Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately.

Tesla owners going from "Look at me!" to "Stop looking at me!" in the blink of an eye.
- if i were looking to fuck with a Tesla, i'd pay close attention to any indication that the car was purchased recently. there are a LOT of people out there with a murder fetish, and i GUARANTEE that a lot of the nice new ones out there are really bait cars for gun owners that have been dying for a reason to shoot someone.
  
  Yeah, probably a lot of Rittenhouse wannabes out there who wanna test the limits of castle doctrine.
  
  You! You're that pathetic Elmo dick rider from the other sub. He still isn't going to give you money, you germ.

I know it's a joke, but many Tesla "solar" charging stations did actually use diesel generators a few years ago. Citation needed, but I can't be assed to look up the article.
- Still more energy efficient than a regular ICE car.
  
  Debatable, it depends on what fraction of the power was supplied by the generator. The chemical-kinetic-electric energy conversion incurs great losses because of waste heat, and portable diesel generators are not always built with efficiency in mind. A charging station operating on 100% diesel to power an EV is much less efficient than a modern ICE vehicle of a similar mass sans batteries.
  
  Okay....now that the left is finding every reason to hate on Tesla, allow me to help: this is, and always has been, a massive fucking myth. It never was more energy efficient than a regular ICE vehicle.
  Mainly because of its construction. Mining the cobalt, etc for the batteries is very energy intensive. Then there's the tires. AFAIK, you can't just throw any old tires on a Tesla vehicle. You have to buy their special tires with all these sensors in them. I think there are knockoffs, but still. You also have to change the tires more frequently than traditional ICE vehicles, because they wear out faster, because the Teslas are heavier. A car weighs as much as an SUV or truck (3,582 lbs - 4,065 lbs), the Model X Plaid weighs 5390 lbs, and the Cybertruck weighs 6000-7000 lbs.
  The damage doesn't stop with the vehicle itself; we must also consider the impact of heavier vehicles on the roads. It will also cause the roads to wear out faster than normal.
  Unless it's crashed or burned in protest or whatever, IIRC, a Tesla vehicle can redeem itself from its massive environmental cost to produce & such. But only after many hundreds of thousands of miles on the road, and by the time that occurs, you'll need to replace the battery. "Tesla batteries can last between 300,000 to 500,000 miles, which translates to about 1,500 battery charge cycles." Kiss another $13K - $20K goodbye to swap out that battery for a new one.
  So with its far simpler & straightforward construction out of readily available material, coupled with a sprawling existing infrastructure...the ICE car is more eco-friendly and cheaper to operate! And the hybrid vehicles are better than both full-electric & ICE, best of both worlds.
- Not to mention the electrical energy stored in their cells has a fairly strong possibility of having been generated by a power plant consuming coal or petroleum.
  
  I live in Alberta where most of our power comes from natural gas. I'm also an emissions and sustainability engineer. I did the math on environmental payback for an EV where I live and the EV is WILDLY better for the environment despite the power potentially coming from fossil fuels.
  If you tell me roughly where you live I can calculate emissions per kilometre/mile including the energy that goes into manufacturing the vehicle.
  There's absolutely jurisdictions where EVs don't make much difference - but most places they do.
  (large scale power generation is pretty effecient and most jurisdictions have some renewables in the mix. A car's gas engine is much lower efficiency most places)
  
  Even when powered by fossil fuel power plants, electric vehicles are still usually better in terms of CO2 emissions. Power plants benefit from scale, so they're a lot more efficient than the tiny combustion engines in cars. Regenerative braking also saves a ton of energy when driving in the city.
  
  Yes the fossil fuel industry loved to point this one out. "Hahaha! We're so dirty even your clean tech can't be clean!"

Teslas don't run on gasoline.
It runs on them.
- That's why you add a thickener. Mix some styrofoam into the gasoline and it'll stick better.
  
  It's True!

I am so slow lately I saw this yesterday and only just now got the joke

Let's focus on the nazi leader also not only his old projects
- His stock in Tesla is leveraged for a lot of other things he does. Lowering the stock value could cripple him financially.
- Run Tesla stock prices into the ground. It's legal and, short of criminal violence, it would damage Elon worse than anything else. Without his money, Elmo Muskrat would just be the guy at the end of a dive bar you avoid because all they talk about is government conspiracies to cover up the fact that Lizard People Aliens are making human lizard people hybrids.
  
  It closed at 283 yesterday and it is 273 right now. That was after a low of last week of 223. Something is keeping it boayed up.

*Teslurr
- He loves t' slur, what's unclear?

- Tesla arson
- Gasoline fumes are highly flammable.

Actually burning Teslas is bad for the environment.
- Drop in the bucket compared to what enabling this billionaire shit bag is going to do.
- Good counterpoint. I don't know
  
  I suspect you're still negative. There's so much nasty stuff that's going to get released and you're already one set of construction/mining costs in the hole.
- So make sure people are afraid to buy one.

You don't have to use fossil fuels. Just pointing out.
- Vodka is renewable
  
  This is America. We use corn based moonshine here.
  
  But that constitutes alcohol abuse
  
  Vodka is inevitable

Pro Tip, you don't need gasoline to burn Tesla just puncture there battery and it will go kaboom. /s
PS : THIS IS A JOKE DON'T EVER PUNCTURE A LITHIUM ION BATTERY IT IS VERY DANGEROUS
- PPS: ICE cars exploding in flames when shot is a Hollywood myth. Not so much for EVs.
  
  I remember myth busters made a video about that, something like if gas tank was almost empty it atpeast got ignited otherwise nothing even when shot at gas tank.

I thought this joke was going to be about all the cybertrucks needing towing because of yet another recall.

Tell Congress to Stop the Musk Power Grab.
Stand against Trump's Illegal and Unconstitutional Power Grab.

I think for the first time in my life I'm okay with cars burning extra fuel needlessly

- Everyone acting like it's okay to throw eggs at billionaires' yachts because of wealth inequality. Then you should have no argument against rich kids throwing caviar at homeless shelters because they disapprove of being asked to share. Just saying.
  
  What an infinitely stupid response. The proportion of rich people owning a Tesla with respect to all Tesla owners is vanishingly small. When you burn a Tesla of an uninvolved person, you are costing them tens of thousands of currency and are probably destroying their only car.
- Yeah, burn them at the dealership instead!
  
  Please dont. Find other ways to destroy them than fire if you want to, but fire endangers fighterfighters etc. Dont harm the working class to own the billionaires.
- Sorry I cant hear you over me enjoying the sound of beautiful flames on Tesla. Gives me asmr tingles.
- One holds human beings in distress, and the other a garbage vehicle. Your comment is disgusting and shows how you value life.
  
  I agree. It’s a false equivalency.
  It’s super similar to the idea behind the original tea party. They didn’t do insane shit like burn down buildings with people inside, they tossed tea into the water. If we could do something similar, I’m sure we would.