Displaced Texan

Can you recommend one?

I should mention I take cash (of course!) or Zelle.

I’ll reduce this to $600. You are essentially getting the mount for free at this price. Don’t make me build another rifle. Please!!

Yeah he got a screaming deal!

Yeah he was a great guy, he was excited about both aircraft, and the great deal he got.

SOLD!

The guy who wrote that article is SPOT ON! Lol@ the ‘battery fairy’.

Thank you!

May I direct you to this thread?

I largely agree with this. For an ‘around town’ grocery getter, take the kiddos to school, yes. I think they will work out great. For long trips, or a road warrior (like me), they aren’t practical. I’ll add to this....green energy is a farce. A HUGE line of bullshit. Batteries: Just scratching the surface, they are largely lithium chemistry now. The elements needed are strip mined, and that’s an incredibly dirty process. One that won’t be taken over by ‘electric’ mining equipment or vehicles. Not to mention the environmental impact of the mining itself, and how it destroys the landscape. Making of the batteries themselves is a VERY nasty process, using a plethora of hazmat chemicals. Add to this the disposal of said chemicals. Not exactly green. At all. What happens if you get in a crash, and the battery is ruptured? Hmmmmm.....can you say, HAZMAT? Or a battery fire..... The cars themselves are full of plastics, which takes...you guessed it, petroleum to produce. Charging them...well, we don’t exactly plug them into a tree...that electrical power most likely comes from a fossil fuel powered plant. Hmmmm.... Wind power, and solar power. Cool...but also FAR from green. Solar cells are semiconductor devices. Like batteries, they are made with incredibly nasty chemical processes. Efficiency of the cells isn’t great. That’s not to say that over time that efficiency won’t improve (it will), but you’ll still be using all kinds of hazardous, and environmentally unfriendly chemicals in the manufacturing process. And you have to dispose of it. Wind turbines aren’t much better. A great example are the turbine blades themselves. They are made from a composite of aluminum, balsa wood (can you say deforestation?), and LOTS of carbon fiber (can you say more petroleum products?). The blades can’t be recycled, and they literally LITTER the landscape in huge piles out in the west Texas wind farm. They can’t get rid of them. There are a few companies that cut them up (requiring energy), but getting rid of the pieces is still a problem. That’s just scratching the surface.... There will be NO ‘net zero’ energy. There will always be a footprint in one way or another, even if it’s not readily apparent. Even the horse and buggy produces a carbon footprint.

Think of all that we MAKE with petro products too! And again, fossil fuel isn’t going away. Green energy is a lie.

The Velox sport jet actually doesn’t have a high wing loading. Slows down nicely too. You can land it at a waking pace.

The clampdown on fossil fuels will make the price spike. Besides, ‘green’ energy sources aren’t really viable to power our economy.

I’ll even make you a package DEAL!!!

Johnny wins then. Downtown...you’re suspended from the internet until you learn to format your posts.

You sir, NEED turbine jets!!!!! Bring your truck and your wallet...

That wasn’t hard, was it?

I believe you got a formatting problem.

DUDE!!!!!!! Formatting!!!! Ain’t nobody got time to read something in that format!

I’d bet you’re right. It was kinda funny...she watched me across the street with the snow blower and kept giving me the ‘doe eyes’. She didn’t know who she was dealing with!!

If I decide to let it go, it would be for cash. I have ammo.

I have a complete one...but on the fence about selling it these days. Let me chew on it a bit.

Yeah I threw a few bucks at those too...getting beat up.

Bump. I know someone needs a good FFP LVPO. Scope itself was $600. Mount was $210. Package for $700. Don’t MAKE me build another rifle for this!

Yeah, I’m an asshole like that.