Some people were so rich that they could afford Leonardo da Vinci to decorate their lunch rooms.

fair point, but nobody ever ran into a car parked on a highway shoulder because of patent misinformation. At least, I don’t think they have?

That’s a lot of money that’s not going to the people that made it possible for Bezos to have the boat in the first place.

Or just fucking take it apart right there in the drydock.

I am 100% for making lots of money and buying cool shit, but for one human to have this much money is pushing the concept of Meritocracy a bit too far. Maybe it’s because middle class wages have stagnated in relation to the costs of housing and higher education over the past few decades that has my ass all salty.  But…

Spare us, dude. Bleeding hearts for the suffering mega-yacht industry?

I can offer one possible explanation:

which begs the question: “Why the hell are these not EVs then?” it’s literally the perfect use case for EVs since idling does not waste energy like it does in an ICE.

Karma yo!

if people are cheering when you wreck a car you are either in stock car racing or have been a huge douche nozzle in traffic.

I’m a Californian motorcyclist, and I 100% agree with you. Motorcyclists with loud pipes, and motorcyclists who expect drivers to make room for them, revving their engines are fucking assholes. Lane sharing being legal is awesome, and I do worry that shitty behavior puts that at risk.

But that was when fjords were fashionable.

If these states just change the laws without some fairly substantial public education to go with it, half of the motoring public which is already just one sock away from an unbalanced load, will take this a personal offense requiring a stand your ground response with cyclists literally in the crosshairs.

I wish I was…

Counterpoint:  Motorcycles suck and lane-splitting (call it what it is) is obnoxious and dangerous to cars and trucks who are changing lanes in slow moving traffic.

Exactly. You always get this comment when a country that isn’t the US succeeds at something. In most cases, it’s utterly irrelevant.

They also buy electricity from Sweden nuclear plants, but they’re less loud about that. Like Germany depending on french nuke plants and Russian gas.

You both likely have states that use fuel taxes to pay for road maintenance. Whether they do that well or not is a different story. Whether those monies are firewalled or are 100% fungible is another story.

That’s what the fifth paragraph was all about. Also, what does population size have to do with it other than there probably would be enough supply for the US to do it yet? Getting 84% of a population to buy EVs is an impressive feat whether it’s 6 million or 350 million people.

You’re damn right that Norway should be proud of their fjords, Slartibartfast won an award for them!

Lots of EV people seem to forget that there are things other than the engine in there. To demonstrate, I will now list things that have gone wrong on cars in my house: