Burning 100 year-old trees still puts the carbon cycle witin one human lifespan, and well within the lifespan of CO2 in the atmosphere. Most timber deliberately used for burning is short-lived softwood, with a cycle-time of about 25-30 years. Climate is a 25-year average of weather. Burning a Sitka Spruce or a Douglas…

“burning gasoline is carbon neutral by your comparison, all oil and coal came from living plants and animals that got their original energy from photo synthesis”

Burning fossil fuels from tens and even hundreds of millions of years ago is not carbon neutral today. The amount of carbon in the atmosphere today is…

Alternatively: a new dry place to sleep while flooding takes out your home.

“In 2014, total health expenditure [in Germany] was 11.2 percent of GDP”. I haven’t found a more recent % of GDP figure.

The 11.2% figure comes from the link you posted:

The more I read about this, the more it seems that Tesla have managed to get the 6th-fastest EV prototype at the ‘Ring, while Porsche managed to get the fastest production EV in its class.
I’m also assuming that the Teslas are Roadster 2 development mules.

The most amazing thing is the amount of additional rear track on…

“American consumers have shown over and over again that while they like the idea of Made In America, they aren’t willing to pay afford a dime extra for that.”

Generally speaking, the people most keen on Made in America are the ones whose real-terms wages have shrunk most.

“The VAST VAST majority of US jobs aren’t Union, and the VAST majority of those workers do not realise they are n’t  oppressed.”
FTFY

“Profits are not paid to executives.”. True. Executive salaries are paid even during periods of loss. It’s just the share of the profits from profit-related bonuses that are *also* paid t0 executives.

Executives used to earn 10 to 20 times the lowest-paid worker. Now it’s 150 to 250 times the lowest-paid worker. And…

Do you have a source for that? If Germany is paying $18/capita that would put it’s % GDP spent on healthcare miles above the reported figures.

Given that the VX220/Opel Speedster used a GM Ecotec engine, which must have been used in Saturns if nowhere else, can’t the VX220 be imported now? (Genuine question - I thought the reason for the 25-year rule was non-Fedspec engines?)

Well, Richard “Dick” Braine is now head of the UK Independence Party.

“My point behind this has never been that there aren’t environmental impacts or combined damages from many emissions sources” Good. So why are you averse to “polluter pays”?

I’ve also responded below to most of your other points, but really, they are pretty much side issues, given my original question of you.

Asserting, rwice, that “Do you pay for the damage caused by your tailpipe emissions?” is an ignorant question does not make it so.
Answering that your tailpipe emissions are less damaging than in 1976 seems to confirm that it is a legitimate question.

In response to your first point. Today’s engines don’t burn clean. They are simply much less dirty than engines of yore.

It’s impressive that Tesla have now got the 6th fastest EV prototype at the ‘Ring.

Yep - commercial vehicles which overnight in a depot are the low-hanging fruit of the ev world.

Yep - commercial vehicles which overnight in a depot are the low-hanging fruit of the ev world.

The new VW ID Buzz finessed the design to try to keep similar lines, but it’s designed around current crash regs.

Its currently 3 or 4 years in to the 5 year design process.

Brcause we’ve moved away from using our shins as the front crumplezone.

evo.co.uk say the Panda 100hp ran from 2006 to 2010.