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I am not pro or anti EV either, although I have been labeled as a hater by some of the more fervent EV supporters. I have no problem in accepting EV's have considerable advantages in performance and fuel costs, whether it's at a public charger or home. Having solar is icing on the cake. The only time I have had real range anxiety was when I traveled between Nymagee and Cobar (77 km ) in a Ford with a 4 litre engine that consumed petrol like an alcoholic with free booze, and the tank was showing a quarter full. No aircon, and 40 C heat. I probably got there on tank fumes.

About every 2-3 months, I travel between Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai to visit friends. About 200 km. I usually refuel going back at Doi Saket. There are about a dozen fuel pumps at the station, and a single EV charger. So what do you do in that situation if a couple of EV's are waiting there before you to be charged? Drink coffee for an hour? I have no doubt EV's are much cheaper to run, and most owners refuel at home. However, on the road, permit me to doubt they are as convenient to refuel as an ICE. If I did run out of fuel on the road, a jerry can solves the problem. An EV, the only option is a tow truck, unless you want to cart a portable generator around with you. Life support for gas guzzlers? Not in my lifetime.

Why did you top up with a quick charge? Let me guess -range anxiety, and you did not have a jerry can full of electrons.

They will if they are 200-300 km away from home.

IMO you are missing the point. As the ratio of EV's to ICE's changes, one would expect fuel stations to be closing, yes? Also, any EV owner would be looking for a public charger when they are 200 - 300 km away from home, yes?

IIRC the opioid crisis in America was generated by a US company producing the drug oxycontin inside America. It's obvious the billions spent on drug enforcement simply does not work, and never has. The countries that have made drugs legal have reduced crime statistics. There's no profit for the criminal cartels, and addicts don't have to turn to crime to finance their habit. I expect Trump to thunder on, and achieve just as much as his predecessors. Which is zero.

The Chinese market is quite important to Tesla. If Trump is slapping tariffs on Chinese EV's, why wouldn't the CCP do the same for Tesla's? Yes, I know they are manufactured in China.

Just another in the long line of bootlickers with no principles.

True. Not as bad as Australia, household debt $276,000.

I will start believing ICE's are on life support when the number of recharging ports across Thailand is about 2:1 greater than the number of diesel, gasoline and LPG pumps currently in existence. ICE cars will be around for at least another 30 years. As for any heavy haulage, batteries are uneconomic because they become part of the payload.

I for one am going to really enjoy the squealing of the MAGA worshippers, when the light dawns on them that their hero has thrown them under a bus. Welcome to a recession, and higher cost of living. What Trump is doing highlights the importance of being careful what you wish for.

Engineers are risk averse, that's why they build safety factors into just about everything constructed. IME when engineers fail, it is usually because someone - not necessarily an engineer - has cut corners. Bean counters are likely suspects. I loved Latin. The Romans had a gift for compressing thoughts into a simple, sometimes brutal, very few words. Dixi.

I guess awarding the Nobel Prize for medicine to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weismann in 2023 for the development of mRNA vaccines was a mistake, then. Try as I might, I can't find any reference to the article you cite being peer-reviewed. When it cites Dr, John Campbell as one of its sources, the ivermectin promoter, it's a huge red flag.

There is another explanation for why younger people are coming down with cancers - obesity. It's become an epidemic. It's a chemical fact toxins which can cause cancer are mostly lipophilic, I.e. they are stored in fat. The body has two types of fat, subcutaneous and visceral fat, the latter is stored around the organs. It's logical the more fat a human body has, the more toxins it is capable of storing. The dose makes the poison. The US is one of the most obese nations on earth. Including children. According to the National Cancer Institute, obesity is a strong risk factor for 13 different cancer types. Blaming vaccines for cancer ignores the strong probability being a lardass isn't helping.

You are obviously unaware of Paracelsus's maxim, "the dose makes the poison". The 100 individual substances are restricted or limited because they can be imbibed or ingested daily. A vaccine jab is far less frequent. What is your evidence? A single person with an existing lymphoma, where the cancer equally may have metastasized as a matter of course. Not all cancers respond to treatment.

I developed lymphoma after a fairly long history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia at the end of 2021. I am now in full remission. Unfortunately for the OP's hypothesis, my lymphoma came after two rounds of conventional COVID vaccines, and before I had any mRNA boosters. I am a statistical sample of one, just as the OP is citing Professor Goldman. Absolutely meaningless without a cohort of cases. Cancers metastasize, that is their nature. Linking that to a vaccine booster is one hell of a logical leap. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc does not apply to one-offs, either for or against.

Good for you. I guess I am too lazy to farm full-time, and would prefer driving a tractor anyway. Battery storage is currently the bottle neck for renewable energy, although there's a Tesla battery in South Australia which is among the world's biggest. SA is 70% renewable electricity supply, aim 100% by 2028. Veggies look very healthy.

IIRC American debt to China is $900 billion. China produces 95% of the world's rare earths. An embargo on export would cripple production of TV's, electric cars... you name it. China imports a lot of food from the USA. $36 billion in 2022. If China goes shopping elsewhere for its food, where does that leave American farmers? In Trump's first term, his trade war with China cost American farmers dearly. Obviously he is incapable of learning from history. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.

40% are not, and therein lies the problem. Pay them more, produce on the supermarket shelves goes up. Deport them, a labor shortage with the same result. Worse, because crops are left to rot.

Most governments aim for about 4% unemployment. It's part of fiscal and monetary tools to control inflation and prevent wages growth getting out of hand. Too much unemployment, recession or depression. Too little, inflationary. Inevitably, the least skilled people go into the 4% figure. The problems really start when bureaucracies dealing with unemployment create hoops for the unemployed to jump through. It's war on the poor in disguise. If you want to cut expenditure, start by checking how much of that bureaucracy is really needed.

Mae Moh supplies 50% of the electricity to the North, 30% to the central area, and 20% to the north-east. You have microplastics all through your body. We all do. Plastics have been found at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Again , you are kidding yourself if you think natural gas is a cleaner fossil fuel than oil or coal. It comes out of the ground with up to 30% carbon dioxide, which is separated by absorption on amines or via membrane technology. Guess where most of that goes? What's farcical is people without any education in physics, chemistry or thermodynamics who claim anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are not an issue. If you want to begin virtue signalling, start by growing your own food . No pesticides or fertilizers, they are oil-derived. Eat what you harvest with your fingers, off banana leaves. No soap to wash your hands, I know how much energy it takes to make that stuff. If you get sick, you'll have to settle for herbals in place of modern drugs, most of which are fossil-fuel derived. Go on, show us how much you really care.

He has been told repeatedly by advisers tariffs would increase living costs. His ideology is about winning trade wars. The last term when he tried it, American farmers were the ones who suffered.

I guess I am no more prepared to embrace an EV religion than any other. When you are O&A, and not recharging your EV from home solar, you are most probably filling up with electrons from Mae Moh power station, one of the most polluting electricity producers on the planet. You are kidding yourself if you think owning an EV is the solution to CO2 emissions. About 70% of electricity worldwide still comes from fossil fuels. Replace every ICE with EV's overnight, you will only reduce CO2 generation by 9%. My apologies for interrupting the service.

I don't need to move forward, my two ICE's will more than see me out. As far as performance goes, I don't need to drive at more than 100 km/hr, or overtake like a scalded cat. You keep calling me a hater, I am not. I just view both EV's and ICE's through a pragmatic lens. If I was ten years younger, I would probably be buying an EV. OTOH, I have always been comfortable buying secondhand ICE's. I would have to buy an EV new.

Gina always.....