by cvjoint » Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:56 pm
Hedge wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:33 pm
If you want to go full militant, you could of course quote this from a recent(ish) article in the LA Times:
"When a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasts off on a plume of white smoke, hot gases shoot out of its 27 engines, creating a thrust equal to 18 Boeing 747 aircraft. Upon reaching orbit, the world’s heaviest operational rocket will have burned about 400 metric tons of kerosene and emitted more carbon dioxide in a few minutes than an average car would in more than two centuries".
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/ ... 0centuries.
Cheers,
Hedge
This is spot on!
I live a few miles from Tesla HQ. Most people I know don't have a car period. Of the few that have one, many are not in a position to charge one at home. Heck, there are so many break ins that the main worry is how to keep the windows on one. The roads are usually terrible around here yet, yet the vast majority of the gas money I pay goes to fix them and to pay for public transport. I think it's fair to say that many people living in the San Francisco bay/Silicon Valley still consider owning one car a serious financial burden, let alone owning a second one to fit in an electric.
If we do any out of the city trips my V8 stick Cayenne is usually one of the mules. I've offroaded with a car full of people, towed the Atom with people in the car, slept in it at times. Some days I drive over 500 miles. If a car's capabilities were to be represented by a polygon, a Tesla to me is a dot in the center.
Till this day I have yet to receive a car ride in a Tesla from a friend. Though I know many Tesla owners, I must not fit into that lifestyle. Maybe they planned out their A to B to well or have no charge to allow for the occasional passenger. Speaking of charges, I give many for free to my Airbnb renters who juice up their cars and trip the fuses. I suppose in addition to all those charging stations we have to build we also have to install meters in our Airbnb garages now.
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If you want to go full militant, you could of course quote this from a recent(ish) article in the LA Times:
"When a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasts off on a plume of white smoke, hot gases shoot out of its 27 engines, creating a thrust equal to 18 Boeing 747 aircraft. Upon reaching orbit, the world’s heaviest operational rocket will have burned about 400 metric tons of kerosene and emitted more carbon dioxide in a few minutes than an average car would in more than two centuries".
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-01-30/space-launch-carbon-emissions#:~:text=SpaceX's%20Falcon%20Heavy%2C%20the%20world's,in%20more%20than%20two%20centuries.
Cheers,
Hedge
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This is spot on!
I live a few miles from Tesla HQ. Most people I know don't have a car period. Of the few that have one, many are not in a position to charge one at home. Heck, there are so many break ins that the main worry is how to keep the windows on one. The roads are usually terrible around here yet, yet the vast majority of the gas money I pay goes to fix them and to pay for public transport. I think it's fair to say that many people living in the San Francisco bay/Silicon Valley still consider owning one car a serious financial burden, let alone owning a second one to fit in an electric.
If we do any out of the city trips my V8 stick Cayenne is usually one of the mules. I've offroaded with a car full of people, towed the Atom with people in the car, slept in it at times. Some days I drive over 500 miles. If a car's capabilities were to be represented by a polygon, a Tesla to me is a dot in the center.
Till this day I have yet to receive a car ride in a Tesla from a friend. Though I know many Tesla owners, I must not fit into that lifestyle. Maybe they planned out their A to B to well or have no charge to allow for the occasional passenger. Speaking of charges, I give many for free to my Airbnb renters who juice up their cars and trip the fuses. I suppose in addition to all those charging stations we have to build we also have to install meters in our Airbnb garages now.