From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: anim8rfsk{at}cox.net
Subject: Re: [OT] Awesome and funny Tesla car review (link)

In article ,
 Your Name  wrote:

> In article ,
> anim8rFSK  wrote:
> > In article ,
> >  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. :-\
> > 
> > LOL
> 
> It would be funny if it wasn't tax-payer money being wasted on buying
> something like 38 new trains to run on a railway system that only has
> two lines and a dead-end city centre station with only four platforms.
> Not to mention that they couldn't run the system they had properly. 
> :-\
> 
> The morons in charge now want to waste piles more money digging an
> underground "City Loop" line (including buying and compensating
> affected building owners) that comes out of the dead-end station and
> goes up under the main city centre street to join in to the existing
> line back at the top ... this is after having had a free bus service
> running up and down the main street that was under-used.

Yeah.  And they try desperately to force you to take the bus to jury 
duty, and it's just a nightmare - I'd have to take a cab to the bus 
station!  They really somehow think everybody just lives within easy 
walking distance of a bus stop.

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