Gary Varvel for September 29, 2020

If Varvel bothered to read the future plans of car manufacturers, he’d learn (!) that most of them expect to be selling a lot of electrics by then. A d****d shame we didn’t start down this path in Ronnie’s time, instead of ripping out the solar panels on the White House installed by Mr Carter. Maybe he thinks that it won’t matter to him when he’s 78, but he ought to consider his grandchildren at least.

When all the news looks grim for your guy, come up with some ridiculous distraction.

I’ll bet when automobiles started replacing carriages and horses, Varvel would have drawn some image of a wooden hobby horse to protest, and when oil wells replaced whale oil, he would have drawn some equally ridiculous image.

The gas-powered vehicle concept is over 120 years old and should have been innovated out of circulation decades ago. It’s the oil lobby that has stifled any such progress. Imagine of the Steam engine lobby and whalers had done that to oil business in it’s infancy.

One of the problems is the internal combustion engine. If you use external combustion, you still create CO₂ but you can avoid most of the more complex partial combustion products. And you can use the power very efficiently too. Of course you DO have to occasionally top off the water supply. Ah well. I’m sure battery tech will catch up to need real soon now.

varvel, just your speed. you are a dinosaur !!!

In other news, atmospheric CO2 levels are their highest in the last 3,000,000 years, the Arctic sea ice is at record lows and Arctic temperatures are at record highs.

My new hybrid Prius was $24000. That’s not even a high price for a car these days.

You only THINK you can’t afford an electric car… Theoretically speaking, a bit of creative accounting allows you to first have your child consult for your company on the purchase and then both the consulting charge and the actual car expense become a tax write off, and your company pays lower taxes, and that makes the purchase affordable.

Again, this is just theoretically speaking of course, caveat emptor, your actual results may vary, writer is not an accountant…

Best you come up with some new way to produce all electricity these new cars will need. Already California has rolling brownouts every time it gets warmer than average.. so if the Climate Change guys are right.. California will get a lot warmer.

We’re already paying the price for the gas cars.

Gary Varvel to an Italian sailor in Spain: “Come on Chris, everybody knows you can’t go sailing west to find some spices, you’ll just fall off the earth.”

Thought he was drawing a Payne cartoon.

you mean to tell me that with all the shit that is going on in this country now this is the only thing that dingleberry Vervel can come up with?

Ignorance is simply a lack of knowledge and stupidity is part of human nature. Here is just another example of Varvel telling us the automobile will never replace the horse.

MontanaBill bill says it all: add 1,000,000 electric cars and see how the electric company perform. And 1 million is just a fraction of California`s cars.

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones

They’re the modern stone age family

From the town of Bedrock

They’re a page right out of history

Let’s ride with the family down the street

Through the courtesy of Fred’s two feet

When you’re with the Flintstones

Have a yabba dabba doo time

A dabba doo time

We’ll have a gay old time (Not that there’s anything wrong with that!) :)

That car perfectly symbolizes Varvel’s outdated mindset.

Varvel, like #45, is “in way over his head!”

[ Giving Payne and Gohmert some tough competition! ]

Gary, that car routinely defied physics. You are someone who hates science. Why isn’t this your dream vehicle?

Requirements drive progress. But, the fossil fuel industry doesn’t want progress. There is no money in it for them.

There are already new electric cars on the market for close to the average price for a new gasoline car – even a couple electric cars that sticker for less than that. Also new car prices of medium range electric cars have been dropping, and look to likely continue to drop. Chances are that if you cannot afford a new electric car by 2035 you won’t be able to afford any new car.

But sure, haters only talk about the prices of top shelf electric cars… ignoring comparable prices for top shelf gasoline cars…

Musk’s approach is working quite well: start at the high-end where price doesn’t matter and wow them with performance, as your costs drop, introduce less expensive vehicles that still perform better than similarly priced ICE vehicles. More lowering of costs, lower prices. Companies that tried to come in low got clobbered.

Buy one today and you can run over peaceful protestors in some states.

For Varvel and other Trump Disciples, the most important thing is to keep pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere as fast as possible.

After all, climate change is just another hoax.

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Sorry, I’ve forgotten now whether it is a hoax perpetrated by Democrats or China.

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#TraitorTrump

Varvel the regressive hates progress. No surprise here.

That car was probably built in Indiana.

You can buy a used car, just like always. Duh!

There’s always bicycles… LOL!

E bikes are taking over. Time for e cars to take over too.

We’re kinda tryin’ t’ avoid a collapse of civilization that would actually put us in these Flintstone cars. . .

Just where does the electricity come from for the vehicles? Wind? Solar? Nuclear? Two of those are pipe dreams and the third makes the left have a fit. Not only that, the electrics are fine for urban areas but will require an amazing amount of infrastructure for other parts of the country. Electric tractors, combines, etc. should be very interesting.