Lets start calling ice cars Burners

[Mr X]

 

[tvad]

I can hear the bongos now...

 

[Petrocelli]

I have noticed that Tesla owners name their cars, although I can't figure out why.

I was thinking maybe I should name my new Mercedes, but couldn't find a good name.

I finally found it.

I'm naming him 'Burner'.

Thanks!

 

[whatthe2]

Burners are for throw out phones like in The Wire and Animal Kingdom.

Edit: ah see @Casmium mentioned this.

 

[tvad]

I was thinking maybeiI should name my new Mercedes, but couldn't find a good name.

Who is this Maybeil?

 

[Zaxxon]

....and what is that thing on the top of a stove then?

A heatification station, of course.

 

[Casmium]

Just noticed we might be using English differently.

 

[BarnabySydney]

Just noticed we might be using English differently.

Too funny. Yes English is similar but not quite the same here and could be a factor!

 

[afadeev]

Calling a car a burner also has a slightly negative connotation, even though burning limited supplies of fossil fuels is exactly what ice cars do. The term may not work in every conversation but it should in most.

And if people feel slightly less good about driving around in a fossil fueled burner and that helps to accelerate everyone's transition to electric vehicles that will be a good thing.

I hope I am not about to pop your cherry when I inform you that EVs are consuming electricity that is 83% derived from non-renewable sources.

This makes EVs 83% burners, by your own definition.
I hope you feel "less good" about driving your Tesla now.

Cheers!

Electricity in the U.S. - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 

[MichaelP90DL]

I hope I am not about to pop your cherry when I inform you that EVs are consuming electricity that is 83% derived from non-renewable sources.

This makes EVs 83% burners, by your own definition.
I hope you feel "less good" about driving your Tesla now.

Cheers!

Electricity in the U.S. - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Trees are renewable. They should be burning trees, not oil.

 

[holmgang]

....and what is that thing on the top of a stove then?

hobs!

Trees are renewable. They should be burning trees, not oil.

oil is generated from kerogen. kerogen is composed in part of trees and other woody material.
oil is, therefore, renewable. it just takes millions of years to renew it

 

[BarnabySydney]

So you want to shame people who don’t want to or, maybe, just maybe, cannot afford an EV?

Cool plan, bro.

I guess you can take almost anything and turn it around and find a negative side to it.

The term is not about shaming. It is a word which more than any other I've heard describes what gas and diesel burning cars do.

The early ten or so votes on this thread were two thirds burner and one third ice car.

 

[BarnabySydney]

I hope I am not about to pop your cherry when I inform you that EVs are consuming electricity that is 83% derived from non-renewable sources.

This makes EVs 83% burners, by your own definition.
I hope you feel "less good" about driving your Tesla now.

I don't feel the slightest bit bad. EV's are big step in a direction we need to go.

 

[Casmium]

Depends on where you are from, in Canada it's more like this, and in Ontario we eliminated the all the coal plants

 

[tvad]

^ Gotta love that Niagara River and Falls. Nicola Tesla sure did.

 

[BerTX]

You know they don't actually burn gas. They explode it.

I'd say call them Exploders, but that's what I've always called the Ford Explorer, so nah.

 

[tvad]

I'd say call them Exploders, but that's what I've always called the Ford Explorer, so nah.

...don't forget the Ford Pinto...The Original Ford Exploder.

 

[glide]

I guess you can take almost anything and turn it around and find a negative side to it.

The term is not about shaming. It is a word which more than any other I've heard describes what gas and diesel burning cars do.

The early ten or so votes on this thread were two thirds burner and one third ice car.

You’re being elitist. And it’s not a good look.

We have a word for things that carry people from destination to destination using 4 wheels. They are called cars. No need to introduce additional descriptors and try to make it a “thing”.

 

[Kilotango74]

I hope I am not about to pop your cherry when I inform you that EVs are consuming electricity that is 83% derived from non-renewable sources.

This makes EVs 83% burners, by your own definition.
I hope you feel "less good" about driving your Tesla now.

Cheers!

Electricity in the U.S. - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

You hope he feels less good about driving his Tesla?? Nice dude.....

 

[Kilotango74]

You’re being elitist. And it’s not a good look.

We have a word for things that carry people from destination to destination using 4 wheels. They are called cars. No need to introduce additional descriptors and try to make it a “thing”.

Lol. Elitist?? Lol.