Why is anyone usi5any of them? They’re all clogged toilets overflowing the same shit onto the flower.

The Biden Administration was “Round Two”, the return of Trump will bring Round Three.

50s / M / North America and I lived “Ye Old Days” when A/S/L was created.

Now they’ll move away from EVs with support from the federal government.

Nah, the Big Three have quite a few EV and PHEV models coming over the next 24 months plus Volvo with PoleStar and VW with Scout and several more. EV’s aren’t going anywhere.

According to the sales data I can find Norway has about 130,000 new car sales a year. That’s about 1/4th of California’s 35% goal.

California is much higher scale and that was the point of my post.

I don’t understand the comments attacking Toyota when no auto manufacturer with the exception of Tesla can even get close to the goal. There are approximately 1.6 Million new cars sold in California every year so %35 percent of that is 560,00. Then the next year in 2027 the goal is 43%, and the year after that it’s 51% until by 2035, just 11 years from now, ALL new vehicles sold in California are required to be ZEV.

To give you some scope Tesla makes about 1.6 Million EVs a year globally and the “Big Three” made a piddling 200,000 or so COMBINED in 2023.

So the 2025 goal would require nearly half of Tesla’s entire global output to be sold exclusively in California and by 2027 it would require that PLUS the combined EV output of Ford, GM, and Chrysler. There literally wouldn’t be a single EV for sale anywhere else in the country.

We can scream and fling poo about the domestic auto makers dropping the ball but that doesn’t change the impossible nature of California’s regulations. I don’t see any way at all to meet the 2025 goal and nothing will have changed by 2026.

All this law is going to do is force buyers to out of state dealerships. That’s it.

Huh, this is pretty interesting. I wonder if there’s a way to set an Android device to auto-reboot if it hasn’t had a network connection or been unlocked after a preset length of time.

It would be nice if it was but they needed to stop production for 18ish months while they retooled the plant and more importantly put some polish on their ultrium driveline.

Thank you for this. I know some people won’t appreciate it but not every community needs to be a full time political outlet.

People are correct in not wanting to die for politicians and imaginary lines on a map.

It’s a great philosophy but if all of your neighbors don’t follow it then you end up being forcibly hijacked.

I wish the United States would end it’s embargo with Cuba. The moves toward doing that were, IMHO, one of the bright spots of the Obama Administration.

As a libertarian myself Milei is an idiot for following the United States on this. True libertarians, not those Mises Caucus assholes, are generally not okay with these kinds of trade barriers.

There’s no such thing as a market so controlled that it’s immune to inflation. The Russian Ruble is as controlled as a currency can be and Russia is teetering on the edge of hyper-inflation. It’s core inflation rate is over 9% and their version of the “Prime Rate” for lending has now jumped from 19% to a historic 21%.

China has more breathing room than Russia but it’s still not going to be pretty, especially if this “bailout” fails.

Don’t they have many trillions in reserves?

Right now China has about 3.2 trillion in ForEx of all kinds and currencies which means that this bailout represents nearly half of the total.

ForEx is an extremely complicated subject, way too much for a single post, but it is essentially the lubricant for trade. If you don’t have enough of it in the right currency on an hourly (or less) basis to support your imports and exports then the machine will seize up.

So what China is doing here is risky as hell and if it doesn’t work they will soon have the same kind of financial problems that Iran does and that is stupendously bad for an export based economy.

Remember The Constitution says any rights not specifically granted to the Feds are the States.

The Supreme Court, to thunderous applause and cheering, killed that notion a LONG time ago. I wish California the best of luck in trying to resurrect the idea, I truly do, but I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Even now most Progressives wouldn’t like the idea in practice. They’ve spent over a century fighting to create a Federal Government that is Large and In Charge.

Are we starting to understand yet why it was a horrible idea to give the Federal Government so much power over literally everything? It’s precisely why the framers of the Constitution tried so hard to limit what the Federal Government could control and its why the “States Rights” argument has always rung true.

I hope California is successful in their efforts to “Conservative Proof” their State. What they are attempting to do flies in the face of nearly 140 years of precedent but its EXACTLY how this damn country was intended to work.

It’s how we’ve reacted to their aggression so far.

The United States really does not want to get into a direct conflict with Russia. There’s no question that we’d win any kind of conventional conflict but the American people have no desire for another land war in Europe. We’ve been there and done that, twice, and while I think we would support our European cousins for a 3rd go around getting support for it would require that the Europeans commit themselves first.

On a tangent but speaking frankly Europe as a whole needs to plan for dwindling support from the United States. Regardless of who wins the 2024 US elections the voting demographics of the United States are changing fast. There are literally tens of millions of current and near future immigrants from all over the world who will never care about European security as much as the current voters do. Why would they? Why should they?

The average immigrant from Asia or Latin America will not have ancestral ties to Europe and as their impact on US politics grows it’s inevitable that US support for European shenanigans will dwindle. As voters they will push the US Government to care far more about what’s happening in India, Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, and various countries on the African continent.

This is going to happen even if the United States elects nothing but Progressive Politicians for the next 10 election cycles and Europe needs to prepare for it.

This type of nonsense is happening everywhere online. Real people who are organically participating will almost always engage on a wide variety of topics and issues; any social media account on any network that spends the majority of it’s time focused on a single politicized issue or viewpoint can be assumed to be a sock puppet or a shill.

In short any account that hyper-focus on a single issue or viewpoint for more than a day or two is likely not organic and if it is organic then it’s likely toxic; either way you should avoid them.

American isn’t buying Iran’s bombs and there’s no amount of hysterical hand waving you can do to get over that fact.

If they show up I hand out the candy and I’ve been doing it that way for decades. No telling some kid or teens situation in life and there’s no need in making it harder on them.

Its happening with increasing regularity even in the lower 48. Here’s one from Wyoming.