On a scale of 1 to "are you currently undergoing a lobotomy", how wrong is this statement?

"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
05/25/2017 at 13:42 • Filed to: None

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.

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DISCUSSION (21)

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 13:47

They are super optimistic about technology advancements and adoption rates.

benjrblant > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 13:48

The run-on sentence cancels out the sentence fragment that follows it.

1.5+0.5=2

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 13:49

Become an economist, create your own reality.

Sweet Trav > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 13:51

Tony Seba is a fool.

CB > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 13:52

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 > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 13:53

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 > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 13:54

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 > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
05/25/2017 at 13:58

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 > PotbellyJoe and 42 others
05/25/2017 at 13:59

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. > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 14:03

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 and 42 others
05/25/2017 at 14:03

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 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
05/25/2017 at 14:04

Yea, I thought I was reading a satire piece and kept waiting for a punchline

Tekamul > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 14:04

I just had this conversation on the FP yesterday. Seba is a crackpot, who has been wrong for more than a decade.

CalzoneGolem > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 14:05

I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Tekamul
05/25/2017 at 14:08

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 > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 14:09

I’ll go you one better. Lobectomy.

WilliamsSW > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 14:12

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 > WilliamsSW
05/25/2017 at 14:18

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 > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 14:20

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 > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 14:29

Those who can, do ... those who can’t, teach

etc etc

Dave the car guy , still here > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/25/2017 at 14:31

When you read that just remember 1 in 5 people have mental issues.