Your Papers, Please
Posted by TFG on March 25th, 2008
Just for giggles and some real-world work requirements, I decided to take a gander at the latest F-250s. Here’s what popped up on one of the sponsored links:
Does that kind of crap still work? It does, or YourTexasFord.com wouldn’t be spending major bucks at the Google Ad Shoppe. Still, as a man who fancies himself a bit of a web guru, I’m just surprised that these folks want all your personal identification before you get past that screen. Me, I’m going to click it about 100 times so they have to pay Google. They probably have that figured out by now, but just in case they don’t, they’ll hopefully get the message that it doesn’t hurt, and might actually help, to have the customers look over the inventory without a passport.
The bottom line is that I’ll probably just go find a good-enough used one. I’m tired of paying new prices. This last F-150 turned me off…that prissy little Lariat is a girl’s truck with zero added value, and I’ll never get the full trade-in. Not only do I need the bigger payload and towing capacities, but I want a diesel that’ll last a few hundred thousand miles, and screw the fuel costs. They’re almost assuredly just as computered-up as the gas counterparts, but I love that iron.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Said it before, but an F-350 running bio-diesel has a smaller carbon footprint than a Hybrid running arab oil. Read it on the inter-web at one of them web-hippie places.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Are you sure about that? When you can get the bio-diesel from a gusher created by poking a hole in the ground maybe that may be true, though I’m not convinced without doing more research, and said research usually doesn’t credit anything said by hippies. But until then, the bio-diesel fuel still has to be cultivated, processed, and delivered, which takes oil, or bio-diesel, hippies tethered to a plough or wagon, or something. FWIW, I think I remember reading somewhere that oil from Saudi Arabia tends to be more readily and easily refinable than most other forms of crude oil. So again, we have to be sure that we are comparing apples to oranges, or something.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
You could just write lies on those things like I do, and still click it a hundred times. But I agree that used is better.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Poking a hole in the ground and piping that stuff around is pretty intensive. If they can turn the waste material into diesel, that’s a good thing. If, on the other hand, it requires tilling every arable square foot of land between here and Canada, that’s pretty damn stupid. We’re already putting a hurt on food supplies. But then you have to consider tariffs, and my blood pressure goes up another 30 points.
That Saudi and I think all mid-east oil is classified as sweet/light - very low sulphur content, as I recall. Yes, it’s good stuff…the best. I’m all for paying them to pump it out, as long as they keep the spigots open and the dollars flowing. Yet, too, we’ve now got to consider the aging refinery infrastructure which makes all kinds of whackos mad.