Will UAW Strike?

[tacticalturnip]

I got to listen to two Rivian drivers circle-jerk one another at my youngest's soccer practice; that was fun.

 

[shooterdon]

EV's are like a parasite. When their host is almost dead (EV thread hundreds of pages long that rehashes stuff over and over) they jump to another thread.

But understandable. People want to justify what they do.

There is an element of trying to educated those who "don't think right". Just like the "Re-education camps" that many of the "progressive far left" want for the "deplorables".

We can learn a lot from the Chinese. Glad they support our universities.

 

[airbiscuit]

Well, speaking of circle jerks ...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1714672430998855843

 

[paulsharvey]

Ok, forgetting EVs, they/we have the technology to make a basic vehicle that could probably push 60+ mpg, that is still useful. An old style S10/Ranger/Isuzu/whatever, an 80ish HP turbo diesel, minimum extra BS, and you would have an amazing cheap vehicle, but nobody in the 1st world would buy it. Heck, a Lada Nivi has 80 hp, gets 37 mph, and a MSRP of $12,000(is, it's 1,217,000 rubles). If your stripped some unnecessary accessories, and with that maybe 15-25% of the weight, you would probably outdo these micro hybrids. As a base, it runs 90 mph, so the true is 400 hp isn't 100% necessary.

 

[MossRoad]

I got to listen ...

Couldn't watch, eh?

 

[tacticalturnip]

Couldn't watch, eh?

I did everything I could not to, but wow did they want to be the center of attention.

 

[ultrarunner]

Wait just a cotton pickin minute, it says "Inspired by California"! Does that mean you're going to poke yourself in the butt with a hepatitis infected needle when you sit down in it or step in feces?

Maybe the move to electric with incentives…

Many can’t realize the perk of single occupant in carpool at rush hour or for a period not subject to bridge tolls is for those that need to traverse a place on SF Bay Area highways.

Quite a few Docs were early adopters and the Doc parking has drastically changed in make up… long gone are the expensive German and Italian imports and a smattering of Cadillacs.

As California goes so goes the nation as you can stall but the inevitable happens.

In a side note OGE says it needs 22% rate increase because of higher costs including impacts of solar.

PGE also says demand is increasing due to electrification and EV

So which is it… need more money to provide more electricity or need more money because people are using less electricity???

 

[Hay Dude]

EV's are like a parasite. When their host is almost dead (EV thread hundreds of pages long that rehashes stuff over and over) they jump to another thread.

But understandable. People want to justify what they do.

There is an element of trying to educated those who "don't think right". Just like the "Re-education camps" that many of the "progressive far left" want for the "deplorables".

We can learn a lot from the Chinese. Glad they support our universities.

Men can have babies.
The world can be powered with solar panels.

Those are my favorites from the reeducation camps.

The electric cars & trucks are plausible, but we will pay 5X for electricity and have to redo our electrical grid a build hundreds more power plants.

 

[tacticalturnip]

When you finally leave California could you shut the door on your way out? Please, grab @Muhammad and his family, because I'm pushing California into the Pacific.

Well, I'm going to push until the inevitable heart attack, but maybe my sacrifice will not be in vain.

 

[Hay Dude]

Maybe the move to electric with incentives…

The thing I dislike about “incentives” is that is just a Friendly way of saying “taxes”. You tax people on their paychecks to give money (incentives) to people to buy something the G____ment is twisting your arm to buy. Sounds a bit “fascistic”, too.

Many can’t realize the perk of single occupant in carpool at rush hour or for a period not subject to bridge tolls is for those that need to traverse a place on SF Bay Area highways.

Quite a few Docs were early adopters and the Doc parking has drastically changed in make up… long gone are the expensive German and Italian imports and a smattering of Cadillacs.

Yeah, but the “docs” are the ones that can afford to buy EV’s. They can afford to be trendy or virtue signal. Average unwashed slobs like me can’t. We are stuck being deplorable polluters.

As California goes so goes the nation as you can stall but the inevitable happens.

Let’s hope not. California also had trendy things that crashed & burned (Roller blades, contemporary ranch houses, tofu)

In a side note OGE says it needs 22% rate increase because of higher costs including impacts of solar.

PGE also says demand is increasing due to electrification and EV

So which is it… need more money to provide more electricity or need more money because people are using less electricity???

I prefer freedom & choices always over “incentives” and govt/private money grabs. We did an amazing job cleaning up the current ICE vehicles, our water, soil and air.
Trying to achieve perfection will drive us back into the stone ages.