Canada PLANS increased cuts to carbon emissions to 40% by 2030
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I was home for about 5 minutes & then stuff happened, but here’s the rest of the earlier punchline:
I supposedly have a 70L tank, and it was just touching the bottom side of 1/4…& $92 later it was full. Our little SUV also has a 70L tank.
Tonight Between posts, aside from dealing with two different broke down truckers, I helped some new neighbours with some second hand furniture they purchased online. Nice folks from China via Mexico.
Add .20 per litre and you get what I payed today in lalaland .
Now, I bought the above pick up for $900… Nine Years Ago…. As a temporary fill-in between vehicles (hit a porcupine with a PT Cruiser in a rainstorm at about 5:30am one morning commuting to a gravel pit). 9 years later, with basic maintenance, it just won’t quit. I googled, & there’s no such thing as a used electric pick up truck in Saskatchewan.
We use it (the Dakota Power-Pig) for hauling rocks & dirt, garbage runs, & I commute in it to & from work 5 days a week, home for lunch, and a general purpose utility vehicle (I had to pull out a scrap tool box & 125’ of scrap 3/8” winch cable that ended up in the box over the last week. It’s also my work truck, & communal furniture hauler, & and what I use to boost everything through our prairie winters ‘cuz it has almost nothing for electronics to fry if power back feeds (it’s still carbureted even!!).
The least expensive bottom end electric pick up truck (none available new or used in SK) is supposedly the Tesla Cybertruck that supposedly going to be $50,000 CAD with a smaller cargo capacity & range (under idle conditions for a battery powered vehicle) than what I already have, with higher insurance and maintenance costs. How long would I have to own a Tesla Cybertruck for it to financially balance off against what I currently already own? http://www.canadadrives.ca/blog/car-guide/best-cheapest-electric-trucks
(I’m really doubting the $50,000.00 entry level price tag above too by the way.) A Cybertruck couldn’t do 1/2 of what the Dakota currently does (like boosting a freightliner or Kenworth, or hauling 1500 pounds of crushed gravel per load), but it does cost more than 50 times as much and will be just as disposable in 10 years when the battery is pooched.
The irony is that in 10 years disposing of the Dakota will probably leave less of an environmental footprint than disposing of a tesla cyber truck with it batteries.
We use it (the Dakota Power-Pig) for hauling rocks & dirt, garbage runs, & I commute in it to & from work 5 days a week, home for lunch, and a general purpose utility vehicle (I had to pull out a scrap tool box & 125’ of scrap 3/8” winch cable that ended up in the box over the last week. It’s also my work truck, & communal furniture hauler, & and what I use to boost everything through our prairie winters ‘cuz it has almost nothing for electronics to fry if power back feeds (it’s still carbureted even!!).
The least expensive bottom end electric pick up truck (none available new or used in SK) is supposedly the Tesla Cybertruck that supposedly going to be $50,000 CAD with a smaller cargo capacity & range (under idle conditions for a battery powered vehicle) than what I already have, with higher insurance and maintenance costs. How long would I have to own a Tesla Cybertruck for it to financially balance off against what I currently already own? http://www.canadadrives.ca/blog/car-guide/best-cheapest-electric-trucks
(I’m really doubting the $50,000.00 entry level price tag above too by the way.) A Cybertruck couldn’t do 1/2 of what the Dakota currently does (like boosting a freightliner or Kenworth, or hauling 1500 pounds of crushed gravel per load), but it does cost more than 50 times as much and will be just as disposable in 10 years when the battery is pooched.
The irony is that in 10 years disposing of the Dakota will probably leave less of an environmental footprint than disposing of a tesla cyber truck with it batteries.