this happen here!
like California are just stupid! Any fool with money to protect moves to Florida…
Jeff Bezos’s recent move from Seattle to Miami is already paying off. When the billionaire sold $2 billion worth of Amazon shares last week, he saved around $140 million in taxes…
Bezos is not the only one fleeing these high-meddling states!
“I’d close the damn borders for one and then go find all the people that got in here illegally,” he said.
are rapidly approaching the end of their “shelf life.”
Again, I think that if I live in a clime like San Diego and I drive 30 miles a day, mainly commuting to work and back, charge overnight at home, I have an ICE car for roadtrips, and have a coercive state government (<cough>California<cough), an EV can make good sense. And I hold to that position.
But if I am a construction boss on an oilfield in South Dakota? Not so much… In that case, I need my truck to handle cold weather. I need my truck to do “trucky” things and have a range that goes beyond a few miles!
Who could have guessed that paying $55,000 (and that’s with EV subsidies) for a stripped-down, base-level truck that overheats when you tow things and can’t drive over 300 miles on a single charge wouldn’t appeal to the average F-150 buyer? Certainly, people who use their trucks for work have found little to no use for such a pointless monstrosity.
… So again, it’s worth asking whether EVs have any redeeming qualities in their current iteration. They aren’t renewable, relying on toxic chemicals mined by literal child slaves in Africa that eventually require replacement. They are less capable than your average gas-powered vehicle. They typically cost more new but don’t hold their value because the batteries are so expensive to replace, meaning buyers get hit coming and going. The list goes on.
Aren’t they saving the planet, though? I’d suggest not given they still rely on power largely created by fossil fuels anyway.  So what’s the point? All EVs are doing is empowering China, which produces 70 percent of the world’s EVs and controls most of the mining of the materials needed to build them. How many billions of dollars are American companies going to continue to throw away pursuing this government-pushed pipedream? The answer is likely quite a few billion more. Eventually, the market always wins, though.
In college, the Mendelian Spousal Unit (MSU) had a geology professor who on the side often evaluated land for housing developments. His saying was, “Nature ALWAYS re-establishes the slope.” Regardless of berms or retaining walls, nature will always re-establish the slope, eventually.
So does the market…
pretty much true…
to be polite with the Lefties around me. So I try to soften my words a bit:
Argentine President Javier Milei presented a massive omnibus bill to the nation’s Congress on Wednesday that, if passed, would implement sweeping reforms to the Argentine state in a wide variety of sectors.
Man, I sure wish it was us!
Lefties need to curb their natural despotism, here. They really don’t want to take away all peaceable options,
really doesn’t understand the risks they are taking.
Legendary pro golfer John Daly revealed he and fellow golfers all want former President Donald Trump back in office, telling Tucker Carlson “We all want Daddy Trump back” in an interview released Tuesday afternoon.
… He went on to say Trump “needs to win, I pray to God he wins … just for the satisfaction of bringing our country back together, get some common sense going in here again. Look what he did, in four years. How great was our country in the four years he was in office? And now look at it. No secure borders. Prices out of the roof. I mean what the hell happened? Where did it go? I mean, I was loving the four years that Daddy Trump was in. And it’s all gone to hell.”