Lacessit

I don't have a debit card with a bank, I use a credit union. I've never been scammed on the debit card. The credit union's fraud section has called me several times when I have made a transaction from an unfamiliar place, or for a large amount, to verify the card user is myself. I fail to see why any financial institution should have a different response to fraud, depending on whether the card is credit or debit.

I was in Australia for six months this year. If not for withdrawing cash once as a gift, all my transactions there would have been done using a debit card.

If someone wants my business, they can either accept cash, or a debit card. If neither of those options work, it's goodbye. I don't trust phone apps. They have had serious problems with data breaches, and harvest personal information.

I am predicting hydrogen will eventually win out, for several reasons. 1/ There simply is not enough lithium and other elements available to do a complete conversion of all the ICE's in the world to electric. 2/ Auto manufacturers have very little to do by way of conversion of a fossil fuel ICE to a hydrogen ICE. Storage onboard is their principal challenge. 3/ Right now, hydrogen is no more virtuous than fossil fuel, because most is produced by cracking methane.The situation will change when electrolysis of water, fueled by solar or wind energy, takes over. 4/ Bulk transport of hydrogen will become practical by conversion to ammonia, and reconstitution at the point of sale. The technology is there, it's just a matter of ramping up to production volumes.

Let's not forget those aftermarket conversions had taxpayer funding and political blessing either. The West Gate Bridge is a 10 lane carriageway, five lanes either way. I have yet to hear of an ICE truck fire that has closed that bridge for several hours. I haven't heard of an ICE fire on a cargo ship capable of sinking said ship either. It will probably take an EV fire in the Mullum Mullum or Melba tunnels, for people to wake up to the fact while passenger EV's may be safe enough, EV trucks are cruising time bombs.

There is one aspect of nuclear power which seems to be ignored by its proponents. A fossil fuel plant can be decommissioned and demolished, the land may be put to other uses. Nuclear power plants irradiate the steel and other materials of their construction. Consequently, the only thing that can be done with a nuclear facility which has reached the end of its service life is to seal it up in concrete, just as if it was a failed reactor. Then wait a few thousand years.

Thank you for saving me the trouble of explaining to one of the resident d!ckheads what John Cadogan was on about. EV trucks don't make any sense. The average diesel engine in a truck weighs 200 kg. To match that output, a battery pack for an truck needs to be 2000 kg. Why would any truck operator sacrifice 20% of their carrying capacity, except when subsidized by taxpayers, and facilitated by woke politicians?

I would not let myself suffer an illness for ten days, I'd be looking for a diagnosis and treatment after 2-3 days.

I fail to understand what your point is in posting one of my responses from an entirely different thread. If you don't agree with what I post, put me on ignore. Easiest way to get me to go away.

I can't argue with his math, two battery fires in truck EV's which works out as 250 times more likely to happen than with the ICE fleet, admittedly from a small EV population. I focus on the facts and logic he puts into his videos, perhaps your attention span can't get that far.

In my GF's village, which is surrounded by rice fields, the average wage is 2500 baht/month. Most of the villagers work the rice fields, grow a lot of their own food, and go further afield for laboring or building employment. Working in the rice fields is 300 baht/day for the men, 200 baht/day for the women. Rice does not need tending every day. Planting and harvesting are when it is all hands on deck. The fields are cropped twice a year. I can only imagine what it is like in Issan, where there is only enough water to crop once a year.

The liver has the job of processing alcohol. The same goes for dealing with the fructose in grapes. I've seen people here die of liver cirrhosis, it's not pretty. Perhaps you're a troll who likes posting insults. Try for something witty next time.

Nobody saw the practicality of EV's for a long time either, until battery technology advanced sufficiently. Electric wise, heavy duty vehicles have some way to go.

How would you know? Do you really think anyone on the distaff side of your family is going to admit they have been selling sex?

Our neighbor in the village has half a dozen mutts. Every night, they will bark and howl for about ten minutes at 2 am. I doesn't bother me. It reminds me to get up and have a pee.

Are you buying one? I would have thought an EV would be ideal for Bangkok.

These EV's must be miraculous if they don't need brake fluid, wheel bearing maintenance, steering hydraulics, brake linings and tyres.

It passed the last annual inspection. Mind you, I've seen vehicles passed in the test facility that should be in a junkyard.

There's a very good reason an EV owner would not buy another ICE. It would shoot down their false virtue signalling in flames. I don't mind taking the advice of an experienced EV owner. I certainly don't want the advice of a biased one.

If the crack is not in my line of sight, no. It's more a cosmetic issue.

What's silly is the way EV owners defend their electric Jesus when deficiencies in the technology are pointed out, as if such comments are blasphemy. Just calculate the probabilities of one EV owner encountering another EV owner, one who is equipped to transfer electrons, with the patience to wait several hours. Less than 8% of total vehicles in Thailand. Even then, I doubt you can appreciate how abjectly dumb your post is.

I bought a 2006 Toyota Vios about 7 years ago. 83,000 km on the odometer, 230,000 baht. It's worth about 80,000 baht now, more to me. It now has about 100,000 more in km, and has never missed a beat. My mechanic says it may expire at about 400,000 km. It will probably outlast me easily. How much depreciation do you think your EV will undergo in 7 years? What is stupid, me buying a vehicle of known reliability, which almost any mechanic in Thailand can diagnose and service, or you shelling out upwards of 800K baht for a vehicle whose servicing infrastructure and replacement parts inventory are unknown quantities?

I am not worried about "what if " scenarios, I am posting as hypothetical situations. I have occasional service provider outages, none of which concern me. The point I am making is even without any refuelling stations in sight, it's easy enough to transfer fuel from one ICE to another. Siphoning electrons is a tad more difficult. I usually carry about 3000 baht in cash with me, which is enough to deal with almost any situation. You are located in Bangkok. I have no doubt most people use electronic cash transfers there. Here in Chiang Rai, Thais still buy gold as a hedge against inflation, and cash is still king. I get to see customers in the banks withdrawing notes piled up like house bricks. Perhaps you should get out of Bangkok more, all that air pollution year round can't be doing your brain cells any good.

As I would not know how to do that, the advice is not much help to me.

IIRC it was Mike Tyson who said everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth. One can't plan for an unexpected detour when a road is closed by flooding, landslip, or a major accident. IME there are quite a few spots up in the mountains around Chiang Rai where there is no mobile signal. IMO it's a dumb poster who would discount the possibility of either event.