Are they including the carbon footprints of their employees and all products including of their vendors? And if not, how meaningful is it?
> The commerce giant will seek to meet its goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2040
Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian
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Fellow Normalite here, you still in the area? Would love to talk shop with a local Hacker Newser. Email in my profile if you're interested.
Your email address is not visible to others unless you put it in the about field along with the other text you have there.
Thanks for the tip! Updated my profile with my email address.
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I've always wondered what long term issues one might encounter with a Volt. Can the gas in the tank go bad? I know modern fuel has a lot of preservatives. Has anyone experienced any issues with summer vs winter blends? You're potentially carrying out of season gas in your tank.
>Can the gas in the tank go bad? I know modern fuel has a lot of preservatives. This is something that is occasionally mentioned in speculative apocalyptic scenarios. It will go bad, after about a year you wouldn't be able to use any random car without swapping out its gas with some from a better preserved source.
Gas deteriorates over time, but in practice, it’s not really a problem unless it’s very old.
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#154And remember when Uber “ordered” 100,000 Mercedes S-Classes?
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a28508/uber-or...
Bezos is probably trying to pressure UPS (or has some other business motive) versus target Amazon’s carbon footprint. Amazon will undoubtably grow its own delivery fleet over time, but this splashy press release is probably not entirely about climate change.
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>> the entire Middle East Except for Saudi sweet. There is plenty of very high quality oil in Saudi Arabia, which is no doubt in the heart of the "middle east". (Iraq and the UAE also produce sweet crude.) The really nasty stuff, the really energy-intensive gunk, is the tarsand bitumen from Canada. Saudi oil is positively green in comparison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_crude_oil >> The term sweet originates…
I wonder who took it upon themselves to taste all the different kinds of crude oil to classify them by flavor... Job for a grad student?
Oil prospectors invented the terms when they were combing the backcountry looking for oil, without access to proper chemical labs.
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>> the entire Middle East Except for Saudi sweet. There is plenty of very high quality oil in Saudi Arabia, which is no doubt in the heart of the "middle east". (Iraq and the UAE also produce sweet crude.) The really nasty stuff, the really energy-intensive gunk, is the tarsand bitumen from Canada. Saudi oil is positively green in comparison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_crude_oil >> The term sweet originates…
I wonder who took it upon themselves to taste all the different kinds of crude oil to classify them by flavor... Job for a grad student?
I just found this humorous clip of the Trailer Park Boys, which alludes to the tastes of various types of gasoline: https://youtu.be/RXtePW4v8zs
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#158And remember when Uber “ordered” 100,000 Mercedes S-Classes? https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a28508/uber-or... Bezos is probably trying to pressure UPS (or has some other business motive) versus target Amazon’s carbon footprint. Amazon will undoubtably grow its own delivery fleet over time, but this splashy press release is probably not entirely about climate change.
Climate change? I thought it was about Bezos taking a snipe at Tesla because SpaceX is way ahead of Blue Origin.
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For ICE vehicles production and disposal are about 15% of the total carbon footprint, the rest is fuel and servicing. Lat time I saw the figure the total impact of producing an EV was more, but the lifetime impact was about 30-40% of an ICE. EVs really are a lot more efficient. When I worked it out for an EV charging from 'average' UK electricity, it was about 25% of my (already small and efficient) ICE car.
Petrol is a large tax source in the UK -- every mile you drive in a petrol car funds your local school.
So does chopping down trees and selling the firewood.
Its a good point, but a perverse argument.
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Some friends used to make an annual trip down there. It was where the DSMs were built so it was a fun drive down in our loud rattleboxes. Neat they're using the plant again.
Oh man, the old turbo Eclipse. Now that was a car. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Eclipse They don't build them like they used to. Probably for a reason. My dad heard gossip at the plant they had to move away from the racer boy turbo platform because they were just too astronomically expensive to insure–because they were invariably driven by 20-something guys who wrapped them around trees. And as an adult m…
My dad had a '91 Plymouth Laser RS and he sold it because it basically said to the cops "point radar gun here."
He had to take one ticket to court because he was being passed by a Caddy, and the gun picked up their speed rather than his.
It was a blast to drive though.