Unilateral asymmetric decisions imposed upon people like that can be considered usury. They are literally taking money out of your pocket.
This guy is the real deal. Heās got covid pegged too.
Real Deal 
That all stems from the deals that had to be made too originally build out the nationwide grid during the Silent and Greatest generations. The only way to get companies in board with the investing was monopolistic control of the area they built out. A Faustian bargain to be sure. But now since these companies are publicly traded the goal is to deliver to the stockholders and no one else. Itās a reason you see windfalls built but inadequate power lines to transfer the energy cost savings and they can pass along the costs of the wind farm to customers while not delivering it. Or make sure dollar canāt really gain a foothold and drive down profit margins.
Climate change completely asideā¦
Shouldnāt we go with the most efficient means of energy production and transportation possible anyway? Thatās generally what every business and industry does.
And again, the more electric vehicles we use, the less oil we use, and the less we are beholden to and venerable to Saudi Arabia and their production wims.
Youāve not presented a single counter to my points. I guess you canāt and are now just in the denial phase. Acceptance is next I suppose.
I would suggest nuclear as the most efficient but it makes some folks worried, some of it justified some not.
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Note: When I was saying most efficient I was speaking to electric vehicles vs internal combustion vehicles.
Generating power I believe we should also go with the most efficient but also try to balance that by not polluting if or where we can.
Nuclear is very efficient and should be a decent part of the mix. Never understood, but honestly never really looked into it in depth, why we donāt have smaller nuke facilities and instead concentrated on the very large, extremely costly nuke facilities which seem to me to have a higher damage risk should things go horribly wrong. Open to any information on that. Maybe one day weāll have fusion power but thatās been 20 years away all my life.
Im starting to see small nuclear reactors with standardized designs and lower costs as the future for
base load power generation. Iām starting to doubt if fusion will ever be mastered. ITER seems in a mess with itās timelines. The thing is still just a way to generate steam and I really wonder how long the materials that absorb the heavy neutron bombardment will last in a production environment.
Oil etc is still used to make electricity and plastics which are everywhere in make up a lot of car parts.
Indeed, which is a good reason to burn less of it.
Franceās nukes are all the same basic design instead of the one-off strategy the US has generally used. So they have a big number of people who can operate and maintain any of their plants.
People freaked after Chernobyl. That drove a lot of the anti-nuke sentiment. Then Fukishima just set them off again. We need nukes in the mix. Newer, safer, more efficient plants. Letās do it.
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Curious question is if we went mostly electric cars, what does it do to jobs? Do electric cars etc create the jobs to soak up the loss of jobs and businesses. If it does or close then Iām ok with it.
Repair shops change their focus, but so much of what goes wrong with any car or truck is stuff other than the engine or transmission, both of which have gotten super-reliable. Suspension parts, brakes, electronics will need repair. Plenty of work, plus weāll have ICE vehicles for another 30 years probably as not everyone will get on board. Itāll transition.
Electric cars are prob more reliable but they need to tell us how much the big battery will cost after the 8 yr warranty expires. It canāt be more expensive than all the gas parts that would go bad after 8 yrs.
That is the X factor no one is telling us yet. Tesla has an 8 yr warranty but most of their buyers are rich.
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I think the batteries cost $10-15K. These estimates are out there.
Thatās too much then bc after the 8 yr warranty, your screwed so itās a rich personās car now bc after 8 yrs or 12 you wonāt spend that much.
Basically your at risk of having to pay half a carās price if your unlucky and that battery dies in 10 yrs. Gas cars can keep going 15 yrs and thereās no big cost of thousands unless the transmission dies but that only 2 to 4 k.
Itās early and that price will come down. I donāt think anyone is arguing that point for now.
They have a long way to go getting that cost down.
People can handle $500 here and there but not 10 or 15 k or your car is toast.
The maintenance of a car costs an average of $500-1K/year and it gets worse the older it gets. There is the cost of gas too.