The Compelling Case Of Now !

[Dustman]

I followed the rise of Tesla from development to production and I think that they have found a business model which makes electric cars cool and desirable for the mas market. While the Model S is priced as a premium luxury car, the new Model X suv will be around 60k. A few years later, Tesla will be coming out with the Model E, a 30k prius-fighter with much better battery life life than the leaf.

Electric cars are the future but only if we start to use more green energy like wind and solar. Solar roadways turn our asphalt roads into solar panels that generate electricity. You can heat them in winter so no ice builds up and you can reprogram the lines instead of painting them. They are also modular, so you can replace one piece and make the road like not. No more potholes either. Until that day, I'll drive an Elio.

Here is the video on solar roadways if anyone is interested:

That is SOOO COOOL!

 

[Rickb]

I have to admit that I like the Tesla Model X 8 times more than the Elio.

 

[goofyone]

I have to admit that I like the Tesla Model X 8 times more than the Elio.

Thats great because it's about 8x the price!

 

[zelio]

Having been involved with many public companies and companies in the metals and fossil fuel extraction, I have to say that self-regulation does not work in most circumstances, since it tends to decrease profits. I hear many people complain about regulations, but without them we wouldn't have clean air or water. Government regulation took lead out of paint and fuel, it took mercury our of smokestacks than ended up in our air and water. By definition, corporation's only business is to enhance stockholder value. It was cheaper to dump toxics into the sewer than to clean them up; its cheaper to dump garbage at sea (as many cities did for 50 years) than to recycle or landfill. Without government regulation you wouldn't have the 40 hour week, overtime pay, disability insurance, worker's comp, Medicare or Social Security. When I bought my first house in Jersey City, I was advised not to grow any vegetables, because there was so much lead in the soil from car exhaust. So, sorry, but I would not want to go back to toxic smog, sweatshops and lead in gas.

To say nothing of the DDT I was exposed to as a kid because my father used it on our farm. :-) Z

 

[Music Man]

To say nothing of the DDT I was exposed to as a kid because my father used it on our farm. Z

Z, were you raised in the South?

Years ago, down here, we used DDT in cotton to control the Bowl Weevil.

You would see farm workers out in the fields, on their horse with a long pole across the saddle in front of them with a pillow case tied to either end, filled with DDT.

As the horse trotted down the rows of cotton, the DDT, in a big cloud, would shake out.

Very bad practice, but it was "farm life."

 

[zelio]

Z, were you raised in the South?

Years ago, down here, we used DDT in cotton to control the Bowl Weevil.

You would see farm workers out in the fields, on their horse with a long pole across the saddle in front of them with a pillow case tied to either end, filled with DDT.

As the horse trotted down the rows of cotton, the DDT, in a big cloud, would shake out.

Very bad practice, but it was "farm life."

We had our farm in Kuna, Idaho. And my father used a tractor. :-) Z

 

[Music Man]

We had our farm in Kuna, Idaho. And my father used a tractor. Z

French farmers down in south Louisiana, very poor.

Not all were lucky enough to have tractors. Lucky ones had gasoline powered washing machines, most had "scrub boards."

 

[zelio]

French farmers down in south Louisiana, very poor.

Not all were lucky enough to have tractors. Lucky ones had gasoline powered washing machines, most had "scrub boards."

We had a small farm but it was not our only income. My father was a building contractor and my mother was an RN. When we first moved onto the farm we had a one room shack with a small bathroom size sink and a hand pump. The outhouse was across the yard. There wasn't much else on the farm but my father eventually built a pump house for water, a barn, work shed, pig pen and shed, chicken yard and shed. I think that was about all except that one room eventually became the "children's bedroom and he added on a bedroom, bathroom with shower and tub I believe, kitchen with dining area and living room. Plus we had a huge outdoor patio the full lenth of the back of the house for us to play on as well as the large yard and huge garden. So where did we play, among the weeds and dirt out by the barn. :-) Z

 

[Music Man]

We had a small farm but it was not our only income. My father was a building contractor and my mother was an RN. When we first moved onto the farm we had a one room shack with a small bathroom size sink and a hand pump. The outhouse was across the yard. There wasn't much else on the farm but my father eventually built a pump house for water, a barn, work shed, pig pen and shed, chicken yard and shed. I think that was about all except that one room eventually became the "children's bedroom and he added on a bedroom, bathroom with shower and tub I believe, kitchen with dining area and living room. Plus we had a huge outdoor patio the full lenth of the back of the house for us to play on as well as the large yard and huge garden. So where did we play, among the weeds and dirt out by the barn. Z

Naturally. . . . . . . All kids tend to gravitate to the dirtiest place in the area. . . . But that was okay. . . . . As long as you were in the house by the time the "street lights" came on.

Isn't this a grand world in which we live, and haven't we ALL come a long way?

God Bless America. . . . . . . . And ALL those "youngin's" that take it all for granted!

I wish them all a very long life!

 

[Truett Collins]

As long as you were in the house by the time the "street lights" came on.

What street lights? The nearest to our farm was a 28 mile drive.