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No, but he was the one licking his lips.

That's because of the post right before yours. No one has a clue, nor have they been telling any of these climate fools, about the actual amount of time, energy, and FOSSIL FUELS it takes to create one battery.

Did a little riding the last 3 days. Found myself $4.19 premium, so I filled it up. W/nte out with some other washed up hacks like me on Saturday and re-discovered what I refer to as "Steve-O's Drop", at 80ish mph. Probably one more weekend of riding next weekend. Just not sure where yet.

I'm going to celebrate tonight. I just completed, for the first time in my life, a season with no damage to the machine. Not even a scratch.

Government spending is “reducing the national debt”? What an absolute fucking moron

Whetstone Gulf, Tug Hill

Nobody gives a fuck about Covid anymore. Move on already.

From FB…. David and Goliath... A hardy ice fisherman braving the cold in front of the Canada Steamship Lines Frontenac in Owen Sound harbour.

When you burp, it's nothing but penis breath.

What odds. Pieces of shit.

Think my season is done, expect it was my last ride on the Assault. Was super hard to drive by ERX on Friday and see sleds flying in the air and not stop. Managed a hair under 500mi this weekend though which is a nice end to the season. Friday night we were out at -27F and Sunday it was 33F. Quite the swing. As usual, I didn't stop long enough to even think about pics but remembered right as I was loading up to go home. Love my CKX Carbon Titan. NO air leaks and wore a faceless balaclava even at -27F. No fogging either as expected.

Dumstad forgets that battery tech will change. If you could have 200mi of range it would functionally resolve 99.9% of buyers needs. That is coming and sooner than later. Will also mean for shorter times the weight penalty is less. Today I don't want one, but am sure I will see a day where that will be different.

Brandon give 86 billion worth of weapons to the Taliban. Giving this much to Russia shouldn't be a big deal

a rxc with electric start? ...pussies...

There is no winner here. People will die from battle or sanctions. The UN should have stepped in there and drew a line in the sand and protected the people of Ukraine.

This is an excellent breakdown. Batteries, they do not make electricity – they store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators. So, to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid. Also, since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered, do you see?" Einstein's formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car. There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single-use. The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium, silver oxide, or zinc and carbon to store electricity chemically. Please note they all contain toxic, heavy metals. Rechargeable batteries only differ in their internal materials, usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and nickel-cadmium. The United States uses three billion of these two battery types a year, and most are not recycled; they end up in landfills. California is the only state which requires all batteries be recycled. If you throw your small, used batteries in the trash, here is what happens to them. All batteries are self-discharging. That means even when not in use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a flashlight or two from an old, ruptured battery. When a battery runs down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead; well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity. As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the battery's metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill. In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about those is, ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do not yet know how to recycle single-use ones properly. But that is not half of it. For those of you excited about electric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at batteries and also windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we call environmentally destructive production costs. A typical EV battery weighs one thousand pounds, about the size of a travel trunk. It contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells. It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth's crust for just - one - battery." Sixty-eight percent of the world's cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls, and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?" I'd like to leave you with these thoughts. California is building the largest battery in the world near San Francisco, and they intend to power it from solar panels and windmills. They claim this is the ultimate in being 'green,' but it is not. This construction project is creating an environmental disaster. Let me tell you why. The main problem with solar arrays is the chemicals needed to process silicate into the silicon used in the panels. To make pure enough silicon requires processing it with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone. In addition, they also need gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium- diselenide, and cadmium-telluride, which also are highly toxic. Silicon dust is a hazard to the workers, and the panels cannot be recycled. Windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and environmental destruction. Each weighs 1688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass, and the hard to extract rare earths neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be replaced. We cannot recycle used blades. There may be a place for these technologies, but you must look beyond the myth of zero emissions. "Going Green" may sound like the Utopian ideal but when you look at the hidden and embedded costs realistically with an open mind, you can see that Going Green is more destructive to the Earth's environment than meets the eye, for sure.

worst attack since Pearl Harbor! Worse than 9/11! Invasion of the cell phones and Quanon horn hat guy! If the federal government is to ever regain the trust of the American citizens, the next Republican president needs to clean house big time from the top down at the CIA, DOJ, FBI, IRS and any other agency who seems to have forgotten how this government is supposed to work.

You are far to fucking stupid to understand anything that’s going on...fucking retard

And no nukes landing on ya. So lets recap last week it was " In these trying times I will stay with the family and loved ones " This week " wait what , nukes? Fuck that noise , Im outa here "

Yeah working on it . Dnr only has voice-mail on weekends . Best I cam find on dnr site is 125 fine . I think we as a club can bill him direct for fixing damage and poss lean his property if he refuses to pay . Have to chat with some lawyer buds . This guy is a real pos or just a typical cop same thing . I have been nose to nose with this fucker a few times. The kind of fuck who just stands there wishing you would kick his ass .

Sweet weekend on the trails. This might be it after today….

Another 120 or so. Peak riding season. Beautiful day