Comments by "ricardo kowalski" (@ricardokowalski1579) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. Elon identified that the niche of high income early adopters was big enough to pursue. As Henry Ford said it himself: had he done a market study, the consumer would have asked for a faster, more mpg, lower emission ICE (a horse drawn carriage) instead of a model 3 ( model T) ALSO, to this day, Elon wishes he could have called his car lineup "TESLA" . But since "model T" was taken, he had to go "S3XY". 😁
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  2. 15:27 "regardless of profit" Not true. The shale boom was made possible because of the same low interest rates and expanding money supply that brought on the financial crisis. The "big short" got made into a movie, but a lot of the capital flows also went into drilling wells. 16:20 "operators cut back" Nope. Politics interfered with banks that traditionally extended loans to oil companies. So many green this, ESG that, and pressure on investment firms cut off the supply of credit to the oil drillers. Operators did not "cut back" investment, they were "cut off" from the financing sources. What you are seeing now is payback. Drillers have no lost love with the politicians pushing EVs and badmouthing fossil. So now they are all playing the same game as OPEC, no longer competing with it. And the impact has laid bare the lies and broken promises of "alternative" energies. Germany paid the most expensive electricity to shut down coal mines, nuclear plants and subsidize renewables... for what? To be held hostage to rusian gas because the renewables failed to deliver. Higher gasoline prices are the result of a war, just NOT the rusia-ukraine war. It is the political and financial war against oil and gas investments that has brought us to this.
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  3. Government run top-down projects that are unsafe, broke, and can't pay for maintenance, much less upgrades. Who would have guessed!
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  4. 19:20 California is not "unique". And it has huge problems because it has a large government that intervenes in everything and anything. The "solution" is "small government". Government is never the solution, and it is in the government's interest to never solve any problem.
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  5.  @gfrewqpoiu  THIS 👍
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  6. 20:45 "regulators need to decide" No. They don't. Regulators have no mandate nor legitimacy to act in this matter. The entire video is avoids the central issue: customers only care about price , and then make pikachu faces when they get the lowest price service. What none of this system or "solutions" provide is on time data, % of cancellations, delay or service quality measures that can differentiate these offerings. Airlines do not invest in IT, and do not mantain robust systems of planes and crews because customers have no way to find them and reward them.
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  7. I love how free enterprise fills every need. "Food deserts" are caused by consumer preferences, never the other way around. I call BS on all the "food deserts" arguments as long as liquor stores are running a brisk business. The claim that government is meant to "fix" this is un-justified and an invitation to abuse of power.
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  8. District 12
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  9. Yesterday's post gaps are equivalent to todays broadband gaps
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  10. ripe for open souce
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  11. Why aren't all these standarized buildings and franchises already open source? What is the hold up?
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  12. 9:00 here is the gist of it: the cybertruk was just trolling. Elon got Ford to develop a pickup for him. For free. Imagine what would have taken to convince the board of Ford to launch an electric pickup twelve years ago? How many power points, market studies, focus groups? OR ...you troll the entire industry with a pick up made of stainless steel (cough, delorean) and designed by a four year old with triangle rulers. The other vehicles are (slightly) less trolling, but have also kickstarted change. You may feel offended, but you still got punked. 😁 At this time, I am sure that somewhere there is an easter egg that rick-rolls the owner.
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  13. 6:25 "un-intentionally" JA JA JA NOOOOO .........Government regulation, mandates and standards are DESIGNED to make these scams possible 20:50 "the market incentivizes the scam"... NOOOOO GOVERNMENTS incentivize the scams Buying/selling carbon offsets requires a government licensed broker and investment bank. JPMorgan has a government granted walled garden to setup and profit from these scams. The government grants tax free status to some, and denies it to others. Governments sales tax makes stones cheaper than better stoves. And even after watching this video and presenting proof, the scammers will be protected by the government courts and the cases drag out for decades. The bottom line is the same hypocrisy that makes global warming mongers fly private jets to Davos. Offsetting carbon is just telling someone else to do something that they personally would not do.
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  14. 21:50 "democraticly elected dictator" 1- So nothing has changed 2- voting equals tyranny of the mob Nihil novo sub sole
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  15. 3:30 FIFA is one of the most corrupt and opaque organization in the world. Hosting the world cup is proof you have a corrupt elite that needs prestige and legitimacy. 18:10 "makes the government less able to address the root cause" The government IS the root cause. This video makes great effort to avoid placing the responsability at the feet of the ANC. 21:00 "the very dynamic they fought to end" Noooo. The coveted this dynamic. They fought to capture it, not end it.
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  16. So.. taxes make investment in infrastructure unviable... who could have forseen that? ALSO: governmets have had the ability to sell tax free bonds for decades...and are so inefficient that even with that advantage they could not build the line. BONUS: amtrak has failed to do any of this for decades. They already had the corridor, could issue tax free bonds...and still could not provide high(er) speed lines
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  17. 13:13 "ironclad science of climate change" Only the finest propaganda!
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  18. 17:38 There are ATM that are not affiliated to any bank If there was the demand for high speed chargers, a third company would be building them for ALL cars, with the mix and match plugs Please do not bring the government into this
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  19. This is why the Red Ball express and project PLUTO were so important. Logistics and supply rule.
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  20. Toyota just hit the nail square on the head: DE-carbonization does not mean ONLY ELECTRIFICATION. We will see multiple solutions. //// Missing the recyclying of the spent batteries. By the time 2030 comes and large scale production begins, you will already have vehicles 15 to 20 years old that will be at the end of service life. Disposal of large quantities of flammable, corroded, faulty batteries full of cobalt is an externality nobody is talking about.. yet.
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  21. 3:55 "home ownership"... that's rich! Chinese citizens don't own the land, they merely hold a lease. It's called "renting", not "ownership" It's closer to RV trailer parks, with predatory landlords.
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  22. So government created the problem 1:44 with land grants, creating multiple gauges and duplicate lines government creates the interstate act 4:20 to compete with the passenger and small freight service on rails 4:43 rails could not compete in convenience or flexibility.... what to do? government forces rail companies 5:28 by the interstate commerce commision to continue providing passenger services at a loss government 6:40 makes up law to exempt rail freight from providing passenger services, and creates a government public company to take all the money loosing services government regulates by law 8:05 the preference of passenger over freight... government refuses to enforce the law 8:47 government secretary keeps issuing orders 15:52 "unless the Secretary" government more and more air pollution restrictions 10:40 regulation created the need to change appalachian coal for western coal But according to the video it is the "private company's" fault? You are been played and duped. By your government. Wake up
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