by "MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
Published 05/25/2017 at 13:42
by "MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
Published 05/25/2017 at 13:42
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Oh, and sell the car makers that are slow to adapt too, given there will be no more petrol or diesel cars, buses and trucks sold anywhere in the world within 8 years. Which also means no more car dealers by 2024.
From here
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
05/25/2017 at 13:47, STARS: 4
They are super optimistic about technology advancements and adoption rates.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
05/25/2017 at 13:48, STARS: 0
The run-on sentence cancels out the sentence fragment that follows it.
1.5+0.5=2
"PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
05/25/2017 at 13:49, STARS: 6
Become an economist, create your own reality.
"Sweet Trav" (thespunbearing)
05/25/2017 at 13:51, STARS: 2
Tony Seba is a fool.
"CB" (jrcb)
05/25/2017 at 13:52, STARS: 1
What lunatic wrote this article? “No more gas or diesel within 8 years”? Are they insane? And we’ll still (unfortunately) have dealers to sell electric cars.
"yamahog" (yamahog)
05/25/2017 at 13:53, STARS: 7
Oh jeez I was about to be like “hey not cool, don’t link FP shit” assuming that something of that caliber could only come from a kinja comment section and whew was I wrong!
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
05/25/2017 at 13:54, STARS: 3
Whenever you see crap like this, there’s about a 99% chance that the guy has an enormous vested interest in what he’s saying. I’d bet $ that he’s shorting oil stocks and is investing heavily in Tesla and other startups doing what he’s hawking.
"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
05/25/2017 at 13:58, STARS: 0
Yea. Considering car designs take about 4 years to complete this assumes car makers are completely abandoning gas in 4 years. That’s not even touching on trucks and buses either. I thought this was a joke at first
"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
05/25/2017 at 13:59, STARS: 0
I mean I like the $25 oil part of his reality, but definitely not the electric only vehicle part
"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
05/25/2017 at 14:03, STARS: 2
I know we’ll have no choice but to abandon oil but within 8 years? No chance. As for the dealer part, why does moving to other energy sources mean the instant death of dealers? Just because Tesla is doing it doesn’t mean everyone else will.
"PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
05/25/2017 at 14:03, STARS: 4
To continue the bad jokes.
The plane taking this year’s Nobel Prize winners off to Stockholm is forced to ditch in the North Sea, leaving the laureates in Chemistry, Physics and Economics stranded on a small uninhabited island. All they can salvage from the wreckage is a very large can of soup.
Each proposes a method to open it based on his own notable expertise. The physicist recommends heating it until the can begins to swell. The chemist agrees and starts looking for phosphorus and sulfur to make a crude match to start a fire. The economist waves them off: “Let’s just assume we have a can opener”.
"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
05/25/2017 at 14:04, STARS: 2
Yea, I thought I was reading a satire piece and kept waiting for a punchline
"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
05/25/2017 at 14:04, STARS: 1
I just had this conversation on the FP yesterday. Seba is a crackpot, who has been wrong for more than a decade.
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
05/25/2017 at 14:05, STARS: 2
I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
05/25/2017 at 14:08, STARS: 0
I’ve never heard of Seba before, but good lord is this assessment of his terrible. And he’s a freaking professor, how do his students take him seriously?
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
05/25/2017 at 14:09, STARS: 1
I’ll go you one better. Lobectomy.
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
05/25/2017 at 14:12, STARS: 0
BTW - go look at his company (RethinkX). It’s a think tank. Look at the website - any guess as to where their money is coming from? I think we can both guess that pretty easily...
"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
05/25/2017 at 14:18, STARS: 1
Here’s another good joke from that site, a book by Seba
Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030
"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
05/25/2017 at 14:20, STARS: 1
The blog post titled “Is Teslas Lead Bigger Than We Think” told me all that I need to know.
There is no such thing as an “independent think tank”. They all get their money from someone with an agenda to push.
"RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2)
05/25/2017 at 14:29, STARS: 1
Those who can, do ... those who can’t, teach
etc etc
"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
05/25/2017 at 14:31, STARS: 0
When you read that just remember 1 in 5 people have mental issues.