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Well that's now how urban development works. If a City is worth living in, the price of homes in the Suburbs will rise and unless you want a community where no one can afford to live there, you have to create more affordable housing like Condos and multi-unit dwellings. Many Boomers bought homes in Suburbs in the 80's for under 100k and are now sitting on Single family homes worth well over a million dollars, if not more. But they refuse to have any place built for their kids to live in. No wonder younger generations hate Boomers.

It's called Densification. With environmental concerns and issues with housing capacity, growing up and now out is preferable. As Cities become increasingly more unaffordable, people look to move out to the suburbs. That's happening in Canada as much as it is in the US. And Nimby's who bought their home for $25 fight against it. They're the problem.

The GOP until being the Putin Puppet party has also been quite hawkish throughout its history.

He came out Friday night and said he had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate and that he'll step down. He has yet to do so. It looks like the Toronto Star was about to publish revelations about the affair so he had to beat them to the punch. John Tory was easily re-elected in October. And has comfortably retained 3 healthy mandates since the chaos of Rob Ford, the current Premiere's late brother. I personally like Tory, I thought he got a raw deal as leader of the Ontario PCs in 2007. I think his political plight is a good litmus test on where you are on the political spectrum. People on both the Right and the Left hate him, but he continued to easily get elected. But his dick did him in. These type of workplace relationships should not be condoned or tolerated. As the mayor, he had the power in the situation. I am sad to see him go, I hope a Socialist doesn't take his place. Perhaps someone for the Ford Political Empire can swoop in, that would be crazy.

Well if Battery Tech does improve then Hydro Storage will also be a thing that will help with Power demands. The problem with Green and Solar isn't the ability to generate power, it's that it doesn't always generate them at the right times in the right places. Storage will be the next thing. Either that or embracing new forms of Nuclear. You can't solve tomorrow's problems with today's thinking, which it sounds like you want to do. Regarding Gas prices. Can you highlight another Western Democracy that has cheaper gas prices than Canada other than the US? All Developed nations are going down the path of making pollution cost more. The North American fringe right is on a lonely limb.

So the source is Ukraine. Mark that the first time member Nationalist believed anything Ukraine has said.

Cite? If they were anywhere near competent, they would have been used already to stem huge losses in territory since September.

BTW in your world all EV development would stop until it meets and exceeds the range and availability of an ICE vehicle. No one is being forced to get an EV. Even in a decade people could keep their ICE vehicles as long as Gasoline was a reasonable fuel source, which I suspect it might not be. Battery tech will have to scale, Green Tech will have to grow, and charger availability will have to grow. It's not there yet. I'm the first to say that these are really only for commuters with Single-Family homes in places with reasonable electricity rates. But even at that, carmakers can't keep them in stock.

These are tired and debunked talking points everyone uses. A few years is 12. Even if you wanted an EV right now you couldn't get one because demand is so high.

They didn't merge, they're just propping them up. If we had an effective 2-party system would the Liberals or a merged party, manage 60%+ of the electorate? This is always the talking point against any Conservative party elected to a majority with 40% of the popular vote. See DoFo in Ontario. Never seems to work when the Liberals get under 40% because the Dipper are seen as similar. I suggest that often the Conservatives and Liberals are often more similar.

I've always wondered if Small L Liberals would bolt if the party merged with the NDP.

It wouldn't be representative though. A federal legislature should be dictated by the fact that Albertans REALLY hate Trudeau. So they run up the popular vote numbers but in more populous areas of the country the political make-up is more balanced. If FPTP does anything, it establishes broad support. Stephen Harper couldn't win the big cities but he was able to win in broad swaths of Canada.

Well they want it when they aren't in power. . .

So what system are you advocating for? FPTP is not the system in the US or other Republics. Liberals would much prefer a system that blocks Conservatives out by letting voters rank their choices.

I conceded that I was aware that frequent fast-charging is bad for the battery. Which is why EV owners only use it when they have to. I haven't used a fast charger since 2021. Old man yelling at Clouds says what? Plastic bags came out in 1993? You're equating plastics to EVs when they are are actually more analogous to the ICE and the idea that belching finitie toxic chemicals into the air would eventually catch up to us. But they don't poop like horses do. . .

You're being told the rate of EVs vs ICE vehicles bursting into flames relative to 100,000 cars It's like Per Capita data. It's accounting for the fact that there are way more ICE vehicles vs EVs. One factor you can't exactly calculate, but it's a real factor, is the idea that ICE technology is pretty static whereas EV technology is constantly evolving. So as more automakers invest in EV technology the safer the technology becomes. Hyundai and Chevy have had to recall batteries for small instances of them catching on fire. This actually is an example of their Quality Control working and the technology becoming safer over the long-run. How often do ICE vehicles have to be recalled for some chance of catastrophic safety issues?

So do you make all your purchases solely based on the worst possible outcome? For someone who had distain for anyone who took, perhaps getting COVID seriously, you seem to think people should fear spontaneous combustion from the EV Batteries? Do you have any data on the frequency and chances of that vs other catastrophic accidents like, say, your furnace exploding? I'm aware of this. Which is why people who don't have dedicated Stage 2 chargers probably shouldn't get an EV. Technology will, no doubt improve. In the 2 1/2 years I've owned an EV I've used a Stage 3 Fast Charger a grand total of 3 times.

Kay. I don't plan on having it light on fire.

That seems fair. Again, it's not like people are being forced to buy EV anytime in the next 5+ years. I'm actually interested in the new Ioniq 5 model, you have to put a deposit down and wait a year. No one is being forced to get an EV. With the supply chain, getting any new car is a challenge TBH.

You'd have to cite that. The battery tech is obviously something that will need to evolve for the production costs to come down.

A lot of the components are the same. There are EVs that are built on ICE platforms, but as the sector evolves, we're seeing ground up EV manufacturing. I think the Tesla skews stats. Currently they're, by far, the #1 EV company but they don't really have the efficiencies built in as a proper Car company like Hyundai or VW.

I seem to remember people freaking out about a woman getting trampled by a Horse while resisting police. Hypocrisy is strong.

They actually worked quite well. Now they caused a myriad of other problems that begs the question as to whether they were worth it. But if you want to slow the spread of a disease, shutting down businesses where indoor socializing is the point of said business, is an excellent way to do it. See how China is basically a time machine of 2021 in how they're experiencing COVID because they locked down their people for so long.

You have to look for them on Twitter. But yeah, if you're not on the internet you wouldn't notice. Both are quite marginalized in most public discourse. I'd be surprised if PP even courts "that lot" in the next election. It's basically what sunk O'Toole.

Ukraine seems to have effective air defence. Which is why Putin has resorted to terror bombing civilians.