If there’s anything that makes me want to punch people in the face it’s the Green Party. And by people I mean members of the Green Party. I wouldn’t be so enraged by them that I started punching random strangers, I have some measure of self-control, you know.
Looking at this morning’s paper makes me want to punch Green Party members in the face. There’s Eamon fucking Ryan, the Greena Fáil cunt himself, grinning like a mule hanging out of the window of an electric car. The government have announced grants and VRT exemptions for anyone who wants to buy one of these vehicles.
Conceptually electric cars offend me – they’re just slightly fancier golf buggies. And even though the ESB have announced a nationwide chain of charging points I remain unconvinced. Firstly, how long does it take to charge a battery? Ages. And secondly, they only have a range of 160km. And that’s with a brand new battery. Like any device, be it phone, camera or golf buggy, the more you use it the worse the battery life becomes.
So you’ll have people who can’t get too far from home hanging around for ages plugging their cars into electric sockets then waiting around until they’ve got enough charge to limp to the next charging point.
Is this supposed to be progress?
In the 21st century the best we can come up with is battery powered cars? Give me a fucking break. We can explore space to try and harness the awesome potential of dark matter and all other stuff that powers our universe and the best they can come up with is a big battery. What a pack of cunts.
If someone had come up with the flying car or the transporter or the personal spacecraft then give them all the grants they need. Even if Greena Fáil had announced that I’d have to admit this was something worth a reluctant pat on the back but this is a load of crap and no mistake.
I hope Eamon Ryan is knocked down by John Gormley driving one of these ridiculous things. Not killed. That would going too far. Just intensely maimed.
Electric cars, another giant swizz by the climate change spoofing eco-industry cartels. Get fucked.
I hope Eamon Ryan is knocked down by John Gormley driving one of these ridiculous things. Not killed. That would going too far. Just intensely maimed.
Electric cars, another giant swizz by the climate change spoofing eco-industry cartels. Get fucked.
Classic.
And how true. Where do they get most of this electricity? By burning fossil fuel.
I actually voted for this waster way back, whenever he first ran for the Dáil. Thought he was an alternative to the FF FG crowd who always got in back home. Last time I ever voted I think.
Currently in England. Might vote next month.
And when we have exhausted our supplies of fossil fuels, we can use nuclear power stations to generate the electricity.
Wonder what the crybaby cunt will think of that one.
You’re miles off the mark here, Twenty. Electric powered automobiles, even using the most CO2 intensive coal produced electricity, produce half the emissions of gasoline powered automobiles.
Cite:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_cars#Carbon_dioxide_emissions
So, by all means hate the Greens for being spineless suck-up cunts. But don’t hate them for supporting the one good thing I’ve seen our Govt. suggest in about 80 years.
Who gives a fish’s tit about emissions when you’re stuck for two hours waiting for your car to recharge?
Electric cars have no impact in reducing toxins. even if all of ireland was to use em… As benificial as the chewing gum tax.
Athlone will become a busy town again.
Eventually, the technology will improve and it will work, just as present day cars evolved from the original “horseless carriages”.
Today, we have poxy 160km shitboxes with Eamon Ryan in them, tomorrow – personal jetpacks!
This
http://www.hostedfile.com/videos/5734/simpsons-electric-car.html
“Who gives a fish’s tit about emissions when you’re stuck for two hours waiting for your car to recharge?”… in Kilbeggan.
Then you have a pint, while you’re waiting, like. And another, since it takes an age. Meanwhile the queue at the socket lengthens, and violence erupts. So the guards are called, and the member-in-charge (c) comes into the pub looking for you to move your car…
“Sorry Guard, I’m over the limit.”
If I was a publican anywhere near a main road in the middle of the country I’d have multiple charging outlets installed tomorrow.
Couldn’t you just run an extension cord inside – get a plugboard and do four cars at a time?
And big heh at the Simpson’s car. Funny coz true.
Battery technology must seriously improve for this to work. The size and weight of the battery bank in these cars must equal that of the chasis or body alone. What about servicing of the cars etc? Nuclear power must become a serious contender in the next couple of decades for this country. I get the feeling that the greens are jumping on a bandwagon
And apparently you lease the battery from the manufacturer. What a load of shit.
Are you puling my leg?
About what?
Leasing the battery
Nope, from the article.
The issue of the battery has not yet been resolved though it is likely to add between €80 and €100 a month to the cost of an electric vehicle if it is leased separately. However, the cost of electricity will be one-fifth that of petrol or diesel. The electric cars will have a range of up to 160km.
Fuck you, Deputy Stagg.
If people started using these things,pedestrian road deaths and car accidents would increase..
Its called Silent Death,it sounds cool but if you are the one thats cunted in the bastard by a Toyota Meek,it wouldnt be that cool…
“The issue of the battery has not yet been resolved though it is likely to add between €80 and €100 a month to the cost of an electric vehicle if it is leased separately.”
What kind of scamming bollocks is that? Leasing, bits of a car, like the fuel tank?
Incidentally, can you push/hill start an electric car?
Absolute cunts. The electricity to fill the battery is cheap enough, for now, but you may have to pay monthly for the battery pack. Thats ridiculous, the running costs are going to be the same, if not more, than internal combustion engines for a big percentage of the population. I bet you won’t be allowed to use a spurious battery pack in one of those cars, it will prob have to be manufacturer only. Is it just a money spinner?
From reading the article you could be forgiven that there is a huge amount of technology in these battery packs. There isn’t. Its just a couple of hundred lap-top batteries bundled together with a control unit attached. What a load of cock
Its not cars they should be focusing on, there are better ways of reducing emmissions (and lowering the birth rate among these smug fucks): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgDhDa4HHo
The only good Green is green diesel.
The first generation of every new technology always sucks. Remember the first generation iPhone? It sucked in the beginning, but two years after its first iteration you had GPS, the apps store, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA internet access, 32GB disk space, 3D graphics, double the processing power and even a cunting compass. All costing €399.
You have to give electric cars at the very least a decade to prove itself – after all even if you don’t believe in man-made climate change, you have to accept that fossil fuels will eventually run out.
Anybody using wikipedia as a reference is a twat.
And as for emissions – emissions are what made us great. We all started with an emission. Fucking luddites would have us all in donkey carts and listening to twats with bodhrans, piano accordions and acoutic guitars!
Of course the technology would be further along if the electric car hadn’t been killed off in the U.S.
Good documentary…..
‘Who Killed the Electric Car’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39K36Rw7LYc
A few points,
Firstly, you could never ‘run’ anyone over with an electric car, ‘push’ over maybe but never ‘run’ over.
Secondly, this is Ireland and sooner or later some pikey fucks are going to start illegally dumping their old batteries in ditches. Do you have any idea how much poisonous crap a battery releases when it starts to rot? A ruddy lot, that’s how much.
Thirdly, as you’ve mentioned Twenty, the extension cord will become the new siphon. It’ll take about two days for some clever cunt to figure out how to steal the electric from his nextdoor neighbour.
The solution is hydrogen. Powerful as fuck. Only produces humidity when it burns and it’s not like the Irish would even notice a bit more dampness in the air. And most importantly, the car explosions in Hollywood fillums would get even bigger and cooler. The only catch it that you’d probably need nuclear power to make the stuff in the first place. But it’s a small price to pay for enhanced movie pyrotechnics.
this shit that electric cars will get better with time is bollocks. We already have vehicles that work a lot better than the proposed alternative. So why are they introducing these cars when their practicality is way inferior to what we have already. 160KM? fuck that. Why can’t they wait until you can get 700-1000km off a full charge that shouldnt take more than 10-15mins. Thats practical. Until they do that they can get lost. money spinner.
Sellarfield, the answer to all our problems.
And remember – mutants are cool.
If you can have a wind-up radio, then surely natural progression is a bigger handle, and presto! All charged…
What about solar powered…oh, keep forgetting, Ireland. Sorry.
Hydrogen cars would be the bees knees alright. There are already electric cars that do 300km, why don’t these cars have that capacity? I think its drip feeding the technology, squeezing every last cent out of people. You can bet that the government will drop on a special tax on electricity used for cars, greedy fuckers. I can’t see batteries improving in a massive way, instead of giving grants of 11 million for electric cars why don’t they invest in developing the technology or alternatives, a better use of the money.
when i was growing up in crumlin our johnson mooney and o’brien bread man drove an electric van and that was back in the sixties.my we’ve come a long way ,eh? fuck eamon ryan but dont fuck minister stag, he might like it.
Eamon Ryan will like it, whether he likes it or not
A fucking former travel agent, what the fuck are we doing in this country?
Who holds back the electric car? Twenty!!
I did see a thing on the hydrogen car Honda have made, and all their various green plans, which look impressive. Would we really need nuclear power to make the fuel?
I love your maiming vision. But are you … mellowing?
What suffering is there in death, Jo.
SoS – we’d be going warp speed the last few days. It’s summer now. Should be over in a week or so.
The Japanese are working on a car that runs on baby whales and orphans.
What fun would there be in racing with electric engines ? Where would Nikki Lauda be if he had been driving an electric car ? Ok, refuelling might be fun in a downpour, but the odd zap can hardly compare with a fireball.
Jo – this is man talk.
Living in a city I don’t need a car at all. I did have a car and have had cars from work and all that but unless you live miles away from public transport there’s no need in london.
The reason there are thousands of cars clogging up London every morning is (a) the blasted school run and (b) people who won’t giev up their little bubble with the radio on inside.
The point being that in Dublin or London or any other built up area a car is not a necessity unless you are delivering a product.
Don’t know whether anyone has noticed but the move to ban cars from city centres is already under way.
Spot the extra bicycle racks being installed in the cities? Add the congestion charge to that and the lovely idea of cameras tracking your journey so you can pay a per mile charge is on the way in.
Do yourself a favour- honestly assess whether you need a car or not. You’ll save yourself a fortune if you can manage without.
I’m also a bit snotty with people who want a job in the city for the wages it pays but then also want to live out in the country.
Expectations are way out of whack in this regard-every friggin’ clerk wants to live like a lord- city during the week and country on weekends and evenings.
Is London still awash with Afghan MiniCab drivers ?
Yeah Cap’n. Public transport is great – if it weren’t for the gum chewers who always sit down beside you. Fucking warthogs.
Jo – you need a whole lot of energy to split the water molecule – producing hydrogen and oxygen (electrolysis). When you combine the hydrogen with oxygen again (i.e. burn it) the energy is released and can be used for propulsion. For the moment, the only such source of concentrated energy is nuclear, making it the only viable possibility.
Now if you really wanted that turbo feel, you could keep a tank of pure oxygen in the engine too and combine it directly with the hydrogen. A lot of fun, if you survive.
Hey Lung, that would certainly knock smoking in cars out of the picture … I like the ida of electricity only if you are allowed to have two leads kept separate on the dashboard.
Garda stops you you just wind down the window and clamp the leads to his lug holes (never a problem with any Garda I notice) and rev the engine.
Try reading a license plate while you are jerking around the road in spasm, fucker.
Reading Mary Shelley lately Cap’n?
Ah how times change.. they said milk was good for you, then it was bad and now its good again. They said I should get a hands-free cos I’m talking on the cell phone for too long while the titchy little battery is microwaving my brain. And I shouldn’t buy the house too close to the pylons for the same reason. Now I can sit in a box stuffed with batteries, surrounded by other people doing the same, in traffic for hours each day.
What’s a cell phone?
John Gilligan has one
Thanks, Lung.
Smiles to Twenty and maggot.
Right on Mosheen – whatever is convenient at the time is the best.
I’m curious if the heat in the car is provided by the warming of the batteries. Kind of like when yo talk on the phone for an hour and the back of the case is scalding hot. Is that the same theory for heating the cabin of your electric ride?
Do fish have tits?
A cellphone is an electronic device which connects through a cellular network. It permits people, sometimes great distances apart to converse almost magically. Some people call them ‘mobile’ phones although I personally have never seen one of them travel around on it’s own. Others call them ‘yokeybusses’ which, inmyview is perfectly acceptable. You can’t expect everybody to know everything.
When fuel cells are made to work effectively, electric cars will become realistic. Until then, more or less a joke for all the reasons about recharging. Then again, there are probably brilliant fuel cell technologies already, suppressed by the world’s great military organisations.
Fish tits are irrelevent. Barred.
Unless you have invented a car that runs on fish tits?
Cheer up folks, Bill Cullen has just been on Matt Cooper talking about how well the car sellers are doing. He also mentioned that he thinks the success of American hotels are down to paying people $40 a week and how he hates the fact that Irish people get 200 euro a week for doing nothing. This is from a cunt who cried like a bitch until the government gave him and his ilk the scrappage handout. Truly the Irish rich are a pathetic bunch. Bill’s a cunt, Jackie’s a cunt and they can shove the penny apples up their holes. Oh and the greens are cunts too.
Eclectic cars..
Oil be damned…
The Hotpress Journos will all be driving them….
No offence Mr Major but the greens are the least of our worries me oul china.
Electric Cars, this could be a good idea, if they came with electric chairs instead of seats & were test driven by all fucking Green party TD’s & members.
@Fluther good
I’m with you on Bill Cullen – twat of the Millenium. No doubt he’s in on the act … I believe these leccy cars are going to be supplied by Renault and as Bill ‘arse of me pants’ dickhead Cullen still owns 5 dealerships, it’s grand and dandy for the cunt.
The sooner he does his space thing the better. I hope something goes wrong, and Ireland becomes the first nation to put a permanently orbiting cunt in space.
I know people who’ve had to endure the cunt at after – dinner speeches. His ‘rags to riches’ story varies slightly every time. He got a bit of help on his ‘way up’ which he never mentions, too.
I take your point, Ibanez, but I just hate them.
Just been to Surrey in England, got myself a 4.2 Jaguar with all the bells and whistles, 80,000 miles, and a set of tyres for ice and snow conditions thrown in, £5000 dead cheap, so fuck the Greens and they’re Scalextrics fucking gimmicks, can you imagine the inside lane clogged up with those things, lorries and coaches with speed restrictions trying to overtake them.
Will Do, you’re going to pay a fortune in road tax on that baby. And all the breakdown and repair costs too because it is a Jag after all.
This is bound to catch on , just like segway did .
Fair play will do. I filled up with 140 litres of finest crude derivitive in my 4.7l landcruiser this morning for 40 yoyos and drove to Oman and back at 140kph. No scalectrix gonna do that. Are you people still on the island?