OK. But what about removing parts that are meant for private cars? I'm willing to subsidize the oil infrastructure for the things I use, after all.

The average large EV fuel economy is 4 _miles_ per kWh, but your math is correct. Except that you're comparing a large-ish SUV (Model Y) and the tiniest, most sluggish Camry. Model 3 RWD short range is 5 miles per kWh. Fuel price is also very volatile, and it's pushed down by the very EVs that benefit from its increase.

More importantly, the vehicle price itself is a big part of the savings. The US does NOT produce cheap EVs, but China does. E.g. Leapmotor A10 CUV is priced at $15k for the base model: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoparinsiders.com%2Fleap... Sure, it would be more expensive if produced in the US with the stronger safety standards and more expensive labor, but even at $25k it would blow any competition out of the water. The closest ICE car is something like Chevy Trax at $23k that has the 30mpg fuel economy. And EVs will get even cheaper as the battery R&D and capital expenses get paid back, ICE cars will not.

So yep. ICE cars are dead. The US just hasn't realized it yet.

I drive an EV. Why should I subsidize your gas car with oil industry tax incentives?

Also, it's a false dichotomy. Apartment buildings can install metered chargers and pay for them through user fees. At 2 cent per kWh surcharge, they'll pay themselves back in about 7-10 years.

In my lifetime you could open a bank account with just a name, ditto for renting an apartment, and pay for everything in cash.

This guy is screwed unless he's only a guest of a patron.

Crime was lower and people were more responsible back then too.

All this control grid surveillance still hasn't caught the Building 7 people.

Maybe it's possible to decide a course of action was a bad idea and reverse it?

Come on. My brother works in Russia and Kazakhstan on agricultural software, so he knows the industry. Plenty of people working in that area are using drones and are re-importing them through Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. And all the schemes are completely transparent, there's no way European and American companies can't know that there's no legitimate way for Kyrgyzstan companies to suddenly increase the amount of purchased components by 10x-100x.

And this is not the only scheme. For example, German gas turbines are exported to Kazakhstan with transit through Russia. And they just get "lost" along the way. Darndest thing, these Russian roads. It's so easy for trucks to disappear completely. Every time.

Of course, European and American companies can never stop all the smuggling. But we can't pretend that companies are actually even trying to do something.

Well, I'll have to admit, I didn't have "learning that someone on Slashdot believes that the Cold War was a myth" on my bingo card for today.

> Apple builds the handset, the OS and the store

Remember, when iPhone came out there was no App Store.

That was a separate business that came later, competition was prohibited, and by prohibiting competition rents were extracted.

This is called "illegal tying" in the law.

They're gonna install malware on your device but heaven forbid your website sets the wrong cookie, then they're fining you 6% of annual revenue.

When did East Germany win?

You seem to be confusing "wanting to get rid of communists" with "wanting their countries to be poor and dangerous".

That hasn't been true for the last 15 years.

It's over.

USAID was horrifically corrupt

The cuts to USAID are projected to cause 14 million extra deaths - a large minority of those children - by 2030. And USAID engendered massive goodwill among its recipients

But no, by all means kill a couple million people per year and worsen living conditions (creating more migration) in order to save $23 per person, that's clearly Very Smart(TM).

And I don't know how to inform you of this, but the year is now 2025 and the Cold War and the politics therein ended nearly four decades ago. And USAID was not created "to smuggle CIA officers" (though CIA offers used every means available to them to do their work, certainly), it was created as a counterbalance to the USSR's use of similar soft power to turn the Third World to *its* side.

They can go back at any point if they don't think the conditions and salaries offered are worth the job. What matters is that they remain free to leave, with no "catches" keeping them there (inability to get return transport, inability to communicate with the outside world, misinformation, etc etc). Again, there's a debate to have over what conditions should be mandated by regulation, but the key point is that the salary offered - like happens illegally today en masse - is lower than US standards but higher than what they can get at home.

What on Earth are you talking about? Nobody is trying to make other countries poor and dangerous. People come to the US from these countries because even jobs that are tough and underpaid by US standards are vastly better than what is available at home. Creating a formal system just eliminates the worst aspects of it: the lawlessness, the sneaking across the border in often dangerous conditions (swimming across rivers, traveling through deserts), "coyotes" smuggling people in terrible conditions, and so forth. The current US system is the dumbest way you could possibly handle it: people wanting to work, US employers wanting them, the US economy benefitting from it... but still making it illegal, chaotic, dangerous, and unregulated for those involved.

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