“If they had met during an actual blackout, debating the reliability of the electric power grid in the darkness inside a ring of candles, do you think the vote would have gone differently?”
Bad Cattitude wrote an interesting article that compared the ownership cost of a car like a Tesla to a Honda Accord--https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/price-of-gasoline-too-high-buy-an
If you look for it, you can find a lot of good info about the environmental cost of electric vehicles which is astounding considering this crap is being sold as a way to save the planet--it takes an incredible amount of resources to make the batteries and then when they're shot, there's no real way to get rid of them.
what studies, surveys, and or publications support mr validty-arbiter’s reason to doubt former council woman’s indirect panic button?
they only concern these idiots show is when their progress is impeded by facts presented by reasonable people. the pedantic dismissiveness from someone who clearly doesn't even know what questions he should be asking is so fucking cringeworthy. I FEEL LIKE IM TAKING CRAZY PILLS. the past two years ive watched educated, competent individuals spew the dumbest garbage (floating buckets of subliterate shit…still love that one) and no one is correcting them?!
I was almost laughing out loud when the bearded dude asked for studies--academic studies!--when everybody in the country knows that Cali had serious issues getting power to all its customers just days ago.
I've never liked cats, but various Substackers whom I respect may make me revise my assessment.
Interestingly enough, NBER *has* actually published some academic papers on EVs, including this one (https://www.nber.org/papers/w22862) about how EVs reduce pollution for white people, but increase it for POCs, and this one (https://www.nber.org/papers/w27197) indicating that the "counterfactual gas-powered car" that EV drivers would have purchased would have been very fuel-efficient. (It's not as if the cop cars in your county that are being replaced were Hummers.) Ruh-roh.
We live on west coast of New Zealand, which is known for intense wind. My other half suggested to the local council, the pilling of driftwood, which often are used as bonfires, posed a significant risk to the beachfront houses and should be mulched and lush gardens be established as alternative habitats and natural firebreak. The mayor said he would need studies from landcare research to show fire was a risk..... what is it that prevents proper risk assessment and action in these people? all over the world this thinking has infected all our institutions.
Never a shortage of dipshits! I don't live in CA--thank God--but I seem to remember earlier in the summer when gas prices were soaring and it was very hot there, the power companies were asking people to not charge their electric vehicles for fear the grid would blow up--not sure what to do if that's your only car. And this was while certain dipshits were telling Americans that were complaining about high gas prices to go buy electric--as freaking if!
There are idiots everywhere, but the highly educated population that makes up California’s various government/s might be the most idiotic. I am surprised he didn’t say “our grid has plenty of electrolytes. Now go away, baitin’!”
I am so going to use the “I don’t feel it’s valid, are there any academic studies” line anytime I want to get my way
"I don't *feel* its valid."
Who has time for critical thinking and analysis when we have feelings?!
No wonder we are getting a flood of Californians into Florida. Good grief. California is a mental illness.
“If they had met during an actual blackout, debating the reliability of the electric power grid in the darkness inside a ring of candles, do you think the vote would have gone differently?”
Big LOL!
Now my serious answer: No.
Bad Cattitude wrote an interesting article that compared the ownership cost of a car like a Tesla to a Honda Accord--https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/price-of-gasoline-too-high-buy-an
If you look for it, you can find a lot of good info about the environmental cost of electric vehicles which is astounding considering this crap is being sold as a way to save the planet--it takes an incredible amount of resources to make the batteries and then when they're shot, there's no real way to get rid of them.
Anybody want to photo-shop a picture of a police Tesla pulling a utility trailer with a diesel generator? Or should we just wait till it happens?
Can't they just run an extension cord from Pasadena?
what studies, surveys, and or publications support mr validty-arbiter’s reason to doubt former council woman’s indirect panic button?
they only concern these idiots show is when their progress is impeded by facts presented by reasonable people. the pedantic dismissiveness from someone who clearly doesn't even know what questions he should be asking is so fucking cringeworthy. I FEEL LIKE IM TAKING CRAZY PILLS. the past two years ive watched educated, competent individuals spew the dumbest garbage (floating buckets of subliterate shit…still love that one) and no one is correcting them?!
I was almost laughing out loud when the bearded dude asked for studies--academic studies!--when everybody in the country knows that Cali had serious issues getting power to all its customers just days ago.
I've never liked cats, but various Substackers whom I respect may make me revise my assessment.
Interestingly enough, NBER *has* actually published some academic papers on EVs, including this one (https://www.nber.org/papers/w22862) about how EVs reduce pollution for white people, but increase it for POCs, and this one (https://www.nber.org/papers/w27197) indicating that the "counterfactual gas-powered car" that EV drivers would have purchased would have been very fuel-efficient. (It's not as if the cop cars in your county that are being replaced were Hummers.) Ruh-roh.
Do these morons know how the electricity that powers the EV's is produced?
It's almost comical how idiotic these people are
El Gato Malo?!?
We live on west coast of New Zealand, which is known for intense wind. My other half suggested to the local council, the pilling of driftwood, which often are used as bonfires, posed a significant risk to the beachfront houses and should be mulched and lush gardens be established as alternative habitats and natural firebreak. The mayor said he would need studies from landcare research to show fire was a risk..... what is it that prevents proper risk assessment and action in these people? all over the world this thinking has infected all our institutions.
Never a shortage of dipshits! I don't live in CA--thank God--but I seem to remember earlier in the summer when gas prices were soaring and it was very hot there, the power companies were asking people to not charge their electric vehicles for fear the grid would blow up--not sure what to do if that's your only car. And this was while certain dipshits were telling Americans that were complaining about high gas prices to go buy electric--as freaking if!
There are idiots everywhere, but the highly educated population that makes up California’s various government/s might be the most idiotic. I am surprised he didn’t say “our grid has plenty of electrolytes. Now go away, baitin’!”
It's a slippery slope to "feel" your way through a big decision. Our culture seems to be relying more and more on feelings for all decisions.