(07-27-2017, 04:54 PM)BIAD Wrote: You're right, I mean look at the headlights on it.
Those are the eyes of a sexy, yearning partner who wants to take a journey with you!!
Big fins, bullet brake-lights and sh*tty gas mileage... I wanna go back!
I saw a couple of weeks ago where "electric cars are the wave of the future". It mentioned that either Saab or Volvo - I can't recall which, and all Swedes look the same to me, even the Arab ones - are moving away from building fossil-fuel powered cars altogether in favor of electric cars, and the US auto industry was expected to follow suit, with the entire conversion to be complete between 2020 and 2040, coincidentally enough.
Fine by me. I was looking for an excuse to buy a horse and get my "horse power" right from the source anyhow. Additionally, I've found through life that a hungry person will seldom walk more than 3 days distance from their home base, and there aren't any cities within 3 days walk of here, meaning that when the Apocalypse comes, I'll have to shoot fewer marauding starving city hordes trying to invade the hinterlands out here and take our stuff.
But the ones I DO have to shoot, I'll be able to shoot from horseback, a decided advantage over their horselessness (ya don't find many pastures, or horses, in cities these days).
I dunno. Maybe I'm just a "glass half full" kind of guy, but I'm seeing advantages here, and it looks like a win-win to me!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’