Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "MGUY Australia" channel.

  1. The madness will run its course. The only question is how far down we'll be dragged by insane and malicious political class.
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  2. I just wish the government would stay out of it and let the people who want to make and own EVs do their thing. Then, if they fail, it's only hurting them, and not everybody else. If they succeed, we'll all be very happy for them, and they'll make really good money.
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  3. One fender bender or bumpy road or rock in the road... One cracked or damaged cell and the whole thing goes up. Main thing is that the batteries don't age gracefully. Nobody wants to buy a used EV.
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  4. Same for solar panels on your home. It's a further transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy.
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  5. Agree. A simple, mechanical car with zero electronics that lasts for 20 years on average is way better for the environment than the latest-greatest ICE or EV for the environment.
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  6. or even just all those forever chemicals in the landfill.
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  7. There could be a very vibrant EV market, for small EVs in urban environments. But this "vision" of EVs replacing automobiles is a pipe dream, as anyone with common sense knew from the beginning.
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  8.  @rattusfinkus  If EVs are The Solution, then they don't need government subsidies that benefit a handful of rich people.
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  9. I can see buying a little putt-putt, like a golf cart, to move things around my property or maybe run over to the grocery store across the way. But no way am I buying an EV that has an advertised range that's meant to replace an ICE for actual road travel over 20 miles.
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  10.  @UnitSe7en  Running your heater in the winter in an ICE doesn't cost you anything. You're just opening a vent to the abundant heat created by your engine. Air conditioning does hurt your gas mileage and reduces your range a little bit.
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  11. "You will all do as vee say and drive EVs." "No, you will not be able to charge your EV. But you still must drive one."
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  12. I can see where small, efficient EVs could get people around in the city, cheaply, and without emissions. This would greatly improve the air quality in the cities. And if the government did NOTHING, you'd slowly see more e-cars and e-bikes in urban areas. They just had no business telling automakers "All EVs by 2030, because the world is melting."
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  13.  @MattExzy  Cars you can work on, yourself, and maintain indefinitely, are much better for the environment than going to EVs.
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  14.  @simonburling3762  ... and mine more copper in the next 5 years than has been mined in all of human history.
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  15. My two ICE's are 30 and 12 years old. Average 21 years old.
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  16.  @aotk.mp4  $o I shouldn't believe all the dealerships full of Evs nobody's buying?
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  17. Last I heard, they were still arguing over whether Yucca Mtn was a good waste repository. As I recall, it wasn't the best geology, but not-in-my-back-yard-ism eliminated all the, you know, sensible places to dump the nuclear waste.
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  18. The standard EV is under-built for long-range and over-built for short range. If government stayed out of it, the happy medium would quickly be discovered by a free market.
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  19. I despise the EV subsidies. If it's a good idea, it shouldn't be subsidized. If it's a bad idea, it especially shouldn't be subsidized. But that's how government "works."
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  20. Mechanical devices don't need microchips or wifi.
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  21.  @Gough-jf9zf  This is true. Hybrid sales are up much more, and regular ICE vehicles continue to dominate, although EVs and Hybrids have cut into sales, for sure. I believe that in the final analysis, pure EVs are a detriment to the environment, and the "Save the Planet!" types are actually doing more harm than good, as per usual. What happens when all the government incentives dry up? What happens when even Australians figure out the negatives, in spite of all the government propaganda?
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  22. I just like being in a vehicle that performs well in all weathers. If you can get an ICE to run, you have heat, and using the heater won't cut your trip short on the coldest day when you need it most.
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  23.  @TroySavary  Yes. All cars depreciate. But not nearly as fast. You have range anxiety from the moment you leave the lot, and the range of the vehicle only goes down from there. The lithium's an environmental disaster from the extraction to the refining to the disposal when it inevitably wears out and is useless. Usually in a matter of a few years. I think EVs would be great for getting around town, but to get around town, you don't need a 1,200-pound (544-kg) battery, like the Tesla has, to pretend like it's a serious road car that you can comfortably and conveniently take a long trip in. You don't need a 1,200-pound battery to maneuver around the 15-minute city they're aiming at you living in...
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  24. Tesla's main problem is the establishment hates him. Tesla's quality control has been questionable, but the other automakers are terrible, too. We're overdue for a revolution in durable goods, in general. We have to get away from everything being disposable and built to break.
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  25.  @mikethespike7579  I owned a 1974 Datsun pickup. It was very solid, reliable, and easy to repair. I bought it used in 1981 or '82 with a blown exhaust valve, and did a valve job on it for about $40, because I had shop privileges at a Ford dealership where I worked to pay for school. I drove it for several years, and it was not gently treated. That little truck could really scoot on a dirt road.
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  26. Big Rubber and Big Oil bribed public officials to make buses artificially more cost-effective than trolleys that were originally built for profit and self-sustaining, without government interference. 3rd rail/overhead cable to power the electric trolleys involved zero toxic batteries.
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  27. "We're too big to fail." "Maybe you're too big to live."
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  28. Unless you're just tooling around town to the grocery and back, an EV is useless.
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  29.  @tonysheerness2427  The standard Beetle is pretty weak, but you can put different jugs in them. Nice thing about the standard Beetle is the straight axle in front. Also flat front windshield. I owned a '74 Super Beetle for a time. They have heaters. Very ingenious the way they do it, with air passing over the exhaust manifold. It also had an oil bath air cleaner, which was most excellent, which was why the EPA was having none of it.
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  30. ​ @phils4634  You'd have to be pretty crazy to rely on current EV tech and infrastructure for long distance driving, imho. Hybrid or pure ICE is what you want for long trips. Nobody talks about how much heavier a big truck is with those giant batteries. More road damage. More road repairs needed. All manner of unintended consequences our masters didn't consider.
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  31.  @craig19721000  I think we all know what insurance companies will do.
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  32. I have a Math PhD, and my planning is to check oil and fill the tank, before I leave.
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  33. We were 10 years ahead of everybody when the politicians stayed in their own lane.
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  34. Those heavier weights are harder to stop and do a lot more damage to our roadways, which are primarily made of asphalt made from petroleum. None of it makes sense, unless you're in the EV business or a politician who found a new way to launder money.
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  35.  @Audioremedy0785  You love these disposable cars. You realize how bad these EVs are the for environment? Apparently not.
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  36.  albinvega7008  Private jets require no lithium. What's more, to replace ICE vehicles would require a many-fold increase in copper mining, lithium mining, cobalt mining, not to mention all the energy it takes to build them. I won't even start on the coal-fired plants that power your green batteries.
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  37.  @douglasb.5601  "Who youse gonna believe? Us or your lyin' eyes?" - Mafia Don
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  38.  @SeattlePioneer  Keep it in your trunk, next to the diesel generator, in case you get stuck somewhere without power!
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  39.  @severnsea  All kinds of great little EVs you can tool around town in very efficiently. If you're not trying to take a 1,000 mile trip and you can plug it in at home. Heck, even a regular lead-acid battery in a golf cart can run you around pretty good for short trips. It's when you try to make them what they're not, that you get into trouble. You wouldn't buy a compact pickup truck to carry 3 tons. You wouldn't buy a battery car to take a long trip.
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  40.  @mikepickford1  It's because the drive train is an electric motor built in the wheel. There's no "drive train" in the sense of drive shaft, transmission, or differential.
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  41. Cheap credit. Yes. A lot of struggling companies across many industries have gone woke for almost-free credit.
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  42. The military's not going EV.
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  43. Following government edicts is necessary for their survival. Government edicts also are very good at eliminating any upstart competition. Make no mistake. They're in government's pocket and government's in their pocket. It's a symbiosis that works very well for a while, and always at the expense of the general public.
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  44.  @Tom-dt4ic  LOL! You've taken reality-denying to new levels.
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  45.  @oldbloke204  We mustn't allow them to price ICEVs beyond all reason. The reason to switch to EVs mustn't be because they stop making good, reliable, affordable and repairable ICEVs, but that's kind of what's happening. The best thing for your wallet and the environment in the USA would be to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency.
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  46.  @danielstapler4315  And in the meantime, they're way heavier than petrol/diesel cars. Light, short-distance EVs make sense. But trying to replace internal combustion entirely is a smoke screen for eliminating freedom of travel to the masses.
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  47.  @Disgracefoold  Denying facts over and over doesn't make them fallacies.
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  48. Some guys up in Canada built a hybrid diesel logging truck that boosted efficiency, but they didn't bribe the right officials, so it was all for naught.
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  49. Let the market handle this. Vote the CO2 worshippers out of government and LET society evolve. Left to our own devices, we will get EVERYTHING cleaner and more efficient because we WANT to. The government's only as smart as government officials and government officials are insulated from (and willfully ignorant of) the full impact of their policies on the common people and the ecosystem. Water, air, and land pollution are all problems we need to deal with, and we've tried letting government manage the trade-offs, and government has proven, yet again, to not be up to the task. In most cases, the government has been the cause of greater pollution. They can only seize on one or two things they can point to as "doing something" and they never account for the harm they do, system-wide. From "helping the disadvantaged" (leading to an explosion of disadvantaged) to "flattening the curve" (covid response), not only do they get things wrong, but they silence their critics, which is not only bad for their critics, but bad for the people who are denied the full array of views and facts on the matter. The cleanest solution for automobiles would be a policy of making durable goods that can be repaired by anybody for as long as possible. Nothing the EPA has done since its creation has helped in this regard. Let the cities try different things, but don't impose what may work for a major metro area on everybody. EVs and mass transit make total sense in such places, but that doesn't require federal law or federal intervention. It's not so much that the feds get everything wrong, but that every mistake they make is imposed on the entire nation, all at once.
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  50. "Mainstream media" is a misnomer. "Legacy" or "corporate" media are better terms, because the so-called "mainstream" media are dying.
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  51.  @Acemeistre  Yes. It's refreshing to subscribe to a channel that doesn't gaslight people with ivory tower nonsense.
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  52. They've run out of rich, stupid, and rich-and-stupid customers.
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  53. Convert to wood gas and make your own fuel?
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  54.  @ppmppm7010  It's not just a matter of competition and better products. Governments place a lot of ridiculous regulations that destry creativity amongst car makers and value for customers. Cars are way too fancy and built to wear out way too soon, and cost a fortune to repair.
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  55.  @ppmppm7010  Yes. Exchangeable cartridges could be a way for the infrastructure to grow more organically. You could probably make some decent money with a battery exchange in the city limits and then maybe open one a little farther out of town and slowly colonize the countryside. I just don't see them colonizing "flyover country" any time soon. I have a V6 pickup. I drive it infrequently, but I'm glad I can drive 1000 miles in 24 hours, easily.
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  56.  @JackBWatkins  You get it.
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  57.  @ChristianGunNut2001  You also get it.
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  58. Yes. People who make bad choices are rewarded by the government and people who make wise choices are punished by the government.
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  59.  @GT380man  They get weaker from the day you drive them off the dealership lot. Your range dwindles with every trip, until utter uselessness
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  60.  @gerbre1  We found the fanboy!
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  61. You have to understand that many think climate change is an extinction-level event. They think they're doing their bit, when they're just part of a larger extinction-level event.
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  62.  @tonysheerness2427  Actually, bolt-on power steering and air conditioning pumps are the way it should be.
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  63. The only car I ever bought that was less than 10 years old is the pickup truck I bought brand-new 14 years ago and still drive. It looks and drives like it's brand-new.
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  64.  @klimatbluffen  That's a definite consequence, and I bet quite a few rich people don't want the commoners to have freedom of movement. The automobile is a huge threat to government power and a huge boost to the power of the common person.
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  65.  @markiangooley  I'm in Northern Idaho and you just don't see them anywhere but in big towns like Boise or Couer d'Alene/$pokane, where there're more rich people and they just run around town in them. They just seem like overbuilt go-carts. You don't need a poor imitation of a traditional gas burner to have an EV that's very practical for in-town driving that'll get you to work or to the shopping center and back.
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  66.  @iwaswrongabouteveryhthing  You just never know which side of the bed Elon will get up on.
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  67. Paris Climate Accords are more of a suicide note by the West than a document that will save the planet.
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  68.  @kiae-nirodiariesencore4270  There's all kinds of crap like that. The oil lobby is a real thing, for sure. That doesn't mean government-subsidized EVs, powered by coal-fired generating plants, and full of expensive and dirty-to-mine-and-process metals and rare earths are any kind of real solution to environmental degradation, which is a far more serious issue than CO2 in the atmosphere.
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  69.  @kiae-nirodiariesencore4270  Those are legit concerns. Government intervention was always in the name of making things better, but all it did was put the government in the hip pocket of all the industries it purported to "regulate." The net effect of such interventions is always rampant abuse followed by destruction of the industry, itself, after the intervention has driven out all smaller competitors. I would much rather see a true free market. Now, I'd like you to address the sourcing of the raw materials needed to support this EV panacea you love so much. EVs aren't really cleaning things up. They're just trading one form of environmental degradation for another, without really ANY concern for the actual value of each. Just a religious certitude that CO2 is the Great Satan. Where are we getting most of those minerals from? Countries that don't care at ALL about the environment. Your arguments are really just "not in MY back yard!" arguments, that make you feel good, but you're just moving the pollution over the China, which also shares the same planet we do! The oil companies wouldn't own the government (essentially) if the government hadn't decided to cash in on a big business's profits and pretend to "regulate" them in the interests of the people. Every time the people are up in arms and want to see change, the government steps in and CONTROLS the form that change will take, and the controls they implement are ALWAYS in consultation with the very companies that the public was about to make bankrupt! What really ends up happening is what always ends up happening: The agency gets captured by the very people it purports to regulate. We see this all the time, and it's only getting worse. Now, if you're right about the importance of putting fossil fuels in the rearview mirror, the best way to achieve that is through free markets, NOT by government intervention. Set a good example and try to convince others to follow your lead. Government intervention gets to parade all the winners, but it harms everyone in small ways, so it's hard to get at the actual harm that is done. But all those small "harms" are stacking up, and anyone with a brain can see that where we're headed is serfdom, where no one can afford their own home or the ability to go where they want, when they want.
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  70. Oh, they're all very smart. They just read all the wrong books.
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  71.  @Pomdownuder  In my case, I will probably get a different engine. If I'm going to spend the money, I'm switching to the 3.4 L from my 3.0 L (also called 3.slow engine). But the current issue with the original 3.0 L appears to be a clogged injector. Hopefully some injector cleaner will clear it up. Otherwise, I'll have to tear into it. But compression's good on all the cylinders, and all it should require is a new injector. Probably replace all of them, since the engine will be broken down to access the one injector. I admire good mechanics. I'm JUST knowledgeable enough to fuck everything up.
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  72. Not to mention extra wear and tear on roadways from all vehicles being heavier, so we'll have the roads crumbling. Roads made of asphalt.
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  73. Nothing says "safety plug" like a recall due to overheating.
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  74. Don't get your hopes up. Remember BREXIT and how the Conservatives swept into office? They globalist as hard as Labour.
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  75. "Let's waste resources to save the planet! Yay!"
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  76.  @Acemeistre  Change can be good. Change can also be bad. EVs are a pipe dream, as currently conceived.
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  77. Legacy media was ALWAYS meant to be one-way. It's been a top-down control system for decades that none of the elites want to lose.
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  78.  @tonysheerness2427  Not to worry. The crowd who set up the catastrophe will be the same crowd who make billions of dollars fixing THAT problem, while the government takes more of our money and liberty, because of the "crisis." Sick of people creating problems and enriching themselves off the "solutions" they ram down our throats, which cause MORE problems down the road. It's the death spiral of western civilization.
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  79. Remember when the difference between the West and the fascists and commies was their free economies?
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  80. You can bundle up for the cold, but cold windows ice over. Having the juice to defog your windows is vital in winter. Anyway, these people are trying to use EVs beyond what they're really good for. The average person in a single-family dwelling can run around town on electric with no problem. It's just not a vehicle of choice for longer trips or for long, sustained run times.
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  81. Nice! They came up with fake sound effects to sound like ICE vehicles, to go along with the fake idea that EVs are just as good as ICE vehicles!
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  82. "Placer County" is pronounced Plasser, as in "placer mine."
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  83.  @mellarner8253  True. But it doesn't take many liars if they're at the top of officialdumb. They're supposedly the most authoritative sources, and when they lie, and media are too lazy or too dependent on those officials for access, the lie gets retold. 99% of scientists and media will not see something that would interfere with their income stream.
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  84. "If somebody gave you a dollar a day, for a year, you'd have over $360,000!"
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  85. I love that advances in EVs are being made. I hate that crazy (and possibly mendacious) people are trying to push EV usage beyond all reason. I think there could be a lot of benefit for the environment if small, 1- or 2-seat EVs for personal transportation over relatively short (within a few miles') distance grew in popularity. Enough to get you to the hardware store and back, or to make a run to the hardware and grocery stores in one go. If you had your own little wind and solar going on at your place, you could stretch a dollar in the long run by slowly "refueling" your EV over 24- or 48-hour periods. Maybe when the sun isn't shining, you have to spend a little more time on your stationary bike, charging the batteries! That'd be very practical for running small errands and making appointments, assuming the distances are relatively short and the trips are relatively infrequent. Everyday work vehicle? No way. Delivery vehicle? No. Courier service? Maybe. You can outfit a lot of e-bikes pretty cheaply. There's so much that could be done with common-sense, light-weight, short-range EVs, without trying to ram them down people's throats. I can see them growing more popular, quite naturally. We'd probably have a huge market in smaller EVs if the auto industry weren't sucking up all the oxygen (i.e., lithium). There are also applications for lead-acid batteries in EVs. If you're only going 10 miles round-trip, you wouldn't even need lithium batteries, or have to deal with their dangers. We've known how to make and safely use lead-acid batteries for many decades.
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  86. No one talks about how changing energy from one form to another incurs waste. Generating and transmitting electricity to an outlet for you car plug-in involves waste at the generator and waste in the power lines. I think the actual CO2 reductions are very slight. In an ICE, the energy in the fuel goes directly to propulsion.
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  87. ​ @sunrisejak2709  That's rich, considering politics and government subsidies and punishments are the only reason so many were made. Without subsidies, they'd still just be an oddity whose time hadn't arrived, yet, if ever. You guys always prattle on about sustainability, but all your marvelous ideas require stealing resources by force from enterprises and products that actually are sustainable. The fact that your pipe dream requires government subsidies proves you wrong, no matter what you say.
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  88. They played the same statistical game with the vacks. Going from a 99.6% survival rate to a 99.8% survival rate isn't really very significant. But the way it was portrayed was "You're twice as safe with the vacks," because your risk of death went from 0.4% to 0.2%. You weren't twice as safe. You were slightly less likely to die immediately by taking a medication whose long-term effects were totally unknown.
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  89. Main by-product is water vapor, and water vapor is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.
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  90. Pave Paradise! Put in a Solar Lot!
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  91.  @Takudza  I think low-cost, short-range vehicles make a ton of sense. But it's ludicrous to believe that they have anywhere near the range and ability to do the same work as ICE for the same weight.
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  92.  @aliendroneservices6621  Depends on make and model. Also depends on service records. Mostly, it depends on having a good mechanic check everything out.
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  93.  @jakefriesenjake  I'm sure you left something out! mmmmmm. Yes. Here's one: Because EVs are heavier, they wear out the roads faster. Most of the roads are basically made of petroleum and aggregate.
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  94.  @Gazza-rv8ud  LOL! Why are you so full of malice for others? The working class can't afford these toys, so their tax money is going to richer people. But that's how you like it, amirite?
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  95.  @hitmanzzz141  I am honest. I think you are wrong. EVs have electric heaters. ICEVs draw heat from the engine cooling system or exhaust manifold (old VWs). It doesn't take 20 minutes for an ICEV to warm up. YOU be honest.
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  96.  @hitmanzzz141  I'm no expert, but I can do a 10-second Google search. My '93 and '12 don't have electric heaters of which I'm aware. Change my mind.
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  97.  @hitmanzzz141  So I'm arguing with a champagne socialist. "All cars have electric heaters." I think you may be living in a bubble of luxury.
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  98.  @hitmanzzz141  I did. Google said they don't use electric heaters. Sorry about the socialist remark. I think I made that remark because the EV pushers love government intervention and government intervention is essentially socialism.
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  99. They're beta-testing for the rest of the world, and also polluting the whole world with toxic gases for every fire.
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  100. Assuming I had an EV, which I don't, when I heard this story, I'd be looking for ways to add a switch to my charging system that prevented the current from flowing the wrong way. I bet such a setup would become the hottest product on the market.
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  101.  @xr6lad  All the traditional, legacy networks and print media are establishment propaganda. The vast majority of Americans know this. The rest of the world thinks we all watch believe that crap. The only reason we even keep track of what "mainstream" media are saying, is to know what the next stupid policy will be from the government that permeates those legacy forms of media.
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  102.  @unnamedchannel1237  Yes. And those countries are broke. They're worse than broke. They're over their heads in debt.
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  103. A $5- or $10-thousand EV that could get me around town would be good. But not an overbuilt monstrosity that weighs more than a normal car and is impractical for the long hauls it's supposedly built for.
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  104. Western leaders are either stupid, incompetent, malevolent, dishonest, or some mix of all four.
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  105. Beta-testing on citizens who never agreed to the test is scandalous. So of course, they'll keep doing it and no one will be held to account.
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  106. Basically a lesson in socialism. Big companies love government intervention because it eliminates competition and benefits them greatly. But eventually the interventions destroy the companies and the economy, because government officials make terrible decisions for everyone but themselves.
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  107. I'm not against EVs, but I think they're a niche market, not the consumers' choice for reliable transportation.
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  108. Nonsense. Just close your eyes and wish upon a star. Your dreams will come true.
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  109. I dunno. What's the going price of a backup battery bank to power a home? You'd reap a harvest of microchips and copper, on top of that. Just bury it far enough from your house that it won't burn up.
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  110. Re-building my '93 pickup's motor as we speak.
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  111. How many of those semis are even on the road? Checking... They've built about 140 TESLA semis. TESLA itself owns 100 of them, with PEPSI being their the biggest customer. Even ONE such event is catastrophically bad.
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  112. Too much acceleration? My rig has plenty of acceleration. But I don't floor it at every take-off. That's a ridiculous claim to make as a reason people are sick from driving them. I would guess that having 2 or 4 great big electric motors and their EM fields washing over you differentially the entire time is probably not good for you. You're basically sitting in the middle (but offset) of 4 great big EM fields.
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  113.  @reasonablespeculation3893  Yup. Roads should pay for themselves through tolls.
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  114. Who's gonna pass the law making it compulsory? The politicians. So it will never happen. They want YOU to drive an EV. THEY don't want an EV. They're too important to have to deal with the inconvenience.
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  115.  @hoboonwheels9289  The majority voted for big government to take care of everything for them. "Care for me like a child, but give me the freedoms of an adult." The world doesn't work that way. We have what we voted for.
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  116.  @matthewgodwin3050  The re-build I feared I would have to do for my '93 turned out to just be a clogged fuel injector. Hopefully, fuel injector cleaner will suffice in clearing its throat, because replacing injectors is a pretty big job.
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  117. A mobile populace is too hard to control. Give up your wheeled vehicles, racist!
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  118. You know the BEST way to stem population growth? PROSPERITY! You know what the "global-warming" crowd hate? PROSPERITY! You know what would reduce emissions in the 3rd world? Propane!
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  119.  @gerbre1  Don't have to be a fanboy. I agree. But it helps. It depends on why you just don't want to burn fossil fuels. It also depends on your transportation wants and needs. If you are trying to do your bit to save the planet, a TESLA or other EV isn't going to do it. It's just trades one form of environmental degradation for another, with no clear advantage, and a vehicle that is less reliable and has limited and decreasing range.
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  120. They already want that, and when you know that, their policies make sense.
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  121.  @sarcasmunlimited1570  Byzantine-Clintonian, tomayto-tomawto.
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  122. The EPA is why everyone in the USA drives mid-sized trucks and SUVs instead of compact trucks and SUVs. The FDA works for Big Pharma. The USDA works for Big Ag. We always get the opposite of what we thought the government intended.
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  123. I think we pollute more than we need to and we're big enough to create huge problems for the global ecosystem. But the global warming crowd want human extinction (or profound die-back) and don't care even a little bit about the ecological devastation created by the manufacture and disposal of all the batteries. You want to save the planet? Make a car that you can repair and use for a lifetime. Make computers and phones that last a lifetime. The people lecturing us also push disposable "durable goods." It's all a scam. You can tell when all the muckety-mucks pushing the scam fly in private jets to the latest climate conference in Dubai.
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  124. Can you imagine, 50 years from now, somebody with their "classic Tesla?" I can't. But if they had one, it'd have a big "Batteries not included" sign.
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  125. My guess is they were already in trouble and needed an infusion of cash, which ESG creditors were only too happy to provide.
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  126. "I know! Let's poison the planet to save the planet!" Too much one-variable thinking, from climate models to policy.
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  127. While EVs are a failure, what worries me is that you won't be able to find an ICE vehicle that's worth buying, if it was made after 2012 or so, and even that year there is so much garbage added to them. Nobody's making basic good cars and trucks, any more. Governments won't let them. If they really wanted to reduce pollution, they'd make cheap cars that are easy to repair. Making cars that last longer would be a huge benefit to the planet. But they want to make you an ultra-expensive vehicle that you have to throw away in 5 years.
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  128.  @RiverMersey  They're building kill switches into ICE vehicles, as well. We're all getting squeezed by a donor class that pushed us into living wastefully and now wants to punish us for our decadent ways.
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  129.  @bikersoncall  I agree. BUT they relieve conditions, locally. We're not finding solutions, here. We're managing trade-offs. Some amount of battery-powered or electrical transport makes sense in urban areas. I think they overreached trying to replace automobiles everywhere all at once. Very bad policy. I think we need to find some way of preventing toxic fires and re-cycling the lithium in our phones and computers before taking the blind leap into replacing ICEs, everywhere.
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  130.  @gossamera4665  Elon made his money. He didn't get into the business until government guaranteed all kinds of tax rebates and subsidies. He knew he could make money before he ever got involved.
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  131. The "right wing" is where the last of the true liberals reside. What passes for "liberal" these days is where you find the right-wing authoritarians, who push their agenda by hijacking the term "liberal."
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  132. They'll just use it as an excuse to take more money by force to build more of these ridiculous "filling stations." Any fool can see this will restrict travel, with little benefit to the planet. Cleaner air (and more garages burning down) in the cities, but probably powered by coal-fired plants.
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  133.  @RiverMersey  You can also make wood gas and port it directly into your vehicle's manifold, if you have an older engine with c "normal" carburetor and intake manifold. I don't think it'll work for fuel-injected engines, and now almost all engines are fuel-injected.
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  134. Just remember, it's the government "protecting you" that gave us cars that suck and are unreliable.
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  135.  @oldbloke204  I'm pretty small-footprint, myself, because I arranged my life and my job that way. I drive ICE vehicle, but pretty infrequently. I just really like having it when I need or want to take a trip or do some work or towing, especially in deep cold or high heat. As someone doing "green" his own way, I see the EPA and other government agencies as an obstacle to living greener. Making you buy a new vehicle rather than fixing the one(s) you have is a HUGE burden on available resources and the environment. It's the height of irony that the people pretending to save the planet are the ones pushing disposable durable goods on us.
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  136.  @TGWazoo1  If we're going EV to solve climate change, a vehicle whose exhaust is hot water vapor is spuming greenhouse gases of much more potency and at a very high rate.
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  137.  @walnutkraken9430  Much ado, signifying nothing. Almost like it's a scam!
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  138.  @glumpy10  Most people simply can't afford them.
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  139. In the USA you can't buy an efficient compact pickup truck, because they don't get good enough gas mileage for their wheelbase, but you CAN buy a gas-guzzling mid-sized or full-sized pickup truck that gets much worse mileage, because under EPA rules, vehicles will longer and wider wheelbases don't have to comply with the restriction. This isn't about saving the planet. This is about tyranny of the bureaucracy.
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  140. You throw out one set of scoundrels only to bring in a new set of scoundrels. UK is f****d.
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  141. Big semi's are pretty stinky, but their stacks are way up high. What I hate is getting stuck behind a diesel passenger vehicle in stop-and-go traffic.
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  142. $800 is ridiculously low cost for a new/rebuilt engine. The people pushing EVs are also trying to make it harder and harder to repair ICE vehicles.
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  143.  @Noah_E  Yes. And it's all done in the name of saving the planet. What would really save the planet is cars that last a long time and are easy to repair. But the environmental hypocrites want you to buy a new car every 4 or 5 years (or less).
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  144.  @glumpy10  That's rarely the reason something is successful or not. Look at all the people who think animal fats are bad and seed oils are great, to this day.
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  145. Back in your day, people voted to put the federal government in charge of everything. All the crap you're seeing now is downstream of that.
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