Can you power the robot on rice and vegetables? Otherwise it seems less versatile if we're not comparing energy sources in a race.

I don't get to enter a car race running top fuel while everyone else is using a wood-fired steam boiler. And even if raced unofficially, just to prove something, I don't think anyone be impressed.

I'll need it for my motorcycle.....hoping it all lasts till after I'm dead and gone, so I can enjoy the "old ways"....

I love paying $5 a gallon for high test and $7 for diesel. Although dear leader is telling me prices are lower than ever.

Just recently at Costco I paid $3.99/gallon for premium.....I live in LA in the New Orleans area.....hasn't gotten very bad here yet....

I am not wealthy by any definition, rent a flat, have no garage and no second car, just my Hyundai Inster. And will rather use public transport than get a car that burns fuel.

Aren't you tired of whining about how electric cars are bad since they are impractical in some edge cases that don't even apply to you over and over and over again in every slashdot discussion about electric cars? Or are you being paid for doing this?

With your references to living in a "flat" and taking public transport....you can NOT live in the US.

Somehow you don't understand that what you consider an "edge case" is NOT an edge case over here...it's real and widespread.

For most people

If they did (in the US), then most people would have them or be actively pursing them....

Even if I could charge at home, I'm not willing to give up the driving experience that I have enjoyed since I was a teen.....2-seater sports care with manual transmission.

I know I'll lose the transmission with EV some day...but right now, there's no such thing as an EV that is a 2 seater sports car, everything is 4 seater family car and I'm just not interested in a family truckster.

And an EV motorcycle...would just kill the experience completely....ugh....

I'm not set up to "charge at home"....so far here in southern LA, it hasn't really gotten that expensive for gas yet, I hit Costco the other day and was just now up to $3.99/gal here.

To take the strain off, I try to ride my motorcycle whenever I can, which I enjoy more anyway.....

We still had $5/gallon gas back then due to Trump's shitty economic policies.

Where the hell do you live where gas was that expensive before the Iran war?!?!?

We're just not $3.99/gallon at Costco here where I live (New Orleans area)....

Prior to this we were in the $2's.....easily.

Send that guy the ambulance bill, we shouldn't have to pay for someone's willful ignorance.

Airlines can add more flights and bigger planes for more seats. Try doing that with a pop star.

I was responding to saloomy, who said "just make a law...".

That ain't retail. It's the futures wholesale market.

The fact that you don't list them doesn't prove their existence.

I'm aware of wholesale auctions and small exceptions. If you want, consider TicketMaster as a wholesaler.

Why would concert tickets need an auction any more than almost everything else? No auction for beans, none for gasoline, or haircuts. If they price them too high, they don't sell enough. If they price them too low, they sell out fast and learn to charge more next time, just as any other limited commodity does. If they can get more, they do, and raise the price next time. If they can't, well, that's life.

I don't think TicketMaster is making a fortune, because if they were, competitors would want some of the action. That's how markets work. If artists actually cared, they would sign up with alternative sellers and pull the rug out from under TicketMaster. They don't. Artists either don't care, or don't know. From the noise they make, they are hypocrites either way.

The actual real value of concert tickets for established artists is well-known by now. But artists want to pretend they support the little people, so they refuse to charge realistic prices, and act all miffed when the market establishes the real value people place on their tickets.

The simple fact is that more people want tickets than tickets are available. The only realistic alternative is long long lines and make people pay in time and hassle. But then others will charge high prices to stand in line as placeholders. Price caps are no more useful than Richard Nixon's gas price controls in 1973. People pay in dollars or time or barter of some sort. The market will always establish a more realistic price.

Or one could just let the market handle it. You can't stop scalping any more than Custer could. Prohibition doesn't work, it just creates black markets.