EVs aren’t competitive on up front price, but they generally are very close or better on TCO over time than comparable ICEs. They’re wildly less expensive when you consider the CO2 costs (which aren’t dealt with in the prices). The other significant problem with driving lower economic classes to used is there simply…

It’s the poverty of cheap boots just starting at $50K+. EVs are less expensive to buy, own and operate over time. Another factor is buying used. EVs, for the same reasons of people’s inexperience with them, depreciate much faster than ICEs. So you can get comparatively more car for less money...and without most of the…

My point was that at some point, the market willing to pay that upper tier price is big enough to sustain more than just the current upper crust ones. At that point...why would *any* of them make low end cars. That’s the problem with such high barrier to entry (even before COVID pricing) - upstarts can’t really…

There will be reasonably safe and habitable places on Earth for millenia.

Salt Lake City? No thanks https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/us/utah-great-salt-lake-dust-pollution-weir-wxc/index.html

From reading basically all cases of genital warts are HPV related so there’s a pretty high confidence in the rates of occurrence.

Another factor in cost/benefit is that to truly convert our civilization to renewable/green sources...we don't have enough copper to do it.  We'll need 2-3x as much as has been mined in all of history, in just the next few decades.   Mitigating ever worse climate disaster by getting to green is a significant cost…

Yep. 70k ppl is a *lot* of spilled liquids, oils, other toxic stuff. Thankfully their “Leave no trace” cleanup doesn’t deal the hard stuff like that at all /sarcasm .

Holy Chit! I did not know it was fatal and incurable.  Prompt treatment can prevent it’s taking hold, but wow yeah that’ll add some fun news stories.

As a former cop friend told me, the single most cost effective security solution is having a friend get their ADT signs mysteriously stolen.

if you left the scene of the accident, NASA would dearly love to know HOW ;-)

One fun fact that seems counterintuitive...before the COVID idiocy, you know which states had the highest vax rate and the lowest vax rate? CA and MS. Except CA was the lowest and MS was the highest. B/c CA allowed far more belief/religious/lifestyle exemptions than MS which just mostly didn’t care and said ‘tough, do…

as recently as 2016 China was installing more solar *per year* than the US had installed in the entire country. 2022? we have 140 MW installed in total, they installed 87 MW new in 2022 *alone*.

Sure. $30K for a used car isn’t a great deal me thinks. If a Soul can be $24k out the door, a *new* flex size shouldn’t be $40k.

“There can be only one!“  ...more franchise attempt apparently

Self driving cars aren’t ready for prime time to be sure. They literally need a standard ‘human take control’ system for scenarios like this. And by standard, I mean regulated, and first responders trained on it - not a small thing across an entire country. short of that it might be as ‘simple’ as 1. Beat on it so it…

yeah she likes that!  but at $40-50k it’s a non-starter unfortunately.

Had a soul since 2011, basically zero issues. Wife loves the boxy design...she just now wants it in a Ford Flex size haha

Yeah, having to go somewhere to refuel a car is definitely something Condo owners have never dealt with.

“selling $70-150k vehicles isn’t a sustainable business model”