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Comment Re:It's surprising people still don't get it. (Score 2) 282

You know EVs have a charge gauge similar to a fuel gauge, right? No fire drill necessary. End of day, plug car in. First ride, unplug car. Other car is wife's/kid's issue and they just unplug mine and plug theirs in if needed. Oh, and there are apps for that.

Again, with the limited mileage the average American puts on a vehicle (~ 30 miles a day), there is no "keep up". No anxiety of "do I have enough charge". Just drive the car, charge when you need to if you go far, plug in when you get home. It really just blends into the background and is MUCH easier than stopping at a gas station.

Comment Re:It's surprising people still don't get it. (Score 2) 282

The scenario presented was charging at home with multiple EVs, so don't move the goalposts with not charging at home being an issue. That's a different question with a different answer.

My one charger is in the center, at the end of my driveway. The cable reaches both vehicles without issue. My EV is more convenient than ICE ever way. Every day I leave fully topped off, which never happens with an ICE vehicle. I don't have to wait for my vehicle to warm up before driving, or worry about the engine oil not being warm enough to protect the engine. No timing chain, no serpentine belt, no points, plugs, transmission, engine oil, and no concerns about contaminated gasoline.

If an EV isn't worth it for you, wonderful. You do you. But the scenario presented that I was responding to is a non-EV owner's fears and not realistic. That's all I was pointing out.

Comment Re:It's surprising people still don't get it. (Score 1) 282

The cord is long enough to reach the cars. Each car takes about two hours a day worth of charge, sometimes less. I can let them sit for days without charging on normal usage.

This isn't a matter of diligent. People overthink charging if you have a home charger. I plug in at the end of my last trip of the day and unplug on the first. If one of the kids needs the charger, they charge. I leave my driveway every day fully topped off. Zero people do that with gasoline cars. If I drive so much I need to charge during a trip, I do. It just isn't an issue.

I understand it can be depending on where you live, availability of chargers, etc. this can vary. But the specific scenario mentioned is one that never would be mentioned by someone who actually owns an EV in that situation because it just isn't an issue.

Comment Re:It's surprising people still don't get it. (Score 5, Insightful) 282

Mandated EVs would require multiple chargers in their driveways.

No, it wouldn't. I say this as someone who has your exact scenario -- multiple EV vehicles in a driveway, often for people who merely drive in to to school/job. Because my vehicles are usually driven less than 20 miles a day, not including weekends, one charger works fine because topping off the charge on a car takes only and hour or two. More if I use the glorified-extension cord L1 trickle charger, but with minimal usage like your example cars can go a week or more without charging so swapping spots every other day or so to ensure the cord reaches is trivial.

Comment Re:Okay, but ... (Score 1) 282

You should read beyond headlines. EV sales did not increase at the same rate they did the year before, but they still INCREASED. That is, the rate of growth slowed but it was still growth.

The market is not saturated, with a few exceptions -- Tesla being the largest -- many EVs in the US are first generation and need to mature. And they also focused on large, high-margin vehicles like pickup trucks and SUVs. Once they actually address the rest of the market with small and mid-sized cars, adoption should accelerate again.

Comment Re:Plastic recycling has always been a scam (Score 1) 101

Only if you're recycling the plastic into more plastic. And that's worthless.

What you should be doing is recycling it back into fuel for electricity production- but nobody wants that even with all the scrubbers- they made it illegal to EVER open a 2nd garbage burning electric plant in Oregon.

Comment Re:No loss in pay (Score 1) 390

If companies are forced to pay OT past 32 hours, they'll freeze pay at current levels and do staggered shifts.

Pay isn't set that way, it is set by supply and demand. Freezing pay only works if the workers have no other options, and the demographic trends of the Baby Boomers retiring in large numbers and a smaller generation following means more jobs than workers -- meaning worker choice. Forcing more overtime is one possible option, constrained by the same supply-demand. The bill Sanders is proposing mandates time-and-a-half past 8 hours and double-time past 12-hours a day. Short of a good old fashioned dose of Nixon Republicanism that won't happen. And considering the epic shitstorm that created for the economy (Hello Stagflation!) -- I wouldn't be surprised in MAGA embraced it wholeheartedly.

"On Aug. 15, 1971, in a nationally televised address, Nixon announced, "I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States."

After a 90-day freeze, increases would have to be approved by a "Pay Board" and a "Price Commission," with an eye toward eventually lifting controls -- conveniently, after the 1972 election."

It'll encourage companies to automate away even more positions wherever possible.

They're doing that already and there is little that is going to stop it. Again, see the demographic decline and need to fill jobs with workers that don't exist.

Comment Re:"Fast" is relative (Score 3, Informative) 103

For an individual, yes. For dealing with national policy, no. You need to sample "how people use the internet" and what the available speeds support versus what they could. Your cherry-picked example would be on the far left of the bell curve, being both suitable on low speed connection and as a sample of what people commonly do -- and only do -- on the internet. Your example of the downloader straining gigabit connections is an example from the far right of the curve. As national policy, we're more concerned with the big, fat middle.

Like it or not a lot of what is commonly called work, especially office work, can effectively be done remotely with suitable broadband speeds. Ensuring adequate broadband means those workers can relocate, and revitalize, small town and rural America.

Comment Re:Since becoming an adult (Score 2) 62

Can you tell me 10 of these billionaires that came from poverty?
Some might be sports or movies or such but what about others.
And what percentage of billionaires?
And do you mean developed countries or undeveloped?
At least many places in Europe have higher mobility than the US.

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