Colorado B.S. Thread

Agree with this that it might be worth a quick cleaning of the contacts. My wifes subi acted this way, all electronics worked but would click when starting and was intermittent. Cleaned up the contacts and haven't had the issue since. I suspect there was just enough conduction for the low power of the electronics, but not enough for the spike required for the starter. Plus, it's quick and cost nothing to do if you have a 10mm wrench

 

Aight I have a wrench (and other basic tools)! It’s a second gen with 185k miles. No one has starters in stock, they say no one ever needs that part lol. Will I need to take the tire off?

Going to YouTube! Looked yesterday but found mostly first gen info. Probably similar enough to get an idea of what I’m doing.

Thanks

 

Colorado Oil & Gas Commission owns Colorado and its state/local gov'ts.

 

Most of the natural gas being fracked in Colorado is being exported because of the higher cost they can receive in the international market.

The use of "don't heat your house" or "drive you car" is a bit myopic. This entire country's infrastructure is built for coal, gas and oil. It doesn't leave us consumers many options. And until the powers-that-be (read: oil & gas corporations and their lobbyists) don't see a profit with their commodity, or a more profitable alternative energy sector, nothing will change with that regards.

Nevertheless, putting up fracking rigs in neighborhoods and several hundred feet away from Elementary Schools is unethical and immoral and poses serious health risks. Regardless of the antiquated mineral right system and regulations.

 

I’m not against fracking in any way. I’m not even against residential fracking. The one I’m referring to, though it pretty large scale. We’re not talking about a well or two, we’re talking about 84, 5 years of constant drilling, and truck traffic of 40-50,000 trucks annually, according to Extraction. Just because I use natural resources (even though the ones being pumped for this project won’t even be used by “us”.) doesn’t mean an industrial scale facility should be built in a residential area. Oil and gas is pretty much the only industry that has eminent domain. Yes, you have to go where the resources are, but there should be a limit on the scale of a project in a residential area.

 

So much this. People are foolish if they think the resources coming out of the ground here are staying here.

 

Removing tire is a must I think to give best access.

Alright, this is for first gen but shows what needs to be done with contacts and also company that you can get parts from (At least in 2011)

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...cking-starter-2-7-liter-3rz-fe-engine.178029/

 

Do you live in the proposed fracking area?

 

I'm not saying it wouldn't be terrible. Just putting out there that the law is what it is (and I 100% agree legal != moral || just) and that NIMBY is strong with everyone. None of us are exactly models for treading lightly in daily life, being truck owners that either (1) drive them daily empty or (b) own two vehicles with the truck being a pure luxury.

I'm with you in principle, if it was me I'd do whatever I can to fight it and wish you Godspeed in setting precedent if you can stop it. But with all the people moving here gobbling up land and consuming energy, all the urban/suburban/rural development mineral extraction seems to me to be similar to wildlife habitat in that conflicts aren't going away. So 84 wells going in could be highly concentrated impacting a few homes extremely badly or 84 individuals mildly. Either way the energy company is facing a shitstorm. I guess if there's a silver lining at least you don't live in Weld County.

 

Well they have soundly defeated any attempt to put a state Tax/ Royalty on resource "harvesting" here like WY has basically arguing that it will increase your cost (Which is more false than true). Meanwhile WY has Billions in a state reserve fund/ special use from implementing it long ago.

 

FIFY

It's not just energy either. How much plastic is in your life? Many many products are produced with petroleum.

I'm all for alternative energy sources. The main issue lies in making them viable. Right now solar and wind exist solely on subsidies.

Nuclear energy sounds like our best bet to me. Of course accidents in that realm make oil spills look like small potatoes.

 

Wait hold on I was referring to the battery contacts. No tire removal required for that. Pull the battery terminals and clean all contact areas. Although it wouldn;t be a bad idea at all to do the starter contacts if you're willing to get in there.

 

The only reason they are not more viable is the oil and gas industry is not interested in investing in a different fuel source. They are only interested in pulling every dollar of profit out while they can.

 

Viable = profitable. It's math. It's not subjective.

If it were viable, it wouldn't need subsidies.

The rooftop tent industry is not interested in investing in a different fuel source either. So what? Why would they be?

If something is viable and profitable you won't have to hunt for people wanting to invest in it. VCs will be on it like flies on shit.

 

The big players spend about $1 billion annually in R&D finding new and better ways to separate you from your money. They don't need R&D to understand extraction and refining. They know crude production can't last at current rates forever. It's not that it's going to run out so much but practically speaking the cost of getting it, both in real terms and political/publicity, isn't going down.

Any forward looking company knows they have to be ready for whatever happens. Exxon alone spends about $500 million trying to use algae as a bio-oil instead of petroleum, as one example. But you also can't blame oil companies, their job isn't to willingly crater their own industry. They exist to bring you fuel and maximize shareholder value in the process. That's it. If you don't like what they do, don't buy their product and they will either figure out how to deliver something you do want or cease being in business. They aren't the ones creating the demand for oil, they are happy to supply it though.

 

Well... yeah. Why would they? 'Conscience'? 'Morality'? Those don't turn a profit. When oil and gas gets more expensive/harder to obtain, only then are alternative fuel sources going to be taken seriously.

 

That's a solid FIFY.

And yeah, every single aspect of our way of consuming is fucked up and predicated upon petroleum. Manufacturing, transportation of goods.. everything.

As a consumer I'm left with really no options.

And I have serious issues with fracking but by no means am I suggesting an outright ban. But I take serious issue when they want to operate in designated open space a couple hundred feet from houses and schools. Common sense should prevail but none of that matters when Oil & Gas have you bent over, grabbing your ankles and gritting your teeth as they go in dry.

 

Earth first.
We can mine, drill, and frack the rest of the planet's later.

 

Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Colorado!!!

 

Happy Hump Day.....oh wait @aero3685 is rubbing off on me