Already happens( North Korea, aq, Isis ), but not at great nations. Now he is opening all of us to this. W did the same shit with his Iraqi invasion, but now...
What he is doing is stepping off moral boxes while making targets of all Americans. W did this with his invasion of Iraq. Trump is really a total jackass.
what is interesting is that your GOP has created this situation and now, they back one that has more in common with a dictatorship like Putin/Communist like China, then he does with UK, France, Germany, western democracies.
and yet, you said nothing with that.
The fact is, that if you have a monopoly, why give it to a business? If you can not have multiple companies handle something, then have the local gov deal with it.
Not just Longmont, but others in Colorado highlands are loving their gov owned fiber-as-utility. Some of them run it like Centennial with a private industry partner (ting from canada), while most are just doing it themselves and then allowing multiple ISPs to hook up at a true central office.
We can control our local gov. OTOH, giving a monopoly to an evil private company like Comcast, means that you have NO SAY/CONTROL over them.
If you are conflicted, then you are a fool.
Look plenty of things that should be left to private companies. BUT, when you have a monopoly, such as fiber to the house, or it is simple exchange of monies, such as medical insurances, then you are better off with a watched gov.
And when you have a situation that has multiple competitors, esp more than a dozen, then prices will be low.
what is nice is that you do not have to deal with net neutrality, caps, or all the dicks that scream about it. Instead, you just have a nice solid connection. Way to go.
Seriously, this is a town that FUCKING GETS IT. So many others do as well. Comcast screwing you over? Quit trying to regulate them. JUST PUT IN YOUR OWN FUCKING FIBER and quit bitching about it. Not only will this town get a much better deal (instead of paying 100/month for 100 MB, they will pay 50/month for 1G), but, they do not have to deal with the issue of net neutrality or caps.
No, the tesla are at parity, if not cheaper, then their competitors. We own a 2013 MS 85, and it competes well against similar ICE vehicles. That is why in America, the competitor sales have dropped, while MS sales are well above theirs.
BUT, when we bought ours, everything checked, but about 1 year later, all of the American insurance companies jacked the insurance way up on Tesla. I was shocked. Even if you do not have Collision (i.e insurance pays to repair our car), and you lowest, they STILL ream you. It increased some 33% that year.
Do note that while oil is in free fall and will likely lead to much lower gas prices. That improves the ICE costs.
I agree wtih you about buying new. My wife has ALWAYS bought new until our Model S. I had to convince her of that. Best car she and I have owned.
One interesting thing about our MS, was it was originally some 80K. Within 2 years, it was 55K. 3 years later, it still remains above 40K (a 5 year car with more than 50% value; not bad). So basically, that initial drop, even in Tesla is like any other ICE car; A LOT. BUT, it holds it resale value great after that. Only now that we are getting close to paying this off she wants to either trade it, or our highlander in, for another used tesla, only this time a model X. argh. I say lets pay off this car and our home (another 8 year left). THEN she can have what she wants.
First off, your can only buy an Ioniq in S. Korea and California. Coming to Europe though (or perhaps it hit there already).
Secondly, it only get 124 MPC. It is basically an old leaf approach, only not as safe.
Third, it, like ICE, has no POWER. And has no real room in back seat. It really is for small kids back there.
And no, it is 29,815 without dealers garbage and taxes. Though in CA it will be below 25K.
I love it. O's admin charges BP 334M for deepwater, who then turns around and simply deducts that from their taxes due to breaks that the GOP gave them.
So, what did BP pay in penalty? Nothing to America.
Problem is, that you are looking at America and the West. In China, Coal continues to grow and they continue build MASSIVE numbers of new coal plants in China AND in other nations. In addition, nations like India continue to add. So, no. Coal is not dead until everybody pushes ALL NATIONS to stop building them.
Over 2% of American vehicles being sold are EVs (not hybrids, but EVs). Tesla can not make it them fast enough to meet the demand here, let alone in other nations. Just the other day, I let a friend drive our Tesla MS. Now, they own a Tesla M3 (in no small part because their toyota was breaking down with only 120K miles on it and they did not want to fork out some 10K for upkeep over the next 5 years).
I have argued that by 2022/23, that the majority of new cars sold will be EVs. The reason is that more and more ppl are driving Tesla (cheaper in EVERY WAY than any competitor, except possibly with insurance) and at the same time, Tesla is forcing other car makers to start building DECENT EVs, or lose all their sales to Tesla (and down the road, possibly china, when they finally start building decent cars, as opposed to more POS).
As to trucks and vans, they are here or shortly here. Rivian will have their truck out next year. Multiple companies are selling EV vans, though to be honest, they are WAYYYY to expensive. In fact, if you are simply shuffling tools from 1 site to another, you are much better off in ICE, than in an EV. OTOH, if you are moving cargo all day long, like FedEX or a distribution warehouse, then EV is superior.
Tesla is already cheaper than the very models that it competes against.
And yes, Electric is cheaper, but, it also does not include road taxes, though it has plenty of its own taxes.
No. Power/Acceleration are relative.
Many EVs are PURPOSELY designed to be POS like your ICE car. Tesla is forcing all of the car makers to design/build their cars to do what is possible. Tesla likes to say that they do not build slow cars, but that is all relative. In less than 10 years, Tesla's current cars will be average. But for now, comparing them to the POS that you drive, yeah, these are fast.
Ouch. Expensive. I have to admit, that is what I want to do once prices drop. I've been writing various politicians and pushing them to require onsite unsubsided AE, => HVAC energy. By doing that, developers will likely work to avoid high panel costs. So, they will switch to led lights, then add better insulation, and finally, will switch to geothermal HVAC as price drops/customer demands. This is a win all around.
Standard of living in America is NOT the highest. We are actually quite below many nations now.
And it is not America that is the concern. For example, 1/3 to 1/2 of all CO2 emissions is coming from China. In addition, about 75% of all plastics in the pacific ocean comes from China (and interestingly, the majority of plastic in Atlantic's plastic island has been traced to Europe and then China). And as to the cars, they are a none-issue. The reason is that Elon Musk has forced the legacy companies to start switching to EVs. And those nations/states that are saying that no new ICE sales after 2030, will actually be late to the party. By 2022/23, it is near certain that ppl in America, Europe, and China will have switched to EVs being the majority.
really? So batteries are cheaper than peaker plants and therefore are being put in without a state gov ordering it, AND without tax breaks? Yeah. Exactly. Once wind/batteries/solar becomes cheaper than nat gas, they will replace it. Until then, Nat Gas will continue to be used.
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Already happens( North Korea, aq, Isis ), but not at great nations. Now he is opening all of us to this. W did the same shit with his Iraqi invasion, but now...
What he is doing is stepping off moral boxes while making targets of all Americans. W did this with his invasion of Iraq. Trump is really a total jackass.
Most companies with fiber to home, do not object if you run a server.
if you are in a town or above, push for fiber-as-utility. You folks will have better service at a fraction of the costs.
what is interesting is that your GOP has created this situation and now, they back one that has more in common with a dictatorship like Putin/Communist like China, then he does with UK, France, Germany, western democracies.
and yet, you said nothing with that.
The fact is, that if you have a monopoly, why give it to a business? If you can not have multiple companies handle something, then have the local gov deal with it.
Not just Longmont, but others in Colorado highlands are loving their gov owned fiber-as-utility. Some of them run it like Centennial with a private industry partner (ting from canada), while most are just doing it themselves and then allowing multiple ISPs to hook up at a true central office.
We can control our local gov. OTOH, giving a monopoly to an evil private company like Comcast, means that you have NO SAY/CONTROL over them.
If you are conflicted, then you are a fool.
Look plenty of things that should be left to private companies. BUT, when you have a monopoly, such as fiber to the house, or it is simple exchange of monies, such as medical insurances, then you are better off with a watched gov.
And when you have a situation that has multiple competitors, esp more than a dozen, then prices will be low.
what is nice is that you do not have to deal with net neutrality, caps, or all the dicks that scream about it. Instead, you just have a nice solid connection. Way to go.
Seriously, this is a town that FUCKING GETS IT. So many others do as well. Comcast screwing you over? Quit trying to regulate them. JUST PUT IN YOUR OWN FUCKING FIBER and quit bitching about it. Not only will this town get a much better deal (instead of paying 100/month for 100 MB, they will pay 50/month for 1G), but, they do not have to deal with the issue of net neutrality or caps.
No, the tesla are at parity, if not cheaper, then their competitors. We own a 2013 MS 85, and it competes well against similar ICE vehicles. That is why in America, the competitor sales have dropped, while MS sales are well above theirs.
BUT, when we bought ours, everything checked, but about 1 year later, all of the American insurance companies jacked the insurance way up on Tesla. I was shocked. Even if you do not have Collision (i.e insurance pays to repair our car), and you lowest, they STILL ream you. It increased some 33% that year.
Do note that while oil is in free fall and will likely lead to much lower gas prices. That improves the ICE costs.
I agree wtih you about buying new. My wife has ALWAYS bought new until our Model S. I had to convince her of that. Best car she and I have owned.
One interesting thing about our MS, was it was originally some 80K. Within 2 years, it was 55K. 3 years later, it still remains above 40K (a 5 year car with more than 50% value; not bad). So basically, that initial drop, even in Tesla is like any other ICE car; A LOT. BUT, it holds it resale value great after that. Only now that we are getting close to paying this off she wants to either trade it, or our highlander in, for another used tesla, only this time a model X. argh. I say lets pay off this car and our home (another 8 year left). THEN she can have what she wants.
First off, your can only buy an Ioniq in S. Korea and California. Coming to Europe though (or perhaps it hit there already).
Secondly, it only get 124 MPC. It is basically an old leaf approach, only not as safe.
Third, it, like ICE, has no POWER. And has no real room in back seat. It really is for small kids back there.
And no, it is 29,815 without dealers garbage and taxes. Though in CA it will be below 25K.
yes. We import so much oil from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria.
well, if you are certain of that, then you really need to go back to school to study at least economics.
Lots of good stuff in this. Next up are royalty relief subsidies, where oil companies carve out exemptions for themselves—usually with the help of lawmakers—to pay significantly lower royalties rates on the oil and gas they extract. For example, the Lost Royalties on Offshore Drilling for Leases Issued from 1996 through 2000 subsidy came as a result of the 1995 “Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act,” something that to this day deprives taxpayers of $1.1 billion each year. The final type are known as regulatory subsidies. These apply when oil companies are given leniency in fulfilling their regulatory commitments. The most prominent, recent example is the $334 million BP Deduction for Oil Spill Legal Settlement subsidy, where BP was permitted to deduct from its tax bill nearly all the damages they paid to the federal government as a result of the infamous Deepwater Horizon spill.
I love it. O's admin charges BP 334M for deepwater, who then turns around and simply deducts that from their taxes due to breaks that the GOP gave them. So, what did BP pay in penalty? Nothing to America.
Problem is, that you are looking at America and the West. In China, Coal continues to grow and they continue build MASSIVE numbers of new coal plants in China AND in other nations. In addition, nations like India continue to add. So, no. Coal is not dead until everybody pushes ALL NATIONS to stop building them.
Over 2% of American vehicles being sold are EVs (not hybrids, but EVs). Tesla can not make it them fast enough to meet the demand here, let alone in other nations. Just the other day, I let a friend drive our Tesla MS. Now, they own a Tesla M3 (in no small part because their toyota was breaking down with only 120K miles on it and they did not want to fork out some 10K for upkeep over the next 5 years).
I have argued that by 2022/23, that the majority of new cars sold will be EVs. The reason is that more and more ppl are driving Tesla (cheaper in EVERY WAY than any competitor, except possibly with insurance) and at the same time, Tesla is forcing other car makers to start building DECENT EVs, or lose all their sales to Tesla (and down the road, possibly china, when they finally start building decent cars, as opposed to more POS).
As to trucks and vans, they are here or shortly here. Rivian will have their truck out next year. Multiple companies are selling EV vans, though to be honest, they are WAYYYY to expensive. In fact, if you are simply shuffling tools from 1 site to another, you are much better off in ICE, than in an EV. OTOH, if you are moving cargo all day long, like FedEX or a distribution warehouse, then EV is superior.
Tesla is already cheaper than the very models that it competes against.
And yes, Electric is cheaper, but, it also does not include road taxes, though it has plenty of its own taxes.
Model 3 motors DO use perm REM magnets.
No. Power/Acceleration are relative.
Many EVs are PURPOSELY designed to be POS like your ICE car. Tesla is forcing all of the car makers to design/build their cars to do what is possible. Tesla likes to say that they do not build slow cars, but that is all relative. In less than 10 years, Tesla's current cars will be average. But for now, comparing them to the POS that you drive, yeah, these are fast.
Ouch. Expensive. I have to admit, that is what I want to do once prices drop. I've been writing various politicians and pushing them to require onsite unsubsided AE, => HVAC energy. By doing that, developers will likely work to avoid high panel costs. So, they will switch to led lights, then add better insulation, and finally, will switch to geothermal HVAC as price drops/customer demands. This is a win all around.
Good post.
Standard of living in America is NOT the highest. We are actually quite below many nations now.
And it is not America that is the concern. For example, 1/3 to 1/2 of all CO2 emissions is coming from China. In addition, about 75% of all plastics in the pacific ocean comes from China (and interestingly, the majority of plastic in Atlantic's plastic island has been traced to Europe and then China). And as to the cars, they are a none-issue. The reason is that Elon Musk has forced the legacy companies to start switching to EVs. And those nations/states that are saying that no new ICE sales after 2030, will actually be late to the party. By 2022/23, it is near certain that ppl in America, Europe, and China will have switched to EVs being the majority.
really? So batteries are cheaper than peaker plants and therefore are being put in without a state gov ordering it, AND without tax breaks? Yeah. Exactly. Once wind/batteries/solar becomes cheaper than nat gas, they will replace it. Until then, Nat Gas will continue to be used.