I agree, that’s what I was saying. There is a ton of waste, I’m just saying most of that is less obvious than the large budget projects people tend to focus on. Congress has been using the DOD as a jobs program for forever, and as you’re alluding to no-one really takes a look at the programs we either don’t need or…

While I agree with your point that we absolutely underfund stuff that we should be taking care of, I don’t know whether or not this is pointless. Mostly because we’re in never ending wars so it’ll inevitably find a use, and it can fly unmanned.

I wish we would look at the need to upgrade our infrastructure as a jobs program, and it would help people like you make that jump. But, unfortunately, the whole issue of transitioning has become toxic and political with vested interests in the status quo doing everything they can to convince people to hold on to the…

I haven’t read the replies to your comment yet, but I’m sure people are jumping on you for committing the unforgivable sin of showing any form of support for Musk on here.

Personally, and I know this isn’t the most broadly held view, I wish they’d go ahead and move the Corvette upmarket and make it a legitimate 911 competitor. I’m aware that’d take it out of the price range of more people, but I’d love to see how complete a car they could make it if they really went for it.

While I sorta agree with what you’re saying, the implication of these sorts of comments always seems to be “you can’t have an opinion on something unless you’re a professional in that field” which is absurd to me.

I could tell you that they’re not our future if it makes you smile today. No idea if that’d be true though.

I am pretty sure they weren’t saying gas powered cars are somehow irrelevant now. That being said, given EVs have only really started to get serious industry-wide development in the past 6 years or so after having been largely ignored for about a century... and there is a ton of promising research going on with…

If I’ve learned anything, it’s that people on average have no concept of change. What I mean is, they usually seem to assume things will stay exactly as they are now for some reason.

Cool. Let’s just agree to disagree and leave it at that. There’s nothing productive going on in this conversation, and I really don’t see the point in continuing it. Have a good day, enjoy your car, and good luck to your family and friends. Peace.

I think that’s a short sighted way to look at the situation, you have to look at the longer view. Whether or not EVs are selling like hotcakes *right now* (though to be clear more and more are selling each year), regulations are going to force them to sell more and more as part of our efforts to combat climate…

We’ll have to fundamentally disagree that developing new hybirds is the same thing as selling pure EVs. Aside from that, my first car was a 3 series and I’ve always liked the i8. BMW isn’t my favorite brand, but I certainly don’t dislike them. Don’t make personal assumptions about me because I disagree with you,…

While I do think it’s at least fitting here, it’s absurd when you see it in politics. “So and so EVISCERATED so and so, HUMILIATING THEIR BLOODLINE FOR GENERATIONS AND PLACING A MARK OF SHAME ON THEIR SOUL THAT WILL FOLLOW THEM INTO THE AFTERLIFE.” And when you actually see what they said, it’s just a remark like “So…

I don’t mean to be rude, but I’m not sure that addresses the point I’m making at all. The i3 was the last full EV they released, 6 years ago. Carbon fiber or not, they’ve released nothing in that time frame but an updated version of the i3. That’s what I mean by doing nothing. I was being a little generous by counting…

That’s a false comparison . BMW doesn’t face the same challenges Tesla does/did at all, they don’t have to build a car company from the ground up. They already have the manufacturing capabilities (albeit they’d have to make some changes) and they have billions to invest in R&D. They chose to do nothing but show…

Making them extremely aerodynamic helps with range, which is the main thing I see enthsuiasts talk about (aside from noise) when they say they don’t want to switch yet.

As embarrassing as that was, it was a predictable box to tick on the old-man bingo card.

I don’t know if they were republicans or not, but more than once I’ve seen the argument couched as people basically saying their personal desires trump everything else which is why they are against climate change. Which is probably the most honest argument I’ve seen so far in this arena.

Go one step further than that, to see why people were being driven in that direction in the first place. Why a “gig economy” ever became a necessity to begin with.

Trevor Noah did a fascinating Between The Scenes piece on this very issue, and how bad actors use the “it can happen to anyone” argument to shield themselves. I had never thought about it in that light before.