Get a horse

How do I know that gasoline is done? Because Ace of Spades' posters like Buck Throckmorton are trying to save it.

The core of it is Volkwagen, soon to be the Voltwagen I hear. Some testers went cross-country (New York to Sacramento) on the Eisenhower Autobahn, which took them eighteen days. Buck Throckmorton compared that to the Pony Express' ten days.

My neurons have retained The Book Of Knowledge, a British production of 1980 or so, back when they were still wondering if Pluto was a planet. There was a piece in there about a race between the steam engine against a... horse. The steam engine kept breaking down so the horse won. But not by very much.

Obviously the Pony Express was your game in town, in those days, if your towns lay between New York and Sacramento; and I wholly agree, back then, that you needed a pony. You might even have been better off with the pony before you hit the handcart trail. My point here is that the steam engine got better. They got much better than ponies. Even than the best ponies.

If you are spending any time looking at how batteries are performing these days, you know that these eighteen days cross-country are going to shorten - dramatically. You also know that the bottleneck in providing power to these vehicles is more political than not. A forward-thinking Right might consider cutting that red-tape so lowering those power costs (h/t Hanania).

You'd think that supporting a competitor to increasingly-expensive petrol would help even the petrol-users but, you're not thinking like Buck Throckmorton.

Ace is selling his readers the same old buggy whips. AOSHQ is living in the past. 'Tis a boomer site.

WICKED SMAHT 5/12: Harvard's solid state battery promises recharge time 15-20 minutes. That's easily within parameters of parking the Tesla in Dumas, TX to stretch the legs, hit the loo, and buy another Gatorade.