Today, would you buy an EV vehicle.

[MESSMAKER]

Looks like oil company profits are up about 300%. That sure makes me suspicious.

 

[jyoutz]

Looks like oil company profits are up about 300%. That sure makes me suspicious.

Shareholders took it in the shorts during the big losses in 2020/21 when demand plummeted. They are working on shareholder returns.

 

[Fixastuff]

For yall nuclear fans but it can't be believed because it's main stream media. So don't read it.

The energy in nuclear waste could power the U.S. for 100 years, but the technology was never commercialized

The technology to turn nuclear waste into energy, known as a nuclear fast reactor, has existed for decades. Now, it's getting a second look.

www.cnbc.com

 

[txdon]

Uh no. Sounds like you work for the RNC. Read the information put out by the oil industry itself. They are producing as much oil in 2022 as in 2019. Other factors are increasing prices, but not US crude production. The costs are coming from the refineries, and worldwide demand. Currently we are producing more crude oil in the US than the refineries can keep up with.

Uh no.
"US oil production is just under 12 million barrels a day, 8% lower than in 2019."
source: CNN Business

 

[Root Cause]

Uh no. Sounds like you work for the RNC. Read the information put out by the oil industry itself. They are producing as much oil in 2022 as in 2019. Other factors are increasing prices, but not US crude production. The costs are coming from the refineries, and worldwide demand. Currently we are producing more crude oil in the US than the refineries can keep up with.

I want to respond to this but it is not on the 'Front Porch".

Gas prices and who is to blame - on the Front Porch​

Once approved, please look at my response. I am interested in what you think.

 

[nickfank]

here is the math (if you believe in science)?

The main gases in the earth's atmosphere are nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), and argon (0.93%). This leaves about 0.07 % of the atmosphere for all other gases which are mostly greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases are therefore trace gases. Of the trace gases, about 95 % is water vapor. This varies a bit because of cloud cover and can also be reflective as opposed to holding in heat. This leaves about 5-10 % of greenhouse gases for CO2. Of this CO2 % about 5-6 % is anthropogenic i.e., So human caused CO2 is a trace of a trace gas occupying about 0.003-0.005 % of the atmosphere.

The Science also says that C02 levels increase with a warmer planet not the other way around (C02 causes global warming.)

Regarding math... asserting that something is small is not the same as proving it has no effect. Try to sleep in a tent with a mosquito if you think something that is tiny has no effect.

I agree with you that the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere is small relative to other gasses. The actual number is currently 0.26%. But that's all it takes. The volume that of your car that is occupied by the glass in the windshield is less than 1% of the total material in a car... But I think we can all agree that a car gets pretty hot in the sun. Do you disagree about that clear demonstration of the greenhouse effect?

here is the math (if you believe in science)?

The main gases in the earth's atmosphere are nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), and argon (0.93%). This leaves about 0.07 % of the atmosphere for all other gases which are mostly greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases are therefore trace gases. Of the trace gases, about 95 % is water vapor. This varies a bit because of cloud cover and can also be reflective as opposed to holding in heat. This leaves about 5-10 % of greenhouse gases for CO2. Of this CO2 % about 5-6 % is anthropogenic i.e., So human caused CO2 is a trace of a trace gas occupying about 0.003-0.005 % of the atmosphere.

The Science also says that C02 levels increase with a warmer planet not the other way around (C02 causes global warming.)

 

[nickfank]

I am still waiting on the history to prove that our earth is 500k years old never mind 500 million years! We can't prove in any way and especially in a scientific way that humans have existed 1/10th of a million years! Again no scientific proof what so ever.

Are you sure man wasn't around those millions of years? Who could have possibly caused all those spikes if not man? Certainly not earth's normal cycles.

Yep, pretty sure. The climate was just too hot for mammals most of the time. Most of those swings were caused by volcanic action (again based on the fossil record.)

Think this through for yourself... In the last 200 years, humans have gone from horses to steam engines to internal combustion to electric... In just 200 years.... But you think we've been around for 500 million before that without accomplishing anything? Does that really make sense to you?

 

[jyoutz]

Uh no.
"US oil production is just under 12 million barrels a day, 8% lower than in 2019."
source: CNN Business

Read the full narrative.

STEO

www.eia.gov

2022 production is forecast (by year end) to be very close to the record 2019 year, and 2023 is planned to set a new record high. Not bad for ramping up from very low levels in 2020.

 

[nickfank]

Sorry to bust your balloon, but there are thousands of "parts" in you EV. Computers, energy management systems and other controls all require parts. Not moving parts, but parts that can fail just as well as a moving part.

I have worked as an engineer for over 30 years designing electronic control systems. Ever electrical part and every electrical control board has a what is called, a bathtub curve. The failure rate starts out high, then drops down as the componts age, than after a time, the components reach the end of their life, the failure rate rises again.

So yeah, you don't have to replace pistons on your EV, but replacing the circuit boards are in your future.

Richard

True, we'll just be replacing different parts. (And I have.) Compare the cost of plugging in a new circuit board to the cost of replacing a piston.

 

[Jstpssng]

True, we'll just be replacing different parts. (And I have.) Compare the cost of plugging in a new circuit board to the cost of replacing a piston.

You have touched on one of my concerns. New technology relies on computers, and based on some of the comments here they are updating on a regular basis. I have several questions and concerns...
-How will that work for somebody like me, who often isn't near any type of signal? Even satellites are dicey in places, as I've found with my InReach, and when I had Sirius.
-Computers are obsolete in a very short period of time. My i-phone, which is just 3 years old, no longer has internet capability since things went to 5G. How long before the computers in your car will have to be upgraded to new hardware?

No doubt my concerns are being addressed. It's also highly unlikely that I will get an answer here on TBN except to be called a dinosaur and a hater, because that's what we do here.

Yet I will find my answers someplace.