All for it, but just do it by building EV's that are in EVERY way better than ICE's. My ICE will do what I want done and no EV on the planet will currently match its performance. Fix that, and make the EV affordable, and I'll buy it. I would LOVE to have an EV, but I need certain things done that an EV cannot do. Yes, it has to do with range and charging.
The Chinese will ruin the car markets the same way they have ruined others, but undercutting manufacturing expenses with slave-labor wages and real slave labor, as well as manipulating currency so that yes, the Chinese would fuck up the domestic auto industry, it would go away like the domestic electronics industry and the domestic textiles industry and the domestic (you name it) industries while putting everyone you know into poverty and probably yourselves as well. Is that what you want, the USA as a 3rd-world nation? That's what awaits if we let the damned communists wreck our prosperity. I say let no Chinese cars enter the country, and build all the cars we can right here in the USA. The alternative is worse than the Great Depression, as there would be no chance of recovery, ever.
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As a conservative, can you help us understand why conservatives appear to deny global warming is an issue and resist measures to manage it?
Oh, as a conservative, lemme take a crack at that!
Global warming appears to us to be a weapon of the left to destroy society as we know it, via spending it to death on climate situations that cannot be cured no matter how much money is spent, for the purpose of replacing our self-government with the dictatorial aspirations of the leftist elites. Their goal is to seize total control, for their fun and profit of course, while subjugating the vast majority to virtual slavery. They have gone too far in that direction already from shipping the good-paying jobs of manufacturing out of the USA, and have made multiple attempts against the life of the President who is trying to bring that industry back to the USA.
The estimate at one time was fifty trillion dollars to do what is necessary to mitigate climate change. I'm not sure if that was world-wide, or just the "US share", but it doesn't matter in the manner of being at ground zero for a five megaton nuclear explosion or a 50 megaton nuclear explosion, the results would be the same. Fifty trillion dollars is ludicrous, unattainable, and an amazing thing that those who propose it have not been more forcefully opposed than what you have seen to date. And since it is unattainably expensive, the thought is to continue as we are, and learn to adapt to what ensues, while not pauperizing the world and coming under the jackboots of a leftist elite that will do nothing but pleasure themselves at the expense of the masses.
"And what if killing industry could helpo fight Global Warming?"
It sure will. We can roll back the industrial revolution, do everything with animal power, put the majority of the population back to the production of food on farms and ranches, and probably see the vast majority of the world's 8 billion people starve to death. But the planet would recover.
It was when Soviet planners and 5-year agricultural plans that failed miserably because the economy can't be planned from a central authority successfully. Only free market capitalism can allocate resources in the proper proportions to satisfy societal needs. Gov't edits for things like EV's are doomed to failure. The way to get 100% EV use is to make EV's the best choice for absolutely everyone. Nothing else will ever work, people will end up keeping their 35 year old ICE vehicles that do what they need done.
Last weekend I ran America's oldest, longest, toughest car rally, the Press On Regardless rally in the northern part of the southern peninsula of Michigan, and the southern part of the northern peninsula of Michigan. It went past midnight 2 days in a row, when even many gas stations were closed, and no EV chargers were seen anywhere out in the woods of those areas. There were two events, one on Friday, the other on Saturday, with Friday being about 280 miles, and Saturday about 240. High accelerations and cornering forces consumed gasoline at an accelerated rate, forcing refueling of my car that normally gets nearly 400 miles on a tank on highway driving. Run the Press On Regardless rally in an EV? Don't think it's going to happen any time soon. Maybe if Toyota comes out with their 900 mile per charge solid state battery, I can buy it and run that rally with their 900 mile EV. But again, that would be the market determining successful choice of the customer for an EV, not some government edict making ICE unavailable. I'd just keep my 2019 Ford Edge ST until the wheels fall off, with no gov't edict preventing me from running the Press On Regardless rally.
can you get an dui in one / who (under the law) is deemed in control?
This hasn't been tested yet legally.
However, if operator guidance is needed (autodrive levels 1, 2, and 3, driver must remain engaged), then you are operating the vehicle and can be charged.
For levels 4 and 5, if you're behind the wheel and could turn off the autodrive features, legal opinion is that you can still be charged (you're effectively in control).
If you're not in the driver's seat and the car is level 4 and 5 (and autodriving), then there's a strong legal argument that you're not operating the vehicle and can't be charged.
(And note that if you're autodriving, there should be no reason for the cop to pull you over in the first place.)
IANAL, this is just something I researched awhile ago.
Indeed, I fully agree. The funny thing is, monthly numbers would help us move away from the distortions of the quarterly cycle. If key data reporting becomes frequent enough, you can't get into a cycle of "do adverse-numbers stuff early in the quarter and then cram positive-numbers stuff into the end of the quarter". You have to - *gasp* - just run your business normally.
Some businesses could still manage to switch to a monthly cycle, but anyone who deals significantly in transoceanic feedstocks/parts/goods shipments won't be able to.
BLS numbers aren't some sort of dark art. They're literally just the compiled numbers reported by companies. Numbers are what they are. To fight against jobs numbers is to fight against reality.
People get confused by the existence of revisions. The problem is that not all data gets reported in a timely manner. When late data comes in, it causes revisions to the earlier reported numbers, either up or down.
Firing the head of the BLS because you don't like what numbers US companies reported is just insane Banana Republic-level nonsense.
Yes, he fired the same person who was ultimately responsible for putting out crap numbers.
US reporting has always been the gold standard. Nobody has accused the BLS of "crap numbers" until Trump decided he didn't like them. It's is so way outside the norms it doesn't even resemble something that could conceivably happen in the US; this is banana republic-level stuff.
Yeah, as an investor, my reaction to this proposal was, oh HELL no.
TL / DR:
BLS chief: "Jobs are turning bad now."
Trump: "Fake news, you're fired. I'm appointing a January 6th rioter conspiracy theorist to head the BLS!"
BLS today: "Jobs were ALREADY bad!"
The fact that you take at face value a revision of Biden-era job numbers, immediately after Trump fired and replaced the BLS chief explicitly because he published jobs numbers Trump didn't like, is....
Well, it's certainly a choice.
I was thinking the same thing. What sort of an idiot will take US jobs numbers at face value right after Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief after he reported numbers that Trump didn't like?
What this country needs is a dime that will buy a good five-cent bagel.
