A joke of course, please do not throw your car batteries into the ocean.
Just think, you might hit a sea turtle with it!
Then they’ve got to go to the doctor and you know they don’t have health insurance!
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How else would Styropyro get enough batteries for his 1000-kiloamp tungsten vapor atomizer? The “environmentally conscious” choice might prove to be a greater disruption to the ecology.
AnyDesk could do the funniest thing ever and send him 600 more
The world needs this
What do you mean, do not throw away it into the ocean? Those electric eels need charging!
I know more than one person who has disposed of broken down cars this way.
Broken down cars can be sold for scrap value, why dump them in the sea? Especially if they’re models with sought-after parts that can be sold.
Same with car batteries, they give you money for those things, why would anyone throw them?
Because having them removed from a very rural community used to cost a lot more than you’d get for the scrap. We’re talking about cars that are thirty years old where every part is held together with ducttape and prayers. Cars where the breaks failed years ago and you’ve been relying on low gears and hills since then. There’s a hole in the floor of the passenger side and you don’t think it will get bigger but you tell passengers to use the back just in case. There are burn marks on the bonnet where your friend welded a folding chair to it as a joke and you’ve been bump starting it for the last few years because the battery is fucked. And you wouldn’t bother throwing it out but your back yard is already full of broken cars and you’ve already striped anything usable off it.
Rural life is different
I suppose a big part of it is that around here, the government pays a decent chunk of money when you scrap an old (> 15 years) car, it can go up to $4k (converting to us dollars) if you’re buying an EV to replace it, doesn’t have to run or anything.
That’s one thing I always thought was weird, I occasionally fall asleep watching those “I offered to mow their lawn for free” videos on YouTube, and there’s always like a car graveyard on people’s backyards, several cars as old as sin and almost sunk into the overgrown weeds and bushes. You never see that here, at most you’ll find an old pet project the owner has been meaning to work on but hasn’t found the time for in the last 20 years or so…
An old battery you can always trade in for at least $20 a piece in store credit in several places, or more if you’re trading it for a new one, they never even checked them just asked me to throw them on the pile with the other ones.
People used to keep old cars lying around for the parts. Nobody where I grew up could afford the services of a professional mechanic or to order new parts. But everyone could do most work on their own car or knew someone who could.
I once met a guy who bought a car for a case of tenant’s lager. Certainly noone was buying new cars. Similarly everyone kept a giant pile of string and rope in their shed/barn because the closest place that sold string was an hour away. We also had a large pile of lead piping from when my parents replaced it with copper. I used to melt it down and cast things out of it.
Some nostalgia of those times when people had the skills and the means to work on the things they own. Nowadays it feels like it doesn’t matter that you paid full price for your car, or even your tractor for that matter, they’re finding ways of keeping their paws on everything. I haven’t traded in my diesel van because of this, though it’s getting heavy with the miles on it…
In any case, not that those times were necessarily better, sounds like people just got by, and thats all too familiar.
pumps tons of Co2 into the atmosphere for all the healthcare-less mericans
(huge /s here)
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