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Comment Anecdata (Score 2) 38

I sold a car through Carvana at the end of COVID era. Got KBB excellent price from them, and it took less than 30 minutes for them to inspect it, make sure it drove well, and lock it up. Flatbed came a couple hours later and loaded it up. Easy peasy. The prices they are paying for used cars are not as good as they were 5 years ago.

Comment Consumer cost (Score 1) 90

V2G requires additional and expensive hardware in the consumer's home. If this is intended to help the power grid, are they going to pay $8000 for the bi-directional charger that gets installed, especially for something past the customer's demarc? Until the price gets down to where this is just included with the charger, it seems like a non-starter.

Comment Re:This is madness. (Score 1) 72

If your best friend takes your credit card and buys stuff you didn't authorize, that is fraud, and you are not responsible for more than $50. If you allow a computer owned by advertisers to purchase stuff "on your behalf", that is not a crime (maybe criminal negligence on your part), and you can be sure the credit card companies are going to extract that money from you.

Comment Censorship instead of law (Score 1) 68

This is a failure on so many levels. Congress isn't going to get off their collective asses to try to regulate a new industry that may have severe social effects. So, they are going to let the executive control this, in a way that is very clearly censorship. For the powerful, by the powerful

Comment Externalities (Score 2) 103

The problem with this idea is that all energy production has external costs that aren't captured in a simple balance sheet. Some of them are hiding small manufacturing and disposal costs (solar/wind), some of them are hiding significant environmental costs (hydro/nuclear), and some of them are outright lying about destroying the planet in order to continue lining the pockets of the rich. If the economic systems your "free market" uses includes all those public goods in the calculations, then it works. The job of the government is to regulate the market in order to secure those widespread costs, and that rarely if ever happens.

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