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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert,

The environmental benefits of electric cars are favorable even after mining and processing the materials for EV batteries, such as lithium and cobalt, the impacts are generally considered to be less than with the extraction and refining of fossil fuels. This assumes that the power companies burn less and less…

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Reg,

The Ethylene Glycol used to convert Carbon Dioxide into fuel is itself a by-product of coal burning and requires energy to perform the chemical process. Also, since it is a coolant, it would draw heat and that heat would no doubt deteriorate machinery and materials and could inflame the fuel prematurely. It is also a hazard to the kidneys…[Read more]

Reg,

Orange Man spoke truth on this one year ago, but of course doesn’t act accordingly now.

Lithium batteries also only work well when within a certain temperature and humidity range. Too low or too high and they don’t produce power, they expand, explode, and create fires. In the past couple of years, electric car drivers found out their…[Read more]

Imagine a machine that turns carbon dioxide into fuel!!

Robert,

The environmental benefits of electric cars are favorable even after mining and processing the materials for EV batteries, such as lithium and cobalt, the impacts are generally considered to be less than with the extraction and refining of fossil fuels. This assumes that the power companies burn less and less fossil fuels themselves.…

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As if we could kill time without injuring eternity. So no way to be stochastic, didactic and inelastic. Hats off to brain droppings champion George.

Started in lower middle class Catholic town. Rough and tumble. Milly was the bully for a few years. Yea a girl. Boys were scared of her. Got in a few fights but only in my youth in that mill town.…[Read more]

It’s just sweet when people vote with their wallets. Trump has been trash-talking electric cars for years, so this Musk/Trump “partnership” is bullshit from the beginning. It will be even more fun as these aluminum framed/steel skinned “bulletproof”, cyber-“trucks” begin to fatigue. Well, not really bullet proof either. I inherited a few WW2…[Read more]

Reg,

@Enco – having driven both the Model Y and the ID4, I am happy to keep my old BMW V8. (The E39, if that does it for you!)

V8s made by free people are always the smoothest rides.

Alas, BMW didn’t make any during the war, though. Back then, their specialty as stoolies for the Reich was war planes for the Luftwaffe made by slave labor. B…[Read more]

@Enco – having driven both the Model Y and the ID4, I am happy to keep my old BMW V8. (The E39, if that does it for you!)

@Jakelafort – glad you liked the video. I would recommend  David McRaney’s book too.  I have used his ‘technique’ in debates over the last year with some positive results. It helped to fine tune some of my own approaches.

Reg,

“Those people aren’t attacking Tesla dealerships. They are tourists showing love. I learned that on January 6th 2021” – FaceBook meme.

The memes should read: “We were for him before we were against him”. Or perhaps: “We have to burn them before we find out what’s in them”.

Alysa Milano actually thought she was doing a good thing ditchin…[Read more]

Robert,

By the way, Underwriter’s Laboratories was founded in 1894, 131 years ago. Hardly a short-term quarterly-obsessed business. Nor is anyone using their testing. People who like profit want things that work.

Robert,

What would be really anti-human would be to run ships beyond their sea-worthiness and sink hundreds or even thousands of humans and the life-suztaining cargo the ships carry.

Or if the shipping companies just cut the ships off in the oceans to be ‘ghost ships’ harboring disease-carrying carrion feeders, and letting the hazardous…[Read more]

One thing is true time and time again. Modern corporations and their CEOs have short term financial goals. They measure themselves by the quarter. Exhibit A, The “self-regulating” Boeing Company. Look at the tabaco industry or opioid manufacturers if want to know their true nature. Environment be dammed. When governments are weak this is always…[Read more]

Robert,

We have heard that story for 5o years. Nobody ever mentions that government spending become people’s wages, jobs and contracts for American companies. Until they find out they are the ones getting cut.

As if business would not even open without government contracts?

Nobody mentions that we actually need roads and good safe b…

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Reg,

That Neil Degrasse Tyson video was fantastic, and the exact antipode and anticote to the goody-grinning nonsense of Francis Collins:

Richard Dawkins challenges Francis Collins on miracles

With a view of science like Francis Collins’, I shudder to think that this man was head of the National…[Read more]

Thanks Reg for the How Minds Change/McRaney video.

Would love to see the technique work against the hard core brain dead far right Trump cultists, orthodox anythings, lefty brain dead genocide, apartheid, colonialists. It is encouraging to think there is way to get through to such persons. From what little i heard sounds somewhat similar to a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, Are you trying to out-Strawman Unseen? Reducing taxes and untaxing everyone and reducing government spending across the board isn’t “Trickle-Down” or “Trickle- Up,” but a Big Splash. And wouldn’t people of all classes be more resilient against disasters with more of their own earnings in their pocket?

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Strega,

It turns all boats into racers and could power generators tapping it.