasons. For that matter, we couldn’t even begin to do what we did in 1952-1953: take an existing tank chassis used on the M46 “Patton”, and, because its intended replacement, the M48, was delayed in development, plop the turret that housed a suitable 90 mm cannon from another discontinued tank (the T42) onto it, and crank out almost NINE THOUSAND of these babies in only 18 months! That was because we identified that we lacked a suitable main battle tank to taken on the Soviets in case, during the Korean “Police Action” they decide to come stomping out of the DDR and Czechoslovakia, The resulting M47 was certainly not perfect, as its AVS-1790 V-12 air cooled engine, the one used in Jay Leno’s “tank car”, was a gas-guzzler, but with 810 ponies, it did move the tank around quite well. So, we had a credible force of capable main battle tanks ready to go quickly while we could take our time getting the one we wanted “right”, and when that vehicle, the M48 “Patton III”, began rolling out of the Detroit Arsenal in 1954, we were able to either delve the M47s to Reserve and Guard units, or give ’em away to our Allies like XMas toys. Indeed, Arnold “Screw your Freedoms!” Schwarzenegger did his mandatory military service in the Austrian Army in 1965-1966 as an M47 tank crewman, and in the 1990s, he purchased the tank he’d served in and brought it to the USA. The point is, we don’t have common sense engineering and manufacturing anymore, what we have is “DEI” and dipshit women running our industrial base into the ground.
Amen, Douglas –
I was reading about this the other day; specifically, about the problems that would arise if – hypothetical scenario – a suburban neighborhood of say 100 homes were wired up for two EV Level II charge stations each and two EVs were plugged in charging most of the time (each evening) and the capacity that would be required to make this work. Short answer is it won’t work – and the more important answer is these people know it. Which begs the question: Why then are they pushing this scenario? Because they know what it will entail.
Another manifestation of driving consumer decisions, engineering, and product design and marketing to satisfy an AGENDA rather than based on FREE Market principles. Quark, that big-eared snarky shit from “Deep Space Nine”, was right…”Free Enterprise” is SUPPOSED to be “Free”! More properly, FE is simply people FREELY interacting with others, engaging in valid commerce, making enforceable contracts with each other, and each party gets (or should get) what they WANT for their trouble, while being left the HELL alone by “Uncle Sugar” or other entities presuming to interfere in their lives!
Whew!
Great observation: “Evil is often absurd.”
It’s really not absurd so much as insane.
Evil is absurd, and the goal is to make you go along with the absurd. To make you speak and act opposite of what you know to be true.
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
– Theodore Dalrymple
EVs are political correctness on wheels.
And “womyn” wonder why guys won’t ask them out anymore. Hey, internet porn’s cheap, and if things go sideways with some neurotic female, you’re asking to lose your job, your career, and possibly your FREEDOM because she lies like a rug.
The Sierra EV boasts a 10,500 lb. maximum towing capacity. ….while towing 10,500….the range is probably about 80 miles….
The Sierra EV is similar to the Hummer EV so should have similar performance……
NOTE: the Hummer weighs 9640 lb, it has 1000 hp, the battery weighs 3000 lb.
top speed 106 mph….lol
real 10.75 mpg
it takes 4 days to charge…..lol
The Ford F150 EV had a range of about 80 miles while towing maximum capacity….
The new Porsche Macan EV has a range of about 100 miles while towing maximum capacity of 4000 lb….
The new Porsche Macan EV review…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vJOriNNGcc
The Sierra EV is similar to the Hummer EV so should have similar performance……haha
The video…..
My Hummer EV is a Disaster. NEVER Buy an Electric Vehicle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1RoJCT7v-Q
The Sierra EV is similar to the Hummer EV so should have similar performance….
Man Plugs $80k+ hummer Electric Truck Into His House, Finds Out It Will Take Over 4 Days to Charge
with standard 120V charging — or Level 1 charging, it takes 4 days to charge the hummer.
with standard 240V charging — or Level 2 charging, it takes 24 hours to charge the hummer.
Car and Driver went to an Electrify America charging station, where it cost over $100 to “fill up” the Hummer at 43 cents per kilowatt hour.
This is roughly consistent with how much it would cost to fill up a gas-powered Hummer made in the final production year
https://www.westernjournal.com/man-plugs-80k-electric-truck-house-finds-will-take-4-days-charge/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=conservativetribune&utm_content=2022-10-01&utm_campaign=manualpost&fbclid=IwAR2uOVa7XaRuIdY4Z29muh9dmc7jI_LTt_DwWMp9roBPKkKQePyKOqzjGiY
I’m going out on a limb here but, I think if you asked most “environmentalists” if they believe in God and that He created the heavens and earth they would spit in your face. They would probably rant about “evolution” and how humans are fouling that all up.
That said, I would remind these acolytes of Darwin that ol’ Chuck married his first cousin.
Reason and logic is not their raison d’etre.
Exactly. And I think this gets to the heart of a lot of issues. They have replaced God with man. They absurdly worship fallible “experts”, and in so doing, view truth as malleable. Just pick the expert you agree with.
If environmentalism restricted itself to truly caring for our natural resources, I would have no problem with it. However, with the secret science and questionable funding that these environmental groups possess taints the whole barrel. It turns out that many claims that environmentalists make have no basis in fact and are not based on good, honest, scientific investigation. This is why environmental scientists have to hide their data, as it does not fit their agenda. A good example of this is the so-called global warming crap, now renamed climate change. For one, the climate is always changing. The East Anglia emails in which data was purposely falsified by climate scientists comes to mind. Not only that, the climate scientists purposely installed temperature monitoring sensors in cities, contrary to manufacturers recommendations and good scientific practices, in asphalt-covered parking lots, and other heat sink areas in order to prove their (faulty) hypothesis. This is scientific dishonesty at its worst.
It turns out that the solar system is in a cooling cycle due to decreased solar activity. There are two long-term solar cycles that reinforce themselves when in phase and cancel themselves out when out-of-phase. Look up the Maunder minimum. There are no SUVs on Mars or other planets, yet they are also experiencing the same solar variability.
Environmentalism has been the method used to impose communist principles on western society, especially in the USA.
Environmentalists are not content with promoting clean water, air and land, but are hell-bent on controlling human behavior, and yes, promoting extermination plans for much of humanity as these anointed types consider mankind to be a pestilence (except for themselves) to be reduced in population by any means necessary.
Environmentalists HATE the God-given concept of private property and have imposed government-backed and enforced land use controls on private property owners without compensation, clearly an unconstitutional taking of private property. If environmentalists want to control land use, let them purchase it themselves, not by government force. Today the only method of negating government-imposed land use restrictions is shoot, shovel, and shut up.
If environmentalists had their way, the earth’s human population would be reduced by approximately 90%, with the remainder to (be forced) to live in cities, in soviet-style high rise apartments, utilizing bicycles, buses and trains for transportation. The use of automobiles and access to pristine wilderness (rural) areas would be off-limits to us mere mortals, and would only be available for these anointed environmentalists.
The endangered species act is another abuse of environmentalism. Species are always changing, to adapt to their environments-survival if the fittest. In fact, the hoopla over the spotted owl (that placed much northwest timber land off-limits to logging) turned out to be nothing but scientific misconduct and arrogance. There are virtually identical species in other parts of the northwest.
More scientific malpractice occurred when government biologists attempted to plant lynx fur in certain areas to provide an excuse for making those areas off-limits for logging or development. Fortunately, these scientists were caught, however, no punishment was imposed.
In order to promote the false religion of “global warming” aka “climate change”, NASA “scientists” purposely installed temperature sensors in city parking lots and roads contrary to good scientific principles and practices in order to “skew” the “global warming” results.
In a nutshell, today’s environmentalism IS communism like watermelon-green on the outside and red (communist) on the inside.
It is interesting to note that communist and third-world countries have the WORST environmental conditions on the planet. Instead of the USA and other developed countries spending billions to get rid of that last half-percent of pollution, it would behoove the communist countries to improve their conditions first. Here is a question for you environmentalists: Why is there a push for restrictive environmental regulations, but only on the developed first-world countries, and not the gross polluters such as India and China?
The funny thing is due to the big green machine weighing close to 9,000 pounds empty and even with an oversized 205 kWh fire starter bolted on underneath it will still be incapable of towing anything any significant distance unless you like stopping every couple of hours to charge it.
How do I know this? Simple, after watching multiple videos of people towing with EV pickups on YouTube and seeing what they go through. Apparently the designers of this behemoth never heard the saying “Just because you can does not mean you should”.
My soon to be 25-year-old Sierra has a curb weight of 4820 lbs. It’s advertised payload is 2,040 lbs and towing 11,300 lbs. Between us, I promise I’ve exceeded both ratings many times over the years hauling & towing both locally and out of state. The mighty V-8 Vortec used more gas, sure, but I made it from my neck of Dixie to the destination without issue many times.
To Landru’s point, the 2025’s advertised towing capacity is 10,500 lbs with an extended range battery and 10,000 lbs with the max range package. Looks like it’s payload capacity is 1,400 lbs regardless of trim.
So in summary, I paid the equivalent of $75,000 less inflated bidenbucks for a truck that can tow 1,000 lbs more and haul 600 lbs more. Restated the 2025 is 3x more expensive and can do less work. Progress…
It is scientific illiteracy that is responsible for the (limited) “success” of EVs today–until these same scientific illiterates find out about extended charging times and limited range. Basic scientific principles are not taught in schools, being replaced by “touchy-feely” environmentalism and how humans are destroying the planet (yeah, right).
It is my humble opinion that us boomers are of the last generation who took science and technology seriously, with a hunger to know how and why things work. Us boomers had electrical and mechanical systems that we could work on and improve on ourselves. Basic scientific principles were taught in school and reinforced with hands-on experimentation.
In today’s climate (and the climate of two previous generations) experimentation on the level of the 1950s and 1960s is seen as “too dangerous”. I can remember the chemistry sets of the day being sold with toxic compounds which could be used for nefarious (and fun) purposes. Such sets are banned today.
Today’s prime example of the public’s scientific stupidity being pushed by political considerations is that of electric vehicles, most people (even supposedly “educated” types) enthusiastically jumping on the bandwagon despite the major deficiencies and problems these vehicles have.
Let’s look at the technical side of electric vehicles vs. ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles. Range is a large factor in the desirability of ICE vehicles vs. today’s electric vehicles. One can fuel up an ICE vehicle in approximately five minutes and be on his way.
Not so for electric vehicles. Quite often electric vehicle charging stations are few and far between, which contributes to “range anxiety”. For short hops and city driving, electric vehicles can be an ideal solution, but for extended “road trips” forget it.
Electric vehicle batteries lose power even when the vehicle is not in use. (This is akin to a gasoline vehicle with a leaky gas tank). Add to that, cold weather and the use of accessories (air conditioning, heat, lights, etc) will reduce range considerably. Electric vehicles may be somewhat suitable for a California climate, but will fail in sub-zero Michigan winter snow and ice.
Batteries can be charged only to 80% of full capacity as overcharging will reduce battery life considerably. “Fast charging” is also detrimental to battery life. It’s all about time and convenience vs. battery life.
Gasoline and diesel fuel has an large energy content (density) in a small package, something that, in their present stages of development, electrical vehicles cannot achieve.
Let’s make a comparison…gasoline contains approximately 33.7 kwh per gallon. A gallon of gasoline weighs approximately 6.1 lbs. The typical ICE vehicle can hold about 15 gallons of gasoline with a weight of approximately 90 lbs. total, with a total energy content of approximately 500 kwh.
High-end electric vehicles have an energy capacity of approximately 120 kwh. This is equal to less than four gallons of gasoline. The typical electric vehicle has a 75 kwh battery pack, equivalent to approximately 2 ½ gallons of gasoline.
Keep in mind that the battery pack weight is well over 2000 lbs (1 ton) and still has a limited energy capacity compared to gasoline. The typical electric vehicles weighs approximately 2 ½ tons (5000 lbs.), having to haul around a heavy battery pack. This also contributes to “wear and tear” on other automotive systems such as brakes and tires. (Yes, I am aware that regenerative braking exists and is a part of electric vehicle technology).
From an environmental standpoint, lithium is nasty stuff, reacts with water violently and is much more volatile than gasoline. Electric vehicle accidents are much more hazardous than those of ICE vehicles. Water cannot be used to put out a lithium battery pack fire.
Yes, gasoline is dangerous, but we have learned to control it and live with it successfully for over 100 years.
Most of today’s generation do not understand basic scientific principles; hence the enthusiasm for electric vehicles which are “not yet ready for prime-time”. The inability of today’s generation to understand basic scientific and engineering principles is responsible for their gullibility and ignorance.
They may not be able to understand basic scientific and engineering principles, but they will understand the steady decline in their bank account, or they will become bankrupt, and blame it on Big Business overpricing, but never the exorbitant cost of EVs and the likewise exorbitant cost of operating one.