Not when oil companies don't have to pay the cost of their pollution. As soon as they do, the cost of gasoline will go up like a rocket. And then EVs will be very competitive.

This looks more and more like a repeat of Japanese carmakers vs US and EU carmakers. They didn't learn a thing.

In this case, because it demonstrates that the price is the main issue.

I've worked for Mercedes-Benz and I saw this coming years ago (you can find my posts on that on /.). They had a decade to prepare, but the internal culture of established German car companies attributes status to how well you know engines. They have a ton of managers who came to power based on their knowledge of ICE.

But the new world is driven by software, much more than hardware. And when I left in 2007 or so, the IT corner was where you ended up if you failed at car knowledge. That that attitude would hamper them could be seen coming yeaes in advance. A heavy dose of NIH combined with denial is also pretty much par for the course in Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen for every new development.

And that goes double for foreign inventions.

They brought this upon themselves but they'll lobby their way out of it. Just like oil. In the end the taxpayer will buy all the shares once all profit has been drained.

The USA claims jurisdiction over the entire Internet based on "the bits touched our server!"

How do you like the same argument applied to US companies? Not so much? Then maybe change a few of your "might makes right" laws like the patriot (lol) act.

Otherwise this is just the beginning of the end of free Internet.

Similar to all the people who love bananas so much they throw them on the field at football matches when black players are in the team. They also love monkeys so much they imitate them.

Just free speech, not harassment or intimidation at all, even when it's 200 people doing it.

How would you like for me to shout the constitution in your ear all day? I hear you like the constitution a lot, so it's just free speech. Or do you disagree with the constitution?

Free speech absolutists are hypocrits in general, idiots in the main, and will go all surprised pikachu face whenever there is another genocide fomented by a few groups that like to get rich quick, because "personal responsibility".

Booking.com still doing it and they're now the subject of a class action suit.

Where did you go to? Congo?

And how are you going to check which bit of code is AI-generated?

That'll keep out those darn foreigners!

Although it's a bit hard to avoid patent infringement for patents you can't know about.

They mean deepen as in "deep six" kind of deep.

Well, my tixati is current and the piratebay still active. Your move, creep.

But... won't somebody *please* think of all the junior employees?

He was dreaming of "buying the farm" in a more metaphorical sense, I think ðY

I haven't worked more than 36 hours a week since 2002, and often just 32. I value my personal time. I also find that Mondays and Fridays aren't really a problem if you only have 2-day work periods.

I should point out the obvious: there is no need for any Soviet involvement when the oil companies have had a disproportionate impact on public debate for a long time.

Leaded fuel? Not a problem until they had a cheap replacement. It just lowered average IQ in inner cities because of the brain damage to infants and children. But hey, oil executives don't live in inner cities.

Taxes? They rarely pay any, and if they do they get them back through subsidized investments, profits sharing agreements and other instruments.

CO2? Not a problem, says the Orange in the White House, as Qatar drops another 2 billion dollar in his cryptocurrency (has anyone been able to tell where the 1 billion dollar went that Saudi-Arabia gave Jared Kushner?).

Russia is not the party you need to worry about here. Worry about the Koch family instead, with their influence on MAGA.

Good idea, but I'll extend it a bit.

From now on, only people who have built nuclear plants are allowed to argue for them.

I think your suggestion has merit. It solves a lot of problems.

the problem is mostly that very powerful and rich companies stand to lose money when wind and sun become the new energy source.

Enlightened times such as that of S-Arabia, Russia and Venezuela also stand to lose large chunks of money in that case.

This means they don't like it. Hence all the vitriol directed against it.

Its a repeat of what we saw with leaded fuel, smoking, public transport vs cars, and other moneymakers that kill people. Basically, capitalism at work.