Subj : Re: [OT] Awesome and funny Tesla car review ( To : All From : Your Name Date : Mon May 19 2014 09:11:03 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: YourName@YourISP.com Subject: Re: [OT] Awesome and funny Tesla car review (link) In article , Daniel wrote: > On 18/05/14 11:23, Your Name wrote: > > In article , > > anim8rFSK wrote: > >> In article <180520141014073156%YourName@YourISP.com>, > >> 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 Auckland 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. --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp * Origin: Aioe.org NNTP Server (1:2320/105.97) --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1) .