brenthutch

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brenthutch last won the day on January 28

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  1. As long as inflation outpaces GDP growth, there is nothing to brag about
  2. It’s just a simple matter of supply and demand. Rental companies are liquidating their inventory at the same time demand is drying up. The result is a plunge in value.
  3. Price drop? How about price collapse?
  4. EVs produce about 20% more pollution than ICE vehicles according to science.
  5. How about actual evidence? One’s reasoning can be clouded by emotion.
  6. Did a 14 miles of single track yesterday (mountain biking) and for the life of me I couldn’t see the evidence of global calamity. Clear blue skies, temperatures in the lower 40 and just enough breeze to stay comfortable. No hellscape of coal mines and fracking (even though I’m in the middle of the Marcellus shale formation) sorry but you are going to have to give me actual evidence of this climate cataclysm before I reconsider my position. (You guys need to lay off the NPR an MSBC and trust your own eyes)
  7. Honda Accord coup: 3500 lbs Tesla model 3 3800 lbs My wife’s GLS 450 weighs about the same as a Tesla X (5489 respectively 5390) and the GLS is more capable. For the sake of the planet I will keep my Honda and Mercedes.
  8. “Used electric vehicles are depreciating 10 times faster than their gas-powered counterparts, according to a new study from iSeeCars.com. The average price of a used electric vehicle plummeted 31.8% over the last 12 months, compared with a 3.6% decline overall.” Not only are EVs worthless they are also worth less.
  9. https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemicals Report from Yale (that far right bastion of conservative propaganda)
  10. “What the study found was that “brakes and tires on EVs release 1,850 times more particle pollution compared to modern tailpipes.” “Recent studies show that the mass of PM 2.5 and PM 10 emissions — which are, along with ozone and ultrafine particles, the world’s primary air pollutants — from tires and brakes far exceeds the mass of emissions from tailpipes”
  11. “According to data from Emissions Analytics, EVs tend to shed around 20 percent more from their tires due to their higher weight and high torque compared to traditional internal combustion engine-powered vehicles.” “According to a recent report issued by researchers at Imperial College London, “There is emerging evidence that tyre wear particles and other particulate matter may contribute to a range of negative health impacts including heart, lung, developmental, reproductive, and cancer outcomes.”
  12. Wall Street Journal not FOX News. BTW the excessive tire wear and the associated pollution comes from the prodigious weight of the vehicles, which incidentally, results in more damage to infrastructure than their ICE counterparts.
  13. https://issuesinsights.com/2024/03/14/do-only-suckers-buy-evs/ “The Journal was highlighting a study from 2022 that, naturally, was ignored by the mainstream press at the time. What the study found was that “brakes and tires on EVs release 1,850 times more particle pollution compared to modern tailpipes.” Why? Because EVs are as much as 30% heavier than gas-powered cars, which means more stress on their “regenerative” breaks and much faster tire wear.” Who was it on this forum who accused me of nitpicking when I listed excessive tire wear as one of the drawbacks of EVs?
  14. Let us not forget the reason she blames for her failed presidential bid. It was the racism and misogyny of the Democrat primary voters.
  15. Has nothing to do with her morality questionable past, we have has several presidents with that, (LBJ, JFK, Clinton and of course Trump).