No. That would explain a general lack of new car sales, but that's not what's happening. It is only EV sales that are stagnating. People are still buying gas cars.

EV sales are booming in China. A big reason is much lower prices. In China, EVs are cheaper than equivalent ICE cars. That is also true in Southeast Asia, which imports EVs from China. But the West restricts EV imports, so the prices are much higher.

And yet, the situation is neither simple nor unworkable.

What I'm hearing is that a large corporate body's interests are against the the best-interests of our species. That they aren't going to give up and go away doesn't preclude us from fighting them and making them go away. Stopping subsidizing them will help. Penalizing them for their toxic product will help. Publicizing their manipulation of public opinion will help.

There was a time when dealing with the tobacco industry was unthinkable. Now smoking is a niche habit and mostly if you see someone doing it, they're standing beside a jackhammer, pouring concrete, or operating heavy machinery.

I'm sure that people who preferred horses felt that way about automobiles at one point. Prices go down as production goes up. That's how things work. You wouldn't have given up on cell phones because they were elites-only pricing, right?

Indoor plumbing and sanitary sewers are also simply unworkable for the exact same reason. There are a whole lot of houses outside of dense cities. And yet. We find a way. The network gets bigger and bigger and bigger and while there will always be a market for outhouses and septic tanks, the number of serviced houses just climbs. EV technology and charging capability has only improved with time, rapidly.

Again, just because some places aren't practical (today) doesn't mean the technology is doomed. And I'd refer back to the indoor plumbing situation too. The landlord pays. And if they don't provide toilets, well, the price of rent will have to be reduced in order to compete with other places that do.

There are reasons why adoption of EVs won't be overnight, and there are reasons why it will never be 100% of the vehicle market. Given. But this kind of FUD with an opening line of "simply unworkable" borders on oil industry shill.

The site is hundreds of miles from the Cascadia fault line.

There is a major mountain range (the Cascades) and many miles of desert between the site and the coast.

You're not allow to edit your own page.

(Happy everyone is okay and hope he gets some help.)

Imagine this.
You have a daughter. She has the (unwanted) attention of an officer. He is using your footage and the footage of others to track her whereabouts. Don't worry. He won't do anything to her because she's got a new boyfriend. Probably.

Imagine this.
There have been cars broken into and vandalized in your area. Some happens on a night when you went for a walk. An ambitious officer finds your footage showing you coming and going, and either doesn't find or doesn't look for any further footage. You are now a/the suspect. You know you are innocent but other circumstantial evidence may convince them otherwise. Bonus if you are black.

These aren't absurd. Things like them happen every day and while they may not happen to you, anyone having access to footage without asking permission from its owner has the potential for abuse.

Personally I'm 100% okay with the idea that camera owners can easily register theirs and a location so law-enforcement can request footage, and 99 times out of 100 I'd hand it over, but that 1 in 100 leftover... not a good idea.

We've had manual versions of this for years...

Or tariffs here in the U.S. for purchasing coffee, for now anyway.
Noting that, like bananas, very, very little coffee is grown in the U.S.

Also, (a) many of the aromatic compounds in coffee are volatile and evaporate relatively quickly; which is why brewing into a (basically) sealed carafe is better than into an open pot; and (b) there are chemical processes that degrade the flavor of coffee that start just after brewing, which can't be mitigated. It's unclear if sampling re-constituting freeze-dried coffee vs sampling a series of cups of recently brewed coffee is comparable - even noting that some of the noted processes may have occurred before freeze-drying.

This was an interesting edition of NPR Science Friday: Pouring Over The Science Of Coffee (April 2013)

No need, the desired answer, for now, seems to be Venezuela.

He could have named it "Chad", though that would fit with recent ramblings from the Secretary of Defense -- I mean, War. (sigh)

And still polishing off two tons of creamed corn ... :-)

Guessing you mean this? :-)

In a lot of apartment complexes, the physical proximity of tenants make sharing internet trivially easy. Just ask a neighboring unit (or one directly above / below) if they want to split internet costs with you, and you split the bill. Or if you're really smart, have two neighbors "split" the bill with you 50/50 each and they are paying for the internet.

If everyone's internet cost is already included in their rent then obviously this isn't an option. Or folks who just use the internet on their phone over cellular and don't even need WiFi at all.

And then there's this: $1 Trump coin draft is ‘real,’ US Treasurer says (article includes a mock-up, with his "fight fight fight" pose on the reverse)

Apparently, they're looking for loopholes or other ways to circumvent the statue you cited. (sigh)