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The news item here can be summed up in a limerick:
There once was a prez on Nantucket,
and he couldn’t get ‘round in a bucket.
He rented some cars,
and drove under the stars,
until each one, a car fire struck it.
Okay, so I ain’t Shakespeare. But this really happened. As Fox News reported more prosaically Tuesday, “President Biden’s rented Secret Service vehicles burst into flames in a parking lot Monday, just one day after he left his Nantucket vacation.” Yes, they really called him, whimsically enough, “President Biden,” not the more accurate “Alleged President Biden” or “Ostensible President Biden.”
But other than that, Fox is deadly serious: all five of the cars that the Secret Service used to allow President Let Them Eat Cake to joyride around Nantucket on yet another one of his endless vacations caught fire. What the heck is going on here? That’s the one element of this bizarre story is conspicuously missing from Fox’s report.
Old Joe, Fox continues, “spent Thanksgiving on the ritzy Massachusetts island with his family last week. The Secret Service rented five vehicles from Hertz to carry the president and his family, and all five of them caught fire in the parking lot, according to footage first obtained by the Nantucket Current.” The Current itself adds that the cars “had been returned to Hertz less than 24 hours before the fire broke out.”
Why did the cars catch fire? “The cause of the blaze remains under investigation,” says the Current, “but one of the vehicles — a Ford Expedition — was under a safety recall by the manufacturer due to a faulty battery junction box that has caused fires. While it had been scheduled for service under the recall, sources said, it had not been repaired.” Well, all right, that could be it right there, but only one of the cars that was burnt to a crisp was a Ford Expedition: the others were a Chevy Suburban, Ford Explorer, Infiniti QX80, and a Jeep Gladiator. Did they all have a faulty battery junction box?
The fire was fairly serious, and it could easily have been even worse. Fox notes that “the vehicles were parked at the Nantucket airport and the blaze reportedly spread to just 40 feet away from the facility’s jet fuel tanks.” No one, however, is saying what the heck was going on here: “Fox News reached out to the White House for information, but they did not immediately respond.” Why not? It isn’t every day that every vehicle that the Secret Service used to protect the president catches fire the very next day. Aren’t the American people owed some kind of explanation?
There are several possibilities. Were one or more of these vehicles electric and the Biden administration is refusing to comment on the incident because it doesn’t want the hazards of such vehicles becoming widespread public knowledge and interfering with its endeavor to relegate the internal combustion engine to the dustbin of history?
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Keith O says
Maybe dementia Joe thought Hunters lap top was in one of them and was just making sure.
Or maybe Killary was on Nantucket as well?
Westman says
After watching Florida’s electric cars turn into welding torches during flooding and observing videos of flaming battery packs igniting adjacent cars, it quickly becomes apparent that an entire parking garage of all-electric vehicles could burn up in a conflagration that an entire fire brigade could not stop.
Imagine a parking garage destroyed by electric cars and one of the cars was yours. A pet name for the car could be – Marshmallow.
A battery fire results in an electric car being a total loss? With no battery fire it’s still $15 – $20,000 to replace a normally expended battery pack at 100,000 miles?
That’s enough for me – no electric car in my future unless Pete Buttigieg spends a year sleeping in one for year without a fire. Certainly his security team would join him?
FEMA could also demonstrate the virtues of electric vehicles by using them exclusively while responding to floods. Nothing should build more confidence for the future electric car owner.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I have been seeing a lot of material lately about batteries, including the fact that there ain’t enough rare earths worldwide to provide batteries for everybody. That, as well as the fact that the amount of fossil fuel needed to produce a battery far exceeds the energy that that battery would ever provide
Years ago, when I was shopping for my present car, I asked the car dealer the difference b/w the hybrid and non-hybrid versions of the same car. Difference was $1000 in price, but in terms of mileage, just 1 mile/gallon for the hybrid. That made my decision a lot easier, and 8 years later, that car is still going strong
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
I’d be happy with a limited range “old-fashioned” lead acid (golf cart type) battery in a second car for “short” trips.
And a fossil fuel SUV to really hit the road.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It’s interesting that all the cars in the entourage were SUVs: no Teslas, okay, Musk is evil, scratch that – no hybrids, not even Alyssa Milano’s favorite Volkswagen! One more of the big guy’s climate changing charades!
Years ago, at the place I worked, we saw a colleague’s car catch fire, and not only that, damage the CEO’s BMW parked right next to his. That too was a Ford, w/ some battery related cause of fire
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is an affront to the Office of the Presidency of the United States and a disgrace to the US as well as a catastrophe to America and a disaster for the American people.
In other words. Joe Biden epitome and personification of calamity for the United States and the US citizens.
To put this same message in a rather humorous way, there’s a country type song about Joe Biden.
Some of the lyres to it are as followers.
“Let’s Joe Brandon, let’s go, yes, I’m talking about you sleepy Joe. You’re Marxist and you’re WOKE, You’re a dirt bag and a joke. Let’s Go Brandon, let’s go.”
James Lincoln says
Take a look at Sleepy Joe’s BIG SMILE:
Not one thought about the 13 servicemembers – and countless others injured – during the totally botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
You would think that he would be so ashamed that he would never want to show his face in public again.
But, I forgot, he’s a psychopath…
Walter Sieruk says
Not wanting to sound overly superstitious it still , nevertheless , males me wonder. could it possibly be that the disaster of those cars bursting into flames be some kind of an omen of the far greater disaster damage that Joe Biden is inflecting on America ?