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

  1.  @Acemeistre  Yes. It's refreshing to subscribe to a channel that doesn't gaslight people with ivory tower nonsense.
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  2. They've run out of rich, stupid, and rich-and-stupid customers.
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  3. Convert to wood gas and make your own fuel?
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  4.  @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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  5.  @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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  6.  @JackBWatkins  You get it.
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  7.  @ChristianGunNut2001  You also get it.
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  8. 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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  9.  @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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  10.  @gerbre1  We found the fanboy!
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  11. 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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  12.  @tonysheerness2427  Actually, bolt-on power steering and air conditioning pumps are the way it should be.
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  13. 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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  14.  @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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  15.  @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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  16.  @iwaswrongabouteveryhthing  You just never know which side of the bed Elon will get up on.
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  17. Paris Climate Accords are more of a suicide note by the West than a document that will save the planet.
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  18.  @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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  19.  @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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  20. Oh, they're all very smart. They just read all the wrong books.
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  21.  @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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  22. 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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  23. Nothing says "safety plug" like a recall due to overheating.
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  24. 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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  25. "Let's waste resources to save the planet! Yay!"
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  26.  @Acemeistre  Change can be good. Change can also be bad. EVs are a pipe dream, as currently conceived.
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  27. 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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  28.  @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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  29. Remember when the difference between the West and the fascists and commies was their free economies?
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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. "Placer County" is pronounced Plasser, as in "placer mine."
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  33.  @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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  34. "If somebody gave you a dollar a day, for a year, you'd have over $360,000!"
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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. ​ @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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  38. 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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  39. Main by-product is water vapor, and water vapor is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.
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  40. Pave Paradise! Put in a Solar Lot!
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  41.  @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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  42.  @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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  43.  @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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  44.  @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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  45.  @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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  46.  @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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  47.  @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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  48.  @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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  49. 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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  50. 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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