There are a surprising amount of oil wells in the LA area- when I was 13 I used to ride my '68 harley davidson "rapido" 125 in the Getty oil field behind Hollywood Park racetrack with my friend Holger Zwetz who had a Puch 90Los Angeles County votes to phase out oil and gas drilling
Los Angeles County votes to phase out oil and gas drilling
Los Angeles County’s board of supervisors voted unanimously on Wednesday to phase out oil and gas drilling and ban new drill sites in the unincorporated areas of the countyabcnews.go.com
Lol fuck GM. They're STILL trying to sabotage electric cars. They're going to end up sabotaging their own stock price if they keep up with this shit.GM advising Bolt EV owners to park 50 feet away from other cars in case of fire
“In an effort to reduce potential damage to structures and nearby vehicles in the rare event of a potential fire, we recommend parking on the top floor or on an open-air deck and park 50 feet or more away from another vehicle,” Flores said in an email.
GM advising some Bolt EV owners to park 50 feet away from other cars in case of fire
The warning follows GM recalling more than 140,000 of the EVs due to the risk of batteries spontaneously catching fire.www.cnbc.com
This is called A STUPID IDEA. I know this one is going to a mine in Western Australia. Some will call it a useful edge case. I call bullshit. Here's a railway in America that does exactly the same thing, and it's electric; Deseret Power Railway.‘Dramatically more powerful’: world’s first battery-electric freight train unveiled
View attachment 4988490‘Dramatically more powerful’: world’s first battery-electric freight train unveiled
Wabtec shows off locomotive amid fresh attempt by some lawmakers to slash carbon emissions from rail transportwww.theguardian.com
Every pound reduces the truck's weight capacity. That costs money.
fuel prices are going up...that costs money. Soon it will be a push.
hydrogen is a dumb idea for cars.
lol yeah, I did love that one of the people on the SpaceX team said how grateful they were that Musk stayed out of it and let the engineers do their work. He lost me at his trolling California early on in the pandemic.Is it just me, or does Elon Musk have all the hallmarks of a trump troll seeking attention on twitter...?
Elon Musk takes shots at Joe Biden after SpaceX sends civilians to space | CNN Business
Elon Musk mocked President Joe Biden over the weekend after Saturday's successful splashdown of SpaceX's Inspiration4 flight carried four tourists on a three-day orbital mission.www.cnn.com
Using his daddy's South African strip mine money.
He's the My Pillow guy on steroids. I can't stand the guy. Never have. And no it's not because I'm jealous of him because he has a bunch of money. So do Bill Gates and Warren Buffet and I think those guys are awesome. Musk is just another arrogant jerk like trump.Is it just me, or does Elon Musk have all the hallmarks of a trump troll seeking attention on twitter...?
Elon Musk takes shots at Joe Biden after SpaceX sends civilians to space | CNN Business
Elon Musk mocked President Joe Biden over the weekend after Saturday's successful splashdown of SpaceX's Inspiration4 flight carried four tourists on a three-day orbital mission.
He gives his engineers enough leeway, at least on the spaceflight end.
Nooooo, he's not worse than that crackhead!
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/elon-musk-birthday-ceo-tesla-b1874017.html
Elon Musk, the head of SpaceX and Tesla, is celebrating his 50th birthday.
The infamous CEO, whose tweets move markets and have caused cryptocurrencies to surge and crash, held the title of world’s richest person earlier this year – despite strong competition from other billionaires.
Mr Musk’s journey to such unimaginable wealth started from a position of financial privilege, albeit one of emotional abuse. His mother, Maye Musk, was a model who has featured on the covers of numerous magazines including Time and Vogue.
In 1969 she was a finalist in the Miss South Africa beauty competition, and one year after that married Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk. In the mid-1980s, the family profited handsomely from Errol Musk’s purchasing of an emerald mine, after selling their airplane for £80,000 (the equivalent of £320,000 today).
“We went to this guy’s prefab and he opened his safe and there was just stacks of money and he paid me out, £80,000, it was a huge amount of money,” Errol Musk said, according to Business Insider. Errol Musk was then made another offer: to spend £40,000 on an emerald mine. “I said, ‘Oh, all right’. So I became a half owner of the mine, and we got emeralds for the next six years,” Errol Musk said.
As a result of this, the teenage Elon Musk once walked the streets of New York with emeralds in his pocket. His father said: “We were very wealthy. We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe,” adding that one person would have to hold the money in place with another closing the door. “And then there’d still be all these notes sticking out and we’d sort of pull them out and put them in our pockets.”
Following his teenage years, Mr Musk’s personal wealth multiplied massively through his business ventures. In 1995 Elon Musk, and his brother Kimbal Musk founded the web software company Zip 2. That company was eventually purchased by Compaq in 1999 for $307 million in cash, with Mr Musk receiving $22 million for his seven per cent share.
Mr Musk then founded X.com, an online financial payment company that would merge with the online bank Confinity, founded by Peter Thiel.
It was Confinity’s own money-transfer service, PayPal, that became the official title for the banking venture - but eventually Musk was replaced by Peter Thiel as CEO in 2000 and PayPal was bought by eBay in 2002. Musk, as the largest shareholder in the company, received over $100 million, with reports saying the full figure is somewhere between $165 and $180 million.
