Maybe some cracks are beginning to show.
Toyota’s president, Akio Toyoda, says there is a “silent majority” within the car industry that “is wondering whether EVs are really ok to have as a single option. But they think it’s the trend so they can’t speak loudly.”
First, a point of order.
Mr. Toyoda is being polite. EVs are not being presented as “optional” anything. Or rather, the notion of a “single option” is a contradiction in terms. You either have a choice or you do not. When there is only one “option” then you have no choice. And that is precisely what is being engineered.
And it is fundamentally why many object.
It would be ridiculous – and wrong – to object to EVs being offered and available. People have a right to . . . options. To choose from among various alternatives. If EVs meet your needs and you’d like to own one then what business is it of mine whether you choose to buy one?
But the flip side of that show of respect is to extend exactly the same grace to those who do not want an EV, because it does not meet their needs – and even if it’s just because they dislike them. Do any of us really want to live in a world in which that which we don’t like is forced on us by those who do like whatever it is? Orwell wrote of a boot stomping on a human face, forever. How about a forkful of creamed spinach pointed at your mouth, forever?
That is, essentially, what Mr. Toyoda is referring to when he speaks of a “single option” as regards EVs.
They are being forced on everyone, like them or not. Able to afford them or not, too.
And that’s a bad option for Toyota, too. For every car manufacturer – other than Tesla, of course, as Tesla already sells the “single option.” In fact, it’s not even a good option for Tesla, either, when you stop to think about it a minute. As things still are, people who do not want an electric car can still buy other cars. That may not be ideal for a company like Tesla that only sells electric cars. But what happens to Tesla when everyone else is also selling only electric cars?
Tesla becomes just another brand rather than the electric car brand.
Just as Elon Musk came around to the importance of free speech, he may also come to see the importance of freedom of choice – if only insofar as it affects the profitability of his electric car business.
Toyoda – the man – may also have done the math and come to the realization that a “single option” is bad for Toyota’s bottom line, too. The world’s largest single automaker is that because it sells more cars than other companies and volume selling more cars becomes more difficult when fewer people can afford to buy them.
Or simply do not want them.
What they do want are the kinds of cars that Toyota sells a lot of. Models like Corolla and Camry and also – notably – hybrid models like the Prius, the car most synonymous with the type. The reason why is not inscrutable. Corollas and Camrys are affordable and practical. The Prius even more so. The latter has a range of nearly 700 miles in city driving and nearly 600 on the highway. It can travel that distance on 11 gallons of gas, which can be pumped into the car’s tank in less than five minutes.
The very longest-range EVs currently available tout a best-case range of half as far and take many times as long as five minutes to recover even a partial charge. The Prius’ range is not appreciably affected by cold or heat or use of accessories in the cold or hot. It requires no special modifications to one’s home. It does not even require a garage in that parking it outside does not affect its range. Parking an EV outside – in the cold and unplugged – does affect its range.
Significantly.
In brief, the Prius increases mobility, freedom of movement, spontaneity. The EV decreases and hampers all of those things.
The Prius also stickers for about half the price of most EVs currently available – about $25,000 to start vs. around $50,000 to start.
The Wall Street Journal article quoted Illinois car dealer Ryan Glenmore about market demand (as opposed to government mandate) for electric vehicles: “Is there interest in electric vehicles? Yes. Is it more than 10-15 percent of our customer base? No way.”
Mr. Toyoda is a wise man to keep his options open.
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Three Power Substations Attacked In Washington State On Christmas Day
the leftist/communist/globalists were burning down food processing plants, now they are going after the grid….
State AGs Sound The Alarm About BlackRock, Vanguard Buying Large Stakes In Utilities
Switching the grid to not green wind turbines and solar panel energy production…
Blackrock and Vanguard buy the utilities….. then they control the voting shares…once they get control, they implement the ESG agenda…. they shut down reliable, cheap, hydro carbon energy production and switch to very expensive, unreliable, high maintenance, intermittent, wind turbines and solar panel energy production….
ESG…if your corporation goes along with the green agenda you get cash, loans and lots of contracts, if you don’t you get get cut off, black listed, pushed out of business.
4.9% of electricity is generated by wind and solar now, don’t expect to have a supply of electricity if you live somewhere that is dependent on hydro carbon burning, electricity production..
the nation’s power grid is already on its last legs. It has been for years. In a sobering piece for Smithsonian Magazine, Dr. Massoud Amin, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Minnesota, explained the many ways in which the country’s power grid, “the most complex” one ever assembled, could fail.
ATTENTION: just doing neglected, deferred maintenance on the existing grid is estimated at $5 trillion…….the grid is very unreliable so switching people to grid dependent EV’s makes sense….lol
The grid, he wrote, “underpins our economy, our quality of life, our society.” Without it, society will be brought to a screeching halt. Crime will rise. Lives will be lost. Chaos will reign supreme.
How Critical is the Grid?
According to a report from the congressionally funded EMP Commission,
power grid failure for one year would result in the death of nine out of every 10 Americans.
The first to die would be people dependent on medical assistance with the majority dying from starvation.
the wef agenda 2030 has a depopulation agenda
Wind and solar energy production require parallel hydro carbon energy burning plants, running 24/7 to fill in gaps when wind and solar produce no energy…..
Or maybe they won’t bother and you will only have electricity sometimes….lol
The elite and the billionaires won’t care, they will have their own power generation systems, yacht’s, multiple homes, private jets, Ferraris, etc..
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/three-power-substations-attacked-washington-state-christmas-day
life with no grid… Crime will rise. . Chaos will reign supreme….the future…
a quote……….The grid, he wrote, “underpins our economy, our quality of life, our society.” Without it, society will be brought to a screeching halt. Crime will rise. Lives will be lost. Chaos will reign supreme.
meanwhile in buffalo…life with the grid down…..
Tens of thousands of customers remain without power as high winds and heavy snow continue to pound Western New York
Footage Shows “Looting Across Buffalo” As City Plunged Into Chaos After Blizzard
when the AGW go all EV…. with the grid down they will walk….lol
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/footage-shows-looting-across-buffalo-city-plunged-chaos-after-blizzard
a quote….The streets are littered with stuck cars. The dummies ALWAYS come out, because they “have to see for themselves how bad it is out there.” Whole bunch of ’em literally froze to death in their cars this time (which is Darwin’s Law in action.)
Whole bunch of ’em literally froze to death in their cars….most likely EV’s….lol
How Critical is the Grid?
According to a report from the congressionally funded EMP Commission,
ATTENTION: power grid failure for one year would result in the death of nine out of every 10 Americans……that is more efficient then those injections…
The first to die would be people dependent on medical assistance with the majority dying from starvation.
when the AGW go all EV…. with the grid down they will walk….lol
leftists wanted to defund the police…this is another way to shut them down…then soros funded blm and antifa can run wild….
Porsche Starts Synthetic Fuel Production
They are only planning on making enough fuel from their plant at maximum capacity for around 300,000 cars by 2030. People need to stop getting excited about this as it is not for the masses.
This is being done to preserve the value and keep running their high end GT cars and old classics like the Carrera RS.
If the fuel was meant to be mass market they would have designed facility that wouldn’t take an entire year to produce enough fuel for the American market that would last a matter of a few hours. If you compare the maximum potential output Porsche say they hope to achieve by 2030 (which is their best case scenario) you would need 900 of these plants to meet the demand in the USA alone.
This stuff isn’t going to be sold in any old garage all over the place it’s going to be expensive exclusive fuel for collectors not a mass market product.
https://www.motor1.com/news/627581/porsche-synthetic-fuel-production-911/
My last contact in product development of a major Ameeiczn auto manufacturer was recently forced to retire. He is an electrical engineer who was working on EVs for 2026 model. He was planning to retire in a few years. But now says he’s happy to be gone this year — claims fellow engineers are very concerned that the EV products they are designing are NOT what customers want to buy. Too expensive and very inconvenient.
That mood is VERY unusual in product development. In my 27 years of experience in the same company’s product development, engineers were typically too optimistic about the products they were designing. Today, they are unusually pessimistic, and think the company will be needing government subsidies to survive in a few years.
Love Akio, hes why toyota went from hum-drum grocery getters to having the GR line (86, Supra, Corolla)
Hes also a racer, he understands what its all about. Hopefully as time goes on, despite Uncle and friends push, auto manufacturers also push back
EV chargers, another part of the EV nightmare being forced down your throat….
30% of the chargers in San Francisco are broken, don’t work. these chargers are maintenance intensive, which means lots of them won’t be working, repairs and maintenance not done.
How do you charge your EV when half the chargers are broken?
EV Charging Station are using Liquid Cooling systems and are very complicated/fragile, these are maintenance intensive, which means lots of them won’t be working, repairs and maintenance will cost a lot, paid by taxpaying ice vehicle owners…lol
a Level 3 charger will cost between $30,000 and $80,000. plus installation costs, plus huge maintenance costs, so maybe $40,000 to $90,000 installed for one charger, plus huge ongoing maintenance costs, the ice vehicle owning taxpayer is forced to pay for this….lol
a Level 3 charger will cost between $30,000 and $80,000. plus installation costs, plus huge maintenance costs,….tell your local government you don’t want to pay for this……
a level 3 charger at home:….far too expensive…lol
home chargers………..even worse they will eventually limit it’s use to 3 hr per week, your ration….lol
…and they want to install millions of these, at $90,000 x only one million chargers = 90 billion dollars, plus 100’s of millions of dollars in ongoing maintenance costs….lol
(what about the trillions of dollars to upgrade the electrical grid to supply the power?….lol)
the federal government prepares to begin doling out $5 billion allocated in last year’s bipartisan infrastructure bill so states can seed a coast-to-coast network of fast-charging stations.
Government guidelines say the taxpayer-funded chargers should be accessible to travelers, just off the interstate and have amenities like food and restrooms
with ice powered cars the gas station and pumps use is free…..lol….now they want to scrap that and make you pay trillions of dollars to replace it with a dangerous, expensive, maintenance intensive, mess/nightmare……
Mishaps involving overheating the use of equipment including EV chargers
There have been many plug-in vehicle fire incidents all over the world.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the United States. Mentioned accidents such as thermal runaway incidents. Overheating or overcharging can lead to an accident.
These fast types of charging stations require liquid cooling so inverters don’t fail due to overheating and umbilicals are cool enough to handle.
Fast charging?…start a fire….lol
Extreme fast chargers, for example,can push battery pack temperatures to 270ºC, 514ºF after just a few minutes of charging.
If you fast charge a lot, you wreck the battery, if you don’t…. you wait hours to charge….lol
The wires in EV chargers that are prone to aging cause the chargers to heat up, then no fan lubrication exacerbates the temperature rise and gets out of control. Creating a vicious cycle that causes long-term damage to chargers. That can result in accidents.
In comparison gas and diesel pumps are 100% reliable, simple and trouble free and they don’t need a complicated cooling system. They are not paid for by taxpayers,
EV charging stations are another multi billion dollar bill for taxpayers, fire all politicians pushing them….lol
These chargers are a fire hazard:
In Damascus, Maryland, on April 1, a fire started from an electric car charger in a garage and caused $350,000 in damages.
Watch This Severe Electric Car Fire And Explosion At A Charging Station
More than 40 firefighters and 8 fire trucks were involved at the site, and thanks to quick action, they managed to put out the fire. Watch the toxic smoke…
Tell your city they will need another 50 fire trucks….lol
An ice car fire only needs one fire truck….lol
Watch the video then think………What happens when 2200 Ev’s (a new complex in planning stage will have 2200 parking spaces)….imagine 2200 lithium fire bomb EV’s are parked in underground parking at an apartment block or office tower and they catch fire? You can’t take propane into underground parking, but you can take a fire bomb lithium battery car underground.
watch ther huge EV fire in the link….lol
https://insideevs.com/news/423581/severe-electric-car-fire-explosion-charging/
Toyota has made a wise decision in not diving headfirst into the EV market, but focusing on hybrids. That decision is wise for several reasons:
First and foremost, there’s the saying, “first to market is often last in the marketplace.” Basically, it’s hard, maybe impossible, to spot winners early on, and even the winners drop the ball, sometimes more than once, before they become successful. It happened before—remember Duryea, Winton, De Dion, and Panhard?
Furthermore , EVs will not “replace” the IC-powered vehicle entirely. I suspect that there will still be a lot of gasoline and diesel powered vehicles on the road for many years, and even so, they will still exist for certain applications. I still see 1990s and early 2000s cars, so in 2040, there will be more than one 2022 car going strong.
Next, we’re looking at a shakeout in the EV industry as so many automakers start making cars—with perhaps fewer customers than they anticipated. As a result, many EVs will be priced out of the market.
If there is an EV that costs around $20-25 G’s, can seat four people and carry their luggage, has an average range of at least 400 miles or more, can be charged on a standard 110 house outlet, maybe a 220 “dryer” outlet, and has an easily swapped battery, people would buy it. But no such thing exists—and may never exist.
Finally, one of the strategies Toyota has used to become the number one automaker in the world is not necessarily to be on the leading (more like bleeding) edge of innovation, but to let others take the risk of innovation, see what’s working and viable, copy it, improve it incrementally, and execute flawlessly. They first did this with compact economy cars (Corolla, Corona) and then did it with luxury cars (Lexus) and full size trucks (Tundra).
Toyota is waiting to see what happens with EVs, and only when they see that they’re truly viable in the marketplace for sure will they make them (while improving them bit by bit). That may be next year, next decade, or never. If Toyota makes an EV, they won’t until they’re sure it will work and will sell.
The same thing applies to Honda, Subaru, and Mazda to a lesser extent.
Only time will tell who’s right…and who’s left. But now is not the time.
So there is a car maker not willing to commit bankruptcy seppuku by going all EV all the time? It baffles me that major car makers can’t see how SMALL the car market will be if they go all EV. And they expect to maintain their profits in that market? A market that will be 75-90% smaller. Their stock will crash, their credit will fall, and they won’t be able to stay in business. Not legally anyway. Of course the Psychopaths In Charge might decide to “bail them out” with your great grandchildren’s money.
You are all wasting your time trying to make this EV push make sense on any level.
You can spout all the numbers on how many megawatts and how much real estate will be needed for charging stations, how much energy to make the batteries, etc.
You are missing the point. The intention here is well defined. It is NOT intended to be practical. It is NOT intended to be efficient or affordable. Just the opposite.
The EV push is the culmination of decades of effort by the “elites” to limit the mobility and the freedom of the the plebes-us.
Those of us driving in the 60’s still remember the chattering class lament on how we can “end America’s love affair with the automobile”
Well they finally figured it out. Make it too expensive and impractical. Hence the lithium powered EV.
If we had a thorium powered EV or LENR (cold fusion) EV then EV’s would be the evil things.
The actual goal is to limit our mobility and freedom to travel.
Kudos to Mr Toyoda for being on the people’s side.
Hi Alex,
You’re right, of course. It took me awhile to see it, but once I saw it, everything else made sense, too. As with the “masks” and Kabuki…
Just be reminded, the “Climate Czar” owns 6 mansions, 12 cars, 2 yachts and a private jet.
The lower- mid level “elites” hold us normies in total contempt.
They hate it that some lowly plumber etc can afford to get in a car at any he chooses and pretty much go anywhere he wants.
No, they will drive, the riff-raff (us) will take the electric bus (or cattle car) to the vaxx station for out monthly shots and chip implant refresh.
Alex,
There are people out there who STILL believe that these draconian measures that governments have implemented re COVID were “About protecting public health” and even advocated severe punishment for those who saw through the COVID BS and “Didn’t do what Tony Fauci told them to do”. Why, some are even DEMANDING that everyone “mask up again”. These people have effectively become some of the biggest bullies on the planet, right up there with government.
They tend to be the same people who bought in to the heavy propaganda about CLIMATE CHANGE and will do whatever these fraudsters say, be it buy an electric vehicle or even KILL their own pets, which is what the WEF will eventually be calling for. I wouldn’t be surprised if they also advocate severe punishment for those who see through THIS fraud and “Don’t belieeeeeeeeeeeve in the science of man made climate change”.
John Kerry walks into a bar.
Bartender says: “Why the long face?”
Eric,
At the height of the “pandemic”, I’ve had a sense that we were in the midst of a spiritual war. NONE of the measures that were taken such as lockdowns and restrictions on certain businesses made any sense. After learning what these technocrats and those constantly peddling FEAR over a virus that had a fatality rate of LESS than 1% were REALLY up to, my senses were confirmed, and now the evil/ corruption is so blatant everywhere, particularly in government and the “Mainstream media”.
Alex,
Of course you’re right. No sense CAN be made of it. Because no sense is involved in it. Just a very unpleasant combination of ubiquitous omnipotent tyranny and feel good virtue signaling. Logic and reason need not apply. Nor virtue.
The same motive for tyrants passing gun laws.
A pedestrian target is much easier to hit than a mobile one, especially after they’ve been disarmed and can’t shoot back.
Exactly.
Was thinking this A.M. (noticing the winds have died down a tad, from ~ about 55 m.p.h. freakin’ ultra-freezing, to a ‘mere’ 35 m.p.h. or so) that this whole ‘watermellon’ enviromental-nazi movement & the EV push & the carbon credit BS, is just that, BS.
BS which is – imposed upon people, much like the freezing winds – whereas a fad, a real fad, while it might be fueled by serious suggestions & manipulations from a concentrated effort by major corporations, the difference is, a fad is something people freely choose to do.
… In the 1970’s I do suspect there wasn’t a single school in the world with a dress code requiring bell-bottom blue jeans. That fad faded.
I guess, the optimistic hope is, the power of our overlords will wane due to: overstep, hubris, gluttony, sloth & printing too many fiat Dollars. Idk.
Problem is, time.
I.e. something along the lines of this, only it’s goobermint & obeyers, rather than markets:
“markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.” – Gary Shilling
‘US Government in Full Scale Implosion Because of Corruption’
Catherine Austin Fitts says, “the U.S. government is so fraudulent that it will self-destruct much sooner than later. […]
At this point, and I hate to say it, but we are in full scale implosion. The corruption is that bad. That’s why I am telling you what we need is sovereignty. The federal government is not going to deliver. . . . The financial coup has reached a point where if you want sovereignty, the only person who can deliver that is your state governor and your legislature. . . . If you’ve got a great state AG, if you have great legislature, if you have a great governor, you better start supporting them. They are the people that can protect your sovereignty. You need governmental sovereignty if you are going to have individual sovereignty, and you better do it now. You have no time to be entertained by Joe Biden, Trump and Hunter Biden.”…
https://usawatchdog.com/us-government-in-full-scale-implosion-because-of-corruption-catherine-austin-fitts/
The bigger picture is ruining everything that worked well in the US economy to set up a fundamental transition to Marxism. The leftists have to ruin our current si ocialism to set the stage for people wanting something new.
I use the term “socialism: to define the current US economy for two reasons:
(1) In 2022, 34.5% of GDP was government spending (at all levels of government). The percentage was even higher in 2020 and 2021.
(2) Federal government spending including Social Security and Medicare, was 79% transfer payments. That does not include state and federal government transfer payments,
By my definition, (1) and (2) add up to socialism — the US is no longer a capitalist economy in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Globohomo Drudge Report has a big headline “THE COLDEST XMAS”.
Wait a minute, I thought we must all switch to electric cars to save the planet from uncontrolled global warming. Toyota didn’t become #1 for being stupid, and I am thinking that is mad gold rush into electrics is just a flash in the pan.
So when is reality going to bite back on the media’s false warming narrative? I heard on NPR yesterday that we must stop CO2 before we get a 1.3 degree Celsius temperature increase, because if it goes up 1.3 it will be at that point it becomes runaway and the end of the world.
I ask, do you really think in our lifetime that you will be able to grow palm trees in Minneapolis? Does anyone actually think that it is going to get so warm that the Arctic will be ice free? Or that the winters will be snow free, like they claimed?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/08/guardian-children-wont-know-what-snow-is-again/
Yukon,
One of the “Evening news” broadcasts had a caption on the screen about how we were going to have “Life threatening cold” despite relentless propaganda for YEARS about how we were headed for DANGEROUS GLOBAL WARMING. And yet, the climate change zealots will find some way to blame the COLD we’re expected to have on “climate change caused by CO2.” These people are so delusional, yet they want to FORCE their delusions on everyone else who sees through the fear mongering.
And once again, they appear ready to engage in a fear porn campaign about “Skyrocketing COVID cases”. Their likely response? “Get vaccinated right away AND wear a mask!”, despite countless studies showing that the “vaccines” and face diapers don’t freaking work.
Yes I agree with all of that. They are literally destroying 100 years of perfecting the gasoline engine for a stupid hoax. Mother Nature refuses to comply with their computer models. I think it is six times these delusional nut job warmists went to the arctic to document warming and got stuck in the ice. Six times.
https://thenewamerican.com/global-warming-alarmists-stuck-in-antarctic-sea-ice/
Don’t you find it curious that these “cool downs” and associated precipitation events are so rapid and intense? Scheduled, almost. Yesterday, in my area of Eastern NC, it went from 62 to 22 in an hour around dusk. At that time, the aerosol spraying on the horizon was thick and clearly delineated. I was outside for a few minutes and when I came in my face took at least 5 minutes to warm up. It felt like I had been coated in an ice nucleation chemical.
Isn’t it also curious that they use terms like “bomb cyclone” and “bombogenesis” to describe these systems? Even though they attempt to apply them to the distant past, they are relatively new terms and you can’t escape hearing them all the time nowadays. Every storm is “once in a generation.” Funny how they connote another name for geoengineering, “weather warfare.” Furthermore, it’s interesting how their descriptions of bombogenesis mention a “rapid cooling of moisture” as a component. Something that can clearly be done with patented ice nucleation processes.
The notion of “global warming” err.. “climate change” may be a mistaken belief or a nefarious ruse to enserf us all, take your pick, but “fighting” it is given as a reason for the facially obvious geoengineering activities that are always described as possible but “proposed.” It is understood by most on here that similar psychological methods were/are used when TPTB promoted the scams of “fighting” things like poverty, terrorism and cold & flu season. They may simply see intervening in and influencing the weather as another aspect in their drive for total control unbounded by any law or constraint. Notice all the “states of emergency” being declared. Weather was the font from which these color of law activities flowed and flow from.
Then this:
he latest NOAA scheduled temperature map is especially shocking given the fact that mainstream media sources have been sensationalizing the record shattering “flash freeze” cold and snow. Some of the most repeated headlines of “deadly” cold and “record” snow came from the exact region that is now scheduled to have likely record high temperatures starting late next week. Welcome to engineered weather and temperature whiplash.
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-december-24-2022-385/
Re: Funk Doctor Spidock December 24, 2022 At 9:21 pm
Maybe it’s because I’m in Chicago, but these rapid changes in temperature are nothing new either. Often the jetstream line isn’t far away so when it shifts we will get colder or warmer quickly depending on which way its going. Basically you got caught in a jet stream shift. Now did some government entity cause it to move? Well I have no idea if they did or didn’t, but that’s what you experienced. In a week or so from now we’ll be back on the south side of the stream and it will be 50F instead of subzero. Don’t like the weather? Wait 15 minutes. Old saying. But now it’s something to be scare of instead of joke about.
BTW, “global warming” reduces these gradients, makes them less severe and thus reduces severe weather. Of course we aren’t told that.
My point is really about aerosol spraying as a part of the overall geoengineering process, although this weather whiplash is a consequence of such interventions, which have possibly been going on for decades. Who’s to say it wasn’t an engineered cool down in ‘83 as well? LBJ was giving speeches about weather modification tech in the mid 60s. That being said, in the last 10 but really 5 or so, I have personally noticed that the patterns of “cool downs”, with their specially designed novel terminology (polar vortex, bomb cyclone) promoted by the media, have become striking in connection with the observable concurrent aerosol spraying.
Dane Wiginton posits that, without these engineered cool downs, there would be very little “winter” weather. Pesonally, I find that to increasingly be the case in my area in NC. Our only winter weather is the 1-3 days after these absurd cool downs, which are observably prceded by aerosol spraying. This can occur infrequently or regularly, like last year when it was weekly. No spraying, no weather, no winter. On the flip side, we had 4 days in a row in May this year following a spraying event/cool down where the temp struggled to reach 50. Killed all my tomato and basil plants and gimped just about everything else for the growing season. When I was watching the lines in the sky the day before the scheduled event started, I knew the garden was toast.
Re: Funk Doctor Spidock December 24, 2022 At 2:04 pm
This really isn’t anything new. It’s media fear hype. Because of all the hype if something truly bad is going to happen I won’t believe them. They play up weather much less severe than I went to school in as a kid as the end of the world they are nothing more than chicken little to me now. This recent cold got me to look up Christmas 1983. -25F. Not windchill or feels like. Real thermometer reading of -25F. It was -5 the other day. Wooptie do da day. I walked to do some shopping same as I do on a summer day but with more clothes. Back in the day the hype around weather didn’t happen. It was noted, it was something they gave attention but it was ‘it’s the weather, it is what it is’. Not the fear hype now.
RE: “Back in the day the hype around weather didn’t happen.”
True. However; back in that same day, I don’t recall the winds being what they are now, for as long as they are, nor do I recall the intense cold as it’s been. Much less, this:
“Each color tier represents one deviation from normal, the more deviations there are, the more unprecedented the event is”…
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-december-24-2022-385/
But, what do I know, I just spend more time outside than most.
It’s probably, nothing.
“Shittin’ rocks.”
Oops, forgot to mention, I’m just a bit West of Chi-ca-go. So, Yah. I know, The Cold. “Christmas 1983. -25F. Not windchill or feels like.” I remember it well.
I’m an outdoors guy. Spend lotsa time outside.
This sheet, ain’t normal. Brent P.
Brent P, Have you looked at the snowflakes landing on your jacket sleeve lately?
Are there only three types? Blob of snow, round pellets, and perfectly formed six-pointed stars of two sizes.
Many times I’ve seen the six-pointed stars, looked like they were cut with a cookie cutter. They covered my jacket sleeve.
‘Visualizing How Snowflakes Are Formed’
… “You might be wondering how it is possible that no two snowflakes are identical”…
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/visualizing-how-snowflakes-are-formed
No, I’m wondering why I’m seeing so many snowflakes The Exact Same Shape.
And, why I don’t see the many intricate designs snowflakes are supposed to be.
What do you see?
Climate change causes very cold weather,
very hot weather, cancer and warts !
— CC causes EVERYTHING bad.
Good weather is just weather.
Climate change will kill your dog.
Climate change will kill everything on Earth.
Except Mother-in-Laws — they are eternal.
(This is sarcasm, meant to be funny.
It might not be funny, but was meant to be.)
How will everyone charge their EV at the same home over the Holidays? Running extension cords across the front lawn and sidewalks? Not everyone has a four-car garage, with four fast chargers for everyone’s car in the family. Mom, Dad, 2.5 kids all at home all needing charges so they can get to work, school, shopping etc. That’s the current problem with EVs. Not to mention folks in apartments, dorms, traveling, etc.
Alternatives to $50,000 20 mpg EV’s
This $10K Air-Powered Vehicle Could Be the Tiny Car to Go With Your Tiny House
AIRPod is said to weigh just 617 pounds, with a top speed of about 50 mph, and a range of approximately 80 miles. The car can be filled with compressed air in less than five minutes with a commercial-grade air compressor, which are found at just about any gas station, at a cost of less than $2 per fill-up.
another ice car that will compete with EV’s…. might be the as-yet-unreleased $6,800 Elio Motors vehicle, which is touted as being capable of getting 84 mpg,
https://www.treehugger.com/airpod-air-powered-vehicle-could-be-tiny-car-go-your-tiny-house-4857908The
E-lunatic could buy air-cooled engines and mount them into a Tesla for not much moola.
Eloon will save 20,000 dollars by eliminating the unreliable battery, Eloon will be happy as a clam.
A gas tank will be all you need to make it go.
Cost savings rule.
The customer will not object.
The customer is always right.
An air-cooled engine in a Tesla will be environmentally sound.
Don’t need no stinkin’ coolant!
So there!
I am making a prediction; within the next 5 years the EEEVVVV “electrify” everything fad will be DEAD. Why am I so sure of this, politics will change, the Brandon administration is on its last legs. Companies like GM, Ford also need to wise up. Realistically how many “fast chargers” will there be in Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East, Ukraine, Central Europe and India in the next 5-10 years? Outside of a few major urban areas, 0 to None. Companies like Toyota will be building ICE cars and trucks into the next Century. As more people become aware of the environmental destruction caused to produce the batteries, hazards (see Florida electric flood cars,) the expense of replacement battery packs and the lack of a robust eclectic power grid, the early adapter Fan Boy/Girl enthusiasm will wane. An Ev will just become an “option,” just as they were at the turn of the Century.
Eric …I hope your chickens are OK….When I built a chicken coop for my Mom a few years ago; For insulating the walls…roof…I used 2″ styrofoam called “Blue Board,” its rigid, weather resistant and nail-able…they use it for foundation insulation, and covered it with cheap galvanized roofing so they couldn’t peck at it…the “tin” also absorbs-reflects the heat from a heat lamp
Hi David,
I hope you’re right… and hang around. Good story about a bad time today in the EQS EeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeVeeeeeeee. https://rumble.com/v223bgg-living-with-an-eeeeeeveeeee.html
I dunno, David’s first part reminded me of an encounter I had with a much older cigar chomping owner of a small manufacturing co. back in the early 1990’s or so.
Just replace ‘electric cars’ & ‘charging stations’ with the budding watermellon environmental crusade at that time and it’s pert near the same take.
I thought, for sure he was right in his outlook, and was glad to think he was correct.
…Things just didn’t turn out that way.
Not. At. All.
the leftist/communists started this EV push bs…..
in 2012 President Obama launched the EV Everywhere Grand Challenge — an Energy Department initiative that brings together America’s best and brightest scientists, engineers and businesses to make plug-in electric vehicles more as affordable as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022.
re: EQS EeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeVeeeeeeee
cool video eric…
David,
I hope you’re right as well. The Governor of California “decreed” not too long ago that California will BAN the sale of new gas powered cars by 2035, and an unelected bureaucrat at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality made a similar decree for my home state of Oregon. If these clowns thought they could get away with it, I’m sure they’d eventually decree an outright ban of ALL gas powered vehicles as well. As someone who wants nothing to do with EeeeeeVeeeees or vehicles made within the last 20 years, if they actually try such a thing, they can go to H***, as I’m not going to give up my vehicle to satisfy a bunch of power mad authoritarians or technocrats who want the masses to give up THEIR vehicles but THEY get to continue flying around in private jets to their precious meetings in Davos.
The Electric Vehicle Scam
In order to match the 2,000 cars that a typical filling station can service in a busy 12 hours, an EV charging station would require 600, 50-watt chargers at an estimated cost of $24 million and a supply of 30 megawatts of power from the grid. That is enough to power 20,000 homes. No one likely thinks about the fact that it can take 30 minutes to 8 hours to recharge a vehicle between empty or just topping off. What are the drivers doing during that time?
ICSC-Canada board member New Zealand-based consulting engineer Bryan Leyland describes why installing electric car charging stations in a city is impractical:
“If you’ve got cars coming into a petrol station, they would stay for an average of five minutes. If you’ve got cars coming into an electric charging station, they would be at least 30 minutes, possibly an hour, but let’s say its 30 minutes. So that’s six times the surface area to park the cars while they’re being charged. So, multiply every petrol station in a city by six. Where are you going to find the place to put them?”
The government of the United Kingdom is already starting to plan for power shortages caused by the charging of thousands of EVs. Starting in June 2022, the government will restrict the time of day you can charge your EV battery. To do this, they will employ smart meters that are programmed to automatically switch off EV charging in peak times to avoid potential blackouts.
In particular, the latest UK chargers will be pre-set to not function during 9-hours of peak loads, from 8 am to 11 am (3-hours), and 4 pm to 10 pm (6-hours). Unbelievably, the UK technology decides when and if an EV can be charged, and even allows EV batteries to be drained into the UK grid if required.
Imagine charging your car all night only to discover in the morning that your battery is flat since the state took the power back. Better keep your gas-powered car as a reliable and immediately available backup! While EV charging will be an attractive source of revenue generation for the government, American citizens will be up in arms.
https://www.americaoutloud.com/the-electric-vehicle-scam/
the UK technology decides when and if an EV can be charged, and even allows EV batteries to be drained into the UK grid if required….so the government sort of owns your battery….that you paid for….that is the trap from government incentives…they own part of your car…strings attached….
Imagine charging your car all night only to discover in the morning that your battery is flat since the state took the power back…..lol
the government owns your car, your body…injections, and your mind…leftist controlled big media and the leftist/communist education system…
no driving today…or this month….just drain the batteries back into the grid…cool trick…
they switched to EV’s because they couldn’t figure out how to instantly drain your ice gas tank….lol
David,
It may not take that long. With this Arctic blast descending upon us likely causing power grid failures, people’s eyes may be partially opened. That there is no electric power to charge an EV fleet, since it can’t even keep your heat and lights on.
Europe’s pending cold dark hungry winter will reinforce that notion.
I seriously doubt the US Dollar will survive for 5 years. Much less total electrification.
When you realize that the agenda is to get common people out of personal vehicles rather than replacing ICE with electric…….. Mr. Toyoda understands that means he will no longer have a business if that is the result. Or not much of one if all he can sell are low range electric Lexus.
On another note, the incoming 2023 Prius is actually attractive looking for the first time. It even has an optional sunroof that is basically the whole roof. Up to now, Prius have been some of the most ugly cars on the road. Of course the electric fanboys are mad that its still a hybrid rather than a “pure” electric.
I wonder if Tesla could pivot fast enough into ICE (at least hybrids) cars if reality finally sets in. They don’t make money actually making and selling electric cars.
Before the EV (with a 40 kWh battery) goes one foot the emissions/pollution just from manufacturing it is equal to driving an ice diesel 89,400 km (50,550 miles), about 7 years driving. This shows how stupid the government is pushing EV’s with their lithium fire bomb batteries (95% of lithium batteries are NOT recycled), this is an environmental catastrophe.
Ice diesel vs EV fuel economy comparison:
To go 100 miles the ice diesel burns 1.36 gallons of diesel in it’s super clean .000001% emission engine.
the EPA tells us that modern gas powered cars produce 98 – 99% less pollution than cars from the 1960s and 1970s. modern cars have .000001% emissions but that isn’t good enough they want zero, they are liars though, the new EV’s pollute more…lol
To go 100 miles the EV burns 43 lb of coal…… 43 lb of dirty coal were burnt to generate the electricity in the power station producing huge emissions destroying the environment.
ATTENTION: remember they are CEV’s Coal Electric Vehicles….
Plus the added bonus of a lithium fire bomb battery in the car….lol
ATTENTION: The Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion ice diesel has emissions of 85g CO2 per km
ATTENTION: the VW XL1 hybrid diesel produced emissions of 21g of CO2 per km…far cleaner then an EV….
A current-model large EV car emits about 88 grams of CO2 per kilometer,…EV’s are way dirtier….lol
Ice diesel:
The 2014 Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion diesel, capable of a claimed 88.3 mpg imperial, or 73.5 mpg U.S.
ATTENTION: it has a 971 mile range, the perfect car.
The Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion has emissions of 85g CO2 per km. it is even cleaner (less emissions) than a Toyota Prius or an EV….
A bloomberg article states, “A current-model large EV car with a battery produced and charged in an average European Union country emits about 88 grams of CO2 per kilometer,
it weighs 1125 kg, 2480 lb, the new EV’s are over 4000 lb. it weighs 40% less.
EV
What test drivers are actually getting driving in the real world driving EV’s is they are getting 2.4 miles of range for every kwh
They are using 41.66 kwh to go 100 miles. (.4166 kwh per mile) = 83 mpg
ATTENTION: 83 mpg is based on electricity just coming out of a wall plug,
in reality 4.80 gallons of fuel or 43 lb of coal were burnt to generate the electricity in the power station = ATTENTION they are getting a real ….20.8 mpg).
So to go 100 miles the EV burns 43 lb of coal
So to end up with 41.66 kwh of electricity which is equivalent to 1.20 gallons of gas to push the EV 100 miles down the road 4.80 gallons of fuel or 43 lb of coal were burnt to generate the electricity in the power station, remember net 25% efficiency. 100 miles using 4.80 gallons = a real world 20.8 mpg,
New EV’s are over 4000 lb, that is why they get bad fuel economy. The 2014 Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion diesel weighs 40% less, helping it to get far greater fuel economy.
In the real world the EV with the large 90 kwh battery (some EV batteries are smaller) had only 216 mile range.
the 2014 Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion diesel has a 971 mile range.
Energy density:
In order to go 200 miles the EV had to carry around a 1000 lb battery (some tesla batteries weigh 1800 lb, the hummer battery is 3000 lb.)
In order to go 200 miles the 2014 Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion diesel had to only carry 9.52 lb of fuel.
There is the big difference the diesel ice car only had to carry 9.52 lb of fuel to go 200 miles the EV had to carry a 1000 lb battery, this has a huge effect on fuel economy
The 2014 Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion costs $24,355 U.S., EV’s start at about $45,000
there is a $20,000 incentive to buy the Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion…lol
20.8 mpg….lol…..these EV’s use more fuel so pollute more then ice vehicles
most new gas or diesel ice cars get better fuel economy, cost way less, use far fewer resources to manufacture, don’t have lithium fire bomb batteries, last three times as long as EV’s….
NOTE:
Thermal efficiency of power plants using coal, petroleum, natural gas or nuclear fuel and converting it to electricity are around 33% efficiency, natural gas is around 40%. Then there is average 6% loss in transmission, then there is a 5% loss in the charger, another 5% loss in the inverter, the electric motor is 90% efficient so another 10% loss before turning the electricity into mechanical power at the wheels.
33% – 6% – 5% – 5% – 10% = 25% efficiency for EV’s. In very cold weather EV’s are 12% efficient
a gallon of gas retains 100% of its chemical-kinetic-electrical energy potential throughout the entirety of its supply chain. This is extraordinarily effective when compared to electricity in either transmitted or battery-stored forms – which does not retain its potential and can lose from 15 to 45% of the generated kilowatt hours of electricity during the delivery and battery-charging/depletion/use processes.
……… instead of 26% loss (during delivery and use) this says it is up to a 45% loss
33% – 45% = 15% efficiency for EV’s. Then in very cold weather EV’s are 8% efficient..another 50% loss….
EV’s are looking pretty useless, they are being pushed on people through lying….
An EV just sitting loses:
tesla says a daily 3%-5% stationary range consumption.” (just parked)
So Tesla says it’s normal to fully discharge itself in under 3 weeks. Keep this in mind when parking it somewhere 90kwh @ $0.40 per kwh = another $36.00 per week loss just parked…lol
Plus the cost of the battery, which is huge, you have to store the electricity in the very, very expensive battery, that is the killer for EV’s right there, the expensive, rapidly wearing out battery.
the tesla $22,000 battery is used up, worn out in 100,000 miles.
ATTENTION: this works out to $22.00 per 100 miles it is costing you for the battery.
greens say burning 43 lb of coal to power their stupid EV is cleaner then burning 1.36 gallons of diesel in an ultra clean .0000001% emission ice diesel engine….lol….they have lied to everybody and got away with it….lol
2014 Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion for sale… $6403.00….buy one…
https://www.motors.co.uk/volkswagen/golf/trim/bluemotion/year/2014/used-cars/
Ice diesel:
The 2014 Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion diesel, capable of a claimed 88.3 mpg imperial, or 73.5 mpg U.S.
ATTENTION: it has a 971 mile range, the perfect car.
The government didn’t like it….it would interfere with their future plans to force EV’s on everybody and eliminate the mobility of the poor people….no more cheap driving around
So in 2015 the government crucified VW with the dieselgate hoax…you can’t have German engineers giving people cheap, economical, reliable, long life vehicles…lol
the leftist/communists started this EV push bs…..
in 2012 President Obama launched the EV Everywhere Grand Challenge — an Energy Department initiative that brings together America’s best and brightest scientists, engineers and businesses to make plug-in electric vehicles more as affordable as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022.
On the battery front, the Department’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research at Argonne National Laboratory is working to overcome the biggest scientific and technical barriers that prevent large-scale improvements of batteries.
And the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is advancing game-changing technologies that could alter how we think of electric vehicles. From investing in new types of batteries
Makes me wonder how great Volkswagen’s proposed diesel-electric hybrid would have been. Too bad we’ll never know since it was strangled in the crib by govco.
VW XL1 hybrid diesel for sale
The XL1 was initially unveiled at the Qatar Motor show in 2011. It was fitted with a teeny, mid-mounted 800cc two-cylinder diesel engine producing just 48bhp, which was then linked to a 5.5kWh lithium-ion battery and a 27bhp electric motor, meaning a lofty total output of 75bhp. That power (or lack of it) was sent to the faired-in rear wheels by a seven-speed DSG gearbox.
It was light, though. The body was made from carbon fibre reinforced polymer, the wheels from magnesium and the dampers, steering column and brake callipers from aluminium. ….no rust problems…..
That all meant a 795kg kerb weight, about 1750 lb…….while still meeting all the latest crash-safety requirements. ………no need for modern cars to be over weight…
The body and frame are designed with crush/crumple zones and roll-over protection, and the tandem seating means large side crush zones. Volkswagen claims protection comparable to a GT racing car. The car has anti-lock brakes, airbags with pressure sensors, and stability control…..it only weighs 1750 lb……
why are modern ice cars 3000 to 4000 lb and Ev’s up to 5000 lb or more? they say it was for the so called safety crap….lol
VW says it requires just 8.4 hp to keep the car moving at a steady 60 mph on flat pavement–less than half the power required for the same task in the company’s most economical European production model……why do we need 5000 lb…1000 hp electric cars?
Race-car steering
The unexpectedly fun part of driving the XL1 was the handling.
The unassisted steering–and when’s the last time you drove a car without power steering?–is extremely quick, far closer to that of a track racing car than a street vehicle.
5000 lb EV’s drive like a huge over weight 5 ton truck….lol
and the super slippery body gave the XL1 a drag coefficient of just 0.186, so it remains the most aerodynamic road-going production car ever.
We say production car – only 200 were ever built, so the buyer of this one will join a pretty exclusive hypermiling club. Members of that club will be getting around 313mpg too.
diesel ……so no tune ups like gas ice…
diesels can go 400,000 miles an EV is scrap at 100,000 miles….the very expensive battery is dead…
ATTENTION: The Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion ice diesel has emissions of 85g CO2 per km
the VW XL1 hybrid diesel produced emissions of 21g of CO2 per km…far cleaner then an EV….
A current-model large EV car emits about 88 grams of CO2 per kilometer,…EV’s are way dirtier….lol
Volkswagen XL1 Diesel-Hybrid 300 mpg highway
An average EV gets about 20.8 mpg…
the lowest depreciation….. average used price history $103,970, ….. one sold for $134,000 used….original MSRP of around $128,113….
it was only made in 2015, that is 7 years depreciation…..a $128,000 ice vehicle in 7 years is worth about $42,000…..
after 100,000 miles, about ten years, a $50,000 EV is worth zero because the very expensive…$22,000 to $29,000 battery is dead….
Produced solely for the 2015 model year, the XL1 saw only 200 examples built.
sounds like the best car ever built……with today’s fuel prices….
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/hybrid/buy-volkswagen-xl1-auction-become-hypermiler
ATTENTION: The Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion ice diesel has emissions of 85g CO2 per km
the VW XL1 hybrid diesel produced emissions of 21g of CO2 per km…far cleaner then an EV….
Volkswagen XL1 Diesel-Hybrid….the most efficient vehicle ever made…. 300 mpg highway
Volkswagen XL1 Diesel-Hybrid……the lowest depreciation….. average used price history one sold for $103,970, ….. another one sold for $134,000 used….original MSRP of around $128,113….so depreciation near zero…..
it was only made in 2015, that is 7 years depreciation…..a $128,000 ice vehicle in 7 years is worth about $42,000…..
after 100,000 miles, about ten years, a $50,000 EV is worth zero because the very expensive…$22,000 to $29,000 battery is dead….
Volkswagen XL1 Diesel-Hybrid….the most efficient vehicle ever made…. 300 mpg highway
The XL1 was initially unveiled at the Qatar Motor show in 2011.
Produced solely for the 2015 model year, the XL1 saw only 200 examples built.
The government didn’t like it….it would interfere with their future plans to force EV’s on everybody and eliminate the mobility of the poor people….no more cheap driving around
So in 2015 the government crucified VW with the dieselgate hoax…you can’t have German engineers giving people cheap, economical, reliable, long life vehicles…lol
the VW XL1 hybrid diesel produced emissions of 21g of CO2 per km…far cleaner then an EV….
A current-model large EV car emits about 88 grams of CO2 per kilometer,…
EV’s are way dirtier and they are ramming them down your throat….lol
Your posts are too damned long and there are too many of them. Even when you’re right, nobody likes a motor mouth.
“Ain’t bailin’ they ass out again, no ma’am.”
My fellow Jim, I fear we aren’t apt to have much say in the matter. If automotive manufacturer bailouts were up to you and me, I’m pretty sure the first one wouldn’t have happened.
Mr Toyoda didn’t show up in the Epstein flight logs database. Let’s hope there’s no pictures of him on the golf course with Trump.
What am I thinking? They’ll just kill Toyota’s ESG score and tank the stock! He’ll be gone in six months.
they already got rid of a prime minister for going against the communist/nazi/globalist/wef/luciferian agenda….
japan dumped millions of doses of the injections because they are contaminated with metal, (japan does their own testing after they receive the vaccines, they don’t trust big pharma)
they stopped complying, they are using ivermectin only now, no more killshot very smart people………
japan can’t afford this wef depopulation agenda, they are already depopulating with their aging population and no immigration, they can’t kill off their few young people or they will be extinct. the G7 doesn’t have this problem, with very high immigration, they will be repopulated with immigrants….so they can afford to exterminate their white populations.
they are using ivermectin only now…..this is bad news for the wef gang….the killshot has an AI, nanotech parasite in it, ivermectin kills parasites, this screws up the davos/wef/schwab depopulation/transhumanism 2030 agenda…..
NOTE: they stopped complying, they are using ivermectin only now…then this happened to their prime minister Shinzo Abe….assassinated….
So this is what happened to Shinzo Abe………..
https://www.truth11.com/content/images/2022/07/39D07DAB-42ED-4248-A422-D5790B584F01.jpeg
it is hard to exterminate the japanese with the experimental gene therapy extermination injection, they are too high IQ. japan has no injection mandates,
ATTENTION: in the U.S. children are mandated 72 injections, this now includes the deadly cv19 vaccine….
in japan none, send your child to japan, they won’t exterminate it……. japan will survive, the whites won’t.
“Cancer was practically unknown until the cowpox vaccination began to be introduced … I have seen 200 cases of cancer, and never saw a case in an unvaccinated person.”
Dr. W.B. Clark, New York Times, 1909
The japanese are the ultimate car freaks, they are also resisting this effort to ram EV’s down people’s throats and ban all ice cars, it might be a refuge for ice car lovers and pure bloods….
japan is cool, it kicked out the jesuits and they have no committee of 300 member, don’t like this one world government bs.
Two highly tangential things:
1. The president of Toyota is named Toyoda? That’s quite cool.
2. I had no idea there was such a thing as creamed spinach. Although I likes me my spinach (cook up some bacon and, after it’s done, throw in some fresh spinach, chopped onion, and mushrooms and quick-wilt the spinach down in the bacon fat, while the mushrooms and onion saute a bit, and you’ve got a quick, easy, delicious keto-type meal), and I certainly use some cream … well, I think I’ll continue to keep my spinach and my cream well apart. I may have nightmares tonight about “creamed spinach.”
James,
My late wife used to make great creamed spinach dip. You know how we are in the South –lotsa butter, cream, cheese. Not sure how she did it but ’twas the only way I’d eat that vile weed. 🙂
Only one CEO with the stones to say what most are thinking?
‘The Prius even more so. The latter has a range of nearly 700 miles in city driving and nearly 600 on the highway.’ — eric
A trail buddy of mine owns a great honking Silverado with a fifth-wheel hitch in the bed. On their 2021 cross-continental tour, he and his wife took the pick-up and the trailer. (Don’t attempt this with any EeeVee, even a Tesla semi.)
This autumn, with fuel prices way up, they took the wife’s Prius and used the money they saved to pay for hotels.
Pocketbook issues rule in home economics, not out-of-touch Congress Clowns. Corporate toadies like Ford and GeeeeeEm had better wake the f*ck up from their wokery. Ain’t bailin’ they ass out again, no ma’am.