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15,000 electric cars lost to Hurricane Sandy
SmartPlanet ^ | 11/7/2012 | Kirsten Korosec

Posted on 11/07/2012 8:20:22 PM PST by count-your-change

Hurricane Sandy damaged at least 15,000 new cars parked at a New Jersey port, including 320 Karmas, the luxury plug-in hybrid electric vehicle by Fisker Automotive. The loss might not sound like much. Nissan, for example, estimates more than 6,000 of its cars and light trucks are will have to be scrapped. And the superstorm may have damaged as many as 200,000 vehicles, including used autos and those of individual owners, National Automobile Dealers Association Senior Analyst Larry Dixon told Bloomberg

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: automakers; economy; fisker; hurricanesandy
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To: mosesdapoet

I’m a little slow, don’t know that one.


21 posted on 11/07/2012 8:56:44 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

I find this so funny. sad that taxpayers fund this crap


22 posted on 11/07/2012 9:00:00 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Baynative

The taxpayers need to stop funding these companies, let them make money by selling products and services like they are supposed to


23 posted on 11/07/2012 9:01:13 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: count-your-change

“I watched cold people wander around amid heaps of scrap wood and wondered why they didn’t build fires.”

Yes, I read a book of matches was selling for $50.00 in the Obama storm-zone.

It’s all in the priority of the moment I guess.


24 posted on 11/07/2012 9:02:58 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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The great thing about electric cars is. . . nothing. We used petroleum cars for 100 years and will be using them in another hundred.


25 posted on 11/07/2012 9:09:43 PM PST by JoeyJoeJoeBob
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To: count-your-change

You can bet your butt they WILL be parted. Parts like wheels, sheet metal, glass and many other parts will be just fine.

Electrical parts are the ones that will fail in a flood car.

You may have some rust problems with metal body parts.


26 posted on 11/07/2012 9:16:52 PM PST by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: count-your-change

Also each and every one of those cars will be headed to a salvage auction company like copart.


27 posted on 11/07/2012 9:18:39 PM PST by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: count-your-change

Karma (n.) - when a hoax known as global warming whips a once-in-a-100-years hurricane at a bunch of hoaxes called climate-saving electric cars.


28 posted on 11/07/2012 9:19:35 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: cableguymn

Down in Arkansas they don’t have SALVAGE titles. The buyer better beware of all used cars.

About 50 years ago we had a local cop tell us not to buy a used car in Arkansas. He would not say why, but many many years later I unfortunately learned why.


29 posted on 11/07/2012 9:22:42 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
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To: count-your-change
This basically means that all these electric/hybrid car owners are going to be the first to go.
30 posted on 11/07/2012 9:32:41 PM PST by TheRhinelander
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I know. it’s also a state where salvage titled cars went to be cleaned of their “salvage” brand.

Carfax and the such has helped put a stop to it but some do fit through the cracks.

personally, I LOVE salvage cars. Cars are over priced anyways.

I am driving a 2000 Cavalier that a tree fell on. Couple of dents in the hood and a 50 cent piece sized hole in the dash board where a limb went through. I had to put a windshield in it.

Cost of the car. 350. Glass installed 175. Same car with out the salvage title (to be fair, I could hit a salvage yard and get a new hood and dash pad for about 100 bucks) is 3995 at our local dealerships. I have 625 in this one.

My wife is driving a 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan ES. Loaded to the gills. Everything works in it. Very light rear end hit. replaced the bumper and tailgate with pickapart parts. Paid 400 for the van, 100 for the parts. (even got the right color!)

We where offered 2500 for it the other day.

Same van on the dealer lots sell in the 2500-4000 range. Ours would likely be at the top. It has all the options you could buy in 1997 and less than 100K on it.

Both cars have been with us for over 10,000 miles. Neither has given us any mechanical problems and no problems related to the damage (well.. my dash creeks a bit.. but I don’t care)

You have to know what your looking at when you go to look at the cars at the auction. You also can’t get your heart set on one car. Honda/toyota forget about it. They bring near retail and head over seas.

Domestics go cheap. Common cars go really cheap because if there is 1 dodge caravan in the auction there are 10. Another nice bonus when buying the cheap common ones. Parts are also cheap and common. finding body parts in color saves you TONS.

When/if one of these cars dies to the point it’s not worth fixing I will be right back at the copart lot checking out the next one.

We also keep a cargo van around for when I need it for work. It’s also nice to have a spare around. If something breaks down we don’t have to rush to get it repaired.


31 posted on 11/07/2012 9:37:19 PM PST by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: cableguymn
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32 posted on 11/07/2012 9:37:51 PM PST by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: TheRhinelander

For the person that can afford anything...the car that’s worth nothing. Seems right.


33 posted on 11/07/2012 10:04:58 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: cableguymn

Get the parts dried out before they rust too much, they’ll be o.k. Lots of other cars too.

Maybe the rest of NY will bring their unaffordable wheels in to be “lost” to Sandy. Shame to waste a perfectly good disaster.


34 posted on 11/07/2012 10:13:24 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Bshaw

A car battery can be a good fire starter. May not sart a car but short the terminals and get a spark.


35 posted on 11/07/2012 10:17:25 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

...'nuff said.
36 posted on 11/07/2012 11:55:40 PM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: count-your-change

Big difference between “15,000 Electric Cars” (title) and “320 Karmas” (text).

Don’t facts matter to writers any more?


37 posted on 11/08/2012 12:04:58 AM PST by Fresh Wind
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To: Fresh Wind

No. Writing the news is like free association in thinking, just write whatever comes to mind.


38 posted on 11/08/2012 12:36:27 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

“I’m deeply saddened..”


39 posted on 11/08/2012 12:48:44 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: count-your-change
A car battery can be a good fire starter.

A little electronics battery can be a good fire starter.

http://offgridsurvival.com/steel-woolfirestarter/

40 posted on 11/08/2012 5:23:52 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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