Posted on 03/28/2023 5:40:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
Good, find me some basic 60 watt incandescent bulbs.
Subsidizing car sales is a fool’s errand unless the government is going to replace batteries for free.
And pay the owner’s electric bill.
And put charge stations at everyone’s house.....
A certain path to an economic disaster.
Tesla, besides being run far better than any legacy American auto maker in terms of costs, also has a reputation for producing an EV. The big 3 have a reputation for screwing up innovation.
Quirky, boutique products (EVs) are a completely different market than what the big 3 are good at.
Maybe Tesla would remember to bolt on the steering wheel, unlike their recent offerings that had no bolts.
No such thing as green energy, climate change “crisis” and CO2 is evil. They are all one big hoax.
I can’t afford a $50K EV and I am too scared to buy a new or slightly uses ICE vehicle due to crazy talk of outlawing them. So my personal fleet of ICE cars will age. So be it.
Wishful thinking on their part. If the product is so great then the democrats would not need to mandate them.
FRA: GM and Ford both project that their electric cars will be profitable in a few years. Ford plans to make 2 million electric cars every year by 2025. That would be impressive considering that Ford only sold 61,575 of them in 2022. It sold 3,624 electric vehicles in Feb 2023.
That’s a long way from 2 million.
GM plans to sell 1 million electric cars by 2025. It sold less than 40,000 in 2022.
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Detroit’s bet that customers will just accept this as the new normal and just pay higher prices for worse performance is a bad one. The electric car mandates are the work of a Democrat party that is closely tied to a wealthy elite
#49 Elon Musk makes billions selling the carbon credits he gets for Tesla to other car companies. Scam money.
I pretty sure that if this crowd was alive in 1900 they would be whining about automobiles and telling everyone they’ll just stick with their horse and buggies. :D
i The original WW II jeep would sell like hotcakes, same for 1964 Corvette StingRay. Might even be a market for some of the old Cadillacs that drove down the highway like a dream. I have a new Highlander that rides like a lumber wagon compared to my 2001 Ford Expedition.
Make your own and you can, well maybe if the government will let you.
Wasting you breath, most Freepers still fuss about the low water flush toilets that work better than anything in the past because they were forced to redesign the old ones and guess what they actually improved them. I regret that it took government intervention to make it happen but people and companies resist change even if it is an improvement which might explain why my main computer is 14 years old and yes I have modern ones too, just don't like them.
All of those features could be added to ICE vehicles as well, may take a little more battery reserve but a few pounds not tons.
CFLs are/were crappy for multiple reasons. The quality of light was poor among other things.
Now that prices have become more attractive, LEDs are a reasonable, albeit unnecessary, alternative.
What was rarely acknowledged was the whole push to CFLs was because the 2 or 3 mfg of CFLs spent a lot of money lobbying for the legislation. They thought they were in the catbird seat $$$ then the massive drop in price for LEDs basically leapfrogged LEDs over CFLs. They thought they were going to make a crap ton of money for a long time with the CFL market mandated and cornered.
None of the government’s fooking business.
If it is 15 years old you are getting a lousy picture by todays standards. Seventy five inch TVs can be had for $500.00 maybe less since 85 is becoming the new standard. The cheaper ones are the ROKU or other smart TV options but you don't have to let them be smart just don't connect them to the internet. I use them as computer monitors and let the computer handle the smart part.
It is 720P. I am not missing out on regular broadcasting
and cable channels. 1024 and higher internet video gets chopped somewhat, but I don’t care.
It is always about the Benjamins well at least 95% of the time.
Most people can't afford an EV. Nor can the supply of electricity in the country accommodate everyone having an EV. What they're really trying to do is squeeze the middle class out of their own personal transportation and onto mass transit. The personal transportation in the form of an EV will only be for the rich (and well connected).
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