The average cost of electricity in the UK is 26p/kwh.

A typical EV can go 6 km per kWh, so that's 4.3p/km.

The average cost of a liter of petrol ("gasoline") is 170p.

The average car in the UK can go 13 km on a liter. 170/13 = 13p/km.

So driving a petrol car costs three times as much as driving an EV.

An EV owner can sign up for cheaper nighttime rates at half the daytime rate, which would make driving a petrol car six times as expensive as driving an EV.

Mostly hybrids (28%), but also diesel (4%).

You mentioned a 9 year old's version of a truck: Fun fact, my 9 year old daughter thinks the Cybertruck is the most beautiful car on the face of the planet and gets incredibly excited every time she sees a Cybertruck on the road.

Thankfully, though, she does not make the family's car purchasing decisions.

The phase-out will actually take ten years and go $20 billion over budget.

Then the new floppyless system won't work, so they'll go back to the old way.

Most of the foam was used in training exercises, not actual fires.

Military personnel sprayed most of the foam.

If we make suppliers criminally responsible for what soldiers do with their products, far fewer companies will be willing to sell to the military, and at much higher prices.

Of course not.

The contamination happened many decades ago, and the people who made the decisions have long since retired and/or died.

Please cite your proof beyond a reasonable doubt that specific named individuals were criminally negligent.

Keep the statute of limitations in mind, and remember that 3M wasn't spraying the foam.

At least cooling will be easier in Siberia.

The cops are lazy, not stupid.

Double-checking stuff is work, and there will be no repercussions for the individual cops, so why should they care?

Just call the towing company and go back to the donut shop.

Ha ha.

I wonder what their employer thinks about that.

AI is very good at writing COBOL.

"Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The terminator would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice." -- Sarah Connor

Actually, Hitler wanted Franco to take Gibraltar.

Franco refused because the British would retaliate by taking the Canary Islands.

What motivation could they have for intentionally making themselves look incompetent?

Giving people money to spend is a Demand Side Stimulus .

A demand-side stimulus makes sense when:
1. Unemployment is high
2. Inflation is low
3. The trade balance is in surplus

None of these conditions are currently true.

A demand-side stimulus in today's economy would fuel inflation and would mostly be spent on imports.

Can you define what you mean by "hoarding"?

Rich people have most of their money in equity. That's investing, not "hoarding".

That's only true until supply catches up with demand.

Plenty of new fabs are being built.

I predict that 3 years from now, the current DRAM shortage will turn into a glut.

Disclaimer: My predictions are usually wrong.