Why are batteries suddenly so expensive?

[Oaktree]

So, can we say pollution started "back when" fire was discovered? I'm not a historian, so the when doesn't matter to me. I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't pollute in one form or another. It's a natural occurrence due to progress.

Maybe so, but the more of us there are here the worse it gets, and we've been paying the price for the last 60+ years.

 

[ultrarunner]

Maybe so, but the more of us there are here the worse it gets, and we've been paying the price for the last 60+ years.

Or maybe polluting differently?

 

[Eagle1]

Really? If you imagine 'we' as crew members on the ISS or Starship Enterprise, how much destruction in remote places on our Starship or Space Station would you be willing to accept?

Hell, we don't allow smoking in the bathrooms of a 737. We might allow it in the luggage compartments - but you'd likely freeze before you could light a match down there.

You do realize, I hope, that the entire Midwest was a 'remote place' before we 'civilized' beings decided 'This land is your land, this land is my land from the New York Islands to the remote places . . .

We ship our trash to 'remote places,' and have literally built 'remote' islands out of the **** we throw away.

Our nuclear waste - no one remotely wants it anywhere and we dare not try sending it to space in one of Elon's rocket ships.

If you take a perspective of Earth from the viewpoint of some dumb guy on Pluto, we are a remote place. A veritable oddity of a 'remote place.'

And, to call us 'civilized;' well if we're the best example of that . . .

I am a realist and my statement is fact. I live in middle of an active Superfund site, lot of lead dust scattered about from trucking the ore to the smelter. No much being added now and a mostly cleaned. I live in the remote area people dream about, no traffic, no paved roads, wildlife and livestock all over. Bald Eagles killing my ducks all the fun stuff.

They are still mining lead ore but it is shipped overseas for processing, can not do it in this country. Lead acid batteries are recycled here and they are allowed to smelt the harvested lead. You want civil life, I like sitting around a fire and do all the redneck stuff civilization looks down upon. Smoke, drink and be merry with a firearm by my side.....
Peace dude.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I saw a Duracell group 31, 950 CCA battery at Sams yesterday for $126.12.

That's a pretty good price for a battery that size.

SR

 

[Mtsoxfan]

Maybe so, but the more of us there are here the worse it gets, and we've been paying the price for the last 60+ years.

Yeah, I get that. my point was directed more at those who seemingly think that they can throw stones, while living in a glass house.
I know my actions towards pollution have changed since the "wild 70's", (no more dumping oil/antifreeze into storm drain)
trying to do what I can do to lessen my footprint, but Ill always be a polluter, like everyone else.

 

[rontaki]

Sometimes I just have to put someone on Ignore. Guess who, in this thread...