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I mean, not gonna lie and say black mirror is for those seeking happy endings, but it does mix things up.

Watch the second episode.

Seriously, what does Mike Johnson do? Sit around in rooms exchanging shitty ideas with out of touch, untouchable millionaires?

Fascism is relatively simple to identify. When the leader of your country begins calling dissidents enemies of the state, saying journalists should experience violence, ignoring checks and balances, establishing prison camps…

NFL

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I take it you don’t live in America. That’s fine, but unfortunately, mass transit isn’ta thing here except for densely populated cities. Cars will be on roads for the foreseeable future here.

The grid is going to expand capacity and modernize whether EVs take off or not. Part of that modernization is storage of renewable energy using large battery plants. Those batteries will be primarily sodium based in the future.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_energy_storage_system

The materials used in making EVs are not a huge factor; I think that is a disingenuous argument. Gas vehicles require rare earth metals to build as well. Oil refineries, the distribution of gasoline, gas stations…the whole ICE car infrastructure has plenty of its own environmental impacts. There’s a whole area of the southern United States called “Cancer Alley”, where people living nearby experience a much higher rate of cancer cases than normal. It’s primarily due to all the refineries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Alley

There are environmental impacts to everything humans do. I’m not saying that EVs completely negate that impact, but they will reduce it significantly and lead to healthier environments for humans and animals alike.

The gist is that renewable energy can fill the gap in a more centralized manner than gas does. As the grid modernizes into solar, wind, and nuclear power backed by battery plants, driving an EV will become increasingly much less impactful to the environment than driving a gas car around.

I suspect your mind is made up, though.

Not having public chargers where you live shouldn’t be a factor. You’d be charging at home. The real issue is where the public chargers are along your lengthy routes traveled.

False narrative.

I don’t have a choice but to HODL. Who would want to sell for a loss? It’s going to be a long time before I retire, so I can wait for sanity to be restored to the Oval Office and/or Congress.

I’m counting on republicans to overwhelmingly lose the mid term elections. If they maintain their majority and no one is able to challenge the agenda, then I think we’ll truly be looking at long term hard times.