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A close friend of mine retired and moved to Kingston. I've never ridden the area he doesnt do the internet so anyone here familiar with the area is it any good for sledding? Do they get decent snowfall out there? What about Prince Edward county is there trails all through there or none? I checked the OFSC site but it seems theres no longer trail info published for the summer ( weird ) so I cant do my usual look see.

The goal is to make profit, this is precisely what our economy needs. More profit not less. Profit is money spent on wants not basic essentials. We surely do not want to live in a Country where the only things we can afford are basic needs. If people do not spend money on wants those sectors dry up and go away and are not so easy to restart. For instance why dont we all band together and open a snowmobile manufacturing co and compete with BRP? Ridiculous concept surely you all agree. But if BRP gets hurt and made non profitable the sleds we love go bye bye. Yamaha just did this for this reason. Not profitable enough to be worthwhile anymore. To intentionally drive up costs to produce and make profiteering some sort of boogey man to sell to the public is what the Liberals are doing and quite successfully too I might add. Just look at the sheer exodus of Ontarios manufacturing and business sector under Kathleen Wynnes ridiculous policies and hydro costs. The numbers of corporations that pulled the pin, packed up and closed or moved to the United States under Ontario Liberals watch was staggering and should scare the pants off of all of us. Think about it. Blindly and intentionally driving profitable businesses into financial ruin by design. Thats the government Ontario voted for. Trudeaus butt buddy Gerald Butts was key in these efforts with McGuinty/Wynne. Sure the school teachers all got raises during this time, and sure the cupe guys all got taken care of, all with DEBT not a one of these systems is safe now that the finances are in shambles. The smart move would have been to not do the windmill scam crap and not try and buy votes with billion plus dollars of scuttled Oakville gas plants etc etc etc. In order to pay the bills we all need corporations to make a lot more profits. The only way to do this is to create an environment where these business interests are protected to insure their investments over time to make it worthwhile to grow and stay in Ontario, and Canada as a whole. Right now our corporate investment is at frightening low levels and why wouldnt it be? The Liberal/NDP scam artists have everyone angry at busines making profits as if this is somehow bad for us? Wow, shocked here. The ability to pull the wool over Canadians eyes is so easy these days. Point the finger and say" Thats the bad guy! Next thing you know the companies who bring our food to stores for us look like this

Bob Rae NDP one and only term as Ontario gov't ran the deficits up so extreme during his tenure Mike Harris had to make some rash moves to get the finances back in order. Harris had his hands full and like him or dislike him he did what he campaigned for ( only Canadian elected official I know of who actually did this ) and he left Ontario with a balanced budget. Took selling off some huge assets to do this. Sucks that this was done, but surely better than firing half the government workers and services instead. Financial choices are hard. None that are worthwhile are ever easy. Easy promises and lies is what the NDP and Liberals do. Never live up to their promises and always bury us in more debt. All the same? Now thats a lie and a load of BS. If they are all the same why dont you all simply vote for who I tell you too and we can cease ever arguing or talking about any of this again, after all they are all the same why not kill two birds with one stone? TCW3

Apologies it sort of slipped into it. Seems all too easy to do nowadays, everything is one remark or comment away from it. Looking ahead to days when it doesnt all turn political every two seconds.

The globalist game of poverty for all is in full swing everywhere. This is precisely what Trump was steering America away from and exactly what Obummer and Sleepy Joe are driving America into. This whole ordeal we are facing is truly ridiculous. England too getting hammered by the wokies. That said for the most part around here I stay in our lane, Canadas, and more specifically Ontarios concerns. If you want to talk global BS or Trump, start a new thread I have plenty to write on those issues too

Whats clear to me is our current understanding of what is happening to the Earths climate and why is extremely narrow minded and highly uninformed. Remember 99% percent of the worlds leading scientists were utterly and totally wrong on their predictions. Al Gores propaganda film; An inconvenient truth made bold claims that in ten years Florida would be mostly under water and the Arctic sea ice would be completely melted yet to my knowledge not one inch of Florida is more under water today then it was in 2006 when he and 99% of the worlds leading scientists agreed it would happen. There was a bunch more BS in that film and the point Im making here is we have to look at other considerations these guys clearly dont have it down exactly right. I come from a planet of people who know one simple fact; You get what you pay for. On that front as I mentioned above we have plenty of time to manage the climate from a Canadian perspective and we can certainly do enormously more to help with a massive sovereign wealth fund than we can by endebting ourselves and our childrens children children into poverty with some half baked debt fueled windmill scam like Kathleen Wynne pulled. We pay 3x the price for electricity in Ontario thanks to that witch all for the glorious gains of 1.5% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for those stupid wind turbines. Not to mention the forest fire that burned all summer from the contractors in the North who were installing them. Speaking of forest fires how about that damn arsonist arrest in Quebec that Trudope screamed in parliament was being caused by climate change? Was that a payback favour from one of his payoffs like Kadhr or Josh Boyle perhaps?

I dont mind ambitious politicians when their first priority is the well being of Canada and Canadians and they want to support their lobbyists interests or whatever. Its when they are so crooked like Trudeau who is the most obnoxiously corrupt and selfish leader we have ever had. At least that i can recall. We, SNC, Aga Kahn and on on on it goes. Its when Trudeau works deliberately against Canadas interest and tries to make Canadians poorer by design that is utterly and totally unacceptable. Thats precisely what hes doing. For the reason of climate change of course though *cough hack cough*

Granted this is true. I see this more of your friend jumps off a cliff coming up short towards the rocks below, theres no need to follow. For example ; the global meltdown of 08 was a massive global problem for the world too, except for Canada, who did not follow the rest of the world under Obamas lead with whacko fiscal policy. We came through that rated number 1 in response to the crisis because Harper and Flaherty handled the financials of Canada. Our dollar was worth more than the US dollar during this period we did so well. Harper used the simple and very unexciting fiscal restraint that was both responsible and safe for Canadians instead of wreckless "you'll have to excuse me if I dont pay attention to monetary policy" Liberal approach this time around that have brought upon us this tragic inflation, like the rest of the globe as you say. True it is. Trudeau followed the globalist idiots plan

Them car and toy payments are getting mighty painful for plenty of people. WaytogoTrudeau! The wannabe dictator who turned out to be nothing more than the great inflator

Some interesting info about the whole theory and its problems. Remember, the climate change crisis mongers only have a theory it does not mean they are factually correct. These two clips are not meant to inflame or enrage merely to inform. They are both very insightful and for any real world gains we need to be able to discuss the inevitable pros and cons of our approaches. Yes, approaches, there is no one single solution to any problem

Thanks for sharing. Added to bucket list

Walter White knows. There is no life, without carbon

Can the impact snowmobiles and pleasure boats even be measured into any possible climate model? The most hardcore sledders run 10k ish kilometers per year on their sleds. The average joker like me does what 200kms per year? The boats what are we talking for the average boater? 10 hours annual use? 20? Seriously think about it Im talking run/drive time most people dont put up that much use I've had waterfront my entire life I've seen it first hand. Yet the entire market is now being forced to run dangerous fuel that will damage and harm all this equipment. The carbon cost of building one single new sled, or boat, or boat motor etc will outweigh by a good margin the exhausted carbon of one of us end users more than its lifetime of use. The resources it takes to manufacture vehicles is immense. So are we talking sensible climate policy or is this merely a political stunt? Thats a serious question btw because what Im seeing is nothing but a political clown show when it comes to climate where the only solution that apparently works is crippling Canadas oil and gas sector, ethanol laced gas, crazy high taxes that go towards growing the bureaucracy and dont do anything to reduce climate, and zero efforts being spent towards real world solutions. I've said this before ethanol while cleaner is less energy dense and is not void of carbon during production, nor during use, and it brings its own challenges to the mechanical longevity of engines. Even at 10% at the pump how much carbon does this actually reduce? Its practically immeasurable Most importantly if we took all the time and energy wasted talking about climate change which like it or lump it has faced enormous backlash under the current approach to resolving it because these policies are a joke, a political stunt, and nothing more than a graft tax scam. If we took all that tv/computer time all the electricity all the wasted man hours and global meetings and print media coverage and all that wwork/time/energy and go back 10 or fifteen years when this all fired up and put all that time and effort into carbon capture technology instead? Heck by now we could all be burning ten times more gas it wouldn't matter one bit. So the solution is to solve the problem and focus on said above. I for one have lived long enough to witness what is truly happening here which is the gov't of the world are making carbon a sin and therefor must be taxed and this is the single most profitable tax scheme ever devised. This makes pollution and carbon the most appealing product the worlds gov'ts have ever had. Making so called pollution profitable for governments is the only sure guarantee that pollution is going nowhere, ever. If you buy into carbon being actual pollution that is, I dont. Its carbon, not pollution. The only reason that seems to make sense for tax mongers is people are are carbon based life forms and the powers that be sure seem to hate us humans these days. The carbon tax must be eliminated. Incentivize industries to create newer and better technologies. Reduce gas tax and energy prices and let the creative free market solutions thrive. I can assure you, all of you that when new technology arrives thats better than our current ICE engines thats cheaper to run and cleaner to run? No one will have to be convinced to switch tech and buy into this. It will be a natural landslide of adoption. Same as cars to horses it simply will happen. Last I recall no one forced horse owners into car ownership to save the e-coli related fecal deaths and disease related illness from man manipulated over population of horses and feed and manure. If Trudeau was alive and PM back then im certain some nonsense of this kind to scare people into his world view would be happening too.

Im not sure if you guys recall this event but there was serious farming issues and protests going on 15 years back or so. One farmer took a ton of corn and dumped it out at queens park. IIRC he said that ton of corn sold for $70.00 bulk and we were paying Michigan over $100.00 per ton to take our garbage. It was an eye opener. Coincidentally not long after that we began ethanol production in earnest. Its ridiculous that we are forced out of the choice when so many uses of straight petrol are far superior for reliability, safety, and longevity. Ethanol laced fuels in non ethanol capable engines makes for a lot of premature failures and wasted time, pleasure, and all sorts of additional work and money to resolve. Lots of wasted carbon in that work and replacement vehicles, parts and so on. It's a hard sell for me to believe 10% ethanol in our fuel adds up to any significant improvement in emission reduction. It does add up to significant problems with a large part of the vehicles and equipment we all use though. For the flex fuel cars sure its solid. To remove the choice at the pump is dumb big brother crap

Ive had good luck with Krown yearly. The theory is that it rinses through which is evident by all the black staining at the seams. Its a bit ugly my wife doesn't care for it but it makes the trucks last

GM used to make some of their bumpers out of aluminum to save weight in the 70's/80's. Dissimilar metal corrosion sets in, nasty stuff. Give them Fords a bit of time and watch what happens

Ranger also uses vinylester under the gel coat to seal the hull. Not so sold on the strength of Ranger transoms however lol. Anyways there are some well built glass boats out there I was generalizing because for the majority of them they are all polyester which is still good if done well. Its not like leaving a poly hull in the water for an entire summer is going to do much harm. IIRC the scheduled service is to pull them out for a 3 day dry off every 3 months or something like that.

E85 was available at the pumps here in Ontario for a few years around 2010 but it didnt sell well and the shelf life inst great so the stations that carried it ceased. In engines regularly run on E85 upon tear down they are often coated with a slimy jelly and I mean slime! It has its drawbacks and no matter what the green nonsense is, it generates more net carbon than it saves due to the farming carbon cost. Its really like the blue bin/green bin rackets its just a scam trying to get more $ out of people

The rubber hoses, carb gaskets and seals in old motors are not going to live long with regular ethanol exposure. As for making horse power? Ethanol by weight is approx 70% of petroleum so if your fuel metering is not capable of adapting to this like a FlexFuel vehicle is then you make quite a bit less power if running ethanol laced fuels on a petroleum fuel curve/tune/calibration. Even if you dial in the air fuel ratio for ethanol properly you still wont see any real horse power gains from ethanol vs petroleum unless your static compression ration is high enough to make use of the extremely high octane ethanol has. The one huge advantage ethanol has over petrol is in boosted applications because alcohol is cold and when vaporized you get latent heat evaporation with cools the air down. Think intercooler on a turbo car but in the fuel for basically free. Under boost? Cant really beat e85 or even better straight methanol just be prepared to be gagging on the methanol fumes. Yuck In short for hi-perf applications that are not properly calibrated for ethanol theres no gains to be had, and almost always there will be power losses.

Aluminum makes for good fishing and playcrafts like pontoons and whatnot. Not a good choice for a performance hull though which is why we never really see aluminum offshore race boats. The odd guy tries/d it but they fatigue funny and fail prematurely. Fiberglass is tough stuff

Production boats are made out of polyester and guess what polyester isn't? Yep you guessed right polyester is NOT waterproof. Any fiberglass hull that is left in the water for extended periods is going to take up water. How well the laminate was laid and how much resin was used and what the layup schedule is all affect how/when problems will arise. Rest assured, they will arise. Its by design, no manufacturer wants their stuff to last forever plus poly is considerably cheaper than the better resins are. So if any of you are shopping used boats and its been restored? Ask some questions about materials and resin. If a restoration is done well it will be substantially better than a new factory hull

A low buck fun ripper sled would sell a ton. Something like the old school et250, light, fast enough, and fun to zoom around for 4K. I bet that would outsell every other sled model combined. Who wouldnt buy one? Then the people who get introduced into the sled world who otherwise wouldnt bother become hooked and upgrade. Heck 3K sled or something utterly crazy cheap would really shake things up and light the sport afire again. Just my 0.02 cents

Polaris should make their move and buy out cat now or at least start talking. BRP's market share will grow because they fill the 4 stroke void Yamaha will leave open and the pressure on the other two camps will put the hurt on their R&D funding. It makes sense at this point. I dont think Cat could buyout Polaris, but a merger would be wise and give them the power to increase market share and especially put the pressure on BRP to innovate. This would make for a better consumer product and bolster the strength of the American camps. It would put pressure on BRP for sure but I believe their ability to stay out front with new tech is still strongest and will keep them ahead.

trailers too require a separate policy. Its cheap but sneaky on their behalf. Home owners nor auto covers them if your whole rig is stolen or destroyed. All perils is the best way to go if its affordable, no worries

Cool. I met four dudes in 99 on the trail near Timmins who had ridden up from Kentucky on sleds. I had never heard nor was aware there was any sledding taking place in Kentucky prior to that, but thats where they said they were from.