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Maybe your ideas about the quality of Chinese-built MGs are outdated? MG Reviews https://www.carsguide.com.au/mg

90% of the world's population continue to die of disease and starvation? Really? I used think that you were living 10 years behind most of us.. It turns out that you're actually living in the Middle Ages.

I notice you completely ignored that fact that Tesla had a record year in the USA in 2020 despite that fact that it was no longer eligible for credits. Another inconvenient truth, huh?

Thanks for all the authoritative backup to support your rant.. What's the matter, was your car salesman on break? Pollution from Fossil-Fuel Combustion is the Leading Environmental Threat to Global Pediatric Health and Equity: Solutions Exist Fossil-fuel combustion by-products are the world’s most significant threat to children’s health and future and are major contributors to global inequality and environmental injustice. The emissions include a myriad of toxic air pollutants and carbon dioxide (CO2), which is the most important human-produced climate-altering greenhouse gas. Synergies between air pollution and climate change can magnify the harm to children. Impacts include impairment of cognitive and behavioral development, respiratory illness, and other chronic diseases—all of which may be “seeded“ in utero and affect health and functioning immediately and over the life course. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5800116/ As for subsidies, renewables are pikers compared to the fossil fuels industry. Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Remain Large: An Update Based on Country-Level Estimates Summary:This paper updates estimates of fossil fuel subsidies, defined as fuel consumption times the gap between existing and efficient prices (i.e., prices warranted by supply costs, environmental costs, and revenue considerations), for 191 countries. Globally, subsidies remained large at $4.7 trillion (6.3 percent of global GDP) in 2015 and are projected at $5.2 trillion (6.5 percent of GDP) in 2017. The largest subsidizers in 2015 were China ($1.4 trillion), United States ($649 billion), Russia ($551 billion), European Union ($289 billion), and India ($209 billion). https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/05/02/Global-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-Remain-Large-An-Update-Based-on-Country-Level-Estimates-46509 And your assert that EV's have a shorter life than ICE vehicle comes from where? Your claim that you know of an ICE vehicle that had 500,000 kilometers on it? This is your idea of evidence? It is to laugh.

More important than the political tendencies of journalists is that of scientists. They skew a lot more to the left than the average American. After all, their profession is all about understanding data and drawing conclusions accordingly.

You should publish your report in The Journal of I Have A Friend Who...

What has that got to do with the issue of subsidies? Clearly Tesla doesn't need them in affluent countries. And it's working on on a lower priced vehicle. Of course, I'm sure your car salesman (really? you consider a car salesman to be authoritative?) will have a different take on it.

"Only" ? That's about 60% of Tesla's worldwide sales in 2020.

Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Explained, Tesla No Longer Eligible "Tesla and General Motors are the only manufacturers that have reached the 200,000-car milestone, meaning new purchases of qualifying vehicles from these manufacturers are not eligible for the electronic car tax credit. Tesla reached this mark in July of 2018, so the 50% credit phase out began in January 2019 and ran through the end of June 2019. From July 2019 through December 2019, the credit was reduced to 25%. After January 1, 2020, the credit was completely phased out to $0 for new buyers." https://www.taxwarriors.com/blog/electric-vehicle-tax-credit-explained-tesla-no-longer-eligible And as it happens, once Tesla lost that credit, sales collapsed and the critics once again were proved to be correct...just kidding. In 2020 Tesla sold 50% more cars than it did in 2019. Just to make sure that some who seem remarkably impervious to facts get the point, Tesla lost the tax credit as of Jan 1, 2020 but its sales jumped 50% that year! https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/tesla-us-sales-figures/

Aart from a few breakthrough cases, people who are coming down now with Covid19 are also those who didn't get it after almost 2 years. Do you think that they shouldn't have been vaccinated? What do you think makes you special?

I've seen some clueless questions in my time and yours is definitely one of them I'll see your one question and raise you one. Who is going to come down from their Western High Horse and build coal or gas powered plants for them? Who is going to come down from their Western High Horse and pay for the coal and gas those power plants will require for as long as they are in use?

you sure about that? Solar Soars As Emerging Markets Renewables Investment Hits Record High The price collapse in renewable energy technology and deployment drove record investment in emerging markets in 2019. BloombergNEF reports 2019 saw $32 billion invested against a previous high in 2018 of $24 billion. According to BloombergNEF’s 2020 Climatescope findings, for the first time, renewables (including hydro) accounted for the majority of new capacity added in the 106 other emerging markets (excluding Mainland China and India). Gas build fell to its lowest level in these markets since 2014, with just 17GW added. https://www.forbes.com/sites/feliciajackson/2020/12/09/solar-soars-as-emerging-markets-renewables-investment-hits-record-high/?sh=6c530f897434 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-energy-climatechange/china-doubles-new-renewable-capacity-in-2020-still-builds-thermal-plants-idUSKBN29Q0JT Coal on way out as renewable energy costs hit record lows in India Nagpur: South Asia has a pre-construction pipeline of 37.4 gigawatt (GW) of new coal projects, with India’s 21GW pipeline accounting for 56% of this. New coal does not make economic sense for India anymore, as renewable energy can deliver these outcomes better, quicker and cheaper, and without the negative socio-economic, health, and environmental impacts of coal, reveals a new report assessing the global pipeline of new coal projects.The report ‘No New Coal By 2021: The Collapse of the Global Pipeline’, released by independent climate change think tank E3G, analyses that there has been a 76% reduction in proposed coal power since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015. It further highlights that though India is moving slowly away from coal at a national level, considerable progress is being made at the state level. The climate groups behind the report are E3G, Global Energy Monitor and Ember. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/coal-on-way-out-as-renewable-energy-costs-hit-record-lows-in-india/articleshow/86215337.cms India Just Broke a World Record With Its New Solar Farm The country is thinking big when it comes to clean energy. https://futurism.com/india-just-broke-a-world-record-with-its-new-solar-farm And this was happening when gas and coal prices were low. Get back to me when the cost of fuel for solar and wind plants goes higher than $0.00/kwh How is life in that cave of yours?

I'd let you in on how to decipher punctuation marks but I've been sworn to secrecy.

So anyone in Thailand who wants a vaccination can get one right away? And the waiting interval between the first and second inoculations is negligible?

To be clear. It's not really special covid insurance. It's just that your policy has to explicitly stipulate that it will cover covid expenses up to 3.5 million baht. And that it will cover you for the extent of your stay or until your visa expires.

Is that all you've got? An echo? Trolling much? You claimed that based on this video none of these recycling ventures were profitable. I pointed out that the host of the show specifically said otherwise. "Did you watch the video? He specifically says that Redwood Materials , by far the biggest recycle, is already profitable at the unit level. "

First off, thanks for providing the opinion of a guy who is completely free of any motivation to trash Tesla. Except for the tiny fact that he makes his living selling cars. But not Teslas. And the gist of his comments is that Tesla will be overwhelmed by EV's being built by rival car makers. In other words, he's not trashing EV's at all. What does it tell you that he believes multiples rivals will be appearing on the scene? Do I really have to spell it out for you?

Not nearly as funny as someone who believed that most EV's are powered by lead acid batteries. What cave have you been hiding out in for the last 1O years? It's not incumbent upon you to share an opinion on a subject about which you know virtually nothing.. And as for your comment about fossil fuels. A moment's reflection might be a good idea for you. There is a huge installed base of fossil fuel plants. So naturally it will take time to replace them. But what percentage of new power plants that are being built are renewable? Not surprised that you don't seem to have a clue about this. Worldwide it's over 8O% "IRENA’s annual Renewable Capacity Statistics 2021 shows that renewable energy’s share of all new generating capacity rose considerably for the second year in a row. More than 80 per cent of all new electricity capacity added last year was renewable, with solar and wind accounting for 91 per cent of new renewables. Renewables’ rising share of the total is partly attributable to net decommissioning of fossil fuel power generation in Europe, North America and for the first time across Eurasia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation and Turkey)." https://www.irena.org/newsroom/pressreleases/2021/Apr/World-Adds-Record-New-Renewable-Energy-Capacity-in-2020 You really should try and catch up. Because in the case of EVs and fossil fuel, you clearly are afflicted with fossilized opinions.

If you genuinely didn't care, you wouldn't comment.

You don't help your case when you put a paraphrase, if that, inside quotation marks. As for what the Bible says and what it means, it can pretty much mean whatever you want it to. For instance nowhere in either the old or new testament is slavery condemned. In fact, Saint Paul explicitly tell slaves to obey their masters. How do you square that with "all men should be treated as equals?"

Luma has a 270 day option. Or did less than 1 month ago.

Given the experience of other countries that were sluggish to vaccinate and then opened when the cases were still low, if Thailand follows suit, those cases and death will shoot back up again.

Ya think conditions in the USA are comparable to those in Thailand? The cost of doing business is the same in both countries? Trade regulations?

Why did you neglect to include the Headline of that article? Here it is Solar power got cheap. So why aren’t we using it more? Actually, the thrust of this article is that wind and solar rices have dropped precipitously. ANd you misleading cited a quote from the article to make it seem as though the problem lay with the cost of solar plants.. Here's what came right before that quote "These investor-owned utilities are guaranteed a certain rate of return on their investments in power facilities, which basically guarantees continued earnings in exchange for running those plants. Even if the actual market costs of their energy sources would make operations costly, these monopolies are set up so that that’s not really a concern. “The thing that’s really preventing us from rapidly transitioning is what we call the lock-in effect,” says Paul. https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/cheap-renewable-energy-vs-fossil-fuels/

I forgot your ridiculous claim that this is PR. Anyone who know anything about Consumer Reports, knows that it is fiercely proconsumer and very very skeptical of corporations. Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.[2] Founded in 1936, CR was created to serve as a source of information that consumers could use to help assess the safety and performance of products.[3] Since that time, CR has continued its testing and analysis of products and services, and attempted to advocate for the consumer in legislative and rule-making areas.[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Reports Frothing much?