My sister had a girl for a room mate at nursing school. Her dad lived about 10 mi from here. When tractors first came out no body wanted their mules that ate year round any more. The old man saw a money making plan to buy up all the mules for cheap, because he was quite sure the tractor thing would flop in short order and everyone would go back to mules. Well after he got vested the mules ate the farm. The trees in his woods was stripped as high as the mules could reach and before the humane society even had a name, they gave him the option to skin them or else.

Whatever you have to tell yourself to get out of bed in the morning is just fine.

Maybe if have time at work soon, I'll "bug" car,purposely create a problem,and show hat goes on in a real diag, not just a parts changer "let's throw something at it and hope it works" thing.

I grew up as an auto mechanic in my fathers garage. I know exactly what I'm talking about. However, I'm glad they dumbed down general maintenance so you can have a job.

Hypothetical 50 / 50 question / scenario. With the old cars, if I needed a part, or even a whole car, I could go to a junkyard and get one and build it back if necessary. With the new cars, I don't know if I could do the same for a elect. module or such and all the extra components to go with it. So it's an advantage IMO to have the knowledge and "hands on" experience maybe for both? I once had to wait 2 months for a module to come from a 3rd party factory because the dealership's main distributor didn't have, or couldn't get it. :-(

All the energy needed to move current vehicles from A to B has to shift from the fossil fuel network to electric grid. Gas stations don't need lines to have the liquid energy available. Imagine the infrastructure to supply electric vehicles.
Assuming the day is coming where we are all electric, where will all the old gas/diesels be parked? Scrap? More junk yards?
Some places on this continent will just be left out of the transportation network I would think.
Boco, is your name on the list for the first electric skidoo?

What a freak show. The good news is that anyone will be able to outrun any federal law enforcement. Just buy a moped and keep driving until their battery's run out. I think on average it's about 50 miles. What a joke.


Joe Biden Signs Executive Order to Make All Federal Vehicles Electric

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday to phase out the federal government’s use of vehicles that run on gas and replace them with ones that run on electricity.
The process is part of Biden’s “Made in America” executive order, which the president claims will create one million additional jobs in the auto industry in America.

“The federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles, which we’re going to replace with clean electric vehicles made right here in America, by American workers,” Biden told reporters during a briefing Monday announcing his “Buy American” executive order.

But replacing an entire federal fleet of hundreds of thousands of vehicles could be a massive undertaking. TechCrunch reported that, in 2019, the federal fleet comprised of more than 645,000 vehicles, including more than 412,000 trucks and 224,000 passenger cars.

That does not even begin to include the hundreds of thousands of U.S. Post Office vehicles powered by gas, the Verge reported.

Many existing federal vehicles on the road are tied to leases, which could halt the process of transferring them to electric.

There is also the issue of making sure electric vehicles have enough charging stations to provide them with enough power to function.

Automakers likely to supply the country with these electric vehicles include Ford and General Motors, companies that have both said they would commit to spending billions on electric vehicles.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021...rder-make-all-federal-vehicles-electric/

All the energy needed to move current vehicles from A to B has to shift from the fossil fuel network to electric grid. Gas stations don't need lines to have the liquid energy available. Imagine the infrastructure to supply electric vehicles.
Assuming the day is coming where we are all electric, where will all the old gas/diesels be parked? Scrap? More junk yards?
Some places on this continent will just be left out of the transportation network I would think.
Boco, is your name on the list for the first electric skidoo?

Biodiesel converter kits will be a wise investment then! . . . I have a bud who's been doing it for 8 years now. Has tanks of veggie oil everywhere in his shop

Perhaps coon fat will be the green energy of the future.

A persons perspective on new technology depends on where you fit in the market. Those who buy new seem to be sucked in by bells and whistles. I shake my head watching truck commercials comparing tailgate configurations. Some fold down into a staircase, open sideways, or open/close automatically. I watch and wonder how well that gimmic will work after a couple years of hard use. Being in the usedabit market I am more interested in longevity, durability, and reliability that comes with simplicity. I like a tailgate that hasn't automatically locked when I try to get it open, and on some of my older trucks, one that opens and closes without falling off.

A persons perspective on new technology depends on where you fit in the market. Those who buy new seem to be sucked in by bells and whistles. I shake my head watching truck commercials comparing tailgate configurations. Some fold down into a staircase, open sideways, or open/close automatically. I watch and wonder how well that gimmic will work after a couple years of hard use. Being in the usedabit market I am more interested in longevity, durability, and reliability that comes with simplicity. I like a tailgate that hasn't automatically locked when I try to get it open, and on some of my older trucks, one that opens and closes without falling off.

I'll admit that I don't use the tailgate fold down steps often, but they're nice when I need to get in the truck bed. . . . it's an old age thingy ya know.