Comments by "" (@advancetotabletop5328) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. Still a better deal than manufacturer’s ink jet cartridges, right? :D Anyway, and this is everything from printers to buying a house, make sure you research the ongoing costs of a purchase, not just the upfront costs. These companies can charge for a battery because customers don’t look beyond the initial purchase of the car. Thanks for the video and awesome pic on the wall! (:
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  2. I wish the greenies would let us have hybrids, b/c “range anxiety” is a thing. I‘d like to see more businesses adopt EV’s b/c that typically drives down the cost and improves the technology.
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  3. The challenge for any new technology is that the old technology’s upfront costs, such as research and infrastructure, has long ago been paid for. Any long-term benefits of a new technology (eg. Environmentalism) are offset by short-term costs (eg. research and infrastructure). That’s where businesses come in. These short-term costs are amortized over the product, and businesses have a greater size and scale than consumers. Frex, Amazon can buy hundreds of EV’s for their delivery fleet, of the same make, model, and support, and I presume manufacturers would rather have one large client than many individual ones. USPS mail trucks are also EV’s, and the government is a lucrative market as well. The amount of money involved in a new technology used for business use drives improvements in the technology for business demands. Eventually, these technological improvements make the technology more affordable for consumer use. Laptops used to cost thousands of dollars, so were used only for business outside of the office. Now, laptops are only a few hundred dollars, and almost passé compared to tablets and smartphones. Scotty the Mechanic calls today’s EV policies, “Putting the policy horse before the technological cart” but hopefully business will make cars better and more fuel efficient, without the need for government subsidies.
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  4. Punish EU re: EVs like China punished Australia re: coal? EU needs to wake up and not rely on dictators for their foreign oil or EV‘s!
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  5. Greens looking the other way while paying other countries to do the dirty work for them.
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  6. They will, until the money runs out. Of course, as Temu shows, plenty of foreigners will buy cheap “Made in China stuff” because it‘s, well, cheap.
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  7. @p: Revenue tariffs. I mean, goods sold in the USA have to pay VAT.
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  8. Pretty hypocritical that we’re spending taxpayer money on “green” energy, when we’re really paying other counties — including a totalitarian government — to do the, almost literally, dirty work for us, while we congratulate ourselves on how concerned we are for the planet. Cut out unnecessary travel, especially leisure. Consume less stuff, since it all depends on energy.
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  9. Any new technology, once used by businesses, goes down in price. It’s just that, when the government gets involved, here comes the fubar. I’ll be quite happy to pull the taxpayer plug on the Big Three in favor of a Japanese ICE car and Mexico-made Tesla.
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  10. Let’s hope so. The less the world relies on foreign oil — and the US on Big Oil — the better.
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