Trucks run America. Heavy trucks move the stuff we buy and sell along the largest highway network in the world. They clean our streets, control our disasters, fight our fires, and rush to our rescue during emergencies.
-WiscoDave
Friday, May 19, 2023
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Progressives hate America and its culture.They will do anything everything to destroy the country in order to control the ashes. According to Elon Musk Soros despises all humanity and he sees funding the Progressives in their efforts as a positive.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia: The Breadbasket of America. Good luck maintaining that title without diesel equipment and trucks to plant, harvest, process and transport the food produced here.
ReplyDeleteThe lunatics running this state are completely clueless as to how things work and are completely out of touch with reality in general.
And speaking of hairbrains:
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/harebrained-study-behind-gov-newsom-blaming-fossil-fuel-companies-for-california-wildfires/
The Californicators are trying very hard to get rid of the ability of California farmers and orchardists to provide food for the world by cutting off their water, so that the water can be either wasted / drained into the ocean or delivered to So Cal cities.
DeleteCal has not built a water retentikn project in 30+ years, and has removed many which had existed.
John in Indy
When I was a firefighter, we would sometimes be at a fire scene for days. 8 to 10 hours is not unheard of, and most fires mean at least 4 hours on scene. The fire pumps on those trucks, the hydraulic pumps that run the truck mounted ladders, and the air compressors that fill breathing air tanks all run from a power takeoff (PTO) on the diesel fire trucks' transmissions. What happens to emergency operations when fire trucks run out of battery power?
ReplyDeleteI have a question regarding aerial fire fighting in Newsom's Carbon Neutral California-
DeleteHow will you fly your CalFire fleet of 15 OV-10 Broncos, 26 S2Ts, 7 C-130s and the 20 plus Sikorsky S70i FireHawk and Super Huey helicopters on batteries?
Take your time, Gavie. I'll wait for an answer.
Amateurs discuss tactics, professionals plan logistics.
ReplyDeleteHow much diesel would it take to run 450 40' trailers from, say New York to Miami? It takes about 8000 gallons to do it in a tug pulling a roll-on roll-off barge that can carry that much, but it would take a couple of days. Still, figure without the over-the-road tax, fuel's $3 a gallon or so, and you only need 5 guys to do the job with a boat costing anywhere from $500,000 to $5 million depending on age. Plenty of 40-60 year old tugboats working in the US. Crowley shipping uses those trailer barges sent from Houston, Jacksonville and Philly once a week to handle most of Puerto Rico's import/export trade. There's too much resistance by the Teamsters to do this from port-to-port within the US, though. Considering that the actual cost of moving by water is 10 times cheaper than rail and 100 times cheaper than over-the-road, this is a damn shame. Roll on/Roll off trailer barges can get to both coasts and the inland rivers and cut tractor-trailer traffic by about 80%.
ReplyDeleteMy pre-EPA Kenworth got right at 6 miles per gallon running in the mountains of California. Your mileage may vary, but that's probably a pretty solid figure to calculate the fuel required to run state to state.
DeleteThanks to the Jones Act, that barge and the tug moving it would have to be made in the USA, with an American crew, and chances are there is no such pair of ships. The Jones Act was supposed to keep American shipyards in business, but it failed at that - for most types of merchant ship, if you need it this year, you can't buy American-made anymore. If you can wait while it's built, American-made is possible, but costs a lot more. Our shipyards aren't getting enough business to run efficiently or keep up with the non-military technological advances.
DeleteIt was also supposed to protect unionized American jobs on ship crews, but aside from the Great Lakes, it failed even at that.
With the end of diesel you can look down the road and see the 15 Minute Cities waiting...
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/mr1ivj5rxiE
ReplyDeleteThe white line is the life line for the nation.
Loved the show when I was a kid.
And then there's the fact that the Kenworth was gorgeous, back in the days of tube type wheels.
DeleteThe fact that Merle Haggard sang the theme song was a mighty big plus, too.
I really liked Frank Converse and wondered why his career fizzled out.
Everyone seemed to agree that Claude Akins was one of the nicest guys in Hollywood.