The New Giving Me the Blues Deal

Last Updated on March 8, 2019 by Terry

I may get the Blues pretty soon. I’m hearing a lot of stuff on the news that is scaring me. When they start talking ‘bout fishing and bacon, my listening skills go to “defense readiness condition” 3! (DEFCON 3 for those of you west of Martindale.) If someone that don’t fish starts talking smack that could affect fishing, that scares me.

One group is talking about getting rid of combustion motors. You know, that thing that powers cars and trucks. Cars and trucks, that means the vehicles that pull our boats and four wheelers around to our favorite fishing and hunting spots. To quote an old friend of mine: “Now wait just a dadburn minute.”

They want to switch all cars and trucks to electric power? If all we have is electric power, will trucks even work? I believe not. Everyone will be driving around in an electric Yugo.

A few facts I just researched:

• Normal speed is 30-35 mph with top speed for electric cars-less than 45 mph
• Travel distance between charging-Less than 40 miles
• Acceleration speed-0-30 in 36 seconds

We may need to call “BS” on this electric car stuff.

Yes, many believe it sounds great. No need for oil to transform into gasoline. But, have you really given this some thought? If we do away with gasoline/oil, do you know how many jobs go away?

Let’s see:

1. Mechanic shops: over 1.6 million jobs. (automobile, big trucks and buses, aircraft, heavy equipment, etc.)
2. Factories that build aftermarket parts: Over 400,000 jobs. (Gears, oil,  air filters, transmission parts, engine parts, plugs, wires, air sensors, belts and hoses, the list goes on.)
3. Oil and gas extraction: Over 150,000 jobs. (BLS data.)
4. Other jobs associated with oil and gas: 100,000 jobs.
5. Parts houses: (Auto Zone, O’Reilly, Carquest, Advance, etc.) Over 100,000 jobs.
6. Convenience stores to get gas for our trucks so we can go fishing and hunting. Google told me there are over 122,000 stores selling fuel. That is at least 4 workers per store. Over 800,000 jobs.

There are many more. Switching from combustion to electric will cost us over well over 3 million jobs, and that’s just the ones I can readily think of. (He said 3 million.)

This doesn’t count how many jobs will be lost due to people being unable to travel for vacations and such. I mean, who wants to travel at 35-40 mph heading to Gatlinburg or Branson or Gulf shores? Your entire vacation time will be spent driving, who would want to travel anymore? All of the shops along the way will close due to no one traveling any more.

If you travel 100 miles, it will consume three hours of driving time. This will include 2 charging stops at a minimum 30-minute charging time each. 30-minute charging time is the minimum! If you charge at home overnight, it can take as long as twelve hours.

So, a one-hundred-mile trip is a minimum of four hours. It’s 580 miles from our house to our motel in Gatlinburg. Carla and I are going there in late May. At four hours per one hundred miles, that’s a twenty-three-hour drive. Now that doesn’t allow time for fighting at charging stations and other such activities. (Increased road rage incidents due to lack of patience skills.)

Losing over 3,000,000 jobs suddenly will be heading us toward third world country status. (When you add not having any food. See below…) Venezuela Population: 32,000,000. USA population: 327,000,000. Multiply Venezuela’s problems by 10X.

For those of you that do not understand the concept, the government doesn’t have money. They get theirs from taxing workers. Government money is taxes paid by workers. If we lose this many workers, the government may collapse due to lack of funds.

If we do away with combustion motors, that also means no big trucks or locomotives. (That means trains for the most of you that grew up in Jackson County.)

Big trucks and trains, it’s how we get food across America. If we can’t transport food, many parts of the country will begin starving soon after we install the first charging stations.

If we do away with combustion motors, how are farmers going to plant and harvest crops? (Which is most of our food.) Well, that does solve one problem. Without food, we won’t need trucks and trains to haul it around the country.

Oh, by the way, their New Giving Me the Blues Deal suggests doing away with agriculture animals. That means no more beef, pork, and chick. That means no more meat. Yea, it’s the bacon thing again. Don’t you just hate it when they talk about taking away our bacon.

Here is an inventory of mine and Carla’s meals over the past few weeks:

We had chicken spaghetti Tuesday and Wednesday.

Tacos and chili last week. Wondering what tofu chili tastes like causes instant dizziness for me. Probably won’t matter, as having no motors will not allow farmers to grow and harvest any tofu.

Grilled chicken breasts over rice the week before. Whoops, no more rice as it takes a lot of water to flood rice fields, flooded with pumps run by combustion motors.

You get the idea. Carla and I are going to become very confused over what to eat. There will soon be very few choices on what you will have to choose from. Kroger shelves will be bare. People lying in the parking lot from fighting over the crumbs the store will have to offer.

They said they would install charging stations everywhere. There are over 122,000 convenience stores that offer fuel. How many charging stations will there be? It will take at least one million charging stations. If you calculate the 122,000 stores we already have with gasoline, and the ability to travel several hundred miles per fill up, we will need five times as many charging stations.

I wonder if the charging stations will have two big guys at each one in order to push the cars up to the connection as most will be discharged of power waiting in lines! I mean, the only reason you are there is because your car is getting weak from your batteries getting low. And now the long wait will finish you off. Maybe they will hire up the laid off oil drillers as they are some big strong looking fellows.

Question: what will power the charging stations if we do away with combustion engines, solar? Here in central Arkansas, in the past two months, I think I’ve seen the sun 4 times.

And by the way, will I be able to get a fountain drink and a Little Debbie snack cake while I am waiting for my turn to charge? This is just getting too scary.

The craziest thing of all, we have finally gotten ourselves self-supportive with oil. We need very little if any from the middle east. And now they want to get rid of it? Doesn’t make any sense.

In summary:

• Over three million of our jobs suddenly gone. Which leads to third world country status.
• No more oil which means no more gasoline/diesel.
• No more gasoline/diesel which means no more transporting food (or fishing).
• Extreme shortages of food which eliminates the need to transport the food.
• No more beef, pork, or chicken. Which means no more bacon.
• No more Little Debbie snacks and fountain drinks while re-fueling.
• Constant rioting at charging stations which means accelerated violent road rage incidents.

The bottom line is this:

With no combustion motors, I will not be able to tow my boat to the White River. Which means, while not on the way, I won’t be able to stop at my favorite convenience store to get some gas, a fountain drink, a bacon cheese biscuit, and a Little Debbie snack cake. And on the way home, I won’t be able to stop at a different store for my favorite chicken strips.

Yeah, I’m getting the BLUES. Somebody better do something, this is starting to piss me off.

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