From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: dxmm{at}albury.nospam.net.au
Subject: Re: [OT] Awesome and funny Tesla car review (link)

On 19/05/14 07:11, Your Name wrote:
> In article , Daniel
>  wrote:
>> On 18/05/14 11:23, Your Name wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> anim8rFSK  wrote:
>>>> In article ,
>>>>    Your Name  wrote:
>>>>> In article , Jan Alter
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Delightful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       No more oil changes.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know about that review link, but electric cars
still use oil to
>>>>> lubricate the various moving parts (wheel bearings,
etc.) as well as in
>>>>> the production of much of the world's electricity.
>>>>
>>>> Most of it's sealed, but you've got battery pack coolant,
brake fluid,
>>>> gearbox oil, windshield wiper fluid, whatever it uses for
'freon' ...
>>>> you have to have $600 a year in service from Tesla where presumably
>>>> they'll do all that; of course, there's not a Tesla dealer
within the
>>>> car's driving range of me, so that would be a problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone who believes electric cars are a panacea to the
"oil crisis" or
>>>>> the "green revolution" is simply a blinkered moron.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, they've bought into 'tailpipe emissions' and don't
realize that as
>>>> much or more pollution is being generated, just upstream.
>>>
>>> Also "downstream" in trying to get rid of all those
extra toxic
>>> batteries. Plus, since the pile of batteries inside them will
>>> expensively need to be replaced fairly often, most people will simply
>>> upgrade to a newer car (one of the real reasons behind the push), which
>>> means then also means extra material to be disposed of.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here in New Zealand, they've just started new electric trains in
>>> Auckland City (some parts, since not all the lines are electrified yet)
>>> and are boasting about how great they are ... except they have to keep
>>> the old diesel trains around beacuse when the electricty goes down the
>>> only way to then move the stupid new trains is by towing them with a
>>> real train, plus only some parts of the system have been electrified.
>>> :-\
>>
>> Christchurch NZ city centre was almost wiped out in an earthquake a few
>> years ago. Does Aucknd suffer from earthquakes much??
>
> Nope, not really anything in Auckland. (Christchurch is still having
> small quakes every so often, and Wellington further north as had a few
> recently.)
>
> There have been minor shakes in the past (mostly peripheral from
> earthquakes further south where the fault line actually crosses the
> land), but nothing really noticeable.
>
> Auckland does have lots of volcanic cones, but they're all dead /
> dormant, although they keep wittering on about how an eruption is
"due"
> in the next thousand years or so.
>
> Being on a narrow strip of land between two oceans near the top of the
> north, it could be get a tsunami wave, but the recent one of those was
> lucky if it was an inch by the time it got way down here across
> thousands of miles of ocean.
>
> Recent years has seen a few small tornadoes pass through, a couple of
> which have been pretty bad (two or three people killed), but nothing
> compared to those massive twisters in some parts of America.
>
Sounds like your life could be becoming more and more interesting!1 ;-)

Here, on the other side of the ditch, we;re doing reasonably alright!!

Daniel

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