Unless SCOTUS officially rules "Unconstitutional", essentially. That's the check and balance we have.

You seem to have a problem understand the word "over". It isn't a lump sum at the end of the decade, it is accumulated over the 10-year period -- like like the spend.

Congress and their powers to tax and spend in general. That doesn't vary by specific technologies like solar vs oil, etc.

Not free, paid for by large corporations. The Inflation Reduction Act raises $300 billion over a decade by requiring large corporations to pay a 15 percent minimum tax on their profits and by enacting a 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks and redemptions.

Criminals? That might have something to do with the fact the SEC isn't a law enforcement agency and has no arrest powers, they're a regulatory agency. Anything the SEC discovers that looks criminal is passed to the FBI.

Burner phones? Why bother? Read the article again. This is a ban from "work" phones, which are the ones issued to a limited number of personnel who don't like using something like Good on their personal phone. At best, work partition on their managed personal phone.

They can't touch employee's personal phones beyond an agreed-upon managed work partition. Everyone has a personal phone.

Tabs vs Spaces is right up there in geek hills-to-die-on with Vi vs Emacs. It has been around for decades.

If your parser is that shit and can't HANDLE tabs, it needs to be broken explicitly so you fix it and it doesn't break accidentally, in some weird and obscure way. Even just blindly converting tabs to spaces is better than breaking.

No, it doesn't say that. It says simply that it is difficult to get banks to invest in low income areas. You make the assumption that it is because they can't make a profit, but that isn't how things work. It is simply because they can make MORE of a profit elsewhere. This is just leveling out opportunity cost.

That market you're talking about taxes the everloving fuck out of petrol in the Netherlands, with a price being about $2.16 per litre according to the Internets. Whereas in the US we're looking at around $3.00 per US gallon, or about $0.80 per litre.

If petrol was $0.80 or less per litre how eager would they be switching over to EVs?

EVERY market is distorted, you just have different places it happens and different amounts.

They look cool. I've see a couple of articles lately where the younger crowds buy vinyl to use as a decorative "retro" music library. Many don't even have record players so what they sound like is irrelevant.

According to the article, they're focused right now on ADUs, or "Accessory Dwelling Units". That's corporate-speak for smaller units as 2nd dwellings on existing lots. Think "in-law suite". So cost of land would be close to zero as it is already a sunk cost. In reality the tax assessment would rise as the value of the property goes up, but that'd depend on the details of State law on propery tax increase limits, etc.

Actually, -10 F doesn't really impact an EV. A little less range is all. [1][2] The issues seen in some parts of Chicago last winter were specific to a set of charging stations that had issues, not EVs in general. It was cold all over, and only a couple of charging stations had issues.

One of my coworkers was in South Dakota over the frigid spell, visiting his mother. He was planning on driving home (Virginia), but SD was telling all cars to stay off the road -- it was so cold that oil wasn't warming enough and gasoline engines were siezing up on the road. Diesel was already gelled, so they weren't going anywhere for the duration.

I agree, the binary thinking is irritating. I made my decision based on having at home charing, minimal long distance driving, and fairly near population centers just in case. It is a different calculation if you can't charge at home.

[1] Not including Nissan Leaf's, the one major EV that doesn't have a temperature regulated battery. Everyone else learned from them and conditions the batteries.

[2] Percentage drop is just that, a percentage. I'll take a 20% drop from a base of 105 MPGe over a 10% drop from a 30 MPG any day.

This exactly. Not having the garage and having to install the pedestal and buried lines, that was my big cost. I spent the extra $50 for the pedestal that can mount two chargers and left a pull-rope in the oversized buried conduit. At any time I can install a second charger for pretty much just the price of the charger -- a couple hundred $$.

You can cherry pick rare-if-never scenarios all day long. I'm telling you from experience these are molehills and you're imagining mountains.

The odds of both cars being driven until dead and needing to charge RIGHT NOW is about the same odds as me hitting Powerball lotto.

You're missing the point that normally the car is FULLY TOPPED OFF EVERY MORNING -- 250ish miles of range -- so the scenarios you're dreaming up are verging on the impossible. I mean me driving 250 miles in one day and absolutely needing to charge assumes I was comfortable with coasting in to my driveway on fumes instead of just stopping somewhere to add some charge for 5-10 minutes. At the same time, my kid's car is driven to dead and no one bothered to charge at all...just go to the nearest fast charger and hit it for 5-10 mintues.

Buried? It is mounted on a post and the cord hanging on the hanger slightly below it. Unless you're talking 4 ft plus, that isn't an issue.

Yes, it snows here (WV), but not like Buffalo, NY or somewhere where is SNOWS.