GMT 900
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Thanks for the reply.What it does do is make it easy to tell what it is. And there are so many vehicles today that you can't tell what it is until your close. So it's good for brand ID, but you are likely not their target customer @Dusdaddy!
@testerdahl it does seem sometimes like you are a little tiny bit anti-ev, since you asked in your video. Do you have an instance where you wholeheartedly recommended an EV, even for a specific customer segment? That would change my mind.
@GMT 900 I'm not saying that article wasn't or isn't still relevant, but that times have changed a lot since 2021 mid-pandemic. I would also add that ever vehicle manufacturer had taken advantage of tax payers in some way, that's how our capitalistic society works. It's all about shareholders once you are a public company. And as far as bias goes, I have only ever seen negative posts (maybe I missed some others) from you about EVs so far so if that is always going to be your point of view then I would say, noted. You should start a new general discussion about that topic. You have a lot of good resources on all topics to support your side. I'd love to see what you could do for the counter argument as well?
Not sure what context the statement "times have changed a lot since 2021 mid-pandemic" is being used; technology of MRNA vaccines maybe, but given the time lines involved in developing propulsion needing articles like aircraft and land vehicles, it is isn't that long. Vehicles that have not been released yet had their engineering work and supply chains frozen in 2021.
Generality, cite specific examples of such subsidies beyond BEV to other manufactures. Here is one: a tax credit of $7500 in favor of one propulsion (BEV) system. Tim's tax deduction doesn't cover propulsive type as he has has diesel, hybrid and gas. Don't try to school someone on capitalism with Das Kapital as your reference. Try Locke (yeah, not cool like Marx with the Greta crowd). In a nutshell:I would also add that ever vehicle manufacturer had taken advantage of tax payers in some way, that's how our capitalistic society works
Capitalism is an economic system that relies on private rather than public ownership of the means of production. The law of supply and demand determines what goods are produced and the prices that are charged for them.
Tax policy only works to limit, modify, or pick winners in capitalism.
Ah, the refuge of the feeble, the ad hominem attack, activist variant. Use the "bias" bad word (gee, you don't comment positively on Nissan Frontiers, are you BIASED against them?) and than add all the knuckle dragging Neanderthal imaging ("Negative posts" "so if that is always going to be point of view") to contrast to your "enlightened view of the world." Man, you would thing Evergreen State College would come up with a new indoctrination SOP, this schtick is getting old. The "noted" is a nice touch, can never get enough Big Brother AKA Blue Check Mark tropes.And as far as bias goes, I have only ever seen negative posts (maybe I missed some others) from you about EVs so far so if that is always going to be your point of view then I would say, noted.
Counter arguments? You really want to go to the 7 year old African children dying ny mining battery cobalt? The fact the US electrical grid can barely keep LA cool in the summer, let alone, charge 10 million BEVs ("but it is all at night!" Yeah, so much for the shift workers) or that BEVs are not really zero emission as the emissions already happened...Kind of like they say an AV-8B Harrier can do Air to Air, but neglect to tell you it needs GCI or E-2/E-3 vectoring to the target...It doesn't have its own radar.
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