Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[Escape Artist]

France decided to detax its bioethanol E85 , reason why around 0,7/ l and I would not advice for RS5 to push to 8500 when quite empty under 3000 , but with my engineering, my V8 should work well with bioethanol, when so flexible exceptionnal from 800 up to 7000 . Great short course manual gearbox and firm clutch to feel sport and push, but in town or Switzerland, I can use 6th as kind of automatic with such flexibility and so much more full engine than RS with only tiptronic for pollution, with more than 10 mkg more. Will be exceptionnal engine for around 10/100 kms, when old lady is around 12/ l since diesel exploded and we have 0,50 discount in France, when I need 5 mn to make full gas, not 20 hours or how could I run my 3000 kms on week end? Climbing on day, driving at night, or 14/100 for fast recharge but still much longer than for me who don t have this time, when I need to speed between Paris Dortmund Bern Stelvio or Agnelo or Bonette or Ventoux, when impossible to reach Galibier or Agnelo or la Madeleine or la Bonette or Ventoux from Paris with a Tesla. Just good to go to buy my bread on next corner. A kind of asian push push, but not a real car for me. Maybe on Hollywood Boulevard? Under sky polluted by chinese to build batteries, but on German autobahns, my creature is and will be much more efficient, when I doubt I could push a Tesla all along between Dusseldorf and Frankfurt airports.

Yeah, so much garbage here. There're probably 10 stations in all of France that only charges 0. 7 per Liter when average price is 0. 79 per Liter which would be higher in Paris motorways. He quotes the lowest price of E85 found who-knows-where if even actually found anywhere at all against the highest price of electrical charging stations on the busiest motorways likely at peak price hours because he's too dumb to know that EV charging prices are adjusted for time of day and increase after the first 30 minutes or so. He's probably also that idiot who doesn't realize that you're not suppose to charge EVs to 100% at stations because the last 20% charged much slower. You're suppose to charge up to 80% in about 15 minutes to take advantage of the fast charging rate when voltage is low and first half hour price is also lower. Meanwhile he also ignores that when you are sleeping at night in your home, an EV is charging at one quarter the price on your home bill. The first several hundred kilometers on an EV during a long trip is practically free. Not to mention charging being actually free at many hotels and grocery stores. Find me a hotel or grocery store that gives you free gas.

Actual average price of E85 in France: https://plein-moins-cher.fr/en/index.html.

And look at this dude suggesting he's paying 10 euro per 100 km to run an S8 on E85 going over 200 km / HR. Shit, an S8 may get 500 Km in a tank going 130 kmph but definitely not that much going the speeds that wannabe mini-Schumacher here claims. Add that E85 is another 25% less efficient than petrol and there's no way in fuel-combustion hell that little homie is only paying 10 euro per 100 km driving an S8 at the speeds he's claiming. What a load of horseshit.

[Escape Artist]

Well, let's examine that. OPEC met and made their decision on 5th of October. On that date, the price of crude oil had already been climbing steeply for 10 days as evident by the following dataset:

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil

After the announcement, the price of crude oil sunk back down sharply just 2 days later and kept going down for nearly another 2 weeks. Why was that? Was it because the market had already made an anticipatory adjustment? Just speculating here but the numbers don't quite jive with this being a shocking surprise.

China is an x-factor as who knows what will occur in a society that acts in such a concerted, unified, and unilateral manner. But if the Chinese demand goes up. , well then by OPEC's minutes, production should then be increased since price stability was their stated priority for the current intended reduction.

Lastly, they stated that they will not be decreasing production until starting November. That is also when seasonal demands often falls even with the holiday season of.

Post was incomplete. It should have gone on to read:

Crude oil troughs are in December and January so a decrease in production starting in November is par for the course. In addition, another thing to consider with production reduction to not start in until November. If priced do increase more significantly, it wouldn't happen until after American elections. Is that planned? Political election influence strategy?

Anyway, I still believe that the planned decrease in production was already priced in and all that Saudi talk was just small men thumping chests and thumbing noses. Doesn't affect my life. I run diesel in the US where it is always more expensive here and has remained disproportionately more expensive the whole time.

[Escape Artist]

With any Tesla, on motorway, You will never drive 600 and not even 500 kms when a bit faster than a US snail and I don t even tell for climbing what I climb turning my legs. I would like to see Tesla battery climbing Stelvio, when pushing V8 to 7000 tours. Figures are only for 60 miles in US, but not for 130 in France, or legally free in Germany where my old lady could run 900 kms and exceptionnal V8 4. 2 breathing at home for more than 500 , when they are real cars, not a joke polluting from producing batteries and when they are off, dead. On french motorway, fast recharge is 14/100 kms when I couldn t even go to ski or climbing without stopping to recharge, what a waste of time and more expensive than bioethanol and even gasoil, so I will save my money and time driving in a real car my few kilometers weekly in a elegant beauty as what I m used to, with what a sound of thunder, and I m pretty sure will run for longer than plastic Tesla or MG. Really not same quality for cars. Each one own standard, same like for girls. Yes, not electricity we miss but hydrogen is future for locomotion, other than legs, but not many are able to turn. It was topic on Paris cars show on this month. Only bad point, when I bought to save money with 0,7/ l bioethanol and sometimes less, when gasoil exploded like Sharks rates on March, and for pleasure to drive a real beautiful car with exceptionnal noble engine when You know a bit about mechanic, no enhancing like turbo or compressor which would be like silicon, all full natural, but I m already a bit bored women in my company want to see, asking to start engine when seeing behind and even to take them when going somewhere, when I chose for me, my bicycle and my skis, I can t put in 964 . One telling: You don t have parking camera? What for? But she liked engine sound increased by Fochesato. When even older than my beloved old lady I will keep on driving.

As always, Siri seems to conveniently only include "facts" that fit his "reality. ".

Why would anyone bring up an Audi A3/ A4 mileage in order to compare to a performance class Tesla? No shit that a compact vehicle gets better range than a 9 second quarter mile car.

When comparing Apples to Apples such as Tesla Model S vs Audi S8:

2022 Audi S8:

City speed Range: 282 miles.

Highway speed range: 477 miles.

When using E85 fuel:

City speed Range: (282 -25%) = 212 miles.

Highway speed range: (477 - 25%) = 357 miles.

https://www.edmunds.com/audi/s8/2022...eatures-specs/


2021/2022 Tesla Model S

City speed Range: 405 miles.

Highway speed range: 320-348 miles.

https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a3...range-testing/

Read that again, at highway speeds in Siri's beloved S8 using his shit fuel, it gets basically the same range as an EV.

When driving in the city, S8 using his shit fuel gets HALF the range as a Tesla Model S.

Fact checking his other bullshit claims:

1. For Europeans visiting and driving in US, American interstate speed limits range from 70 mph on the coasts to 75-80 mpg throughout the Midwest and up to 85 mph in areas like rural Texas. That's 112 to 135 mph, basically the same as Europe. For some reason he chose to juxtapose different units like 60 (mph) to 130 (kmph). Perhaps it was for deception like putting the same amount of beer from a shorter, wider glass into a taller and thinner glass for appearance. See infographic attachment.

2. Tesla bodies are built from aluminum and steel composites, not plastics. Non-old grandpas who actually know modern cars well know what Teslas are notoriously heavy.

https://evannex.com/blogs/news/11295...el-infographic

3. EVs are actually better suited for traversing hilly terrain than combustion vehicles. Both experience loss of fuel / battery efficiency going up hill, however EVs like Teslas regain charge going downhill with the use of regenerative braking saving even more energy when eventually one comes down a mountain. In addition, EVs perform better in terms of power going up a hill due to the high-torque motors. They are even better than diesel combustion engines for this. A Model S Plaid is already faster than an S8 but even a regular Model S would smoke an S8 going up an incline.

https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shoppin...rative-braking

[Escape Artist]

That's a good deal for the ethanol fuel I converted it and it turns out to be $2.57 per gallon. Much cheaper than USA fuel prices even. And cheaper than Russia which has $3 per gallon gasoline.

Hardly.

I'm in Miami and here's a picture of E85 price at a city gas station.

2.77 USD per gallon. That's 0.73 USD per liter or 0.77 Euro per liter.

Today's average E85 price around Paris is pretty much exactly the same.

https://plein-moins-cher.fr/en/carte...hanol-e85.html

Declaring myself Poon's personal factchecker.

[Sirioja]

That's a good deal for the ethanol fuel I converted it and it turns out to be $2.57 per gallon. Much cheaper than USA fuel prices even. And cheaper than Russia which has $3 per gallon gasoline.

When I spent 8000€ more than insurance paiement to save Haldex quattro and I needed 4 months to succeed versus insurance expert on Summer 2021 , but with contisport I tried to burn pushing to limit of grip to get better grip, then when I tested on the limit of grip and Haldex, I understood asian electronics would kill me, when RS500 , H3 , B6 , 911 carrera and even turbo, all rear wheels driving, never had so violent reaction when sliding from rear, and when diesel exploded in March, I sold to stay alive. I can t sell because I love too much 650000 kms old lady, even diesel, but less expensive than Tesla on motorways and so much faster. But with my around 80000 kms per year, I will save about 500 € per month with my exceptionnal V8 , I will improve increasing mkg and power, and powered with french E85 bioethanol, working for ecology when batteries make pollution. Saving money driving a exceptionnal beauty, with to become unique engine, like if was beauty becoming fire in bed. I just have to much improve front and direction because not accurate enough, really difficult to have good feeling when pushing to limit of grip, moving too much, will work to improve to feel more safe.

[DrPoon]

France decided to detax its bioethanol E85 , reason why around 0,7/ l and I would not advice for RS5 to push to 8500 when quite empty under 3000 , but with my engineering, my V8 should work well with bioethanol, when so flexible exceptionnal from 800 up to 7000 . Great short course manual gearbox and firm clutch to feel sport and push, but in town or Switzerland, I can use 6th as kind of automatic with such flexibility and so much more full engine than RS with only tiptronic for pollution, with more than 10 mkg more. Will be exceptionnal engine for around 10/100 kms, when old lady is around 12/ l since diesel exploded and we have 0,50 discount in France, when I need 5 mn to make full gas, not 20 hours or how could I run my 3000 kms on week end? Climbing on day, driving at night, or 14/100 for fast recharge but still much longer than for me who don t have this time, when I need to speed between Paris Dortmund Bern Stelvio or Agnelo or Bonette or Ventoux, when impossible to reach Galibier or Agnelo or la Madeleine or la Bonette or Ventoux from Paris with a Tesla. Just good to go to buy my bread on next corner. A kind of asian push push, but not a real car for me. Maybe on Hollywood Boulevard? Under sky polluted by chinese to build batteries, but on German autobahns, my creature is and will be much more efficient, when I doubt I could push a Tesla all along between Dusseldorf and Frankfurt airports.

That's a good deal for the ethanol fuel I converted it and it turns out to be $2.57 per gallon. Much cheaper than USA fuel prices even. And cheaper than Russia which has $3 per gallon gasoline.

[Escape Artist]

In rhetoric's we say that when someone has to state that they are not doing something. Out of nowhere, where nobody asked them about it. Then they are usually trying to cover over exactly what they are doing.

In your case that of being an inbecile yourself.

This is basic rethorical psychology.

When you use a pejorative that insults another person's intelligence on a written platform, you should probably make sure that you actually spell it correctly as to avoid an awkward situation in which you ironically cause yourself to come of an as an "inbecile". Fuck you're so god damn incompetent.

[Sirioja]

Depending how it is produced, the ecological balance of bio ethanol is not that great. It's better than gasoline, but not by orders of magnitude. Bio ethanol produced out of sugar cane is used on a large scale in Brasil since the 80's. One could argue that flexi fuel engines are not that much of a technological marvel, heck even the Ford model T could run on gasoline or ethanol.

France decided to detax its bioethanol E85 , reason why around 0,7€/ l and I would not advice for RS5 to push to 8500 when quite empty under 3000 , but with my engineering, my V8 should work well with bioethanol, when so flexible exceptionnal from 800 up to 7000 . Great short course manual gearbox and firm clutch to feel sport and push, but in town or Switzerland, I can use 6th as kind of automatic with such flexibility and so much more full engine than RS with only tiptronic for pollution, with more than 10 mkg more. Will be exceptionnal engine for around 10€/100 kms, when old lady is around 12€/ l since diesel exploded and we have 0,50 € discount in France, when I need 5 mn to make full gas, not 20 hours or how could I run my 3000 kms on week end? Climbing on day, driving at night, or 14€/100 for fast recharge but still much longer than for me who don t have this time, when I need to speed between Paris Dortmund Bern Stelvio or Agnelo or Bonette or Ventoux, when impossible to reach Galibier or Agnelo or la Madeleine or la Bonette or Ventoux from Paris with a Tesla. Just good to go to buy my bread on next corner. A kind of asian push push, but not a real car for me. Maybe on Hollywood Boulevard? Under sky polluted by chinese to build batteries, but on German autobahns, my creature is and will be much more efficient, when I doubt I could push a Tesla all along between Dusseldorf and Frankfurt airports.

[Escape Artist]

Had OPEC not announced the production cut, crude oil prices would probably be lower than they currently are. So I interpret the production cut as a preemptive strike to keep the prices at the current level or higher (although most forecasters still expect the prices to return to $100 a barrel in the near term). China is the world's biggest crude oil importer and so once post-lockdown economic activity resumes, we should see the effects of the reduction in global supply on prices.

Biden threatened "consequences" for the Saudi monarchy. And he has aggressively announced he will release more barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ahead of midterms. There are some media reports that he asked the Saudi monarchy to postpone the announcement until after the midterms. And so the Saudis refused to bow to Biden pressure and did the exact opposite of what the Biden administration wanted. An increase in oil production obviously makes no sense for Saudis as they know interest rate hikes will lead to an economic slowdown which would lead to reduced global oil demand, but the Saudis would have at least considered it anyway if the USA had the Saudis by the short and curlies (as Turgid puts it).

Well, let's examine that. OPEC met and made their decision on 5th of October. On that date, the price of crude oil had already been climbing steeply for 10 days as evident by the following dataset:

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil

After the announcement, the price of crude oil sunk back down sharply just 2 days later and kept going down for nearly another 2 weeks. Why was that? Was it because the market had already made an anticipatory adjustment? Just speculating here but the numbers don't quite jive with this being a shocking surprise.

China is an x-factor as who knows what will occur in a society that acts in such a concerted, unified, and unilateral manner. But if the Chinese demand goes up. , well then by OPEC's minutes, production should then be increased since price stability was their stated priority for the current intended reduction.

Lastly, they stated that they will not be decreasing production until starting November. That is also when seasonal demands often falls even with the holiday season of.

[Escape Artist]

funny how Germans free left line when hearing arriving behind them.

Pretty sure that's called courtesy or basically doing what makes things operate smoothly. What sick person twists this act of reason and manners into something negative.

[Escape Artist]

Depending how it is produced, the ecological balance of bio ethanol is not that great. It's better than gasoline, but not by orders of magnitude. Bio ethanol produced out of sugar cane is used on a large scale in Brasil since the 80's. One could argue that flexi fuel engines are not that much of a technological marvel, heck even the Ford model T could run on gasoline or ethanol.

Absolutely. Another bio-fuel crop is corn and the environmental cost of corn agriculture has been well documented. It is the number one crop in bioethanol production and whatever environment-sparing effects it affords over the combustion of fossil fuels is easily negated by the disproportionately harmful effects it has to soil biome, wildlife, and ridiculous irrigation requirements. The only clear advantage bioethanol has over fossil fuels is that it is a renewable energy. The catch however is that the energy required "to renew this energy" is often itself not renewable.

[Sirioja]

2022.

Paris to Frankfurt round trip is a little over 1000 km.

An Audi S8 will use 10.2 L per 100 km when driving like a normal person on the autobahn but that drops significantly when the driver is an idiot driving at 300 kmph. To capitalize on ethanol E85, you'd have to get it in France as you can hardly find it in Germany and if you actually do find it, it costs as much as the other fuel types. Anyway, at best you get 0. 80 euro per liter in France for 100 L to travel 1000 km and you're paying at least 80 euro.

2022 Tesla Mode S gets up to 675 km on it's 100 kWh battery which charges from 10 to 80% in 24 minutes on a super charger. That would be quite a long way to drive to go get bread and the same range as an Audi A4.

Most people will charge their EVs at home for 0. 20 euro per kWh in France. A full 100 kWh charged at home would cost 20 euro and will get you over 600 km. Then you need another 70 kWh to get yourself the other 400 km. Well you can charge for free at hotels, Lidls, Aldis, etc so the return trip could possibly cost zero euros if take care of logistics. So a Model S from Paris to Frankfurt and back could cost only 20 euro of in-home electricity. But even at the highest current EV charging station prices, that's 0. 80 euro per kWh for the remaining 400 km. That would be 49, call it 50 euro. Add the original 20 euro it cost to charge at the house and you're looking at a maximum of 70 euro for a round trip Paris to Frankfurt and back in a Tesla Model S with a 20 minute charge time if paying to use a supercharger station or zero opportunity cost lost of time charging for free overnight at a hotel.

And LOL at Hydrogen. "Everywhere around us". Chemistry and physics would have been helpful here. You don't just take hydrogen from air and put it in a tank. In fact there's hardly any hydrogen in the air at all. You make hydrogen fuel in 2 major ways. The clean way is by splitting water, a ridiculously energy expensive process that defeats the point. Know what the cheaper way is? Through the use of burning coal. Completely inefficient and expensive process. Then factor in the cost production.

Then there's transporting hydrogen to every fuel station in a city. Do you have any idea how volatile hydrogen gas is? Of course you don't. It's literally 10 times more volatile than petrol gasoline. Ever heard of the Hindenburg? The Hydrogen Bomb? Do you know how much more volume hydrogen takes up? Transporting that to individual fuel stations all over a country is absurd.

With any Tesla, on motorway, You will never drive 600 and not even 500 kms when a bit faster than a US snail and I don t even tell for climbing what I climb turning my legs. I would like to see Tesla battery climbing Stelvio, when pushing V8 to 7000 tours. Figures are only for 60 miles in US, but not for 130 in France, or legally free in Germany where my old lady could run 900 kms and exceptionnal V8 4. 2 breathing at home for more than 500 , when they are real cars, not a joke polluting from producing batteries and when they are off, dead. On french motorway, fast recharge is 14€/100 kms when I couldn t even go to ski or climbing without stopping to recharge, what a waste of time and more expensive than bioethanol and even gasoil, so I will save my money and time driving in a real car my few kilometers weekly in a elegant beauty as what I m used to, with what a sound of thunder, and I m pretty sure will run for longer than plastic Tesla or MG. Really not same quality for cars. Each one own standard, same like for girls. Yes, not electricity we miss but hydrogen is future for locomotion, other than legs, but not many are able to turn. It was topic on Paris cars show on this month. Only bad point, when I bought to save money with 0,7€/ l bioethanol and sometimes less, when gasoil exploded like Sharks rates on March, and for pleasure to drive a real beautiful car with exceptionnal noble engine when You know a bit about mechanic, no enhancing like turbo or compressor which would be like silicon, all full natural, but I m already a bit bored women in my company want to see, asking to start engine when seeing behind and even to take them when going somewhere, when I chose for me, my bicycle and my skis, I can t put in 964 . One telling: You don t have parking camera? What for? But she liked engine sound increased by Fochesato. When even older than my beloved old lady I will keep on driving.

[PaulInZurich]

To capitalize on ethanol E85

Depending how it is produced, the ecological balance of bio ethanol is not that great. It's better than gasoline, but not by orders of magnitude. Bio ethanol produced out of sugar cane is used on a large scale in Brasil since the 80's. One could argue that flexi fuel engines are not that much of a technological marvel, heck even the Ford model T could run on gasoline or ethanol.

[McAdonis]

Recent Saudi actions regarding production could have easily been predicted. Saudi Arabia has been purchasing cheap Russian oil for months now. As such, a decrease in production was expected as they are using Russian oil to fuel domestic needs and producing less for export. That is a prudent move to keep prices stable considering the destabilization effects of low Russian prices. Crude oil prices have not moved proportionately to their announcement because due to import of Russian oil, a decrease in production will not yield a proportional decrease in export of oil.

Overblown political rhetoric that the Saudi monarchy is loving as it makes them appear more powerful than they are.

Had OPEC not announced the production cut, crude oil prices would probably be lower than they currently are. So I interpret the production cut as a preemptive strike to keep the prices at the current level or higher (although most forecasters still expect the prices to return to $100 a barrel in the near term). China is the world's biggest crude oil importer and so once post-lockdown economic activity resumes, we should see the effects of the reduction in global supply on prices.

Biden threatened "consequences" for the Saudi monarchy. And he has aggressively announced he will release more barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ahead of midterms. There are some media reports that he asked the Saudi monarchy to postpone the announcement until after the midterms. And so the Saudis refused to bow to Biden pressure and did the exact opposite of what the Biden administration wanted. An increase in oil production obviously makes no sense for Saudis as they know interest rate hikes will lead to an economic slowdown which would lead to reduced global oil demand, but the Saudis would have at least considered it anyway if the USA had the Saudis by the short and curlies (as Turgid puts it).

[Escape Artist]

On french motorway, to recharge electric is about 50% more expensive than diesel in my old lady or my ecologic exceptionnal V8 , and how could I drive Paris Dortmund Bern Prato Stelvio Paris in 2 days with a Tesla or Chinese MG which are just to go to buy bread, when I will aim close to 300 with french ecologic bioethanol, when big pollution in China about batteries. In Paris cars event, hydrogen cars were shown and wish this time because not new, it will work, because real future for locomotion, when everywhere around us,

Elon M. Is an idiot. Who wants to sit around for ten hours as opposed to five minutes filling up a tank and taking a leak?

2022.

Paris to Frankfurt round trip is a little over 1000 km.

An Audi S8 will use 10.2 L per 100 km when driving like a normal person on the autobahn but that drops significantly when the driver is an idiot driving at 300 kmph. To capitalize on ethanol E85, you'd have to get it in France as you can hardly find it in Germany and if you actually do find it, it costs as much as the other fuel types. Anyway, at best you get 0. 80 euro per liter in France for 100 L to travel 1000 km and you're paying at least 80 euro.

2022 Tesla Mode S gets up to 675 km on it's 100 kWh battery which charges from 10 to 80% in 24 minutes on a super charger. That would be quite a long way to drive to go get bread and the same range as an Audi A4.

Most people will charge their EVs at home for 0. 20 euro per kWh in France. A full 100 kWh charged at home would cost 20 euro and will get you over 600 km. Then you need another 70 kWh to get yourself the other 400 km. Well you can charge for free at hotels, Lidls, Aldis, etc so the return trip could possibly cost zero euros if take care of logistics. So a Model S from Paris to Frankfurt and back could cost only 20 euro of in-home electricity. But even at the highest current EV charging station prices, that's 0. 80 euro per kWh for the remaining 400 km. That would be 49, call it 50 euro. Add the original 20 euro it cost to charge at the house and you're looking at a maximum of 70 euro for a round trip Paris to Frankfurt and back in a Tesla Model S with a 20 minute charge time if paying to use a supercharger station or zero opportunity cost lost of time charging for free overnight at a hotel.

And LOL at Hydrogen. "Everywhere around us". Chemistry and physics would have been helpful here. You don't just take hydrogen from air and put it in a tank. In fact there's hardly any hydrogen in the air at all. You make hydrogen fuel in 2 major ways. The clean way is by splitting water, a ridiculously energy expensive process that defeats the point. Know what the cheaper way is? Through the use of burning coal. Completely inefficient and expensive process. Then factor in the cost production.

Then there's transporting hydrogen to every fuel station in a city. Do you have any idea how volatile hydrogen gas is? Of course you don't. It's literally 10 times more volatile than petrol gasoline. Ever heard of the Hindenburg? The Hydrogen Bomb? Do you know how much more volume hydrogen takes up? Transporting that to individual fuel stations all over a country is absurd.