balthazar

The problem with those stats is they look at everything going to oil, and compare it to everything going to wind & solar. Wind & Solar provide 1 end product : energy. Oil provides 6000+ end products. To make an accurate comparison, you have to look at the portion of oil that goes only to energy. Those are vastly different numbers.

REALLY surprised you missed the ‘fake’ window at the C-pillar!! ??

Wait- you compared 10 years of wind/solar to SEVENTY-FIVE years of oil??

Yes, they could. Question is, should they? Let me put it this way : Do alcohol drinkers subsidize cigarette smokers / their pollution?

Oil industry feeds FAR MORE than merely the tanks of IC vehicles. Google says over 6,000 products. How many products is wind a component of (Washington DC excluded)? But federal subsidies are another topic (and they go to every single energy producer: oil, electricity, wind, solar, nuclear, etc). Info I saw says solar &wind receive far more financial support than fossil fuels. Here the question is the state coffers.

^ Nope. If it's your personal choice to buy an expensive EV vehicle, you should pay the associated cost. $750M / 36854 EV (2018 NYS number) = $20,350 per EV vehicle. What's a little higher payment over a few more years relative to saving the Earth? The self-defeating problem in attempting to tie EV infrastructure costs into IC vehicles in order to "drive change" is that --IF it works-- that pool of money will steadily dwindle as IC vehicles theoretically become less common. Also, tying EV costs to IC vehicles "will disproportionately affect those most cash-strapped in the vehicle pool / those the farthest from affording an EV". The long-term success would be to tie it to EV vehicles, because --IF it works-- that cost is borne by 1. those spending luxury-vehicle prices (Teslas, audis, jags, Bolingers, Rivians, Lordstowners, etc), and 2. that cost will come DOWN as the EV pool theoretically increases.

'65 Chrysler 300L - the last of the Lettercars. Glass headlight covers (outlawed the following year). One of 76 built at the factory as a 4-spd.

I question, after 2020’s inevitable tax shortfall, where NYS is going to get 3/4 of a billion extra dollars from.

After getting 'rained on' by the hot mess that NY was, NJ, NY, CT & ME are the only states RIGHT NOW still trending downward or staying at a low, level status. Odds are that is likely to change... unless we wall off the state. Is... is that possible? Please?

1961 :

Lordstown looks like a worn pencil eraser up front, and the random body ‘stripes’ have to go. It’s out of step with what the segment goes for. No; for sure it’s fairly hideous, even vs. the polarizing Silverado, plus it’s too expensive- it starts about $25K higher than the class leaders. Kinda sad they couldn’t do a little more there to differentiate.

When is an F-350 not a Ford? When it's a GMC!

I just threw up.

214 HP, 280 TRQ, maybe 200 mile range.... $185,000 base price. Not doing much to advance the cause.

There are, but you responded to just 1.

You're having a different conversation.

A world of ENDLESS payments for minuscule differences. Poor financial strategy.

Aaaaaand- that’s a different brand.

What above did you find funny?

Ooof- that Mach-E interior just ruined the vehicle for me (I think the exterior looks pretty decent as a current vehicle). - - - - - When GM was banging on all cylinders and every brand fought everyone else :

It's not about preferences. I have preferences I want to do on my projects, but there's an extremely tangible reason they're not happening. An angle chop, a supercharged 550 CI motor, hydraulic suspension. The reason- cost. It's incredible to me that we're supposedly talking rationally about different options and openly ignoring the associated cost in many instances. Budget is always a consideration. No one says 'I need a new car- I was looking at a toyota corolla, that would suit my needs, but I might get a Bentley Bentayga instead'.

Merceds isn't a luxury brand; it's a mainstream brand that also sells luxury vehicles. Rolls, Bentley, Porsche... these are luxury brands. Huge clue; no pedo vans.

That $150 is especially interesting when we commonly talk about converting perfectly functional IC vehicles to EV and spending $25-$80 grand doing it.