Mercedes ditching diesels in North America
Here is a blurb about this. Is this meaning that Sprinters will be made with gasoline engines, or pulled out of the market completely?
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Yeah,let's all hang onto existing technology, there's nothing new to be invented or improved on.
Altogether now "Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"
There ARE going to be electric cars. There IS going to be revenue collection. There are no good ZAPPER fairies that are going to come along ave their magic presto wand and pronounce
"Presto Zappo. two trillion dollar infrastructure improvement FREE!"
I've lived through twelve and a half US Presidents - and after awhile people as they age, get sort of an X Ray vision. It comes with having been taken for a ride too often. X Ray vision strips off the vernier, the presentation H.S. that "true believers" (salesmen apprentices) demand that all adhere to.
Oh I did invest. Oh I did gather nuts and squirreled them away. Lots and lots of nuts. Then a slimeball HMO came along and denied payment for four months in hospital treatment for AML, six months of outpatient and made all my stashed nuts worth 40% of their actual value. Nuts, the trees they were in are all gone. But I'm not. I paid for it all instead of sliming my way out of a responsibility.
Now what I care about is not having anything more robbed from me in the name of Good Intentions. Electric Cars are the wave of the future -- so are revenue sources that will embarrass those that had claimed FREE anything. Not even bad advice is FREE.
Time will reveal all. I won't be around - but I promise that if I were, I would not gloat about being correct. I would shake my head and say "Another generation has to learn the hard way". Young folks will be doing the same thing in 30 years to a new crop of bright eyed enthusiasts.
Supermarkets call it LOSS LEADERS. They exist to get people into the store. Grand Plan artists get on their hands and knees to make "converts". So please don't be shocked when the Loss Leader inducements are no longer needed and reality arrives. You will end up paying more in ADJUSTED monies per mile with electric than you ever did with petroleum. My argument has zero to do with carbon, and environmental issues and everything to do with what infrastructure is needed and what it REALLY is going to cost.
Pity, reality. It tempers extreme zealousness. You'll handle it I'm sure...
Altogether now "Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"
There ARE going to be electric cars. There IS going to be revenue collection. There are no good ZAPPER fairies that are going to come along ave their magic presto wand and pronounce
"Presto Zappo. two trillion dollar infrastructure improvement FREE!"
I've lived through twelve and a half US Presidents - and after awhile people as they age, get sort of an X Ray vision. It comes with having been taken for a ride too often. X Ray vision strips off the vernier, the presentation H.S. that "true believers" (salesmen apprentices) demand that all adhere to.
Oh I did invest. Oh I did gather nuts and squirreled them away. Lots and lots of nuts. Then a slimeball HMO came along and denied payment for four months in hospital treatment for AML, six months of outpatient and made all my stashed nuts worth 40% of their actual value. Nuts, the trees they were in are all gone. But I'm not. I paid for it all instead of sliming my way out of a responsibility.
Now what I care about is not having anything more robbed from me in the name of Good Intentions. Electric Cars are the wave of the future -- so are revenue sources that will embarrass those that had claimed FREE anything. Not even bad advice is FREE.
Time will reveal all. I won't be around - but I promise that if I were, I would not gloat about being correct. I would shake my head and say "Another generation has to learn the hard way". Young folks will be doing the same thing in 30 years to a new crop of bright eyed enthusiasts.
Supermarkets call it LOSS LEADERS. They exist to get people into the store. Grand Plan artists get on their hands and knees to make "converts". So please don't be shocked when the Loss Leader inducements are no longer needed and reality arrives. You will end up paying more in ADJUSTED monies per mile with electric than you ever did with petroleum. My argument has zero to do with carbon, and environmental issues and everything to do with what infrastructure is needed and what it REALLY is going to cost.
Pity, reality. It tempers extreme zealousness. You'll handle it I'm sure...
