But, but diesels are bad, very, very bad!

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> On Apr 21, 2021, at 9:37 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes 
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 
> This would never happen with my OM 617 diesel.
> 
> Dwight Giles Jr.
> Wickford RI
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 9:15 PM OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> About that Tesla fire:
>> "Tesla Fire in Texas Crash Was Not How It Was Reported, Says Fire Chief"
>> 
>> https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36189237/tesla-model-s-fire-texas-crash-details-fire-chief/
>> 
>> 
>>   - A crash
>>   <
>> https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36175793/tesla-model-s-crash-texas-autopilot/
>>> 
>> and
>>   subsequent fire of a Tesla Model S
>>   <https://www.caranddriver.com/tesla/model-s> this past weekend quickly
>>   caught attention online for its "four-hour" blaze, but that's not
>> exactly
>>   what happened, the fire chief told *Car and Driver* today.
>>   - The initial fireball was contained in a matter of minutes, and it was
>>   just tiny flareups that were a longer-lasting problem, chief Palmer Buck
>>   explained to the *Houston Chronicle
>>   <
>> https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/woodlands/article/Woodlands-fire-chief-says-Tesla-fire-example-of-16113029.php
>>> 
>> *
>>   and *C/D.*
>>   - Although the chief acknowledges EV fires require different tactics by
>>   firefighters, Tesla and government safety data asserts that traditional
>>   internal-combustion vehicles experience one fire for every 19 million
>> miles
>>   traveled; for Teslas EVs, it's one fire for 205 million miles traveled.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 7:52 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> That was my thought too. Play stupid games....
>>> 
>>> Allan
>>> 
>>> "M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Father Charles calls two more home.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 7:18 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes <
>>>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>> https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/04/18/2-men-dead-after-fiery-tesla-crash-in-spring-officials-say/
>>>>> 
>>>>> Allan
>>>>> 
>>> 
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>> --
>> OK Don
>> 
>> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to
>> pause and reflect." Mark Twain
>> 
>> “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.”
>> Wernher
>> Von Braun
>> 2013 F150, 18 mpg
>> 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg
>> 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph!
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