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Now the Climateers Want Your Tires. Washington state pols want to ban wheels that are safest on the road.
Wall Street Journal ^ | February 4, 2024 | WSJ Editorial Board

Posted on 02/11/2024 7:01:32 AM PST by karpov

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To: karpov

It climate-mongers had their way,

the world would revert back to the stone ages.


21 posted on 02/11/2024 7:25:35 AM PST by adorno (CCH)
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To: karpov
Fire bad! Wheels bad!


22 posted on 02/11/2024 7:26:02 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Nextrush

“What I find is that when “Climate Change” is discussed globally Xi and Putin aren’t challenging that. They go along with it.”

Maybe with narrative but not with action.


23 posted on 02/11/2024 7:27:06 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

The US treats Russia and China like Germany and Japan right before December 7, 1941.

How they choose to respond is on them.


24 posted on 02/11/2024 7:28:53 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: TexasGator

Because they know it weakens the West.


25 posted on 02/11/2024 7:31:27 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Nextrush

Xi and Putin are well aware that the climate change hustle is non-scientific BS. They play along because now China makes a mint off green materials and selling solar panels to the idiot West ; Russia makes a mint selling oil to the other countries who are smart enough to stick with oil for their economic development.


26 posted on 02/11/2024 7:35:04 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. . )
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To: central_va

I have summer tires on one vehicle where the rolling resistance is inversely proportional to the temperature. Below 55 they get noticeably less traction and I don’t drive the vehicle at all below 45. I can personally testify that too little rolling resistance is first like driving on a wet road and then like driving on ice. Anecdote from one of the service managers at Hendrik Chevrolet: salesman took a customer out for a test drive in a Z06 with Michelin sport cup tires and a temp of 35F. Service manager told the salesman to be very careful because of the temp effect on the tires. Within sight of the dealership the car managed a couple of 360 degree spins, but luckily managed not to hit anything. Customer ratted the salesman out. Salesman got fired.


27 posted on 02/11/2024 7:37:14 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: karpov

It has another advantage that will further the agenda of increasing the mortality rate.

Less traction needed for braking and handling safety will increase fatalities substantially.

It is physically impossible to decrease rolling resistance without giving up traction.


28 posted on 02/11/2024 7:39:06 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables
Atlas Shrugged was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a documentary.
29 posted on 02/11/2024 7:39:59 AM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: karpov

The Federal government has been doing this to car manufacturers for decades.
It’s the reason you drive a overpriced piece of shit.


30 posted on 02/11/2024 7:40:04 AM PST by DeWalt (Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.)
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To: karpov

Trump needs to create an “anti-idiot” committee to keep watch over things like this and throw whoever is trying to make people’s lives more miserable in prison for a year or 2 until they get it through their thick skull that being an idiot, an angry jealous idiot who wants to make everyone but themselves miserable, is no way to go through life


31 posted on 02/11/2024 7:45:33 AM PST by Bob434
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To: wally_bert

She did. The authors of the Bible pretty much nailed it, too. Fallen human nature is not pretty thing, and those in power have zero awareness that a.) they are fallen, and b.) that as result, they might just be blind.


32 posted on 02/11/2024 7:52:58 AM PST by drwoof
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To: Jonty30

They got the sheeple to drink the cool aid of climate fraud. It will never be fixed because it can never be scientifically dis proven (or scientifically proven) since the forces at work are Solar System Astronomy and geologic, not meteorologic, meaning that in 300,000 years someone will know it was fraud.


33 posted on 02/11/2024 7:58:08 AM PST by anton
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To: karpov

I will drive wherever I need to to get the best tires I want. Idaho, for example.


34 posted on 02/11/2024 7:58:38 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: karpov

I learned many years ago to NEVER buy a tire (e.g., Goodyear) whose name ended with an “A” (like Arriva). Shallow tread, slick as snot in the rain and tires spin way to easily on take off.


35 posted on 02/11/2024 8:00:49 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: karpov

I remember housewives fifty years ago, with nothing to do but look for things that “caused pollution.”
One started screaming about road salts on icy roads, another screamed about burning used Christmas trees, and another started screaming about rubber from tires polluting the roads. As one man said, the bacteria eat the tire residue, and proof was we do not have piles of rubber from tires piled by the roads.


36 posted on 02/11/2024 8:01:55 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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37 posted on 02/11/2024 8:16:20 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: karpov

“ Now the climate brigade is going after drivers.”

I’ve got an idea. What if drivers went after the climate brigade.
I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve had it up to here with the “climate brigade”.


38 posted on 02/11/2024 8:34:37 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: karpov
I am always amazed (not in a good way) at the “creativity” the progressive mind has in finding ways to control human activity.
39 posted on 02/11/2024 8:41:43 AM PST by llevrok (“In a time of deceit telling, the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell)
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To: BobL
The intent here, of course, is to drive up the cost of tires for gasoline vehicles to match that of EVs

EVs burn through tires very quickly.

Thinner tread$ will wear out even fa$ter!

40 posted on 02/11/2024 8:47:15 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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