Upvote Upvote Upvote! This really bothers me. All the lies told, big corporations with too much influence in governments and their so-called eco friendly adds trying to sell us the same stuff that still doesn't work, pollutes and is not even a basic necessity.

Hear, hear! It's infuriating af. Some recommended reading on the subject: "...in reality, the war on drugs has little to do with public safety. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2013 shows that tobacco, alcohol and prescription painkillers were responsible for more direct deaths than any other drug." https://www.mic.com/articles/109718/these-3-drugs-are-much-deadlier-than-marijuana-but-they-re-all-totally-legal

"Money can't buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus". Françoise Sagan.

100% This.

Maybe before the 80's.

it's always because of the money

Private schools excel at further entrenching these networks and ensuring that high paying positions are given to those that are mates of those in power, rather than those who actually have decent skillsets. While being friends with powerful people has always had benefits - over the past 20-30 years, this seems to have accelerated as far as the level of b******t utilised and the size of the paypackets received by these useless f*****g twats.

Who can afford to retire these days and even if you are fortunate enough to have the money, how many of those people are well/fit enough to live their retirement to the fullest?

I'll say this again: trickle-down economics is giving more food to the overfed and telling the hungry more crumbs will fall off the table.

To be fair, it's a phrase that dates back to the time when life expectancy was around 30 years old.

Politicians are dangerous clowns.

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Love the way this is written. Reminds me of a young Bob Dylan <3

I’ve been working for the Umbrella Corporation for quite some time, and the benefits are actually great, they even give you free medicines and stuff.

So you're telling me I will never become a real life mermaid? Well that's disappointing.

Yet, instead of building more small affordable starter homes, or redeveloping existing city buildings for affordable apartments—-not Section 8 housing, though we need housing for the homeless, improved housing for the poor, and some way of lifting them all out of that level—-I mean affordable for the average middle class income, new developments are building more overpriced and badly built McMansion type s**t that stays empty forever. Developers: you could more quickly sell out whole developments full of affordable starter homes, and rent or sell affordable apartments/condos in refurbished urban buildings, than you could sell one single badly built overpriced McMansion, much less sell out the entire development. It ain’t rocket science.

USA are good in advertising, not in customer service.

If you donate enough to a politician, they'll change the law so what you're doing is no longer considered cheating.

That's mostly BS. Current electric car batteries live around 15 years, AND can easily be recycled. So resources like lithium aren't "gone", but can be mostly reused. (Lithium is also used in conventional cars, or smartphones btw). There's not really any evidence that electric cars burn more often or anything like that - and a burning diesel is not exactly safe either. EVs might be expensive, but that's only bc the damage to the environment is not factored into the price of conventional cars. And the biggest CO2 emissions come from neither planes nor cars, but from the infrastructure and power needed for the internet. So that i can uselessly yell at people on BP.

We're a low income house and we own a 2nd hand EV. It's a sight cheaper to run than a petrol or diesel car.

All of that is actively dumb. EV's are 85-90% fuel efficient, compared to combustion engines, where the absolute best is 21% efficiency. A typical CE car produces 1 tonne of Co2 every 2500 miles driven, while an 80kwh batter found in a Tesla can be produced emitting as little as 2.4 tonnes of Co2, meaning once you hit the 6000 mile mark, you're ahead of the CE car. When talking about the emission impact of CE cars, we're only looking at the impact of the end consumer burning it, it's not accounting for all the damage wrought during extraction, refinement and shipping it all over the globe. Yes electric cars are expensive, because despite electric vehicles dating back to 1832, it's only in the past 15 years or so that the industry has treated them as a viable product. What you're failing to understand here, is it really doesn't matter how you feel about it, or what rationalization you or big oil wants to come up with. Fossil fuel use needs to STOP

you are forgetting a much worse thing which is the cost of charging. In our country electricity is scarce and rationed. There's no way in the next 10 years we are going to be able to have electric cars, for this reason. Moreover, coal stations are still important and they are providing the electricity, so the carbon is just moving from the car to the power station.

I know it isn't the case for everyone but we got our EV used for less than $15k. I'm not saying I know it is better for the environment but we are paying less than a quarter of what we payed for gas, and that was at $2 a gallon. I can't imagine what the difference would be now. Just because something doesn't work for your personal situation doesn't mean it isn't good for someone.

This is b******t!

Can we go solar instead?

Hate this post because it's completely false. How much more dirty is lithium mining to fossil fuel extraction? No one ever wants to answer that question. Recycling lithium had a 99% recovery of the lithium. The issue is that we just don't have enough lithium batteries yet to make building a recycling plant worth it. That will change very soon. This is the biggest lie, lithium battery fires are extremely slow. As in you have enough time to take a nap before getting out of your car. They tend to be a little bit more dramatic at the end than ICE car fires but gasoline fires are much faster, much more deadly and explosive and quire a bit more common than electric cars catching on fire. The most dangerous thing about an electric car fire is that most people don't know what it looks like so they don't respond to it correctly. If you're going to buy a brand new car an electric car is cheaper. if you're just buying a used car or just maintaining a current car you already paid for...

Wait, wait wait...what houses are you seeing that are cheaper than my EV??

It's not really an option for me. I live in an apartment complex and park my car in a lot several buildings down. There are no provided charging ports and the only other option I would have is to get an industrial length extension cord from my apartment and those are really expensive

B******t. You speak from ignorance on all points.

Really it puts you to sleep, because you said it’s good night for you and I have insomnia so I would love to be able to sleep 😉

Also, think of the slave labor gathering that material!! AND< MOST states don't do renewable energies so you are charging your EV with coal/oil!!

And what about the way the electricity to charge the electric car is generated?

The biggest lie everyone is buying is not the EV. It's the fact that a lot of people still think energy can be "green". That's just greenwashing BS. Nothing is green, especially in the massive scales we need them. Solar panels are disgustingly toxic to produce, wind turbines are anchored to huge concrete blocks, and concrete industry is not clean at all, the wind blades are a nightmare to recycle and are just being buried. EVs still need tires, plastic, metal. People don't realize that in order to power 8 billion humans' lifestyle EVs and all the green BS big corporations are trying to sell us to make us feel better is just not the answer. Resources are finite on this planet.

My biggest peeve at electric car is the source of Lithium. A lot of slave labor in developing countries go into mining those.

Latest report came out saying if all governments actually got what they're pushing in the EV goals (e.g. all new sales are EV, no more ICE cars) then buy 2040 oil consumption will drop to 2010 levels and by 2100 the difference in global temperatures will be 0.0001C (yeah, one ten thousandth of a degree). As always, it's not about science it's POLITICS and corruption. Check out Patrick Bet David's YouTube video "Will Electric Cars Save the Planet?"

EV's are not the solution to climate change. In fact, the push for EV's just shows us that we are STILL trying to delay meaningful action on climate change. I know so many people (including on this site) are resistant to the very fact that it is quite literally IMPOSSIBLE to make car dependent cities/car culture eco friendly... but that's the truth. There are so many other ways in which building our cities around cars hurts the environment including but not limited to suburban sprawl, pollution, roadkill, roads that break up eco systems which drastically harms biodiversity, etc. If you want to address climate change, support public transit! Support trains! Support middle housing over single family detached homes! Support mixed use zoning developments! Be against vontinued suburbanization!