Taking those trips in your ICE car isn’t free - hundreds of dollars in depreciation cost for each trip. Renting makes the costs perhaps more visible, but it’s not even mostly added expense.

an EV powered by coal plants is basically no worse than an ICE gas car. Actually cleaner by a small margin, but basically a wash.

We are there. The *vast* majority of people drive less than 30 miles a day.

As for lasting longer, it’s far less complicated. That absolutely will translate to longer life. No water pump, no oil pump, no transmission, no timing belt, etc

You have an expensive depreciating asset. Renting someone else’s asset for the heavy depreciation is basic economics. As is paying 80% less for ‘fuel’ for the other 350 days of the year.

Well they do, but they should rent an ICE car for that purpose for the 5x a year it might be necessary.

It can also provide 100km driving range on just a six-minute charge.

Sanctions will not change the Ukrainian outcome in the short term. Long term, they hopefully lead to regime change in Russia.

Saving $0.05/gallon is a silver lining vs children dying in Ukraine?

Still likely costs less than capturing the CO2 released every day for 20+ years. Oh and the CO2 released shipping that fossil fuel from well to pump.

This is just training for the full LED projector movie watching while your TeslaBike totally self rides you there

Russia nets money to use against Ukraine. If that’s not simple enough to explain why this is bad, then um...

Please, it’s the Goa’uld

Apples v oranges. Global macro scale trade isn’t the same as cross physical border stuff.  And I’d bet more than a few degrees of magnitude difference as well.

Considering how absolutely co-dependent on US consumption culture their economy is, not likely.

‘blows up in his face’. That’s sorta the worst case scenario since he is 70. has no succession plan. is starting wars of grievance. and has nukes.

if by ‘coming out of’ you mean heading into one, sure. We’re basically smack in the middle of the 20k year cycle so things should be leveling off and/or starting down.

Add in he’s 70, rumored to be in less than stellar health...with no succession plan at all.

Well they did just kinda annex the breadbasket of Europe.

All depends on the particular elemental chemical properties, how much can be stored per unit of mass/volume, how many charge/discharge cycles it can reasonably handle.