Actually, I can’t help but find this more socially/ecologically viable than the alternative–which wouldn’t be that suddenly all of these people drove all electric, but rather not at all or even bought completely new gas cars.
And it’s not like these new cars are worse for the environment than the stuff they were driving previously.
Most of these newer cars are more efficient, and very importantly, actually have functional emissions control systems. I bet half the cars I see in Costa Rica don’t even have catalytic converters. Assuming that they even had them in the first place.
“You know, Germany, look, they put themselves into a position in Adolf Hitler’s chiefly responsible for this, but his whole regime is responsible for it, that when they went into the east in 1941, they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners, and so forth that they were going to have to handle,” Holocaust,” asserted Cooper. “They went in with no plan for that and they just threw these people into camps. And millions of people ended up dead there.”
They just ended up dead at the local campground. It’s really sad guys. Germany was as shocked as you. It’s mostly Adolf’s fault… Germany was really overwhelmed with the campground-filling war; ignoring her horrified friends while she shoves a few annoying space-taking Jews in the special Happy Happy joy time shower.
Isn’t this always the case, though? What about EVs changes what cars are sent to developing countries?
If the world is buying more cars and therefore more cars are being sent to developing countries, how does the new car being an EV change what cars or how many cars are sent? Before EVs many people still bought new cars every 3 to 5 years, and the old cars got sold to someone. It doesn’t matter who bought them, since the gas was still being burned. Now, the same thing is true but the new car might be an EV, and the old car might also be an EV (I’ve traded in 2 full EVs already for new cars).
In very small numbers. Car recycling/scrapping is a huge industry in developed nations. One that the big manufacturers support for a couple reasons. Main one being to maintain artificial price flooring. If used cars are expensive and harder to come by, people give in and buy new. The manufacturers knew this. But it didn’t occur for them to actively engage in such practices until Cash for Clunkers happened in the US.
Also, low income countries already get their cars from manufacturers people in western nations have never heard of. China, India, and even Iran export new cars to these nations. Options that would be easier to obtain and maintain than something like a 20 year old GM SUV never sold directly in that market.
The author’s guess at potential future concerns doesn’t seem reflective of reality around car ownership economics. Plus China is already getting new EVs to some of these markets at artificially low costs.
What? No, it’s developing countries stealing thousands and thousands of cars from rich country Canada. Buy a new RAV4 hybrid in Canada, it will be in africa/middle east in less than a month…
The US should be investigating all this bullshit and there should be an immediate freeze on all weapons and funding. We won’t do that, because of reasons(?), but that seems like the human thing to do.
Fuck this noise. His ass should be in a holding pen awaiting his sentencing. Then maybe he’d want to do it a little sooner. Unfortunately, we continue to keep handling him with the softest, fluffiest, Downy fresh kid gloves.
The Crown Prosecution Service just dropped outstanding charges against Harvey Weinstein this week. He’s currently awaiting retrial in NYC, after courts granted him a new opportunity to reverse the 16 year sentence against him. And this was a guy with over 100 sexual assault charges pending, at one point. Very good chance he gets out again soon.
There’s a zero percent chance Trump actually sees the inside of a cell. Or Giuliani, for that matter. The courts don’t want to prosecute these guys. The jails don’t want to hold them. Nobody in power wants anything to do with these social elites. They’re untouchable in a way John Gotti (former friend and associate of Mr. Trump) could only dream of.
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