That’s option 2 or 3, right?

It’s an interesting problem.

Does the EU let Chinese vehicles in, allow the reduction of EU manufacturing, reducing jobs available, possibly imposing further poverty on the poor, and possibly to the point where they can’t afford the Chinese vehicles anyway?

Does the EU add taxes to Chinese vehicles, making them less available to the poor, but possibly protecting jobs within the EU? Perhaps whilst trying to engage EU automakers to make more EVs?

Does the EU add taxes to Chinese vehicles, without pushing the change to EVs, and just not really manage this situation well?

My money is on aspirations for option 2, but in reality option 3.

Whilst these are all problems that it would be great to solve, I feel the vast majority of the public want to see politicians proposing ways to deal with more significant issues.

To me, this sounds like a list of things they feel the older generation dislikes strongly. They want to retain that base as much as possible so they’ll put out statements like this ones without having, I suspect, much desire to follow through if and when they do have some power.

But I’m happy to be proven wrong on that.

I hear you. But this isn’t necessarily one or the other. I think it’s beneficial to have these types of product available for those who have already become obese, whilst leglistating the food that people are pushed towards eating by the system.

I’m not saying that the government will necessarily do both, but that it’s not an issue with this study that the food available isn’t being managed.

Hasn’t musk been losing traction in this game for a while now anyway? My understanding is that Tesla’s whole initial selling point was that they disrupted the market and made electric vehicles something that people would want to buy, whilst the other automakers were ‘technically’ making EVs but making them look awful to keep the fuel industry alive.

Other automakers have woken up to the demand now and are making nice EVs. Unless Tesla can do something innovative that actually works consistently they’re probably going to phase out.

I respect that dad’s haircut. Accepted reality and keeping things neat. Strong man.

Yeah mixture of both, wouldn’t you agree?

Sometimes you can get far by just being lucky.

Sometimes you can get far by just working hard.

You’re most likely to get far by working hard and being lucky.

You can still not get anywhere even when you work hard.

Strong economies create more opportunities which means your luck factor doesn’t have to be as high.

I’m not sure where my head was when I commented this.

Just getting at the idea that they’re basically worshipping the thing.

We as people just really like worshipping stuff.

Maybe worship is the wrong word due to its religious connotations, but it’s effectively the same thing to hold these kind of celebrations for items that we revere.

Anyway, I’m not sure why the above was relevant:)

It’s called worship.

Not a bad thing, just shit when it’s used to control people.

Good on them for expressing their appreciationane love (worship) for something that is expanding our knowledge.

If that belief held, based on Ukraine’s statistics, it would be permanent rain now and for the next century or so.

I’m certainly not content with the labour government’s handling of Israel.

I tried writing to my MP about it but they don’t appear monitor their emails yet.

Very disappointed.

Meaning the last 6 years of his career there were on starfield, which he wasn’t a manager of, if he quit 3 years ago.

This feels like a standard toxic gaming community thread where dismissing someone’s achievements is for some reason fair game.

Dude held a job at a huge publisher for 14 years, then quit and developed his own thing.

Good on him!

Hmm, my thinking was that journeys that use the full range of the electric vehicle are the exception though.

So in your example, it makes sense to have a ICE vehicle as you require the range. Most of us though don’t need that range. Most of us are unlikely to regularly be driving over 200 miles for a commute, and therefore EVs make sense for all of these people.

For your scenario, if you are motivated enough to do this, it might even work out cheaper to buy an EV, and rent an ICE car for your longer trip. But fair enough that this would be much less convenient.

One source for my thinking: https://www.statista.com/chart/24684/average-duration-of-a-one-way-commute/

In the UK, that’s pretty damn good money. If you are able to plan financially at all you can comfortably pay off a mortgage and live off that amount of money for the 12 years.

Makes sense that there would be some nerves involved then. Even if you’re not feeling them consciously. I’m sure there’s a risk to dating someone you’ve built such a good friendship with.

Good on you for going for it!

Nice. I imagine you have been looking forward to dating a lot?

You’ve known each other for 3 years? Wow that’s cool! How long did you know you liked her?

It’s like the US and Russia’s new competition is who can be more authoritarian.

Does nobody have usb to usbc cables?

This is then hard on the hetero couples who want a child but can’t make one. But then again I suppose they have the adoption route open to them also.