OK. But what about removing parts that are meant for private cars? I'm willing to subsidize the oil infrastructure for the things I use, after all.

The average large EV fuel economy is 4 _miles_ per kWh, but your math is correct. Except that you're comparing a large-ish SUV (Model Y) and the tiniest, most sluggish Camry. Model 3 RWD short range is 5 miles per kWh. Fuel price is also very volatile, and it's pushed down by the very EVs that benefit from its increase.

More importantly, the vehicle price itself is a big part of the savings. The US does NOT produce cheap EVs, but China does. E.g. Leapmotor A10 CUV is priced at $15k for the base model: https://moparinsiders.com/leap... Sure, it would be more expensive if produced in the US with the stronger safety standards and more expensive labor, but even at $25k it would blow any competition out of the water. The closest ICE car is something like Chevy Trax at $23k that has the 30mpg fuel economy. And EVs will get even cheaper as the battery R&D and capital expenses get paid back, ICE cars will not.

So yep. ICE cars are dead. The US just hasn't realized it yet.

I drive an EV. Why should I subsidize your gas car with oil industry tax incentives?

Also, it's a false dichotomy. Apartment buildings can install metered chargers and pay for them through user fees. At 2 cent per kWh surcharge, they'll pay themselves back in about 7-10 years.

Come on. My brother works in Russia and Kazakhstan on agricultural software, so he knows the industry. Plenty of people working in that area are using drones and are re-importing them through Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. And all the schemes are completely transparent, there's no way European and American companies can't know that there's no legitimate way for Kyrgyzstan companies to suddenly increase the amount of purchased components by 10x-100x.

And this is not the only scheme. For example, German gas turbines are exported to Kazakhstan with transit through Russia. And they just get "lost" along the way. Darndest thing, these Russian roads. It's so easy for trucks to disappear completely. Every time.

Of course, European and American companies can never stop all the smuggling. But we can't pretend that companies are actually even trying to do something.

That hasn't been true for the last 15 years.

Meanwhile, studies that were quoted by grifters in the first true post-truth trial of Monsanto causing cancer were all ghostwritten by greenie hippies.

It's also not like it's the _only_ study of glyphosate safety. There have been 13 reliable mouse studies since 1984 ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... ), that found no effect on mice in any reasonable concentration. But now the anti-glyphosate grifters are going to glomp onto this study and pretend that nothing else exists.

Surfactants. And you can buy pure glyphosate, actually. It's just not very convenient because it's an oily liquid that doesn't mix well with water.

No, it's not. The exported BYD cars do not get any unusual subsidies. Their initial R&D was subsidized, but not the production.

Traffic within a region is not free in AWS :) You're thinking about traffic within a single AZ.

Except for us-east-2. Traffic between us-east-1 and us-east-2 costs the same as traffic within us-east-1.

Glyphosate (plants are also pests).

In case of the CIA top-secret cloud, Amazon had an actual SCIF (Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility) where only people with an appropriate clearance could come in. It's probably be something similar for Google.

Because an Interstate can carry more people and cargo, and far more flexibly than a railroad.

The problem is that the most-often taught English cursive style is bad. Spencerian cursive _is_ faster than block letters, because it allows you to smoothly move the pen. It's also slanted because slanted movements are faster than straight up/down lines.

Not really. Plastics require hydrocarbons that can be sourced from anything, including coal or wood. Oil is just the most convenient source, but it's certainly not the only one.

And anyway, only 6% of oil is used for plastic production. Even increasing the demand for plastics won't materially affect oil consumption. Fossil hydrocarbons are also used as a feedstock for other industrial processes (fertilizer production mainly), but adding up all these uses accounts for just about 15% of global production.