Oh.. I'm sorry, I was mistaken...
It's 7 trillion now.
See the IMF article
"Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion
Scaling back subsidies would reduce air pollution, generate revenue, and make a major contribution to slowing climate change
Simon Black, Ian Parry, Nate Vernon
August 24, 2023"
How many died?
On review, I actually cared more about the Iraqi soldiers and civilians who *died* in that war which you apparently don't care about at all because gender is more important than life or death to you apparently.
But if you are going tangentially point out women fought to my post- how about you doing us a favor and posting about those women who died (if any) in the gulf war.
Joe is nothing like the other former president who said,
"WeÃ(TM)re a nation that just recently heard that Saudi Arabia and Russia will re-feh-urr ahhhhh [sic]."
Who shows overwhelming evidence of dementia, aphasia, and repeatedly showed confusion About reality. (See: "Donald Trump Dementia Evidence 'Overwhelming,' Psychiatrist Claims: Ex-Prez Repeatedly 'Shows Confusion About Reality'")
And who couldn't pronounce "Venuellazss"
And again.. these are quotes. Directly from campaign appearances. Modding on slashdot has really dropped in quality.
Folks really don't want to hear this do they? There's nothing trolling about it. It's just facts.
Why would I suddenly troll after posting for over a decade.
Mostly by slanting so hard and ignoring many cases where the same thing applies to comparable class ICE cars. A $50,000 car has $50,000 car insurance costs. Maintenance costs are lower for EV's. Mostly lies by omission. Of course, some of your comment is reasonable and some Pro-EV Fanatic might be trying to censor you by marking you as a troll.
But I'd say it's mostly your extreme bias that makes it seem like you are lying rather than deluded.
That's the amount of annual fossil fuel subsidies. It's an easy google. Some of it is direct subsidies, some of it is unique favorable tax treatment (such as for the coal industry).
Of course, that's not including wars for oil such as the gulf war. That was an additional, one-time 2 trillion dollars and 4,000 young men's lives.
Joe is nothing like the other former president who said,
"Weâ(TM)re a nation that just recently heard that Saudi Arabia and Russia will re-feh-urr ahhhhh [sic]."
Who shows overwhelming evidence of dementia, aphasia, and repeatedly showed confusion About reality. (See: "Donald Trump Dementia Evidence 'Overwhelming,' Psychiatrist Claims: Ex-Prez Repeatedly 'Shows Confusion About Reality'")
And who couldn't pronounce "Venuellazss"
Yes, they really aren't doing nearly enough to prevent a huge amount of misery and food insecurity. They are being pennywise and pound foolish. If they would just take the 6 trillion dollars in annual fossil fuel subsidies and put it straight into direct CO2 capture, they could cancel out the 41 gigatons of emissions in roughly 3 years which might limit us to a +2C increase if the methane sublimation cycles are not already past the point of no return.
About 13.935456 hectares or 25 square 747 jumbo jets.
Per data as recent as 10 years ago, they thought it was a wash tho removing methane would cool things down / prevent faster.
But recently, they found methane isn't 25 times as effective as co2, it's 75 times as effective as co2.
Per
insideclimatenews.org
"To Counter Global Warming, Focus Far More on Methane, a New Study Recommends
Scientists at Stanford have concluded that the EPA has radically undervalued the climate impact of methane, a âoeshort-lived climate pollutant,â by focusing on a 100-year metric for quantifying global warming."
and
"Over a 24 year time period methane is 75 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. This is three times higher than 25, the current value that the EPA uses for methane."
"How many cars are there in the US?
In 2020, there were 286.9 million cars in the US. While car sales for the past few years arenâ(TM)t a simple upward line, other factors such as increasing car age and the need for personal mobility means amid the pandemic are making sure that the number of US cars is more or less progressively increasing."
So while it may the 3rd largest, that's about 8% the co2 put out by passenger automobiles.
And *all* transportation is about 30% of carbon emissions. So 23 million cars is one of what I call "american" measurements. We have a tendency to measure things in football lengths or other objects instead of saying a concrete fact like "Globally, all transportation emits 11.9 gigatons per year of which passenger vehicles emit roughly 7.14 gigatons".
And since the U.S. is about 15% of passenger co2 emissions, that would be about 1.05 gigatons and since this is about 8% of the U.S. fleet, that's about 0.084 gigatons of global carbon emissions.
But that's just a very rough estimate. I'd give it +/- 50% so 0.05 to 0.12 gigatons.
For comparison, humans put out roughly 119,426,010,658,613 stone of carbon per year.
Millions of simple devices are sold every year that do those tho. Entirely mechanical and automated.
And if the robot looked like whoever/whatever you most desire... and could wake you up that way in the morning, you might accept it.
Many retired people *prefer* robots to humans. The robots don't judge them, don't get tired, don't get irritable, don't steal things.
As a minecraft player, that doesn't bother me at all. And as a minecraft modder, one of my most popular mods simply adds a small number of activities to the villagers. Players enjoy seeing the villagers doing those things.
And randomly generated dungeons and buildings are a long tradition in many games.
But supporting your point, Vault Hunters combines hand crafted 125 meter cubes randomly into a procedurally generated world. It's popular because of the human touch in the cubes.
But I know that Google will make the results of their LLM useless for search as they have for their traditional search engine.
Google results have been increasingly untrustworthy over the last 12 years. The first page is frequently completely useless.
So I'm hoping for an opensource LLM that isn't corrupted by greed to the point of being worthless.
Tell me more of this mythical land where humans drive safe distances apart, signal before changing lanes, don't cut people off who signal to change lanes, and drive a minimum of 3.0 seconds behind the car in front of them.
I haven't had an accident in 14 years. (Rear ended by a high school student at a red light).
In my experience... over 80% of drivers on the road are accidents waiting to happen. Most are about 1.5 seconds behind the car in front of them at best.. and frequently 2 to 3 car lengths behind the car ahead of them at 60 miles per hour. Driving in each other's blind spots. At least once per 30 minutes of driving, *someone* comes zig-zagging through traffic at 10mph over the limit-- at least once per 8 hours of driving, someone does it at 15 to 20mph over the limit. Usually a big pickup truck... or a sports car... or a motorcycle (crotch rocket).
Anyway.. *at best* most people are driving 75% of the recommended distance. I'm constantly falling back as people cut into the space ahead of me the entire drive until I get to the back of the pack.
And over the last 10 years, now we have people *drifting* all over the damn road... obviously using a cell phone (like the guy who rear ended my friend in an HOV lane at *70 mph* .
A.I. is going to be a godsend. Most Human drivers are terrible and prone to rage.
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