G. David Felt

Thanks for pointing out my sausage fingered typing. LOL Fixed it. Yup a dead long gone oil company. FYI - Rockefeller family trust divested of all oil stocks in 2016 as they are focused on cleaner environmentally better ways of living life. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rockefeller-family-is-exiting-the-oil-business/

Yes such lovely innovation of Covid-19 masks. Amazing the innovation of humanity especially in China.

Ya just summed up coal mining and so many other things on top of rare metals which latest versions of batteries no longer need or leave toxic messes under ground where people live or on top of the ground as the latest rig explosions in Oklahoma and North Dakota has done. Lucky for us with advances in EVs we can leave behind eventually the ICE age of old auto's and move forward with the 21st century.,

True, but we do not have to drill baby drill and destroy the planet we live on as is happening in so many places.

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Piss Beer

AWESOME JOB FORD!!! Ford took a concept and went to production in a positive air hood system for health care workers that is battery powered with the required HEPA filter in 40 days. This keeps all the nasty viruses away while allowing a much more positive safe working setup for end users. This is CDC approved. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/ford-respirator-healthcare-workers-coronavirus/ https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/pictures/ford-covid-19-coronavirus-respirator/35/ Note the Health Care worker is wearing gloves and face mask while she modeled the unit for pictures. You would not normally wear the paper face mask.

EV FAILURE, Not a term I would likely use normally or lightly use at all, but Lexus has made me use this term in regards to their First Lexus EV that just went on sale in China, will go on sale in Europe at the end of the year and the US next year. WHY do I think this is an EV FAILUE? Simple, following the official release from Lexus, we start with the positive. Decent battery warranty, 10 years or 1 million KM or about 621,000 miles. So they do believe in their battery but then Nissan did too and for gen 1 and gen 2 of the Nissan leaf you get the same type of battery, air cooled battery pack of 54.3 kilowatt size. Lexus, like Nissan is using the onboard AC system to to circulate cooled air around the battery pack and heating elements in the floorboard to deal with cold weather use. Lexus uses an active management system compared to Nissan's passive system. This in comparison to Tesla, Rivian, GM who all believe a liquid temp controller circulation system while a bit heavier is better for optimizing battery life and density. This is also proven out by a story electrek did on 8 lessons about EV battery health from a 6,300 EV fleet. You can read the Electrek story for the 8 lessons and all the details on battery health, but the core is that liquid temp controlled battery packs degrade at 2.3% annually compared to air cooled battery packs at 4.2%. The other reason for liquid cooling is that if Nissan and Toyota / Lexus expect to go beyond a 50kW DC fast charging rate, they will need the liquid cooling to manage temperature when Quick Charging. For the best selling Electric auto from Nissan, the Leaf, one has to wonder if they are really committed to the EV auto's like they say they are. https://electrek.co/2019/12/14/8-lessons-about-ev-battery-health-from-6300-electric-cars/ https://newsroom.lexus.eu/ux-300e-first-all-electric-lexus-offers-class-leading-quality-and-a-10-year-battery-warranty/

We are supposed to hit 80 today and all weekend long. WTF, this is supposed to be spring showers.

True, petroleum products are used in all forms of auto's. While Net Profit is lower than gross profit, also the accounting as the link I posted with the gross profit shows the rest of the accounting picture and they truly manipulate the system to avoid paying taxes on the profit with all kinds of crazy expenses and manipulation. Too bad the CEO is not paid on Net Profit as they clean house on the gross profit bonus payments. Oil if far more profitable than their net profit shows and I still do not believe they deserve or really need the billions in dollars the government gives them. After all you and I as small business owners do not get the supplement payouts that many especially big oil gets from the gov.

Current average prices for fuel here in western washington is as follows: Regular = $2.29 Mid Grad = $2.53 Premium = $2.68 Diesel = $2.75

Got it, an east coast thing since that does not exist on the west coast. Saw an L train in a movie once. Clyde Dales

Imagine your B59 could end up having a Marine 4 banger Diesel in it if we became like Cuba.

Yes, I was off by a few years thinking of when they had multiple years of $100 billion plus gross profit, but the end point is that the oil industry DOES NOT need billions from the tax revenue of the government. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XOM/exxon/gross-profit

picked up the SS from the dealership after GM under warranty replaced a failed front left wheel bearing hub assembly. Ran into a guy picking up a new CT6 V edition. Was loving it, I asked him what he traded in and he pointed to a BMW i8. Had 28,000 miles plus on it. Said his wife loved how quiet the auto was but wanted space and to not be sitting to low on the ground. He said alsonif BMW could build it without all the maintenance as the extended range system required more work than a normal auto due to having to disassemble so much of the body to get to the hybrid system. I would say cool auto that was a build fail for low maintenance.

A new awesome Bremach T-Rex truck is now for sale. Bargain price of $120,000 Your choice of powertrain, Gas, Natural Gas, Hybrid or Electric are their 4 power train choices. https://theawesomer.com/bremach-t-rex/96549/

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Like the Influenza of 1918/1919, expect this over the next 18 to 24 months. I expect an increase in cases for the fall, the time to take an actual real vaccine, test, verify and then produce for global use will take time, so I do not see an end to social distancing and shelter in place at home till after 2021.

OUCH, Jeep Wrangler went from good to Marginal due to the 2019 model at first passing the shear off a front wheel off set head on crash, but then it went to Marginal after it rolled over. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2020/05/jeep-wrangler-unlimited-protected-the-driver-in-dreaded-iihs-small-overlap-test-but-repeated-rollovers-didnt-help-its-case/

While I have no problem with the government spending tax dollars on new tech to get things moving forward as to why I support the EV rebates for now, eventually they have to go away. Things that need to go away are pork like the $50 billion given to the oil industry for exploratory drilling. WHY, Exxon Mobile made over $100 Billion in pure profit last year, I doubt they need tax dollars for finding new oil well's especially when they make that much money. Another PORK that needs to go away is the billions spent on maintaining the worlds biggest Tank fleet parked in the high Dessert in California when the military says they do not want or need tanks in this modern world as they are not useful in the modern warfare world. Just a couple of examples where we need to cut fat, live within our budget and focus like we did in the 90's paying down national debt.

Cool Car, the best part is the center of that Grill. Always liked the Pontiac nose.

Not socially distant, that is so dangerous, what are those people thinking.

Quiznos

Flaming Cheetos Meatball Sub Sandwich

Do ya know what they are asking for the beauty?