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I think most people have more practical objections that simply "If it's not like an ICE, I don't want it". Much of it has to do with price and a lack of understanding on how EV chargeting works. https://blinkcharging.com/fact-from-fiction-the-real-reason-why-consumers-dont-buy-electric-vehicles/#:~:text=The most common reasons drivers,initial higher upfront vehicle costs. With the price of any new car today, the price argument to not getting an EV is slowly going away.

Only if that's the only metric you use to decide to get an EV. It has to be the exact same experience as an EV, if not, I don't want it. Forget that charging at home is way better if you can do it. Forget that EVs are way better when it comes to maintenance and fuel cost. Forget that EVs are usually faster and more fun to drive.

And we can mention areas where they are getting closer to replacing ICE capabilities. Like having more DC Fast chargers along highways so road trips are more practical. It's funny I stopped to charge my EV at 10% at the busy Enroute, by the time we all went to bathroom, waiting for our lunch, ate our lunch, and went to the bathroom again, the charge was at 92%. This is generally how roadtrips work for people.

If we're validating wages by how dangerous the job is, why do soldiers get paid less than CEOs?

As we see with Ontario Nurses, good working conditions produce good employees. Good nurses flock to places that pay more and treat them better. We have a nursing shortage in Ontario because the government capped their wages. 1% annual raises in times of high inflation is not a good working condition. I would not suggest that being a teacher in Ontario, currently is bad. They have one of the must lucrative pensions funds in existence. But firing them all for not essentially taking a pay cut, won't attract the best teachers I reckon.

Public Sector unions do what they do. I concede that. But in this inflation era, a 1% increase is a joke. It's essentially a huge pay cut.

I'm sure they've collectively bargained that. As the teachers are collectively bargaining. I think it makes much more sense to have them on regular rotating 12-hour shifts. Sure and they're well compensated. And firefighters don't face dangers "All the time". A good chunk of the time you see a fire truck going down the street, lights blaring, it's to a medical call to beat out a paramedic because insurance dictates that fire stations should be regularly distributed throughout a city or town. Have you done any critical analysis as to how many of those are teachers. Families making over $100,000 are, by no means rich, in this inflation era we live in.

Life must be so simple in your world, LOL. I'm sure teachers coming out of Teacher's College would love to be seen as Scabs.

It's a legal strike, they're without a contract. I'm sure courts would have something to say about that.

Actually most people in Canada live in Cities. So I dispute that. I've never travelled by car to a vast majority of Canada. I suspect many haven't. Again it's not the intent of the EV. The intent is to charge it at night, and for those that have access to a charger, it works great. The idea of going to a gas station for fuel is just learned behaviour that doesn't need to continue on. I never said it was. Maybe one day, recharging a car will be like getting a Propane Tank. You just swap an empty battery for a changed one. I think that happens in China.

Firefighters also spend a good chunk of their paid time sleeping. Teachers are tasked with educating children. It's an important job. It's ignorant to imply otherwise. Regardless a Cost-of-Living increase is the bare minimum in this climate for any employee, of any job, let alone one with such an important job. A McDonalds employee would laugh at a 1% increase these days.

Spoken like someone with adult children.

You're thinking practically in comparison to the ICE. Where EVs provide some clear advantages. If DC charging time drops to 10 minutes for a trip of 500 km, then we're pretty close to similar experience. But that's only when we consider a trip that's longer than the range of the car. So for most drivers that's relatively rare. The advantages of being able to fuel at home, more than outweigh the inconvenience of waiting 30 minutes for a charge on a road trip, when they happen. I can see a world, similar to how we have it now with Petrol and Diesel, where personal travel is dominated by EVs and long haul (Trucks, Shipping, Airlines) travel is replaced by something like Hydrogen. Hydrogen is still expensive (relative to electricity) and can't be used at home. But the only way Hydrogen makes sense over Gasoline is if it can be produced using Green Energy. Otherwise it's pointless. We aren't there yet either. But we're getting there. I saw a video recently that Spain could could be a leader in Green Hydrogen because they're already somewhat energy independent by they receive so much sunshine.

As mentioned in other threads. His obstruction in Georgia was caught on Tape. He's dead to rights on a lot of these charges. For example in the Classified Documents indictment there's tape of the documents in his place. He's recorded saying he shouldn't have them etc. Trump's only hope is his supporters don't possess critical thought. They just believe this is a targeted political hit job.

The impetus for this thread was hoping Ontario would invest in Charging infrastructure. I took a trip to Prince Edward County over the weekend. Though PEC has zero working fast chargers EnRoute truckstops each have 4 pretty decent ones. They didn't exist when I started the thread. I was anxious that they'd all be used, but I was able to charge when needed. There's going to be a bit of a balancing act when EVs become more popular vs the number of these chargers available. If you are on a road trip and don't have one available, that will cause problems. But most EV owners use them infrequently (and they aren't meant to be used regularly). There's definitely going to be a huge re-training of how re-fuelling works as we enter the EV age. The solution would be more Stage 2 chargers available everywhere so when people go places they can charge when they do their tasks. DC Fast chargers should only be required on Road-Trips.

It's taken me very little training to always have those canvas bags on-hand. I'm actually shocked when I find a place that provides free bags. I'm sure they'll leave empty boxes around like Costco does.

This would go over like a lead balloon. My son is supposed to start school this fall. That being said 1% increases are a bit of a joke considering the inflation we've seen. I would hope the government wouldn't be that cheap-ass. Inflation has most certainly increased their revenue.

Prove anyone ransacking a Target voted for Biden. Dude's in this video are textbook rednecks.

Yeah I'm sure he cared soooo much about Burisma because of corruption. ?

Does "trying that in a small town" include jumping a Riverboat worker? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/alabama-montgomery-riverfront-brawl-dock-worker-attacked A dramatic brawl on the Montgomery, Alabama, riverfront pitted people standing up for a Black riverboat worker against a group of white people who began beating him for telling them to move their illegally parked pontoon. The Saturday night fight, which was captured in multiple videos posted to social media, appeared to unfold largely along racial lines. And many social media users celebrated footage of the riverfront dust-up, which showed the white assailants get the tables turned on them by Black people who rushed to the riverboat worker’s aid.

Actually it festered during his administration. The civil war in the disputed regions endured through his entire administration and he used military aide to Ukraine as leverage against the Bidens.

No he's an isolationist. Isolationists only serve to allow despots to make the world worse.

Because he's bought and sold by Putin.

You'd think if the Dems were communist, Americans would have Universal Healthcare by now.

tl;dr Stop copying and pasting from blogs you don't want to link to. Also accusations against the FBI have little to do with what evidence the DoJ have against Trump in this specific indictment. It's just a deflection.