And how many lives has it improved and extended. Everything has trade offs.

I have no problems moving on to something better. But it's not going to happen overnight. The doomsayers that want nothing less than the complete destruction of the petro industry tomorrow will keep spreading their fear. Life and civilization will continue despite us burning stuff to keep modern quality of life moving along.

You could just call him the elected President who is attempting to put forth the policies he promised the voters. Or you could keep drinking the misinformation kool-aid that's been spread in your political bubble. it's sort of ironic that this story on misinformation has people indoctrinated in it insisting what they've been told over and over again is actually the truth.

The things the Biden Administration did were far more authoritarian than anything Trump has done. But he kept pointing and saying 'they're the fascists' to blind people from his own Administration's actions. You're falling for the misdirection. Don't look at what we're doing, those other people are actually the bad guys all the while doing all the things that they're accusing their opposition of. Just look how gleeful the leftists in this discussion are of instituting state controlled censorship (sorry, 'misinformation control') all the while screaming about protecting democracy and how everyone they disagree with are fascists. That is what fascists do. They silence their critiques and demonize them all to solidify their own power. Free speech is the pillar of democracy. It is the foremost human right.

It's more of the UK trying to implement political censorship at a global level. The EU has similar ambitions. The Biden Administration was trying it in the US as well. While you very well don't agree with the content on these sites, they are actually fighting for your rights as well as their own in this matter.

It has nothing at all to do with racism. It's all economic.

It's just that Progressives have to attach 'racist' to everything they deem needs to go away as yet another reason to get rid of it. It's getting tiring and voters are starting to reject race being brought in to every argument.

The EV credit was nuked because the government should not be picking winners with subsidies. It was also highly abused through the lease loophole giving many foreign cars with 0% US production the full credit while US produced vehicles with foreign sourced batteries were not getting it through a standard sale.

I have no problems with EVs. I currently only own EVs and no ICE vehicles. But they need to stand on their own in an open market. Good products will sell themselves.

They're cheap because China is heavily subsidizing them. Their goal is to take over the market and destruct domestic production of everything next gen in other countries. Sometimes you need to put national security ahead of cheap consumer prices.

The reason for pushing large SUVs was because of unrealistic emissions standards. It's cause and effect. When you pull numbers out of your rear and say all cars need to get that mileage, people move to the vehicles that are exempt from the stupidity. If the efficiency numbers had actually been practical, the move to large SUVs likely would not have been so prevalent. Safety standards also played a role. Try fitting a rear facing infant or toddler seat in a compact car with tall adults in the front seats. Now people are accustomed to having lots of room and a high vantage point.

I own 3 EVs, so I'm not against them. You rarely get 300 miles. On road trips, charging curves make charging much past 80% a waste of time. Your 300 mile car is now a 240 mile car. Because of the distance between chargers, don't risk going below 10% charge. Your 300 mile car is now a 210 mile car. Want to drive over 60 mph, lose a bunch more mileage. Driving a constant speed, that 300 miles is based on using regenerative braking. You're not getting that on the highway. Your 300 mile car is now getting 120-150 miles rather than the 400-500 a gas car is getting (with gas cars being more efficient at steady speed vs. stop and go). You're stopping to charge 2-3x as often as you would have stopped for gas and spending 2-4x as long charging as you'd be filling gas tank.

I love me EV for regular day to day driving. Plug in at home a couple nights a week and all is well. At least for those of us that can charge at home (or work). Want to travel anywhere, then the problems start.

Only damaged the reputation for people too stupid to think. He's not a Nazi. He just has some political beliefs that differ from some people who refuse to accept that people should be able to think freely. He's very liberal in many ways. His stance on free speech used to be a very liberal stance until the Progressives decided that there's only one way to think.

People need to stop with this whole 'Nazi' crap anytime they don't like what someone says. Musk makes a gesture to a crowd that ends in his arm being up and out and he's a 'Nazi'. Kamala Harris does the same thing a couple weeks later and it's nothing. You're losing people because of the hyperventilating calling everyone Nazis, racists, bigots, etc just over disagreement. Often not even disagreement on the issue, but just on the solution. Chicken Little has more credibility than most on the Left.

The best part is when they start defending illegal immigration because we need cheap labor to harvest our food. Essentially saying the illegals they claim they support are needed to work for slave wages while none of the protections they always demand for blue collar work apply. Otherwise, hiring legal workers would be no more expensive.

The loophole was never meant for mass direct to consumer imports. It was created in the brick and mortar days when the only direct shipments were usually between people or samples being sent for inspection. Imports sold through stores were imported in bulk and paid customs. The Internet and cheap shipping made the loophole exploitable. Vendors started bypassing importers and selling direct. Good for the consumer, but bad for US business and employees.

This won't move a bunch of the cheap junk to US manufacturing, but it will help domestic sellers like Amazon, Target and Walmart. Bulk shipments to US warehouses will be easier and cheaper. This will lead to more US employment (until the robots take over warehouse work)

It's the actual regulations that are preventing new providers. The issue is over regulation which protects the incumbents.

The Roe ruling was so convoluted and had no real basis in law. All Dobbs did was throw out a politically contrived decision and sent the matter back to politicians in every state. Putting the moral decision of abortion in the hands of voters. Something that's actually about democracy which I'd expect the party that keeps screaming about democracy being at risk to be all for.

Most regulation does not accomplish what you think it does. Most government regulation of industry helps protect the existing, large incumbents and places hefty barriers of entry to new comers. While the regulation has some benefits to consumers, it ultimately serves to protect the entrenched, slows innovation, and ultimately stagnates or increases prices because new competition does not enter the market and create either surplus or price pressures.

I'm not wanting zero regulation, but there's a turning point of negative return. Light regulations that promote safety and prevent fraud can be good. But once companies have to hire entire teams of lawyers and accountants to understand and audit regulations, they've gone too far. When large, incumbent corporations start supporting regulations (and send campaign dollars to the politicians pushing them), you know they've become a protectionist racket, not a consumer protection policy.

They followed the same process Musk has employed at Tesla for years. Eliminate a bunch of positions and see if something breaks. If it breaks, add back small amounts until it works again. If it doesn't break, eliminate more. It might be a heartless process, but it's effective and quick.