The temperature would have to rise about 70 degrees to melt Antartica (currently never gets above -35*).

My Yaris wasn’t an old beater when I bought it new. ...and It is still a good car. Never been wrecked, no rust, still gets 42 mpg......  My wife’s civic LX with a 6 speed was bought new for under $17,000.  It gets similar fuel mileage.  Hard to justify buying an EV or even a hybrid.

If sea ice melts, wouldn’t the sea level go down instead of rise?

Sending all of the manufacturing to countries you have no control over...to clean up your local environment has probably had the biggest negative impact on the environment.

But the petroleum infrastructure is there now and it works. It has been slowly developed and built up over the last 120 years.

So is the Red line on the front of a Civic Type R actually just a shipping cover?

The problem is that cars have to be able to withstand a crash as safely as possible. The battery can not just sit in a cubby hole and hide under a snap on cover. It has to be securely fastened in a “safe spot” on the car. Having a battery become damaged, or worse, come loose in a crash would be a bad thing.

SMART Watches?

Your prius C...and my Yaris have timing chains.

My 10 year old Yaris with 200,000 miles only has one of your maintenance items: oil changes. Overall cost per mile has been very affordable. I find it hard to believe an electric car will save me money.

Are you going to let a $10 hr “battery attendant” take your car apart and swap batteries?

It “works” for the early adopters....what happens if you throw 7,000,000 million EVs per year into the mix.  That is what 50% of car sales being EV would be.

Payback is even longer if the persons ICE car is a sub-compact. My “paid for” Yaris gets 42 mpg in my normal driving pattern.

If your phone goes dead its no big deal...just stick it back in your pocket and go on. If the battery goes dead while you are on the interstate...it is a much bigger deal.

What an executive says in public is about the same as what a politician says in public....whatever the audience at that time wants to hear.

Sure it does. When Obama/Gore schemed the utopian fuel rules, they planned that everybody was going to be driving small, aerodynamic, fuel-efficient cars in the future. The loop hole for trucks/big american cars was just supposed to help the big three limp along until they could re-tool for better small cars.

Part of the GM bailout deal was that Lake Orion Assembly stay open and GM build a small, fuel efficient car. ...something that would push the fuel average up for GM. The result was the Sonic.  They also build the Spark in Korea and sell it in the US

To my knowledge, nothing was ever “gutted”. The proposal to cap it at 2025 standard is still stricter than current vehicles can meet.

I know greenhouse gasses exist. I am talking about the “credits”.

A whole lot of Obama’s “green energy policies” are about forcing companies to buy and sell shit that doesn’t really exist. With lots of money going into the pockets of Al Gore’s buddies.