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thisorthatorwhatever

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  • Trump v. Greenland

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  • We really should drop almost all trade/travel boarders between Canada/United States/Europe/Australia and New Zealand. Have one large economic zone. The US and England are the stumbling blocks to this.

  • Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

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  • Consumption is still growing, but the 'oil' in Venezuela is just tar, the 'oil' in the United States come from fracking. The days of sweet crude are behind us.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • Proper taxation on fuel might help.

    One massive problem is all the advertising of pickup trucks and muscle cars ... advertising works. So many people can only see themselves needing and driving a large pickup/suv or a Dodge Charger.

    I'd like to see an advertising campaign for medium sized sedans pulling utility trailers ... as being macho. It shocking how few people use utility trailers, they are not a thing in N. America.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • The only real breakthrough has been hybrid, for mpg and efficiency. I suspect internal combustion engines will be around for some time, but almost all cars will move to hybrid (hopefully plug in hybrid).

    Cars heat up quickly now because, aside from the heat from the car engine, many have small electric heaters to overcome the first few minutes of cool air in the cabin and on the windshield. But all this tech comes at an expense to cost, simplicity, and repair-ability.

    N. America really needs more public transit. Better trains between cities. Legislating pick-up trucks so they are safer to pedestrians. Allowing smaller companies to manufacturer cars, to break up the monopolies.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • In urban environments an old 1980s car is fine, you can't really get into a high speed collision in a city.

    Highway driving is statistically safer, so you can get away with a 1980s car on a highway.

    Rural driving is o.k.-ish, if you are away of your surroundings on a rural road.

    It's the sub-urban, specifically, the ex-urban environment in N.America that posses the most problems for driving an older 1980s car with limited safety features. People really speed on the wide, 6 to 8 lane, suburban streets.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • The Honda Civic has had the same fuel economy now since the late 80s https://www.fuelly.com/car/honda/civic at 30mpg The VTEC engine has been computer powered for the same time, and has used a Catalytic converter that whole time. Only now, with an electric motor for first gear, do we see any mpg improvement.

    The main safety feature, is that they gotten heavier.

    15-minute duration, covering approximately 9.3 miles at an average speed of 18.6 mph" https://en.phongnhaexplorer.com/qna/travel/what-is-the-average-distance-of-a-car-trip.html#gsc.tab=0 Most cars don't even heat up in that time, an ATV or golf cart would be fine.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • Cars from the late 80s and early 90s are still fine today if produced; relatively safe, good fuel economy, air-conditioning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Civic_(fourth_generation)

    Heck, 4/5 people would be happy with a side by side ATV as a form of transportation in urban/suburban areas. https://www.utvdriver.com/utv-news/cheapest-utility-side-by-sides/

    A golf cart is suitable for at least 50% of people currently driving in cities, as the majority of small cars are just grocery getters. https://www.utvdriver.com/utv-news/cheapest-utility-side-by-sides/

    Something is fundamentally wrong with the transportation; size, power, cost of cars.

  • EU readies €93bn tariffs in retaliation to Trump’s Greenland threat

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  • This is such a crazy situation, who knows how it'll end up. It might spiral out of control, I can picture all copyright/patent/trademark international agreement being shredded in the next 3 years during the remaining term.

  • Carney reaches tariff-quota deal with China on EVs, canola

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  • That list from autotrader.ca seems off. Going to individual dealer pages and the prices hover around the $31,000 range for many of those.

  • Federal government loses Emergencies Act appeal, court says use during convoy protest was unreasonable

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  • This is how good people get screwed, but stupid judges that can't see 2+2 is 4. In the eyes of the court now a 'National Security' threat has to be so great that an invading army needs to be parked on Parliament Hill.

    Most normal people don't want a hundred trucks honking all night long for weeks on end, it's insanity.

  • Carney reaches tariff-quota deal with China on EVs, canola

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  • Doug Ford has been asleep at the wheel, drunk at the cottage, and completely fumbled the car industry in S. Ontario. The Ontario government should really limit the power, speed, and acceleration of cars. In S. Ontario we've reached the limits of congestion, it's just sprawl and traffic.

    By severally limiting the speed etc. of cars, though taxes, the government would have saved the Ontario auto industry. Focus would have then shifted to making everything lower price, and that is all that matters globally in the car market.

    Instead we get stupid cars like the Dodge Charge, that only a small minority of people want. Power you can't use, and a high price tag.

    If the provincial government told people, no more stupidity, we are actively capping engine size through taxes we'd have a better and stronger car manufacturing sector in Ontario.

  • Carney reaches tariff-quota deal with China on EVs, canola

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  • If they start at 33K, that is the end for the sale of most other cars in Canada. The majority of people that buy a new car, simply pick the cheapest one. 33K undercuts all else on the market.

  • Trump calls for record $1.5 trillion defense budget, a 50 percent jump

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  • and the Austro-Hungarians fighting the Ottomans.

  • Trump calls for record $1.5 trillion defense budget, a 50 percent jump

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  • What about the Austro-Hungarian Empire Empire, everybody always forgets about the Habsburg monarchy (1282 to 1918). I'd compare the USA of today to the final days of the Habsburg monarch. It exists, seems strong, nobody will notice if its gone. If the USA folded back into EU, as it probably will in the next 50 years, people would just see the USA history as an odd bit of history that was there to perpetuate slavery in the 18th and 19th Century.

  • Trump says he will seek to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes

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  • No he won't. If he was, he would have already done it.

  • Trump pulls US out of 66 international bodies, including key UN climate treaty

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  • I don't consider it an 'Empire", it's basically England continued under a different name. Time for the U.S. of A. to rejoin Europe, as well as England admitting it made a mistake leaving the EU. Include also New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Argentine, Chile. When the smoke clears, include Ukraine and Russia. Drop all the artificial boarders, they've become nonsensical in an era of the Internet/Smartphones and cheap airline travel.

  • Mom with the real questions

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  • Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination

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  • Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library

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  • Wow, I can't believe that you are getting some flack for this. Numerous times I've read a Wikipedia article, followed the citation, only to discover that the Wikipedia contributor had cherry-picked from a paper, giving a misleading summary.