Hutzpah: blame the cure for the disease

If everyone had a car like a Prime, emissions from gasoline would go down dramatically, and gas prices. In my case, and many I’m sure, essentially all the local driving can be done on ev. I have to plan to run the engine so as not to under use it. In my case I want the back up gas engine, just in case. Although a full ev is tempting. If I was just by myself with no family farther away it would be ok. I can’t have an emergency and I have to drive 150-200 miles and my ev is at half charge in the driveway at midnight.
As far as hubris, yeah he is full of it. It’s only talking.

 

He’s right, and wrong.
I’m not sure which climate failures he is referring to, but for personal transportation the transition is going nicely
It’s a big world with a lot of dependency on fossil fuels.
If he said ‘we can all do more’, I would agree, but most people aren’t interested, some can’t afford to, and some countries would be giving up a lot of recent ascendancy

 

Any of those. My meaning was “like” the Prime, a car to run around locally with on ev, still deliver excellent gas mileage on longer drives. Driving one mile and back to a grocery store with a big gas engine is and was very wasteful. In my case the Prime works. I don’t even need the 33 miles usual range 99% of the time, maybe half of that would still be ok.

 

if only we could find a company to make more primes...

 

That's true, just as true if we all peddled our way to work or the grocery store ... or to the campground - we would save a ton of gas and prices would go down as well. If you have a huge load of hay or fertilizer, you might have to get a horse drawn Buckboard but I suppose it would work. Then there's the issue of practicality. Such a supposition might work for many . It doesn't work for everyone. Besides, look how stupid the Mongols & Hells Angels motorcycle clubs would look in a Prius. Similarly, I'd hate watching the Daytona 500.

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That's partially hamstrung by the shortcomings of the modern cities, with widely separated ghettos for work, accommodation and shopping.

By dumb-luck we managed to buy a house within walking distance of shopping. And now of course there's Amazon. Commuting a long distance to work was still a challenge though.

 

(disregerd - wrong topic)

 

I once had a round-the-world-somewhere tech support trying to tell me to hit this key "~", ampersand I believe it's called. I'd never heard the name to start with, and coupled with the accent it took us a while to establish contact, lol.

 

Ampersand .... '&'

 

Oh hell, so it is.

 

tilde .... '~'

called twiddle by its friends

 

Tilde Swinton

BTW ~ related, today is National Proofreader's Day. En garde.

 

Easy....
Outlaw non-Primes.

Of course, it would suck for Farmers, Ranchers, Builders, Contractors, Field Engineers, Plumbers, Electricians.....but just think of all of the fuel we would save.......

 

“Cute” but “like a” in “like a Prime” applies to Farmers and Fire Trucks, etc.
Not the famous camera, the plug in hybrid system.

 

At 3 bucks a gallon, driving anything is pretty cheap

 

As in if you advise, I will do the opposite the rest of my life?