Archive for 2023

EXTINGUISH? YOU KEEP USING THAT WORD…: Best Way to Extinguish a Flaming Electric Vehicle? Let It Burn.

Electric cars combust differently than their gas-powered counterparts. Firefighters and researchers said EV fires last longer, are harder to put out and have a tendency to reignite.

First responders in Franklin, Tenn., faced their first burning EV in September, a Nissan Leaf that ignited while charging outside the car maker’s North America headquarters. They spent hours pouring 45,000 gallons of water on the car, compared with the 500 to 1,000 gallons that fires involving gasoline-powered vehicles usually need, Fire Marshal Andy King said.

“I think if we were faced with a similar scenario next time, we might need to let it burn,” he said.

Nissan said it is investigating the cause of the fire.

We’ve seen stories like this one before and we’ll see a lot more of them.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Never Mind the Economy — It’s Abortion, Stupid. “Now that abortion is set to be codified in Michigan and Ohio, we can anticipate Republican victories in these crucial states in 2024. Abortion ghouls have won the “right” to resort to abortion as birth control, and they just may stay home and get high on election day next year. Their greatest battle is won.”

AMERICAN VOTERS ARE BETTER INFORMED THAN JOE BIDEN AND ALL OF HIS SO-CALLED FOREIGN POLICY EXPERTISE: U.S. Voters Back Netanyahu, Reject Calls for Gaza Ceasefire. “Most American voters view Benjamin Netanyahu favorably and more than two-thirds agree with the Israeli prime minister’s rejection of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.”

OUR ELITES FAVOR HAMAS, BUT THE NORMALS DON’T: Rasmussen: Most Americans Reject Cease-Fire in Gaza.

Of course, the central organizing principle of the last several decades has been to assure that the elites get what they want while the normals don’t.

GOVERNMENTS IN ALL OF AFRICA SUCK. MR. BEAST IS QUIXOTIC AND I DOUBT HIS EFFORTS MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE IN THE LONG RUN, BUT THEY CERTAINLY DON’T HURT ANYTHING:  Why some are really mad at Mr. Beast.