Thread: Is my Rangie more environmentally proper than a Prius?

Well! You should all know that engine evolution reached its peak in 1980-odd with the 3.9 Isuzu and all subsequent engines are worse, much worse. So engineers had better stop fussing around with electrons and stuff and just concentrate on finding more fossil fuel to turn into Isuzu smoke.

why? the suzi runs fine on vege oil, cooking oil, canola oil, peanut oil, hell it'd probably run on whale oil...

heres a thought....

if we can run an engine on vege oil, and vege oil comes from vegetables.. can we start abusing the vegetarians and vegans for eating the next tank of fuel...

alternatively...

if vege oil comes from vegetables, can we cripple all the vegetarians which will make them vegetables ripe for the crushing into the next tank of fuel...

I'm not seeing any downsides from this end.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

why the suzi runs fine on vege oil, cooking oil, canola oil, peanut oil, hell it'd probably run on whale oil...

heres a thought....

if we can run an engine on vege oil, and vege oil comes from vegetables.. can we start abusing the vegetarians and vegans for eating the next tank of fuel...

alternatively...

if vege oil comes from vegetables, can we cripple all the vegetarians which will make them vegetables ripe for the crushing into the next tank of fuel...

I'm not seeing any downsides from this end.

Oh, my world with less tofu. Yes please!

If carbon dioxide is the problem, when are we going to put a carbon tax on Coca-Cola?

Originally Posted by akelly

Good news mate - the carbon price is going to be the first step in fixing most of these issues! You must be pleased.

Care to expand on how EVs are 'contributing to a FASTER deterioration in our global environment'?

Do you have any idea what goes into a hybrid or EV? Do a Google on RARE EARTH MINERALS. Google the uses for platinum and other metals.

Then come and have a look at my farm where foreign (AUSTRALIAN) mining companies are raping the bush not 1000m from my house for minerals.

Go and have a look at countries like Zimbabwe and the Congo where unchecked mining is destroying the ecology.

Catch a wake-up, mate.

I can see NO error in Black Knight's logic!

Originally Posted by jakeslouw

...Then come and have a look at my farm where foreign (AUSTRALIAN) mining companies are raping the bush not 1000m from my house for minerals. ...

Would that be BHP Biliton? The Biliton is South African and is a merger with the Australian BHP which makes it a transnational with a joint listing on the London SE and the Australian SE.

We don't need to see what they are doing at your place, they are also tearing up our own bush and farmland, and Canada's bush and America's etc etc!

Attached is a GE image of the strip mining near my farm.

Note that the image is almost 6 months old, they've caused more damage since then.

This is less than 60kms from the Pretoria CBD.