There is an extreme shortage of skilled laborers in the US right now that makes skilled labor worth a lot more than if that weren’t the case. This is pretty straightforward. If the goal was to meet this demand, unions would have their doors to new membership wide open. They don’t.

Part of what unions do is train people to do a specific job. The more people who can do said job compared to the amount of that work there is to do, the lower the wages for doing that job will become. The reason certain jobs are paid well has a lot to do with how difficult it is to get into them.

Your argument falls apart if you think about supply and demand. It theoretically benefits current union workers to have a president against unionization on the basic premise of supply and demand. If there are more unionized laborers in your sector, then your wages go down with the costs of your specialized labor. This…

This is objectively wrong. Fake vents aside, the long hood, curvy rear wheel arches, double bubble roof, integrated ducktail spoiler, low height, and overall proportions put this way ahead of most cars at its price or below. It’s an affordable exotic.

Let’s see the crash test.

If his own party hated him so much, then why is he PM? You pretend that there was no alternative than him, when you know that wasn’t the case. Peanut gallery criticism of parliamentary procedure doesn’t equate to being unelected.

It’s odd that other manufacturers aren’t having this problem right now though. I have seen tons of new GR86s and Supras, so it’s not down to any nation- or region-wide shortage.

His own party did elect him. That’s why he’s PM.

That’s how parliamentary democracy works. He was first elected to parliament and then his party selected him to be PM. So, again, claiming he’s unelected is just ignorance.

Sunak was indeed elected to Parliament. What are you going on about?

I’m starting to think that the new Z isn’t a real car. It has been over a year since the first tests came out and I still haven’t seen one on the road or even at a weekend cars & coffee. This is in SoCal, what should be the epicenter of this car’s market too.

So probably better not to ban non-EVs then?

But everyone has their own garage right?

I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before European cities start levelling their historic centers so they can put up parking garages with fast charging stations. And then I woke up.

Do you think the hyperbole is working so far?

I don’t know many who would dispute that it’s possible to drive an EV long distances. But it’s a fact that having to charge for 30 minutes (assuming an available fast charging station lies on your route) isn’t as convenient as a 2 minute fill up at a ubiquitous gas station where you probably didn’t have to wait for a…

But the method of steering is precisely the problem. An outright ban is obviously not only ineffective, but I would argue also counter-productive. We can tax for community impacts, which is what the solution should be here.

Easy. Eliminating their health impacts didn’t reduce the effectiveness of gasoline or our ability to fireproof buildings.

This is true, which is why it makes no sense to ban ICE cars at this point (apart from environmental signaling to score political points).

Superior technologies don’t need bans on their predecessors to succeed. On a number of levels, even beyond infrastructure, gasoline-powered cars are still better. Until BEVs can charge in the ~2 minutes it takes to fill up a gas tank, they will be at a competitive disadvantage, as everyone doesn’t live in buildings…