OT: the real cost of an BEV

[T]

Guess what, we are all paying for rich people to own these abominations.

[danny burstein]

Hahahahah, "the Texas Public Policy Foundation ".

"In 2015, TPPF had total revenue of $10.8 million.[14] Donors to the organization include energy companies Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other fossil fuel interests"

[Robert L Peters]

Nice ad hominem reply but the facts remain...

- BEVs are heavily subsidized

- typically $15,000 or more to purchase

- another $15,000 or more to replace the battery

- range per charge sucks,

- waiting an hour at a charging station just plain sucks

If BEVs are so great, why do all the climate change nazi democrats I know still drive ICE cars? Rules for thee but not for me? LOL!

[badgolferman]

[rbowman]

How many millions have been poured into the various groups lobbying for E#Vs? Do you really think grassroots America was calling out "We want EVs!". They aren't exactly flying off the lots without a substantial subsidy paid for you and me. Maybe you're happy subsidizing the program; I'm not.

[danny burstein]

That groaning sound is a generation of your health, science, social studies, and economics teachers pulling out your Permanent Record and just crying over how you fooled them into thinking they should pass you.

[micky]

Maybe I didn't miss too much. 10 years ago: Should be something in English though it's very informative in case you know French.

This is near the heart of Geneva, near Rue Voltaire, but even the Voltaire Institute and Museum's webpage is only slightly in English. Even when you click on English! It's in French and German, and apparently Italian is ignored, even though I thought that was a common, and, yes, official language of Switzerland. If they had a list of days and hours I could read it even in French, but I had to use google translate to translate the page to English. It's open even less now than 25 years ago. Only once a month and Fridays for an hour, all by appointment.

[T]

I am stealing that phrase!

[rbowman]

Most of them were ridiculously easy to fool. The college level economics course I took used Samuelson for the text any I've been trying to forget the Keynesian dribble for decades. I've also spent decades filling in the lacunae the 'social studies' teachers created as they regurgitated the party line. Mind you, this was in the '50s; I understand it's several orders of magnitude worse today.

[badgolferman]

Keep tuned. I have many more where that came from.

[Scott Lurndal]

Your science education was clearly skipped.

There is no doubt that if energy use increases at the rate that it has for the last century, the surface temperature of the earth will reach 212 degrees in less than two centuries (and will be uninhabitable long before that).

That's just simple physics.

Feel free to educate yourself before spouting nonsense.

(Although, replies to Todd with real facts are useless, since for him facts are irrelevent).

[T]

Here are three of my favorite Churchill quotes, especially the bucket one:

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

-- Winston Churchill

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

--Winston Churchill

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

--Winston Churchill

[JRB Ware]

That might work if not for all the freeloading dead weight Demonrats holding us down.

[Bob F]

Another rightie spewing the same old GOP "talking point" lies.

[JRB Ware]

Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has finally figured out that face masks give criminals an advantage.

Demonrat Mayor Muriel Bowser takes dead weight to a new level.