Car Thread

[Rufus T. Firefly]

My old Outback was outdated tech as well, but beyond reason to repair. Jump forward more than a decade in tech and it's actually pretty good all around. Probably the last car I buy.

Same is true for my 2008 Colorado pickup. Last time I had it in for service they asked if I wanted to sell it! It will likely turn into rust about the time I turn into dust! Just turned 20K!

Yes, they want to buy it, but not for what you need to get out of it.

[up148]

Damn Rich, and I thought 17K miles on my 2017 Honda Ridgeline was low.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Damn Rich, and I thought 17K miles on my 2017 Honda Ridgeline was low.

You two apparently have no place to go? I'm still doing 15-20k per year.....even after retirement.

[gregj410]

Damn Rich, and I thought 17K miles on my 2017 Honda Ridgeline was low.

You two apparently have no place to go? I'm still doing 15-20k per year.....even after retirement.

Hmm…..I’d think keeping all your threads at the top of the page would require you to be home more often.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Damn Rich, and I thought 17K miles on my 2017 Honda Ridgeline was low.

You two apparently have no place to go? I'm still doing 15-20k per year.....even after retirement.

Hmm…..I’d think keeping all your threads at the top of the page would require you to be home more often.

Not hardly. I wasn't even here part of this week and I put ~400 miles on the car in 3 days. Commuting to PA tacks on miles pretty fast. And why would have to be at home anyway.....

[gregj410]

I wasn't even here part of this week

We could tell

And why would have to be at home anyway.....

You’ve mentioned in the past that you didn’t have a smart phone and I didn’t know it was possible to post from your Subaru on a Colossus Mark 1

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You’ve mentioned in the past that you didn’t have a smart phone and I didn’t know it was possible to post from your Subaru on a Colossus Mark 1

There are other computers in the world.

[gregj410]

You’ve mentioned in the past that you didn’t have a smart phone and I didn’t know it was possible to post from your Subaru on a Colossus Mark 1

There are other computers in the world.

Thanks for the clarity on that

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You’ve mentioned in the past that you didn’t have a smart phone and I didn’t know it was possible to post from your Subaru on a Colossus Mark 1

There are other computers in the world.

Thanks for the clarity on that

Well, one never knows......and since I no longer have the old Subaru but now have a car that is effectively a rolling smart phone.....probably capable of more than the mainframe I used once upon a time....

[gregj410]

There are other computers in the world.

Thanks for the clarity on that

Well, one never knows......and since I no longer have the old Subaru but now have a car that is effectively a rolling smart phone.....probably capable of more than the mainframe I used once upon a time....

You’ll be posting while driving in no time. Just like the rest of the country

[HONDO74]

Well, one never knows......and since I no longer have the old Subaru but now have a car that is effectively a rolling smart phone.....probably capable of more than the mainframe I used once upon a time....

So what did you get. ? Awhile back you said you were looking at a hybrid if I recall correctly.But maybe you changed your mind on that and went with a fossil fuel buggy.

Today's smart phones have more capability than the computer they used to get to the moon and back...

[gregj410]

So what did you get.

You know it’s a tree hugger mobile

[HONDO74]

Members of a small Minnesota town sounded the alarm about the damage to the environment they said would come from a "clean energy" project funded by the Biden administration.

In a report aired on Thursday's "CBS Mornings," CBS News environmental reporter Ben Tracy traveled to Tamarack, Minnesota, where residents told him they were concerned a nickel mine being developed on local farmlands would have a toxic impact on their water. Ironically, the mine was funded through a grant by the Biden administration to develop batteries for electric vehicles, as part of its "green energy" agenda.

"75% of battery manufacturing is done in China. To change that, the Biden administration is awarding $2.8 billion in grants to a dozen states all in an effort to boost battery production. All of those EV batteries require critical minerals like nickel," co-anchor Tony Dokoupil explained as he introduced the story.

"President Biden has put nickel on a list of minerals essential to national security and wants more of it mined domestically,"

[gregj410]

they were concerned a nickel mine being developed on local farmlands would have a toxic impact on their water

Makes perfect sense to me, trading clean air for toxic water.

[HONDO74]

they were concerned a nickel mine being developed on local farmlands would have a toxic impact on their water

Makes perfect sense to me, trading clean air for toxic water.

Rufus refers to it as re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.