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I would see that as one perfect touring car! However if it was even used for touring, the touring miles would probably further increase depreciation. I'm not sure I'd like to spend the learning curve necessary getting all the features memorized! & function checked, only to sell it in 4 years.
So diesels have zero issues @ 3-5% PVF & they want to kill it. But in this article, 10-20% PVF is a tipping point. Currently EV's are less than 1%. Few if any municipalities are on board.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/automakers-ignoring-potential-nightmare-scenario-160100330.html
TMI
Use a laser temperature gun. That will confirm what one instinctively knows.
TESLA: stockholders took the blue pill rather than the red one.
Like I've said before the "clean sir advocates & enforcers" don't even believe their own BS!? http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-freeway-pollution-filters-20170709-story,amp.html?ref=yfp
From an "environmental view", they should work to "DE populate " the city, not dense pack more people in !?
Jump ball! The struggle never ends.
Fires have been almost 3.5/4 season occurrences, which seemingly can't be stopped!? These wide scale & wide spread fires are TOTALLY natural!! Yet it probably contributes more to LALA Lands pollution than its cars.
Want the price of US oil products to stay low, to go down further? Ok a few new US strategic oil refineries! They are being taken off line to being severely restricted to boost prices!?
So for example, @ a refinery very close to here, a less than 2 feet piece of (stainless steel) pipe was "overlooked" (right)
Thanks for th link. Interesting and understandable.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
The US well sites are NOT going away! Nor are American "shalers". Indeed they may be following millennium's OLD farming principle of letting the assets rest certain amounts of times, before resuming production. It been well know for a very long time (100+ years) that CA sits on YUGE oil reserves! So truly for our state, hypocrisy knows no bounds.i'm surprise that oil companies have not shifted into becoming "energy" companies doing anything that provides "energy". This lack of pivoting is remarkably shortsighted! To not be the Amazon of oil or out Amazoning Amazon is almost stupidity!
Even with today's technology it is almost repressively costly to drill for a new deep pool oil wells. Indeed when they find new deep pool oil wells fracking, etc, greatly extends the life and dollar value of a conventional deep pool well.
I was having an informal discussion with some Mexican business people about oil. It's been long known the Gulf of Mexico has huge deep oil pool reserves. i.e. that is where then earth directs a lot of the oil comes in this area.
Of course being American, one listens to a certain amount of slings and arrows about America bing the cause of all the worlds problems. Specific to oil, Mexico is in the proverbial dumper. So I asked one ?. When did Mexico nationalize the oil industry? Total silence!? So even anybody can ask Siri, etc!? Less anybody forget, it's a civic holiday? The next ?: How has that been working for Mexico? So if Mexico renationalizes newer agreements, the oil company's should not look to the USA for bail outs!?
So any US company that does business with Cuba needs to remember the Castro's nationalized ALL the industries!
Other needs such as water demand, are not rocket science.
When the local oil refinery had a pipe fail & the prices shot up 50 cents a gal gasoline almost overnight, the Eco retards wanted to investigate for conspiracy to commit negligence!? Again I can't even make this stuff up.
Hopefully, most EV owners will have the common sense to be charging during the wee hours of the night--although there are now solar systems powerful enough now to charge up the vehicle directly during the day.
Until EV trucks abound, ready for heavy duty long distance travel, there will be diesel long into the future.
EV charging during the day & or during wee hours would in fact BOOST dependency on the 40% of the energy grid that are supported by COAL! So as vilified as coal plants are, getting new natural gas plants will be vilified even more so by the very same people who vilified coal plants!!! The why/s are TMI.
The 2015 in arrears data has been posted. It is not the stirred up stew pot that some would hope. https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/11/investing/us-oil-exports-opec-shale?ref=yfp
Now mileage is UP, but so are licensed drivers & the registered PVF.
If they are diesels, Jaguar F /E Pace, I'm interested! https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2017/07/13/jaguar-unveils-new-compact-suv-the-e-pace-to-lead-global-sales-drive/#534bec094684
http://www.trucktrend.com/features/1705-first-drive-2017-chevrolet-colorado-zr2/
https://www.trailsoffroad.com/trails/981-wheeler-pass
Back to diesels. I drove to Pahrump from San Diego. Then spent three days in 100+ temps looking at homes. Put 175 miles local city driving. 330 miles highway including stop and go on Interstate 15. Filled in Pahrump for $2.32 credit with 505 miles. Averaged 26.3 MPG. That included letting the Touareg idle some. If anyone has a full size SUV gasser that can match let me know.
I have no idea what Afghanistan and China have to do with the public's resistance to fracking in the U.S. Seems quite off topic here. The subject we were exploring was future fuel prices.
I'm literally mobile, ok moving anywhere in the USA. The other half is supremely happy @ what she does.we are also in health care nirvana. NV for a whole set of reasons is very appealing. We looked in Lake Tahoe, NV, but this house popped up @ the right time. If it where NV side, it would have been better. L
https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Taxes-101/States-with-the-Highest-and-Lowest-Taxes/INF23232.html
I've gone over more than once about The China rare metals mining opportunities in Afghanistan for the new "environmental nirvana" !
Slow diesel in news day. The MB GLK 250 BT is in the shop for a possible front differential leak. They gave us a loaner, 2017 MB C300 4 door sedan black on black, with less than 2,200 miles on the clock. (Pug) 4 cylinder also runs the MB E 300!?
The wife for unknown reasons is NOT keen on the loaner car? (2017 Mercedes Benz C300, MSRP $39,500/$44,500) If I had to guess, the majority of the controls are NOT intuitive. More importantly, control activations take too much driving attention away. I think things would be ok with a 5 to 10 hour familiarization scheme. App 2.25 to 3 hrs (54 miles r/t- 27 miles one way) are spent in the car, 5 days a week.
The loaner car is absolutely gorgeous ! Edmunds.com says 25 mpg, my guess for the crazy commute 22-27 mpg.) But anymore, car selection can be the daunting task! She's keen on getting her 2014 MB GLK 250 BT back? She seems to know the controls activation drills for what she needs anyway. We of course rather get 36/38 mpg. IF we had Fintails, diesel we'd post (total swag) more like 40 mpg to 45 mph.
We do have a rare earths mine, though
Rumor @ a local Mazda dealer that the CX 5 (compact CUV) should come out later this year (2018 my?) with a TDL version?
I think the engine in the C and E is the same, but tuned differently. The controls on the new C are a little different from prior cars. The COMAND menus should be the same, but I think some vehicle controls and setting are in different locations.
I believe I've heard 300+ ft/lb of torque, and just under 200HP.
Be curious to see what the MPG ratings are.
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Link to NZ test drive; the power numbers translate to 173 HP and 310#/lb
http://www.driven.co.nz/reviews/road-tests/same-car-new-heart-we-test-mazda-s-2-2-litre-diesel-cx-5/
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