The less laws you have regulating business the better for everyone.
The quality of life in Somalia would seem to indicate otherwise.
Fuck look at the Democrats trying to do Government healthcare
It should be noted that the Democrats passed Bob Dole's plan for healthcare reform. Obama and company figured if they used a Republican plan, they could get a couple Republican votes. Didn't quite work out that way.
That fucking imploded
[Citation Required]
Despite being a poorly-designed clusterfuck (as all Heritage Foundation plans are), the ACA has reduced the rate at which health care expenses are rising. But "Hurray! We brought down the second derivative" doesn't sell all that well politically.
But we don't take breaks when we are driving as a family. We just stop at gas stations. It's how we roll
You are causing physical damage to you and your families bodies, as well as greatly increasing the likelihood that you will cause a car accident. Take breaks.
I guess I'll just copy-n-paste this until you start actually reading all of it.
You will not be charging your car like you fill up for gas. It isn't a brief stop during your day. You will be charging your car overnight, every night.
Bullshit, nothing stopping those that want it from moving there.
There's a ton of things stopping those that want effective mass transit from moving to New York City. Because there's more than effective mass transit involved in such a decision.
If you want to see just how much people want effective mass transit, look at how they vote to spend money. In every car-and-suburbia dominated city I have lived in, bonds measures to boost mass transit pass. Frequently by 60/40 or more.
If people actually thought being dependent on their cars was so wonderful, they wouldn't pay for mass transit improvements. Especially since those improvements are extremely unlikely to help themselves personally - car-and-suburbia dominated cities are too spread out for easy mass transit development.
Also, the creation of charging stations may not keep up to the amount of EVs bought.
You vastly overestimate how difficult it is to install a charger.
The wait for one may very well increase as more people have them.
You will not be charging your car like you fill up for gas. It isn't a brief stop during your day. You will be charging your car overnight, every night.
If you happen to be among the very small number of people who do >200-300 mile road trips, you will be charging your car while you stop for a break and eat.
But my requirement for a charging station is higher than for a gas station
Yes, but you're still thinking of the charging station as a gas station. It is not a place you go to every other week to charge, like a gas station is. It isn't 4 to 12 spaces that you use briefly during your day.
Your primary charging station is at/near your house. You plug your car in when you get home from work and it's full in the morning. It doesn't matter if it took 4 hours to charge the battery, because you were asleep.
If you're trying to do a road trip that's more than 300-ish miles, well first congratulations for being part of a very small minority of drivers. Second, you plug into something that will charge your car enough in about 30 minutes to an hour while you take a break from driving and eat.
There is nothing wrong with the house prices in the vast majority of the US. Housing is generally affordable and readily available. No, not in the coastal cities, but you can't generalize based on those.
The problem is most of the jobs are in the coastal cities. So cheap prices in middle-of-nowhere Nebraska aren't all that helpful.
(And before anyone says "work remotely!!" that is frequently not a stable employment situation)
I don't get why people feel trapped by family, friends, or circumstance to the extent that they are willing to live in places with shitty costs of living, essentially making no money
I lived in a dying rust-belt city with an incredibly interesting job that paid well and a fairly low cost of living. I moved.
Why? I had kids. And the thing about cheap places to live is the schools are utterly terrible in a very large portion of them. I'm not going to cripple my children's entire future so that I can gloat about a low cost of living.
No, but there will always be another gas station down the street no matter where you are. Really, this isn't a problem with gas stations unless you are really in the middle of nowhere.
And the same applies to charging stations. There's lots, except for "the middle of nowhere".
Also, as more EVs are bought, there will be more charging stations. Especially since they're incredibly cheap to install (compared to a gas station), and everything you need to "run" the charging station is already present - you need electricity. And that's it.
Someone is going to make a shitload of money being the "Standard Oil" of car chargers. Just like someone made a shitload of money being the "Standard Oil" of gas stations.
Look at any large, established city's street parking to see the scope of the problem.
Which is what I was referring to when I called it a problem of scale.
Fortunately, someone could make a lot of money by installing chargers, so the problem of scale will solve itself over time. And "over time" is an acceptable pace for this transition.
It's not like we had tens of thousands of gas stations the moment Ford started building cars.
new (arguably dangerous)
Arguably under what possible criteria? We're not talking about a "surprised face" outlet like in your house. We're talking about something like in the picture in this article: https://www.reuters.com/brandf...
The only "live" conductor in the plugs is the low-voltage one used to communicate between the car and the charger, and that (and all the other conductors) are covered by insulators. The conductors that actually supply power are inactive until the car and charger agree on what power to supply to the car. (And technically it's wrong to label the thing on the curb as the "charger". The charger is built into the car. The thing on the curb is supplying voltage to the charger)
Also, there's these things call "Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters" if you believe it's actually possible to get around every other safety feature. While you're probably only familiar with the ones embedded in your kitchen plugs, the technology works at higher voltages.
but idea of not being able to "charge" my car within 3 minutes is a problem.
Why?
The primary use for all cars is for commuting to work. That drive is, on average, less than 50 miles round-trip. The vehicles have >200 mile range when fully charged. So you do your commute and get home with 150 miles left in the batteries....and plug the car in.
In the morning, you're back at 200 miles.
With an EV, you don't stop at a "charge station" for a fill-up every other week. You plug it in every night.
Road trips? They're actually quite rare these days. The majority of drivers never do one. If they do, you either plan your breaks around meals and charging, or you rent an ICE vehicle, or if you do them regularly enough you don't buy an EV.
"But muh on-street parking!": If EVs take off as expected, chargers will be added all over the place because it would make money for the people who own the chargers. Much like gas stations were installed all over the place when gasoline cars took off.
If someone removes a charging station, or a charging station breaks, are they legally obligated to report it to the website immediately?
if a gas station shuts down, or runs out of fuel, or the pumps break, are they legally obligated to report it to whatever navigation site you're using? You might be planning to get to that one gas station in the middle of nowhere, only to find Jethro decided to close 3 hours ago.
I"m waiting for someone to have a heart attack or other serious medical emergency at home and their car isn't charged enough to make it to the hospital.
If only there was some sort of emergency vehicle that was regularly employed to transport people suffering medical emergencies. We could even put lights and sirens on them so that they could get to the hospital far faster than driving a regular passenger car. Perhaps even staff the vehicle with medical professionals who could provide some care during transport.
For complete discussion, millions of cars are not ever parked in electrified garages.
They are parked near electric power lines. Adding a charger between the power lines and the car is not a difficult task. The only difficulty is scale, but you don't need every parking spot to have a charger all at once. So a gradual rollout will get the job done.
Not to mention the inability for average Joe to work on his own vehicle will be a massive problem
The average Joe gets his oil changed at Jiffy Lube or equivalent. The vast majority already turn to a mechanic for easy maintenance tasks.
Getting rid of the vast majority of these easy maintenance tasks by changing to a power train that does not require such tasks is a good thing for the average Joe.
That said, of the major automakers, VW is the most ambitious regarding EVs. It'll be interesting to see how they translate their talk into action over the coming years
After their little problem with cheating diesel engines, VW kind of has to "go big" to recover their brand. They won't be able to do that with ICE vehicles, thanks to the cheating. So, that leaves electric.
There's plenty of other charts and studies that show the same thing. Each of them includes something and excludes others. Like Social Security is counted in some, and not counted in others.
In all cases, the rural areas tend to receive more federal spending than they pay in taxes. The exact amount changes based on the study in question.
Those "taxpayer checks" also tend to average vastly less than we pay in every year.
The less-populated states tend to receive more in federal spending than they pay. There's a helpful table in this article: https://www.politifact.com/cal...
Now, your particular state may be one of the outliers. But "rural areas" are generally a net financial loss to the government. And hey, at least you got $30 from the tariff stupidity. I just got higher prices on everything.
We already do pay more for pretty much everything
Except for housing and food. They tend to be a very large chunk of most people's spending. Which is why rural areas generally have a lower cost of living than urban areas, even when you factor in all those long drives to the city.
The point I'm making is that people and jobs have different qualities
No, I got that. And that doesn't matter at all.
If the thing you are trying to buy is rare, it costs more.
If the employees you are trying to buy are rare, guess what? They cost more.
Wages are not set by chiseling them into stone tablets. They are set by what the market is willing to pay, which is based on the rarity of the skillset. When getting an H1B visa, you are inherently stating that these employees have a rare skillset. They are so rare that you have to import them from outside the US. And as stated above, rare things cost more in a functional market.
I have this argument a few times with nationalists in the country I'm currently living. They say I'm a foreign worker stealing a local job.
H1B is not bad because of this stupidity. It's bad because the worker is temporary. If these skillsets are so incredibly rare that they must be imported, why the fuck do we want those people to be forced to leave after 3 years? (6 if you can get an extension).
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The less laws you have regulating business the better for everyone.
The quality of life in Somalia would seem to indicate otherwise.
Fuck look at the Democrats trying to do Government healthcare
It should be noted that the Democrats passed Bob Dole's plan for healthcare reform. Obama and company figured if they used a Republican plan, they could get a couple Republican votes. Didn't quite work out that way.
That fucking imploded
[Citation Required]
Despite being a poorly-designed clusterfuck (as all Heritage Foundation plans are), the ACA has reduced the rate at which health care expenses are rising. But "Hurray! We brought down the second derivative" doesn't sell all that well politically.
But we don't take breaks when we are driving as a family. We just stop at gas stations. It's how we roll
You are causing physical damage to you and your families bodies, as well as greatly increasing the likelihood that you will cause a car accident. Take breaks.
I guess I'll just copy-n-paste this until you start actually reading all of it.
You will not be charging your car like you fill up for gas. It isn't a brief stop during your day. You will be charging your car overnight, every night.
Bullshit, nothing stopping those that want it from moving there.
There's a ton of things stopping those that want effective mass transit from moving to New York City. Because there's more than effective mass transit involved in such a decision.
If you want to see just how much people want effective mass transit, look at how they vote to spend money. In every car-and-suburbia dominated city I have lived in, bonds measures to boost mass transit pass. Frequently by 60/40 or more.
If people actually thought being dependent on their cars was so wonderful, they wouldn't pay for mass transit improvements. Especially since those improvements are extremely unlikely to help themselves personally - car-and-suburbia dominated cities are too spread out for easy mass transit development.
Seek help. You need therapy for your wide variety of obvious issues.
That's what science is. You grasp at straws to explain the unexplained, until you find the right straw.
Also, the creation of charging stations may not keep up to the amount of EVs bought.
You vastly overestimate how difficult it is to install a charger.
The wait for one may very well increase as more people have them.
You will not be charging your car like you fill up for gas. It isn't a brief stop during your day. You will be charging your car overnight, every night.
If you happen to be among the very small number of people who do >200-300 mile road trips, you will be charging your car while you stop for a break and eat.
But my requirement for a charging station is higher than for a gas station
Yes, but you're still thinking of the charging station as a gas station. It is not a place you go to every other week to charge, like a gas station is. It isn't 4 to 12 spaces that you use briefly during your day.
Your primary charging station is at/near your house. You plug your car in when you get home from work and it's full in the morning. It doesn't matter if it took 4 hours to charge the battery, because you were asleep.
If you're trying to do a road trip that's more than 300-ish miles, well first congratulations for being part of a very small minority of drivers. Second, you plug into something that will charge your car enough in about 30 minutes to an hour while you take a break from driving and eat.
That is the norm, and it seems to work well for the VAST majority of the country.
No, it is tolerated by the VAST majority of the country.
There is nothing wrong with the house prices in the vast majority of the US. Housing is generally affordable and readily available. No, not in the coastal cities, but you can't generalize based on those.
The problem is most of the jobs are in the coastal cities. So cheap prices in middle-of-nowhere Nebraska aren't all that helpful.
(And before anyone says "work remotely!!" that is frequently not a stable employment situation)
I don't get why people feel trapped by family, friends, or circumstance to the extent that they are willing to live in places with shitty costs of living, essentially making no money
I lived in a dying rust-belt city with an incredibly interesting job that paid well and a fairly low cost of living. I moved.
Why? I had kids. And the thing about cheap places to live is the schools are utterly terrible in a very large portion of them. I'm not going to cripple my children's entire future so that I can gloat about a low cost of living.
No, but there will always be another gas station down the street no matter where you are. Really, this isn't a problem with gas stations unless you are really in the middle of nowhere.
And the same applies to charging stations. There's lots, except for "the middle of nowhere".
Also, as more EVs are bought, there will be more charging stations. Especially since they're incredibly cheap to install (compared to a gas station), and everything you need to "run" the charging station is already present - you need electricity. And that's it.
Someone is going to make a shitload of money being the "Standard Oil" of car chargers. Just like someone made a shitload of money being the "Standard Oil" of gas stations.
Some people wait for an hour for an ambulance as it is.
Vote for better politicians that will actually fund basic services.
Look at any large, established city's street parking to see the scope of the problem.
Which is what I was referring to when I called it a problem of scale.
Fortunately, someone could make a lot of money by installing chargers, so the problem of scale will solve itself over time. And "over time" is an acceptable pace for this transition.
It's not like we had tens of thousands of gas stations the moment Ford started building cars.
new (arguably dangerous)
Arguably under what possible criteria? We're not talking about a "surprised face" outlet like in your house. We're talking about something like in the picture in this article: https://www.reuters.com/brandf...
The only "live" conductor in the plugs is the low-voltage one used to communicate between the car and the charger, and that (and all the other conductors) are covered by insulators. The conductors that actually supply power are inactive until the car and charger agree on what power to supply to the car. (And technically it's wrong to label the thing on the curb as the "charger". The charger is built into the car. The thing on the curb is supplying voltage to the charger)
Also, there's these things call "Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters" if you believe it's actually possible to get around every other safety feature. While you're probably only familiar with the ones embedded in your kitchen plugs, the technology works at higher voltages.
So what, specifically, is the dangerous thing?
but idea of not being able to "charge" my car within 3 minutes is a problem.
Why?
The primary use for all cars is for commuting to work. That drive is, on average, less than 50 miles round-trip. The vehicles have >200 mile range when fully charged. So you do your commute and get home with 150 miles left in the batteries....and plug the car in.
In the morning, you're back at 200 miles.
With an EV, you don't stop at a "charge station" for a fill-up every other week. You plug it in every night.
Road trips? They're actually quite rare these days. The majority of drivers never do one. If they do, you either plan your breaks around meals and charging, or you rent an ICE vehicle, or if you do them regularly enough you don't buy an EV.
"But muh on-street parking!": If EVs take off as expected, chargers will be added all over the place because it would make money for the people who own the chargers. Much like gas stations were installed all over the place when gasoline cars took off.
If someone removes a charging station, or a charging station breaks, are they legally obligated to report it to the website immediately?
if a gas station shuts down, or runs out of fuel, or the pumps break, are they legally obligated to report it to whatever navigation site you're using? You might be planning to get to that one gas station in the middle of nowhere, only to find Jethro decided to close 3 hours ago.
I"m waiting for someone to have a heart attack or other serious medical emergency at home and their car isn't charged enough to make it to the hospital.
If only there was some sort of emergency vehicle that was regularly employed to transport people suffering medical emergencies. We could even put lights and sirens on them so that they could get to the hospital far faster than driving a regular passenger car. Perhaps even staff the vehicle with medical professionals who could provide some care during transport.
Currently, the planet does not make enough batteries for VW to switch.
That's a scaling issue though, so it should change over time. But it means VW can't switch right now.
For complete discussion, millions of cars are not ever parked in electrified garages.
They are parked near electric power lines. Adding a charger between the power lines and the car is not a difficult task. The only difficulty is scale, but you don't need every parking spot to have a charger all at once. So a gradual rollout will get the job done.
Not to mention the inability for average Joe to work on his own vehicle will be a massive problem
The average Joe gets his oil changed at Jiffy Lube or equivalent. The vast majority already turn to a mechanic for easy maintenance tasks.
Getting rid of the vast majority of these easy maintenance tasks by changing to a power train that does not require such tasks is a good thing for the average Joe.
That said, of the major automakers, VW is the most ambitious regarding EVs. It'll be interesting to see how they translate their talk into action over the coming years
After their little problem with cheating diesel engines, VW kind of has to "go big" to recover their brand. They won't be able to do that with ICE vehicles, thanks to the cheating. So, that leaves electric.
"Handy" does not mean "only".
There's plenty of other charts and studies that show the same thing. Each of them includes something and excludes others. Like Social Security is counted in some, and not counted in others.
In all cases, the rural areas tend to receive more federal spending than they pay in taxes. The exact amount changes based on the study in question.
Stream to DVR while you are not actually watching -> fast forward all you want while watching.
Those "taxpayer checks" also tend to average vastly less than we pay in every year.
The less-populated states tend to receive more in federal spending than they pay. There's a helpful table in this article: https://www.politifact.com/cal...
Now, your particular state may be one of the outliers. But "rural areas" are generally a net financial loss to the government. And hey, at least you got $30 from the tariff stupidity. I just got higher prices on everything.
We already do pay more for pretty much everything
Except for housing and food. They tend to be a very large chunk of most people's spending. Which is why rural areas generally have a lower cost of living than urban areas, even when you factor in all those long drives to the city.
The point I'm making is that people and jobs have different qualities
No, I got that. And that doesn't matter at all.
If the thing you are trying to buy is rare, it costs more.
If the employees you are trying to buy are rare, guess what? They cost more.
Wages are not set by chiseling them into stone tablets. They are set by what the market is willing to pay, which is based on the rarity of the skillset. When getting an H1B visa, you are inherently stating that these employees have a rare skillset. They are so rare that you have to import them from outside the US. And as stated above, rare things cost more in a functional market.
I have this argument a few times with nationalists in the country I'm currently living. They say I'm a foreign worker stealing a local job.
H1B is not bad because of this stupidity. It's bad because the worker is temporary. If these skillsets are so incredibly rare that they must be imported, why the fuck do we want those people to be forced to leave after 3 years? (6 if you can get an extension).
The current wait for a greencard is 15 years for legal Indian immigrants
You do realize there are a variety of work visas that are not H1Bs, right? You don't have to go from nothing directly to green card.