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Comment Re:All those wasted tax dollars (Score 1, Insightful) 135

Think of how much it cost to install these chargers, and how much it saved the government in fuel costs. All of that will be lost like tears in the rain.

Nice to know there's so much concern for how my tax dollars are wasted.

There were only " several hundred EV chargers across the country". They were planning to install many more. So maybe it's cheaper to halt the project. If they want chargers in the parking lots maybe they can offer a contract to Electrify America to own and operate them.

Comment Re:Are we winning yet? (Score 1) 366

Just in case you meant that sarcastically I'll rephrase:

He said "Sicks kids are a threat!" but the document says "Sickness is a threat to our kids!", the former implies we should protect ourselves from the children while the later implies we should protect the children from harm.

I got it. I was channeling Emily Litella https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment "Lifetime subscription" until it isn't (Score 1) 25

I've bought products with a "lifetime subscription", but then they come out with a rename of the product and say the "lifetime subscription" only covers up to the last version of the older named product. No way to get fixes or security patches, and if you need to reinstall it the downloads have disappeared

Comment Re:So you got to understand something (Score 1, Insightful) 366

According to a pew research poll The average Trump voter believes 20% of the country is trans. But it's actually even sillier than that because none of them actually think about trans men so to them that entire 20% is trans women.
 

This is a bullshit statistic, and the average Democrat voter doesn't know what a woman is

Comment Re:So you got to understand something (Score 1) 366

According to a pew research poll The average Trump voter believes 20% of the country is trans.

Funny, a quick search says that it is actually left-leaning voters who vastly over-estimate the percentage of trans people (10-30%, while the actual number is around 0.5%).

That might be because on the left you are more likely to have trans people in your circles, but still. That's a long way off.

(no I'm not a Trump voter at all. I just realized a long time ago that in political discussions, usually both sides are wrong.)

In some circles it's fashionable to be the first mom on your block to have a trans kid. Then all the other moms feel social pressure to catch up.

Comment Re:Toyota was right to go with hybrid (Score 1) 241

Yep. I drive my Jeep around 5000-6000 miles per year. It has about 128,000 miles on it at the moment. At this rate, it will simply last forever, or at least the rest of my life. As an added bonus, it does not have all the annoying stupid bullshit that a new car does.

There is simply NO POSSIBLE WAY to justify buying ANY new vehicle, let alone an EV. That $40,000 or whatever is easily better spent on just about ANYTHING else.

Even if the fuel is free the break-even is decades. It makes no sense

Comment Re:EVs aren't about being green for most (Score 1) 241

I bought them because EVs are far cheaper to run than ICEs, and they're far more reliable. There are no $250 oil changes every 3 months or annual "service intervals" at $2K a pop.

Nobody in their right mind spends $250 on an oil change and $2k on an annual service. At those prices no wonder you think ICE's are expensive

Comment Re:Toyota was right to go with hybrid (Score 3, Interesting) 241

My car is 18 years old. It was paid off 14 years ago.

Continuing to drive my car is cheaper than any EV on the market, or any EV that WILL be on the market in my lifetime.

Mine is 25 years old and has 364k miles. For my kids I have 3 others, ranging from 13 to 22 years old. All run fine. Keeping them running as long as possible has got to be more energy efficient than scrapping them and manufacturing new cars. It certainly is easier on my wallet

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