Layoffs at Ford Motor company

[Salty]

Ford to lay off workers as it focuses on electric vehicles | CNN Business

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Ford to lay off workers as it focuses on electric vehicles | CNN Business

Yea, 9.2 billon dollars loan to ford by the tax payers to float their electrical battery initiatives

 

[Bible Thumpin n Gun Totin]

EVs don't work outside of the coastal "urban-opolises".

I think it's a very dumb idea.

 

[Van]

Yes, many are running about, arms in the air, shouting "the sky is falling."

Imagine being a radiator designer, or a hydraulics system designer, or a muffler and catalytic converter designer? It is a good thing gas stations have mini-marts because when you pull in to use the restrooms, and clean the windshield, the owners can make a living on selling goodies and necessaries. Does anyone really think a rapid charging system is beyond our design capacity, with a recharge in less than 20 minutes?

Foam filled tires will do away with air or nitrogen leaks.

The times, they are a changin...

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

EVs don't work outside of the coastal "urban-opolises".

I think it's a very dumb idea.

And you as a tax payer are funding it!

 

[KenH]

If the federal government was not heavily subsidizing electric vehicles, then electric vehicles would be scarcer than they already are.

 

[Bible Thumpin n Gun Totin]

And you as a tax payer are funding it!

That explains why 35% to 40% of my paycheck disappears each time.

And don't get me started on how I have to pay the government 20% of what I make off selling my livestock.

I draw the water out of the creek by hand.
I raise each chick/poult by hand.
I'm out there in the middle of a rain storm putting tarps and pine shavings down for the biddies.
Then my family and I work 18 hour days, 2 days in a row to butcher a flock.
But the government somehow deserves 30% of that labor?

 

[Bible Thumpin n Gun Totin]

Does anyone really think a rapid charging system is beyond our design capacity, with a recharge in less than 20 minutes?

Yes, yes it is. I think so, and many other folks that don't live in the urban hives on the coasts of the U.S think so.

My electric utility, just the past year, upgraded my community's 1 electrical line on 20ft tall poles to the "brand new" (yet standard in urban areas) 3 line power poles that are at least 30ft tall. We got cell service for the first time 2 years ago, but it still doesn't work in the house. The Church down the road from me, and one of my neighbors, both still have outhouses instead of plumbing and over 50% of the roads in my fire district are unpaved, 1 lane, blind curve roads. And we routinely get power losses from beavers cutting trees down onto the lines.

So a rapid charging system is not possible where I live, nor where the vast majority of the land mass of the U.S is and the government forcing blue collar, rural people into funding EV cars for coastal elites is a scam.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Yes, yes it is. I think so, and many other folks that don't live in the urban hives on the coasts of the U.S think so.

My electric utility, just the past year, upgraded my community's 1 electrical line on 20ft tall poles to the "brand new" (yet standard in urban areas) 3 line power poles that are at least 30ft tall. We got cell service for the first time 2 years ago, but it still doesn't work in the house. The Church down the road from me, and one of my neighbors, both still have outhouses instead of plumbing and over 50% of the roads in my fire district are unpaved, 1 lane, blind curve roads. And we routinely get power losses from beavers cutting trees down onto the lines.

So a rapid charging system is not possible where I live, nor where the vast majority of the land mass of the U.S is and the government forcing blue collar, rural people into funding EV cars for coastal elites is a scam.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

You are in the woods literally. What do you people do for a hospital medical attention…especially in an emergency?

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

That explains why 35% to 40% of my paycheck disappears each time.

And don't get me started on how I have to pay the government 20% of what I make off selling my livestock.

I draw the water out of the creek by hand.
I raise each chick/poult by hand.
I'm out there in the middle of a rain storm putting tarps and pine shavings down for the biddies.
Then my family and I work 18 hour days, 2 days in a row to butcher a flock.
But the government somehow deserves 30% of that labor?

My family did the same, they raised livestock and had to family run grocery stores and butchered their poultry, sheep & cattle. Plus my great grandfather had a 400 acre dairy farm…and they churned their butter& cheese, plowed the fields using two sets of plow horses the old fashioned way… and he owned a business pumping out coal mines in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. That man ran out of Eastern Europe chased by Commies with dogs so he worked for every bit of freedom he could squeeze out of this country. When I talk about the preeminent I always refer to him because he earned it by sweat & hard work & intelligence.

So keep up the hard work and you strike me as educated and you use your brains and have a moral character…good but don’t die in a fire or have some drug addict kill ya in a drugged out stupor when your trying to help him. Keep your priorities straight I.E. God first, Wife and family next. Be well!

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

If the federal government was not heavily subsidizing electric vehicles, then electric vehicles would be scarcer than they already are.

I’m banking on RFK Jr., to stop all this insanity

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

My family did the same, they raised livestock and had to family run grocery stores and butchered their poultry, sheep & cattle. Plus my great grandfather had a 400 acre dairy farm…and they churned their butter& cheese, plowed the fields using two sets of plow horses the old fashioned way… and he owned a business pumping out coal mines in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. That man ran out of Eastern Europe chased by Commies with dogs so he worked for every bit of freedom he could squeeze out of this country. When I talk about the preeminent I always refer to him because he earned it by sweat & hard work & intelligence.

So keep up the hard work and you strike me as educated and you use your brains and have a moral character…good but don’t die in a fire or have some drug addict kill ya in a drugged out stupor when your trying to help him. Keep your priorities straight I.E. God first, Wife and family next. Be well!

One last thing, something I should of heeded in my younger days…. Those happiest ppl in life make it home for dinner. There will always be more that can be done. Time block your priorities and end the day guilt free. Be well brother.

 

[Bible Thumpin n Gun Totin]

You are in the woods literally. What do you people do for a hospital medical attention…especially in an emergency?

If it's really dire (heart attack, stroke, traumatic injury, breathing problems) we setup landing zones in various hay fields and mountain tops and then we direct in medical choppers while stabilizing the patient. We load up the patient and they fly to Johnson City, TN or Winston-Salem, NC for treatment.

If it's a minor injury like broken bones, sick call, etc then the nearest ALS ambulance comes from 30mins to 1hr away and then transports to the nearest hospital, which is another 45mins to 1.5hrs away.

In other cases there's nothing we can do. CPR for example is almost always futile in our fire district because of the remoteness, but we still have to try. I've done it dozens of times by hand, with a lucas device and running a BVM while doing compressions and it has never produced a good outcome, but we're legally required to do it.

 

[Van]

Yes, yes it is. I think so, and many other folks that don't live in the urban hives on the coasts of the U.S think so.

My electric utility, just the past year, upgraded my community's 1 electrical line on 20ft tall poles to the "brand new" (yet standard in urban areas) 3 line power poles that are at least 30ft tall. We got cell service for the first time 2 years ago, but it still doesn't work in the house. The Church down the road from me, and one of my neighbors, both still have outhouses instead of plumbing and over 50% of the roads in my fire district are unpaved, 1 lane, blind curve roads. And we routinely get power losses from beavers cutting trees down onto the lines.

So a rapid charging system is not possible where I live, nor where the vast majority of the land mass of the U.S is and the government forcing blue collar, rural people into funding EV cars for coastal elites is a scam.

If you are claiming power is not available above 480V, I am incredulous.

 

[Bible Thumpin n Gun Totin]

If you are claiming power is not available above 480V, I am incredulous.

No, I am claiming that the U.S is a vast country and at least 80% of the land mass is extremely rural with not enough infrastructure to support charging stations of any kind, fast or not fast.

 

[Van]

No, I am claiming that the U.S is a vast country and at least 80% of the land mass is extremely rural with not enough infrastructure to support charging stations of any kind, fast or not fast.

Back in the day (1950's and 60's) the financing structure of electrical utilities allow them to expand with additional generation, transmission and distribution facilities to meet the rapidly expanding demands of the post war years. We could return to that system and easily build the infrastructure needed to transition to EV's.

 

[JonC]

Our site has several electric and hybrid vehicles. But now we can't use them.

Found out yesterday. No electric or hybrid vehicles within the gate at DOE nuclear facilities. They don't catch on fire more than combustion engine vehicles, but when they do they burn too hot and are difficult to extinguish.

 

[percho]

It will not matter. Watch the video in thread, A little of this and a little of that, by Glen Beck. Future?

Jesus gave the answer when the disciples ask him, "Lord teach us to pray".