Will UAW Strike?

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You lost me, simple explaination?
Its simple.
Many people buy EV’s thinking that the tailpipe from their ICE vehicle is gone, replaced by a vehicle without a tailpipe and therefore, no pollution. At the outset, they are correct.

But then reality sets in : That EV has to be charged with an electric charger and the electric is supplied from power plants which burn mostly fossil fuel!

There’s no free lunch.
 
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Unions will become more popular as people who have few skills and/or do not want to work look for "protection".
I’m not so sure…..

So many do not even seem to have the drive any longer to get motivated to go to work!

Cannot unionize stay at home people
 
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I’m not so sure…..

So many do not even seem to have the drive any longer to get motivated to go to work!

Cannot unionize stay at home people
Someone will try. Then they will push for paying people to do nothing. The 'homeless union' coming to the Bay Area, Spring '24. Haha
 
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Its simple.
Many people buy EV’s thinking that the tailpipe from their ICE vehicle is gone, replaced by a vehicle without a tailpipe and therefore, no pollution. At the outset, they are correct.

But then reality sets in : That EV has to be charged with an electric charger and the electric is supplied from power plants which burn mostly fossil fuel!

There’s no free lunch.

Covered many times on this forum.

No doubt electric generation is derived from multiple sources of varying percentages across the country. Fossil fuels being a majority in the states as a whole.

The generation, transmission, ultimate charging losses are significantly more efficient for charging an ICE (and discharging in use) when all factored in than small ice engines (by comparison to multi MW power plants). More efficient means less fuel burned and also at a lower emission density than a small ice.

Also correct that a large adoption of EVs could reduce the pollution concentration in large cities. Poor air quality in large pop cities is still a thing. I’ve not studied or care enough to know exactly how much.

The ‘you know your car is charged with fossil fuels?!’ is cute for the social media accounts and memes. I get a chuckle out of many of them. Especially the people that are losing their mind when they think ALL EV owners don’t know where electricity comes from. Of course now that mothers aren’t necessarily female anymore, I guess that makes sense for our countries current condition of mass idiot syndrome.






Fell like I need a stamp for the following:
Yes an EV owner, no, not to ‘save the planet’, just makes sense in my situation and amazingly fun to drive and love the convenience of not having to stop at a fuel station every other day. Yes also like burning 87, 91, 100LL, and diesel fuel. Yes, have solar on personal property, also not to ‘save the planet.’ Our electric is getting more expensive and I like paying less… 5-7yr ROI is acceptable to me. (Sorry to those who it doesn’t work in their climate or price gouging contractors, $2/W installed is my reasonable metric for small scale install)
 
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Covered many times on this forum.

No doubt electric generation is derived from multiple sources of varying percentages across the country. Fossil fuels being a majority in the states as a whole.

The generation, transmission, ultimate charging losses are significantly more efficient for charging an ICE (and discharging in use) when all factored in than small ice engines (by comparison to multi MW power plants). More efficient means less fuel burned and also at a lower emission density than a small ice.

Also correct that a large adoption of EVs could reduce the pollution concentration in large cities. Poor air quality in large pop cities is still a thing. I’ve not studied or care enough to know exactly how much.

The ‘you know your car is charged with fossil fuels?!’ is cute for the social media accounts and memes. I get a chuckle out of many of them. Especially the people that are losing their mind when they think ALL EV owners don’t know where electricity comes from. Of course now that mothers aren’t necessarily female anymore, I guess that makes sense for our countries current condition of mass idiot syndrome.






Fell like I need a stamp for the following:
Yes an EV owner, no, not to ‘save the planet’, just makes sense in my situation and amazingly fun to drive and love the convenience of not having to stop at a fuel station every other day. Yes also like burning 87, 91, 100LL, and diesel fuel. Yes, have solar on personal property, also not to ‘save the planet.’ Our electric is getting more expensive and I like paying less… 5-7yr ROI is acceptable to me. (Sorry to those who it doesn’t work in their climate or price gouging contractors, $2/W installed is my reasonable metric for small scale install)
Huh?

I got a headache reading this
 
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Covered many times on this forum.

No doubt electric generation is derived from multiple sources of varying percentages across the country. Fossil fuels being a majority in the states as a whole.

The generation, transmission, ultimate charging losses are significantly more efficient for charging an ICE (and discharging in use) when all factored in than small ice engines (by comparison to multi MW power plants). More efficient means less fuel burned and also at a lower emission density than a small ice.

Also correct that a large adoption of EVs could reduce the pollution concentration in large cities. Poor air quality in large pop cities is still a thing. I’ve not studied or care enough to know exactly how much.

You do realize while you’re correct EVs could help city air pollution, that charging EVs is nearly impossible in cities
The ‘you know your car is charged with fossil fuels?!’ is cute for the social media accounts and memes. I get a chuckle out of many of them. Especially the people that are losing their mind when they think ALL EV owners don’t know where electricity comes from. Of course now that mothers aren’t necessarily female anymore, I guess that makes sense for our countries current condition of mass idiot syndrome.

There’s something to be said for keeping it simple. Fences help keep people from crossing borders. Biological males cannot have babies. Parents want their kids to be educated, not indoctrinated. And yes, EV’s are charged with and manufactured with fossil fuels (and child/slave labor) while we build ICE vehicles in our own country using highly paid and largely safe labor.

But “virtue“ is so strong to these people and their “intellect” is so amazing that they can’t get their heads out of their a____s long enough to see that.


Fell like I need a stamp for the following:
Yes an EV owner, no, not to ‘save the planet’, just makes sense in my situation and amazingly fun to drive and love the convenience of not having to stop at a fuel station every other day. Yes also like burning 87, 91, 100LL, and diesel fuel. Yes, have solar on personal property, also not to ‘save the planet.’ Our electric is getting more expensive and I like paying less… 5-7yr ROI is acceptable to me. (Sorry to those who it doesn’t work in their climate or price gouging contractors, $2/W installed is my reasonable metric for small scale install)
I know very few people who “stop at a fuel station every other day”. Even my 14 MPG Ram gets refueled every 7-10 days. Lol
 
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