This is a silly ban. Preventing restaurants from using them seems like it would always be a non-starter.

You will have to pry my hot gas stove from my cold dead hands.

Don’t ban gas before I get it on my street. This might be the year! 

Oh how I loathe marketing people.

I have never once been like “this entire room of strangers needs something from me”.

1st gear: If Mercedes concept featured in the lead photo were a transformer, it would turn into a penguin. Tell me I’m wrong.

I don’t have a garage. I have a house but the nearest outlet is on the other side of the house away from the driveway. If I bought an EV I would probably just install a charger on the side of the house close to the driveway, but that’s probably close to $1k with labor and low income people would struggle to pay that…

And about 7B of them REALLY want the sort of middle-class lifestyle the average American or European enjoys, which is kind of a problem.

I don’t think I have seen a Lumina that nice since about 1995. That is a collector car at this point, not a daily driver. Under $5K for some early ‘90s nostalgia is not really THAT ridiculous.

They won’t. But they have to say they will because the stock market is a futures market. A company will promise to do in the future whatever is popular now. In 2028 when they announce their 2040 plan, nobody will remember what was said in 2021.

Yeah it’s also kind gross to tell someone that they need to charge their car at Walmart or Target or something like that. Like if you need to get to work and need a charge, you have to leave 30 minutes earlier and sit in a Walmart parking lot. Takes away a lot of the independence of owning a vehicle.

im not rich and i could use one as my daily. hell im not even upper lower class i just got lucky and bought a house just after the collapse in 2008 when they were cheaper. if you dont own a home or your apt complex is old and too cheap to install a charger then electric isnt for you. its not like gas vehicles are…

That was a very “tell me you’re 25 without telling me you’re 25" answer.

I do installs for Tesla supercharging stations, and they are currently moving towards building them in rural towns between big cities that aren’t reachable on one charge. There’s something a little gross about building this $200k station for effectively nobody in the town itself.

Look, this emphasis on the underlying equity issues will come in very handy, just as soon as we replace humans with the coral fern hive chorus of Gliese 581g.

Isn’t the first thing you buy after a house, a pick-up?

Thank you. I came here to say very nearly the same. I have no idea who this guy is, nor any idea of his background other than what was mentioned in the article, so far be it from me to judge his ability to run NASA. I certainly don’t agree with his politics (at least per the article), but the important point that…

Probably not a terrible idea to have an administrator run an organization. Scientists are notoriously bad at running things. As for his personal politics, that may be an issue, but considering who appointed him, it would not seem to be. NASA has never been well-run as far as I have seen. So maybe not much to lose…

That NASA climate research was a thorn in Puitt’s side, until now.