Seriously agree. In reality the changes are marginal. If my charging stop is 15 minutes instead of 20, that’s nice, but it’s a small enough difference to no longer be a decision factor.

It’s much more important to have more chargers at more locations

“Mistake”. Yeah, no. That’s someone thinking policies aren’t meant for them and blindly taking the easiest path. Sounds just like those 1337 hax0rs they gave the keys to

In a sane world this should get clearances revoked so they never again deal with any private data

Discriminates against Greeks

No one ever wants to hear that. They complain about EVs being so much heavier, doing so much more damage to the road ……

But don’t like hearing that road wear varies to the fourth power of axle weight so all cars are essentially the same and insignificant compared to trucks.

And especially don’t like hearing that I completely agree on varying by weight, for both fairness and that my EV is much lighter than their effing full sized pickup truck

And a reasonable person realizes that probably has to happen, but would look for a fair way to do it. A magat looks for a way to hold back any technology that doesn’t enrich their buddies

We do NOT want an electric car tax, but it would be fair to treat EVs fairly, especially if it goes toward transportation infrastructure fairly.

Some of the problems with current funding

• gas tax is insufficient. If we truly want to cover transportation infrastructure, we need to double or triple
• gas tax is unfair, even before we get to EVs. A more efficient vehicle does not need less infrastructure spending
• goes toward roads, almost exclusively, new projects almost entirely. I know maintenance is boring but it needs to be done, and should be what we need to solve the problem, not just default to road
• most transportation options have been starved of funding for a century. We need to fix that. We need choices. We need more scalable support, both up and down

That’s just an argument for a mileage based fee

I suppose it depends on cost, and how many launches they actually do. Trucking in LNG can’t be very efficient or scalable.

They really needed to include a paragraph about the expected effects of Starship. It may not be ready yet, but that’s in our near future, with a lot more launches.

If one of their concerns was soot from burning kerosene like SpaceX Falcon, what difference does methane make? They mentioned Blue Origin, it if that is hydrogen, what difference does that make compared to methane?

It would also have been useful to clearly distinguish affects from launches vs satellites, since that may direct possible strategies

Regulatory capture should never be a part of a “Free Market” and that is one of the reasons it is failing us

Or you could have both. According to all the testing agencies, modern teslas are among the safest most reliable cars.

And it’s not just the huge amounts of instant torque that can be a blast, but the noise, or lack of! The silence even under hard acceleration just makes it seem effortless. I also used to feel a thrill with the noise of a powerful gas engine but that feels like an awful lot of effort just to not accelerate well. I seriously feel Ike it’s similar to a stream engine train: “full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing”

We tried that. At least twice. One political party decided that investment was “fraud, waste, and abuse”, and shut it all down, driving manufacturing out of the country.

Google says 25% of the worlds oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, but it also says 55% off the worlds oil is used for transportation.

We should be able to fairly quickly (ie. Decade) cut oil by double what is impacted in trumps war

Yeah, let’s send thermodynamics to Guantanamo where we can violate them in freedom, FREEDOM! No interference from those pesky laws of physics, just FREEDOM

Unfortunately, that’s arguably still true, in the us. Given the current administration’s desire to roll back the calendar, outside EVs have been effectively banned, and many of the choices we were finally about to get were cancelled.

If I were looking for a new EV today, Tesla is still by far the most compelling choice available to me.

Australia is also central to renewables because of the number of articles on grid storage.

That kid should get the top grade for the project. She really proved his thesis that this is something she needs to learn about

My company is in there somewhere, however the layoffs weren’t that big and seemed well targeted. Especially the number of middle managers

And were spending way too much on ai. No guardrails. No limits. Reviewed partly on how high your ai spend is

I’m definitely worried, since I don’t spend enough

All the real developers are using Macs. BRO, do you even code?

I’ve been suffering from too short an attention span. I keep ending up. scrolling on my phone while waiting for ai to spew its slop, and have been caught too many times