you should have salary that can handle that.

no; they become lazy and lose interest in even reproducing. They get enamored with absurd self-destructive notions and glorify ignorance and hedonism.

Taiwan is doomed, population is crashing and the 24 million now will be 10 million by 2100 with 40% over age 65. The end, mainland China only has to wait.

China will pass up the USA in wealth , tech and power. Nothing can be done about that, USA will fade away.

global trade is normal, quit whining about the inevitable. China then India will pass up the USA which is in decline.

so funny, Western civilization uses many things....stolen?...from Chinese civilization. Information wants to be free and run around the world.

that would have been good; too bad Google didn't bring it up at the time.

irrelevant to what I said; Canada is under the crown

even then, over 10 years ago, FB was selling your personal information and got in trouble for doing so. They've done it again and again. that's why I ditched it and all other usual social media.

It never was good.

Try getting a subreddit plus a Discord channel.

EV are polluting too though; it takes 3.5 years for one to work off the carbon debt and NO company is profitably recycling the batteries.

We'd be better off using biotech to have algae ooze octane and similar length hydrocarbons. ICE works well.

memeboy.

Current U.S. military actions in the Middle East have nothing to do with oil; zero. Or you think we're getting oil from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iran?

I'm claiming a place should rightfully give UK English the finger. Canada should do the same to the King, who currently is their head and commander-in-chief of Canada's armed forces. In fact, the world would be better with some French style slicing and dicing of Royal neck.

"and picks your charging stops", I should have added. On long trips it optimizes to minimize charging time, which typically translates to 2-3 hours of driving, then a 20-minute stop, then 2-3 hours of driving, repeat. The charging stops tend to align pretty well with bio-break needs.

It's really not.

In practice what you do is you use the car's navigation system, and it tells you if you need to charge to get to your destination. About the only manual planning I do on road trips is to think about where we'll be for meals and override the automatic charger selection to pick chargers in those places, and check the icons on the charge station to make sure there's food nearby. This is a minor annoyance, far more than offset by the fact that when I'm not on a road trip I never have to go to gas stations at all, and pay no attention at all to my "fuel" level.

The best numbers I've been able to find put that number at about 25% of car owners. That is a large number of people, but it's not a good reason to hold up the EV transition. Such people will transition last, and only after public charging options are sufficient that they don't need charging at home (and after apartment complexes deploy charging infrastructure so more apartment-dwellers can charge at home).

Also, we need to help people understand all you really need for home charging is a standard 120V outlet from which you can safely run an extension cord to your car. L1 charging will add ~40 miles of range every night, so unless you drive more than ~280 miles per week (14,600 miles per year), L1 is enough. Access to some public charging is also required, to deal with exceptional circumstances, but it can be rare and used only for getting a 15-minute quick charge when the battery is low. L2 is nicer, of course, but it's not the minimum requirement most people think it is. L2 at home enables you to pretty much just forget about charging/fueling ever in your daily life. It's a significant improvement over having to deal with gas stations, so people want it... but it's not a necessity.

We need to avoid all-or-nothing thinking. It will likely be the case for quite some time that people with unusual requirements have to stick with fossil-fuel vehicles. If there are legal electrification requirements they need to have an exception process.

I actually don't think we need legal electrification requirements, myself. If we put a reasonable carbon tax on fossil fuels (calibrated based on our best assessment of the future cost of mitigating the warming that will be caused by burning the fuel) to internalize that externality and if we drop trade barriers that block the purchase of cheap EVs manufactured in China, the transition will happen on its own for purely economic reasons. It'll probably happen even without those steps, but they would make it happen a lot faster.

For that matter, I think we don't even need to impose the carbon taxes and tariffs, just pass them. Phase them in over a decade, so people know they're coming, and people will begin making the change even before they take effect.

If you want to make tons of money? Sure. If you want to make this planet a better place or at least not a worse one? No.