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Because FOX News attacked the Chevy Volt back in 2008 and mocked the idea of plugging in a car. Man do they look stupid now.
And MAGA conservatives are still mocking EVs. Margery Taylor Green claims they are emasculating because they don't produce the full-throated roar of gasoline powered muscle cars with noisy, inefficient and polluting ICE engines. In fact, she ridicules the very idea of environmentalism and trying to reduce pollution as somehow unmanly and emasculating!Vēritās wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:01 pmBecause FOX News attacked the Chevy Volt back in 2008 and mocked the idea of plugging in a car. Man do they look stupid now.
Yeah, I also remember FOX News and Rush Limbaugh having conniption fits about transitioning to LED.
Pete's response, while on Fox, to what Green said was gold.Gunnar wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:37 pmAnd MAGA conservatives are still mocking EVs. Margery Taylor Green claims they are emasculating because they don't produce the full-throated roar of gasoline powered muscle cars with noisy, inefficient and polluting ICE engines. In fact, she ridicules the very idea of environmentalism and trying to reduce pollution as somehow unmanly and emasculating!Vēritās wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 10:01 pm
Because FOX News attacked the Chevy Volt back in 2008 and mocked the idea of plugging in a car. Man do they look stupid now.
Yeah, I also remember FOX News and Rush Limbaugh having conniption fits about transitioning to LED.
Man, I’ve been saying since the 90’s we should legalize weed for recreational use. This is such a great move on his part. Finally some damned common sense.Vēritās wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 9:56 pmDark Brandon strikes another win for his resume!
Biden Issues Blanket Pardons For Simple Marijuana Possessions, Calls For Legal Reforms
President Joe Biden will pardon all prior federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana, he announced on Thursday.
The president is also calling on governors to pardon state marijuana offenses. He will also ask the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the attorney general to review how the drug is scheduled under current federal law.
Ben shapiro owns an EV. But he can afford it and they take a long time to get. But sure I'd buy one under the circumstances you describe. In any event EVs and purposely taxing and outlawing ICEs to make EVs competitive is not going to solve the worlds environmental issues. That won't even put a dent in it.Gunnar wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 9:11 pmSuppose you needed to replace your car, either because it was wrecked or just too worn out to be economically repaired anymore, and you found that you could replace it with a new EV for very little more or even less than the cost of an equivalent ICE car that would in addition save you literally thousands of dollars in fuel and maintenance costs per year, even if gasoline costs did not rise (but especially if they did), would you buy an EV, or would you obstinately insist on buying another ICE car, just to "spite the libs?"
Have you read any of the numerous reports of happy EV owners who are so delighted with their superiority in both performance and economy of operation, that they vowed to never again even consider buying another ICE car?
Do you not know that there are already new models of EVs coming the market that are priced lower than equivalent ICE cars and that current projections are that EVs will soon cost less, on average, than ICE cars?
Given these increasingly obvious facts, why would you be so dead set against EVs? It is hard for me to imagine anything more irrational! It is just as stupid as rejecting LED lights that last up to tens of times longer than incandescent bulbs and use a small fraction of the energy needed by standard incandescent bulbs.
The only ones not benefitting from conversion to EVs are those whose livelihood and profits depend on the environmentally destructive fossil fuel industry.
Poor Marjorie thinks that the fellas only care about noise.
So, . . . Who is "Pete," and what was his response?Doctor Steuss wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 11:15 pmPete's response, while on Fox, to what Green said was gold.
If you still think we aren't able to do it, you just aren't paying attention. If you had even bothered to take a look at sites like The Rocky Mountain Institute to which I have repeatedly referred you, you would know better. By far the biggest reason we have not yet achieve a viable, green, carbon-neutral energy economy is the literally billions of dollars the fossil fuel industry has spent on massive disinformation campaigns to block effective action to implement solutions and discredit the realities of AGW and the very real promise of emerging green technologies, in which we are in great danger of falling behind our greatest rival, China, very much to the detriment of our future economic and technological competitiveness.ajax18 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:38 amBen shapiro owns an EV. But he can afford it and they take a long time to get. But sure I'd buy one under the circumstances you describe. In any event EVs and purposely taxing and outlawing ICEs to make EVs competitive is not going to solve the worlds environmental issues. That won't even put a dent in it.
Human beings have enormous market incentives to find clean energy that even approaches the efficiency of fossil fuels. The fact that we haven't been able to do it is not due to a lack of incentives.
Few industries are evolving at a speed that comes close to the energy sector. The race to net zero has accelerated new waves of innovation, change and opportunity.
Sorry. Pete Buttigieg.Dr. Shades wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:18 amSo, . . . Who is "Pete," and what was his response?Doctor Steuss wrote: ↑Thu Oct 06, 2022 11:15 pmPete's response, while on Fox, to what Green said was gold.