lapswim

Yep, the typical electric car owner has the personality of Rain Man. They memorise all the green power statistics but not the real cost. Without the subsidies the whole industry would be toast. I did not yet see an independent signed off audit of on the electric cars and I suspect that the these cars pollute the same or more than petrol power cars. Electric cars lost out 100 years ago. It is ridiculous that tax payers are subsidising these cars for the rich.

Where is the bit about paying taxes, the military industrial complex and going to war for profit? Are you a cheese burger?

May I suggest you just buy local Pork not in a can?

What we need is a transport equalisation tax to create subsidy/excise equity between ICEs and BEVs in Thailand. That is an equal excise on purchase price excise, electricity used for vehicles and a pollution requirement on power stations using fossil fuels to make electricity equivalent to the Ultra Low Emissions Vehicles requirements .

Much better than a BEV. Malaysia appears to have very cheap petrol and Thailand's power seems to be basically derived from Liquid Petroleum Gas. So the pricing equation is determined by Governments' Power Pricing, Car Industry and excise policies. Government needs to get out of the way of economics, look what happened with the excise sales rate mandating diesel pickups, a 2.5 PPM particulate catastrophe.

Unhealthy. I did that years ago but switched to almonds with the skin off after hearing Dr Steven Gundry explain that peanuts are bad for you because of the lectins they contain.

https://blog.tradologie.com/top-5-basmati-rice-producing-countries-in-the-world/ Yes. Nakhon Ratchasima.

Thailand wants to be on the EV wagon and become a supplier so it wants BEVs domestically too. However, current lithium BEVs do not work well in very cold or very hot conditions like Thailand. Governments are very bad at mandating technology, just look at all the diesel utes used as shopping cars and all of the 2.5 ppm particle pollution around Thailand. Wait for solid state batteries to improve their production capability and longevity.

and from my reading of it that answer would be NO.

Just when you think inflation is really taking off the federal reserve tightens the money supply and growth/inflation peaks. In the U.S.A. I understand finance for car loans has tightened and repossessions are skyrocketing. The U.S. car shortage will disappear as people cannot afford the repayments and the premium prices will unwind. Cars (Transport) was a large part of the CPI increase anyway. I could see the same thing happening in Thailand soon, especially with rising airfares and the cash strapped consumer cutting back on overseas holidays.

When the Bank of Thailand follows other central banks and puts up interest rates it will be interesting to see the effect on house, condo and rural land prices. I suspect that lenders will be wary of risks, the risk premium and therefore lender margins will increase as well as the central bank discount rate and prices will hiccup in sales reliant on Thai bank financing such as Thai homes and small plots of rural land not attractive to Charoen Pokphand. Pattaya prices may rise as the Farang using developed country savings resume the retirement lifestyle with a temporary demand backlog due to Covid. The Chinese and Indian demand that is political. I cannot see tourism reaching previous levels with developed and emerging country debts, living costs and airfares rising, so I do not see rents taking off. I think that most of the housing stock in Pattaya is obsolete, built of concrete or brick with high thermal mass, dark coloured roof tiles, oriented incorrectly to the sun, unshaded windows, no damp course, no radiant heat foil, no backyard small land area and asbestos. So taking the price/square metres of land and accelerated depreciation for the houses, buying looks less attractive. In the condos there is really very poor build quality, ineffective condominium management and no space to swing the cat.