Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "MGUY Australia" channel.

  1.  @xr6lad  All the traditional, legacy networks and print media are establishment propaganda. The vast majority of Americans know this. The rest of the world thinks we all watch believe that crap. The only reason we even keep track of what "mainstream" media are saying, is to know what the next stupid policy will be from the government that permeates those legacy forms of media.
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  2.  @unnamedchannel1237  Yes. And those countries are broke. They're worse than broke. They're over their heads in debt.
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  3. A $5- or $10-thousand EV that could get me around town would be good. But not an overbuilt monstrosity that weighs more than a normal car and is impractical for the long hauls it's supposedly built for.
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  4. Western leaders are either stupid, incompetent, malevolent, dishonest, or some mix of all four.
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  5. Beta-testing on citizens who never agreed to the test is scandalous. So of course, they'll keep doing it and no one will be held to account.
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  6. Basically a lesson in socialism. Big companies love government intervention because it eliminates competition and benefits them greatly. But eventually the interventions destroy the companies and the economy, because government officials make terrible decisions for everyone but themselves.
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  7. I'm not against EVs, but I think they're a niche market, not the consumers' choice for reliable transportation.
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  8. Nonsense. Just close your eyes and wish upon a star. Your dreams will come true.
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  9. I dunno. What's the going price of a backup battery bank to power a home? You'd reap a harvest of microchips and copper, on top of that. Just bury it far enough from your house that it won't burn up.
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  10. Re-building my '93 pickup's motor as we speak.
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  11. How many of those semis are even on the road? Checking... They've built about 140 TESLA semis. TESLA itself owns 100 of them, with PEPSI being their the biggest customer. Even ONE such event is catastrophically bad.
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  12. Too much acceleration? My rig has plenty of acceleration. But I don't floor it at every take-off. That's a ridiculous claim to make as a reason people are sick from driving them. I would guess that having 2 or 4 great big electric motors and their EM fields washing over you differentially the entire time is probably not good for you. You're basically sitting in the middle (but offset) of 4 great big EM fields.
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  13.  @reasonablespeculation3893  Yup. Roads should pay for themselves through tolls.
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  14. Who's gonna pass the law making it compulsory? The politicians. So it will never happen. They want YOU to drive an EV. THEY don't want an EV. They're too important to have to deal with the inconvenience.
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  15.  @hoboonwheels9289  The majority voted for big government to take care of everything for them. "Care for me like a child, but give me the freedoms of an adult." The world doesn't work that way. We have what we voted for.
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  16.  @matthewgodwin3050  The re-build I feared I would have to do for my '93 turned out to just be a clogged fuel injector. Hopefully, fuel injector cleaner will suffice in clearing its throat, because replacing injectors is a pretty big job.
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  17. A mobile populace is too hard to control. Give up your wheeled vehicles, racist!
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  18. You know the BEST way to stem population growth? PROSPERITY! You know what the "global-warming" crowd hate? PROSPERITY! You know what would reduce emissions in the 3rd world? Propane!
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  19.  @gerbre1  Don't have to be a fanboy. I agree. But it helps. It depends on why you just don't want to burn fossil fuels. It also depends on your transportation wants and needs. If you are trying to do your bit to save the planet, a TESLA or other EV isn't going to do it. It's just trades one form of environmental degradation for another, with no clear advantage, and a vehicle that is less reliable and has limited and decreasing range.
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  20. They already want that, and when you know that, their policies make sense.
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  21.  @sarcasmunlimited1570  Byzantine-Clintonian, tomayto-tomawto.
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  22. The EPA is why everyone in the USA drives mid-sized trucks and SUVs instead of compact trucks and SUVs. The FDA works for Big Pharma. The USDA works for Big Ag. We always get the opposite of what we thought the government intended.
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  23. I think we pollute more than we need to and we're big enough to create huge problems for the global ecosystem. But the global warming crowd want human extinction (or profound die-back) and don't care even a little bit about the ecological devastation created by the manufacture and disposal of all the batteries. You want to save the planet? Make a car that you can repair and use for a lifetime. Make computers and phones that last a lifetime. The people lecturing us also push disposable "durable goods." It's all a scam. You can tell when all the muckety-mucks pushing the scam fly in private jets to the latest climate conference in Dubai.
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  24. Can you imagine, 50 years from now, somebody with their "classic Tesla?" I can't. But if they had one, it'd have a big "Batteries not included" sign.
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  25. My guess is they were already in trouble and needed an infusion of cash, which ESG creditors were only too happy to provide.
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  26. "I know! Let's poison the planet to save the planet!" Too much one-variable thinking, from climate models to policy.
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  27. While EVs are a failure, what worries me is that you won't be able to find an ICE vehicle that's worth buying, if it was made after 2012 or so, and even that year there is so much garbage added to them. Nobody's making basic good cars and trucks, any more. Governments won't let them. If they really wanted to reduce pollution, they'd make cheap cars that are easy to repair. Making cars that last longer would be a huge benefit to the planet. But they want to make you an ultra-expensive vehicle that you have to throw away in 5 years.
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  28.  @RiverMersey  They're building kill switches into ICE vehicles, as well. We're all getting squeezed by a donor class that pushed us into living wastefully and now wants to punish us for our decadent ways.
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  29.  @bikersoncall  I agree. BUT they relieve conditions, locally. We're not finding solutions, here. We're managing trade-offs. Some amount of battery-powered or electrical transport makes sense in urban areas. I think they overreached trying to replace automobiles everywhere all at once. Very bad policy. I think we need to find some way of preventing toxic fires and re-cycling the lithium in our phones and computers before taking the blind leap into replacing ICEs, everywhere.
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  30.  @gossamera4665  Elon made his money. He didn't get into the business until government guaranteed all kinds of tax rebates and subsidies. He knew he could make money before he ever got involved.
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  31. The "right wing" is where the last of the true liberals reside. What passes for "liberal" these days is where you find the right-wing authoritarians, who push their agenda by hijacking the term "liberal."
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  32. They'll just use it as an excuse to take more money by force to build more of these ridiculous "filling stations." Any fool can see this will restrict travel, with little benefit to the planet. Cleaner air (and more garages burning down) in the cities, but probably powered by coal-fired plants.
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  33.  @RiverMersey  You can also make wood gas and port it directly into your vehicle's manifold, if you have an older engine with c "normal" carburetor and intake manifold. I don't think it'll work for fuel-injected engines, and now almost all engines are fuel-injected.
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  34. Just remember, it's the government "protecting you" that gave us cars that suck and are unreliable.
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  35.  @oldbloke204  I'm pretty small-footprint, myself, because I arranged my life and my job that way. I drive ICE vehicle, but pretty infrequently. I just really like having it when I need or want to take a trip or do some work or towing, especially in deep cold or high heat. As someone doing "green" his own way, I see the EPA and other government agencies as an obstacle to living greener. Making you buy a new vehicle rather than fixing the one(s) you have is a HUGE burden on available resources and the environment. It's the height of irony that the people pretending to save the planet are the ones pushing disposable durable goods on us.
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  36.  @TGWazoo1  If we're going EV to solve climate change, a vehicle whose exhaust is hot water vapor is spuming greenhouse gases of much more potency and at a very high rate.
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  37.  @walnutkraken9430  Much ado, signifying nothing. Almost like it's a scam!
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  38.  @glumpy10  Most people simply can't afford them.
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  39. In the USA you can't buy an efficient compact pickup truck, because they don't get good enough gas mileage for their wheelbase, but you CAN buy a gas-guzzling mid-sized or full-sized pickup truck that gets much worse mileage, because under EPA rules, vehicles will longer and wider wheelbases don't have to comply with the restriction. This isn't about saving the planet. This is about tyranny of the bureaucracy.
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  40. You throw out one set of scoundrels only to bring in a new set of scoundrels. UK is f****d.
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  41. Big semi's are pretty stinky, but their stacks are way up high. What I hate is getting stuck behind a diesel passenger vehicle in stop-and-go traffic.
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  42. $800 is ridiculously low cost for a new/rebuilt engine. The people pushing EVs are also trying to make it harder and harder to repair ICE vehicles.
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  43.  @Noah_E  Yes. And it's all done in the name of saving the planet. What would really save the planet is cars that last a long time and are easy to repair. But the environmental hypocrites want you to buy a new car every 4 or 5 years (or less).
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  44.  @glumpy10  That's rarely the reason something is successful or not. Look at all the people who think animal fats are bad and seed oils are great, to this day.
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  45. Back in your day, people voted to put the federal government in charge of everything. All the crap you're seeing now is downstream of that.
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