The Environmentalist
Jan 3, 2021 22:49:48 #
Brad lived in California and was a lifelong environmentalist. He was sick of the world; of Covid-19, Brexit, Russian belligerence, global warming, racial tensions, and the rest of the disturbing stories that occupy media headlines.
Brad drove his car into his garage and then sealed every doorway and window as best he could. He got back into his car and wound down all the windows, selected his favorite radio station, started the car and revved it to a slow idle.
Four days later, a worried neighbor peered through his garage window and saw him in the car. She notified the emergency services and they broke in, pulling Brad from the car.
A little sip of water and, surprisingly, he was in perfect condition.
. . but his Tesla had a dead battery.
Brad is a registered California Democrat.
Brad drove his car into his garage and then sealed every doorway and window as best he could. He got back into his car and wound down all the windows, selected his favorite radio station, started the car and revved it to a slow idle.
Four days later, a worried neighbor peered through his garage window and saw him in the car. She notified the emergency services and they broke in, pulling Brad from the car.
A little sip of water and, surprisingly, he was in perfect condition.
. . but his Tesla had a dead battery.
Brad is a registered California Democrat.
Jan 3, 2021 22:59:20 #
Jan 3, 2021 23:16:56 #
Jan 4, 2021 00:11:22 #
Jan 4, 2021 00:22:16 #
I think every Prius in San Francisco honked at my gas burning Lexus as I waited for pedestrians to cross before turning.
Jan 4, 2021 09:11:59 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
SteveR wrote:
I think every Prius in San Francisco honked at my gas burning Lexus as I waited for pedestrians to cross before turning.
If you had really been in S.F. your biggest worry would have been bicyclists, not Prius drivers.
Jan 4, 2021 09:18:05 #
lbrande wrote:
... started the car and revved it to a slow idle.
Brad is a registered California Democrat.
Brad is a registered California Democrat.
Only a registered Trumpette would repeat a story about "revving" an electric motor to a slow idle. I think your brain is in a slow idle.
But that aside, I did smile when I read it.
Jan 4, 2021 09:47:59 #
JohnFrim wrote:
Only a registered Trumpette would repeat a story about "revving" an electric motor to a slow idle. I think your brain is in a slow idle.
Excellent I had the same reaction.
Jan 4, 2021 09:50:36 #
Jan 4, 2021 11:26:42 #
He didn't want to think of the coal fired plants it took to generate that electricity.
Jan 4, 2021 12:04:48 #
Just as dumb “ reving up power plant’s”. Truth be told- he or the author wasn’t thinking at all.
Coal makes up around 23% of us energy production and is falling quickly.
Coal makes up around 23% of us energy production and is falling quickly.
Jan 4, 2021 17:02:43 #
DennyT wrote:
Just as dumb “ reving up power plant’s”. Truth be told- he or the author wasn’t thinking at all.
Coal makes up around 23% of us energy production and is falling quickly.
Coal makes up around 23% of us energy production and is falling quickly.
What non-fossil fuel is taking up the slack?
Enquiring minds want to know. Please give Ref.
Jan 4, 2021 17:18:47 #
Fotoartist wrote:
What non-fossil fuel is taking up the slack?
Enquiring minds want to know. Please give Ref.
Enquiring minds want to know. Please give Ref.
Did I say fossil fuel ?? No I said coal. Look it up !
Jan 4, 2021 19:07:30 #
thom w wrote:
If you had really been in S.F. your biggest worry would have been bicyclists, not Prius drivers.
In the wrong spots in San Francisco, the danger is feces, urine, used drug needles and the mentally unstable homeless that the governmental powers simply refuse to remove. It seems the CA governance policies respect the right of the vagrant to assemble, to deface, to defecated, but it seems will arrest tax payers for having friends over.
https://www.businessinsider.com/san-franciscos-dirtiest-street-has-a-drug-market-and-piles-of-poop-2018-10
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634626538/san-francisco-squalor-city-streets-strewn-with-trash-needles-and-human-feces
https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-drugs-harm-reduction
Jan 4, 2021 19:13:36 #
DennyT wrote:
Did I say fossil fuel ?? No I said coal. Look it up !
Oops, Denny...
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/fossil-fuels-dirty-facts
"Coal, crude oil, and natural gas are all considered fossil fuels because they were formed from the fossilized, buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago."
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