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In Australia a pack of 20 will cost you over 40 dollars. The strategy to reduce smoking by increasing taxes is backfiring spectacularly. Organised crime are making billions out of cheap smokes being smuggled in to the country. Many cheap smoke shops are being fire bombed in gang warfare activities. Nobody has learnt anything from the USA alcohol prohibition in the early part of last century. That was a direct cause of the rise in organised crime. If somebody wants something, someone will supply. I can buy a pack of 20 for ten dollars at a cheap smoke shop. The government is losing billions in unpaid taxes.

My mother in law grows some great weed, free for me. But that wasn't the point if my comment. If we go to Pattaya then I'll buy some weed from one of the many cannabis shops. 250 baht for a joint is not big deal at that time. Probably spent 4000 baht on dinner and drinks before that. Don't do it every week mind you. Just saying that a lot of people will and do pay for weed at that price from time time. Refuting the previous posters claim.

I often pay 250 baht for a joint. I think that is wealthy tourism. Don't you?

Can't buy a house, condo yes in certain circumstances

Yep, agree

Pretty well can guarantee tax increases in one form or another. The "productivity" label is a joke. Tax and spend is the Labor way. Never a thought about reducing wastage.

Again, in English please.

Glad you find death and destruction amusing. I have family who were evacuated from Sangkha. This is real and involves real people and warriors not of the keyboard genre.

I don't own one. Driven a couple. I'll stick with petrol and diesel power for the time being thanks. Your money, your choice. EV owners are becoming like crazy religious nutters and simply cannot accept other people's choices. I know that in my diesel truck nothing is being recorded, including conversations, and being relayed back to China. It also doesn't have a remote kill switch which it can pretty well guaranteed the Chinese battery cars do. Same as the solar inverters with their hidden wifi transmitters as has been discovered recently. What better way could there be to cripple an enemy...shut down the power grid and transport. Everything the Chinese do is done with strategic intent. Everything. They've pretty well shutdown manufacturing in a lot of countries by becoming the world's factory.

Bev do not perform better,that's a fallacy. They may accelerate well initially but run out of puff pretty quickly. Much like an another version of an external powered engine like a steam train. Heaps of initial powér from stored energy....then start replacing/ recharging/ shovelling coal. Want to race for say 1000km? Or even 250km driving hard? Of course not. EVs simply can't do it. Not knocking them, horses for courses but don't kid yourself that they can compete power and distance wise. Around town a battery car could make sense for some. And good for them. They're not the first choice for everyone.... respect other people's choices.

No worries, all good if it works for you.I don't have an issue with battery vehicles per se....just the evangelists. I find it therapeutic working on old motorbikes.. pull off the heads, grind the valves or completely splitting the cases and rebuilding from scratch. Porting inlets on a car head, bigger cams , etc etc. something I enjoy and seeing the fruits of my labour resulting in an increase in performance of the stinky motor. I should add I've spent a lifetime in the electrical world from wound rotor, squirrel cage, primary and secondary resistance starter motors through DC variable speed motors and AC variable voltage variable frequency controlled motors used in the modern EVs.Along with DCS and PLC control systems including what you see on you interface screen on you EV. Interesting stuff when I was getting paid to do it! But pretty boring software oriented stuff. I stopped getting excited about that decades ago. But, to me, the fun is still with the internal combustion motor. That's where I can get my hands dirty and my mind sharp as I get older.

The thread is about Ev sales falling off a cliff. I'm giving my view why this may be. I'm just giving my opinion why me and many people like me still love the stinky old natural powered engines. Simple as that. No attraction to battery powered cars just yet. No need to demonise the greater majority of car lovers due to an ilogical ideological belief.

Let me know when Boeing or Airbus go electric, then I'll keep up.

I doubt you have ever experienced the alleged performance that your dream car is capable of. Certainly not in Thailand, not on any normal road. If you did then you may well be what we call a rev head. In which case you should join the legions of petrolheads who can and do actively stretch the capabilities of their chosen vehicle. Supertune an EV? Not possible.What you see is what you get. Ever seen a 400 HP Ford Popular? An 800 HP Ford Falcon? Ever smelt burning rubber combined with the smell of nitro in a 6000hp dragster hitting the 4 second quarter mile? Ever had passion? Ever had a dream? Happy with vanilla? Go with the EV nonsense, the Government will love/ own you. I'll stick to the stinky cars for as long as I can. I respect your choice. I doubt you can abide mine. Good little robots. Obey. Edit to add: Most EVs I have seen look like frogs from the front. Ugliest looking cars since Citroen gave birth.

Totally irrelevant. I stand by prediction. EVs will pay one way or the other. Must admit I didn't know Toyota made an equivalent battery powered HiLux. Oh that's right.,they don't. You are comparing apples and oranges.

That wouldn't be a Thaksin decree by any chance would it?

Very impressive, but some of us are fortunate enough to not have to work to stay and live in Thailand.

The inconvenient truth is that as EV numbers rise fuel excise for the government drops. Be prepared for an increase in taxes in one form or another. Maybe pay by the kilometre or massive increase in car registration costs, or both. Easily justified by the powers that be...." EVs are much heavier and cause more damage to road infrastructure". It will happen sooner or later.

Yes I read that earlier. Claimants may get 10-14,000 dollars. Law firms tens of millions. Criminal.

Do you know the difference between a dead dog on the road and a dead lawyer on the road?? There are skid marks in front of the dog!

Not bad for a guy who got elected to arguably the most powerful position on the planet......twice!

Ai analysis of AI. What happened? Where has rational thought gone or going to?

The internet exposes an inconvenient truth with some posters. Some welcome their own demise. Some also brag about paying a Thai woman to pretend to be their wife. Some choose to be happy, apparently. Personally I couldn't give a flying either way. I'll just do it my way!

So that just leaves you and the drunks? Happy days!

When you say soldered...I sincerely hope you don't mean the cable ends that are screwed down into the breakers. Solder ' creeps' and can lead to hot joints.