exxon/mobil ceo says: all new passenger cars will be electric by 2040

So, does nobody know what was going on in 2013 -2014 to affect fuel consumption?

Green energy -- manufacturing hope where there is none.

Flyover America does not want electric crap cars.

just got my vehicle registration for our electric vehicle.    My other bigger vehicles are 89.50 for one year.   this little thing..unsafe, pathetically incapable of long distances or higher speeds, no capacity for any shopping...minimum.....

145.74.  for the year. 289.48 for two years.

soooooooo economical. LOOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOL

Calypso Jones wrote:just got my vehicle registration for our electric vehicle.    My other bigger vehicles are 89.50 for one year.   this little thing..unsafe, pathetically incapable of long distances or higher speeds, no capacity for any shopping...minimum.....

145.74.  for the year.    289.48 for two years.

soooooooo economical.  LOOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOL

youre proud of poluting your enviroment? whats got into you?

Calypso Jones wrote:just got my vehicle registration for our electric vehicle.    My other bigger vehicles are 89.50 for one year.   this little thing..unsafe, pathetically incapable of long distances or higher speeds, no capacity for any shopping...minimum.....

145.74.  for the year.    289.48 for two years.

soooooooo economical.  LOOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOL

Why in the blazes did you get a EV??!!!!!  I'm astounded with you.  Are you yanking our chain on this,  @Calypso Jones?

Btw, jftr, renewing a registration in AR for a year is all of $25.75.  You're getting screwed, no matter what way you look at it.

2cent wrote:

Calypso Jones wrote:just got my vehicle registration for our electric vehicle.    My other bigger vehicles are 89.50 for one year.   this little thing..unsafe, pathetically incapable of long distances or higher speeds, no capacity for any shopping...minimum.....

145.74.  for the year.    289.48 for two years.

soooooooo economical.  LOOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOL

Why in the blazes did you get a EV??!!!!!  I'm astounded with you.  Are you yanking our chain on this,  @Calypso Jones?

Btw, jftr, renewing a registration in AR for a year is all of $25.75.  You're getting screwed, no matter what way you look at it.

I believe that "electric vehicle" is a golf cart. In some states they can be registered as street vehicles.

As to the original: This CEO one more corporate Woketard. He's saying what the government wants to hear, because he wants the benefits, the protections, the carve-outs, the tolerance, that intrusive government can give.

Government demands fealty to The Narrative.

Casey Jones wrote:

2cent wrote:

Calypso Jones wrote:just got my vehicle registration for our electric vehicle.    My other bigger vehicles are 89.50 for one year.   this little thing..unsafe, pathetically incapable of long distances or higher speeds, no capacity for any shopping...minimum.....

145.74.  for the year.    289.48 for two years.

soooooooo economical.  LOOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOL

Why in the blazes did you get a EV??!!!!!  I'm astounded with you.  Are you yanking our chain on this,  @Calypso Jones?

Btw, jftr, renewing a registration in AR for a year is all of $25.75.  You're getting screwed, no matter what way you look at it.

I believe that "electric vehicle" is a golf cart.  In some states they can be registered as street vehicles.

As to the original:  This CEO one more corporate Woketard.  He's saying what the government wants to hear, because he wants the benefits, the protections, the carve-outs, the tolerance, that intrusive government can give.

Government demands fealty to The Narrative.

They use golf carts here to deliver the mail

vege57 wrote:

Casey Jones wrote:

2cent wrote:

Calypso Jones wrote:just got my vehicle registration for our electric vehicle.    My other bigger vehicles are 89.50 for one year.   this little thing..unsafe, pathetically incapable of long distances or higher speeds, no capacity for any shopping...minimum.....

145.74.  for the year.    289.48 for two years.

soooooooo economical.  LOOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOL

Why in the blazes did you get a EV??!!!!!  I'm astounded with you.  Are you yanking our chain on this,  @Calypso Jones?

Btw, jftr, renewing a registration in AR for a year is all of $25.75.  You're getting screwed, no matter what way you look at it.

I believe that "electric vehicle" is a golf cart.  In some states they can be registered as street vehicles.

As to the original:  This CEO one more corporate Woketard.  He's saying what the government wants to hear, because he wants the benefits, the protections, the carve-outs, the tolerance, that intrusive government can give.

Government demands fealty to The Narrative.

They use golf carts here to deliver the mail

We hunt out of them. Real quiet.

vege57 wrote:

Casey Jones wrote:

2cent wrote:

Calypso Jones wrote:just got my vehicle registration for our electric vehicle.    My other bigger vehicles are 89.50 for one year.   this little thing..unsafe, pathetically incapable of long distances or higher speeds, no capacity for any shopping...minimum.....

145.74.  for the year.    289.48 for two years.

soooooooo economical.  LOOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOL

Why in the blazes did you get a EV??!!!!!  I'm astounded with you.  Are you yanking our chain on this,  @Calypso Jones?

Btw, jftr, renewing a registration in AR for a year is all of $25.75.  You're getting screwed, no matter what way you look at it.

I believe that "electric vehicle" is a golf cart.  In some states they can be registered as street vehicles.

As to the original:  This CEO one more corporate Woketard.  He's saying what the government wants to hear, because he wants the benefits, the protections, the carve-outs, the tolerance, that intrusive government can give.

Government demands fealty to The Narrative.

They use golf carts here to deliver the mail

That actually makes a lot of sense. If they had kept the transfer boxes they used to have for walking carriers (back when we had them) a golf-cart could have done the job just fine. Simply stop at the transfer box once a hour or so.

Of course, all this Amazon and other online delivery stuff, puts the kabosh on that.

Mail-delivery trucks have a long history. For a time, as the post office here moved away from horses (in the 1910s; mail would come into cities on Railroad Post Office cars, partially sorted while in transit)...

...each post office purchased whatever truck or car they thought would work well. That led to real problems in getting, paying for, and keeping parts, and in budgeting costs.

After WWII the Post Office decided on a standardized truck. The Studebaker 2-1/2 ton truck did so well in the war, Studebaker was offered the contract. It came out with the Zip-Van.



That didn't last long, because Studebaker wasn't long for this world. In 1963, Studebaker closed up manufacturing in the US (1966 in Canada). Zip Vans were the last product made in the US by Studebaker - it took until 1964 for them to complete the contract.

The Post Office was back at Square One.

Edgar Kaiser, son of Henry Kaiser, of Kaiser-Frazier and Kaiser Steel...Edgar ran Kaiser Jeep, created when Kaiser Industries purchased Willys-Overland in 1954. So Edgar had all kinds of military-jeep and military-truck contracts.

Kaiser proposed using a variant of the M38A1, with a welded steel roof on the body and sliding doors, as a mail truck. It's important to remember, this was NOT a Jeep CJ5. It was made in a different plant, the same plant the M38s were made. The frames were different. Some M38A1s didn't have four-wheel drive, and neither did this new truck variant.

It would be powered by a Chevrolet four-cylinder engine - since the CJ Jeep four was a forty-year-old design; was an F-head design (not an overhead valve setup) and would not be emissions compliant with the new standards coming in 1968. Behind the Chevy II four was a Powerglide two-speed automatic.

The Postal Jeep was born.



Incredibly, it lasted 18 years, from 1967 to 1986. Not the individual trucks, which were good for about five years, max. They rusted so fast you could hear it. But the design, with modifications, outlived two companies (Kaiser-Jeep and American Motors, which bought Jeep) and four engine designs (Chevrolet, than an AMC six...WAY too heavy...then an Audi four...then a Pontiac four...then, the last two years, the Jeep four, brought out in 1981).



But by that time the Postal Service was tired of buying huge lots of trucks, and then selling them five years later. They wanted long life.

Grumman, the fighter-jet company, gave them what they wanted - the Long-Life Postal Vehicle. All Aluminum.

A prototype, of which they made fifty, had front-wheel drive and a VW Rabbit (Golf) engine in it. Got 30 miles a gallon.

The Postal people didn't want any of that hifalutin' nonsense. Give us a TRUCK.

So Grumman put a Chevy S10 driveline in it, with rear-wheel drive...got 14 mpg...and the Postal people loved it.

That was in 1987. They are STILL running those things. They're so old they can't get parts from GM for the engines; but the Post Office has them.

They don't have traction in snow; they're unstable at speed; they're not air conditioned and not heated well...but the Post Office has them.



Right now the PO is fighting Joke Bidet's puppetmasters on what to replace it with. They THOUGHT they had a design they liked, from Oshkosh...another military truck maker. Sound familiar? But Oshkosh also makes industrial trucks, quality trucks.

But Bidet's puppetmasters want ALL ELECTRIC, and are trying to force the Post Orifice to do THAT.