Some things aren't significantly hazardous until the levels build up, other things are harmful in ANY quantity and the only difference is how much harm.

This (the water part) is one of those things that sounds clever at first and then obviously isn't when you think about it some more.

We could and do use other kinds of containers with a plastic seal which is not in contact with the contents during storage.

Nylon is notable in large part because of its stability. This means it leaches less than do some other plastics. Not all plastics are created equal, and we shouldn't pretend they aren't. Nylon is one kind of thing, and Vinyls are another kind, for example.

You can't demolish what doesn't exist, but you can play games to fool rubes into thinking it does so that you can make good use of their idiocy.

You should have big problems with it in the first place. Allowing Dear Leader to do whatever he wants is bad no matter what party he belongs to.

No one copies them for good reasons. Why they copy no one is the question.

That was my first console as well, except I got it in the 80s. I had the really big white contoured one.

Gaming consoles just don't offer what they used to. It used to be they did things your PC couldn't. Now they're just a slightly discounted PC you're not allowed to run whatever you want on.

The first part is really my reply to you, the rest is a disclaimer

That's desperately ignorant. The US government already does regulate essentially everything, and whatever it doesn't, the states or municipalities or your local fucking HOA does. The USA is massively authoritarian and has been for over a century.

It's less. Pay attention. Also, that is not a win. It means the poor are kept poor.

You want to make it illegal to give money to people? Congratulations, you just figured out how to make capitalism worse.

The $20M number was from an article circulated here. No clue how to find it today given how shit all the search engines are now.

Before Pocket existed I was using Scrapbook+ to store web pages as displayed. I am now using Singlefile because they destroyed the functionality Scrapbook+ used to access the filesystem. (It also gave a browser and a search for the stored pages.)

I got a perfectly serviceable ICEV used for $5k. It will do 80 mph all day and it gets 30 mpg. If you buy a used EV for $5k it won't work, and if it does, it will still need a new battery. I could spend $15k and get a really nice used ICEV and still have another $25k to spend on fuel before I got to the price of the EV. Someday when there are more used EVs around then maybe they will actually be cheaper for people for whom it matters.

You're literally wrong about everything.

Energy transport of liquid fuels is very expensive. It costs more than 5% while in the USA we lose less than 5% in transmission. Getting the potential energy to the wheels through an ICE means shit efficiency, under 25% and usually under 20% because peak efficiency is reached only in a very narrow range of speeds and loads. There is generally plenty of grid capacity available at night, and when you add a lot of vehicles you can do V2G for grid stabilization and it actually IMPROVES effective capacity. Batteries are highly recyclable and batteries are being recycled RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK.

You're a bat shit dipshit. If you actually have a Phd then I fucking weep for whatever school gave it to you.

So it's a plan with no drawbacks?

I do recognize that this is an issue for the disabled, but it's unsustainable for them as well, and I reject temporary solutions that aren't backed up by permanent ones. If the plan is only to kick the can and wish for a miracle, it's a bad plan.

That's not even wrong, it's just not how anything works. You're comparing a motor to an energy storage mechanism and also ignoring efficiency at the same time.

Monthly payments matter. Also when people are poor and can't afford big payments and the vehicles are very expensive then they wind up spending a lot in interest. TCO matters but so does monthly cost.

They have existed for decades. What did you actually mean to say?