Frankly a highly speculative set of conclusions. Despite the green deal forbidding converting woodland to crops, the author assumes the opposite. Then they basically ignore the organic requirement. The idea that EU will wholesale move their food production (likely the strictest in the world) to Africa is so outlandish as to not be taken seriously.
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Shipping is more like 15g CO2/km/metric ton of cargo. No way the whole giant boat emits 10g per km lol, that would be like an order of magnitude less than a Prius per km. But yes, even with shipping, over the lifetime of a car an imported BEV beats a domestic ICE because that initial carbon penalty is like driving let's say quarter of the way to China once in an ICE.
What do you mean a commercial butcher will need thousands of animals to produce the same amount of meat as a half cow locally? I haven't heard an argument that a little meat from a bunch of animals is ethically any different than a lot of meat from one animal, just curious.
TOU isn't the issue, it's just the rates themselves that are out of control. The reality is electricity costs vary dramatically throughout the day and seasonally, so reflecting that in customer prices is a natural way to shift some load.
You're right, 50k is the same as 30k, a 5ft tall hood is the same as 2.5ft, 40 mpg is the same as 20 mpg, and getting hit by a pickup is the same as a crosstrek. Look I ride a cargo bike most of the time and am very much fuckcars, but pretending like every since vehicle that isn't a sedan is equally dangerous and polluting isn't helpful.
So you're saying that millions of fragile men are bullied into buying full size trucks and they have no agency whatsoever into their purchase? This is no different than exposing your kids to second hands smoke because you are afraid if you don't smoke you won't look cool. I seriously don't understand why we're making excuses and coddling these weak egos instead of actually supporting the victims of the violence these people inflict on other road users. I'm more than happy to criticize the regulatory bodies and the manufacturers for failing society as well, but that doesn't mean the purchasers that make this all possible are innocent. It's a rotten subculture that needs to be called out at all levels.
There's a world of difference in pedestrian safety between a RAV4 and a Suburban or F150. Just because they call an e.g. CX30 a crossover doesn't mean it's as dangerous as a full size pickup truck. Your affordability argument doesn't even make any sense - smaller vehicles are cheaper than larger vehicles. If affordability is such an issue why don't we see more crosstreks? The mental gymnastics to avoid blaming a bunch of fragile dudes for buying ridiculously pickup trucks is absurd.
Americans don't have the choice not to buy gigantic pickup trucks and SUVs? Gimme a break. I have never bought one, it's not some kind of one weird trick thing, you just literally don't fucking buy them and buy something smaller and cheaper instead.
I don't understand the fixation on "trust" here. They set a soft target of 2030 based on their predictions at the time, now they are revising slightly but have reiterated the main points which is they are fully committed to electrification. This is a small revision, not some clear fraud like FSD. They used words like "plan", "intend", and "ambition", not "promise" in their original press release. I don't see the case that Volvo can't be "trusted", since they never even promised anything. Maybe I'm being pedantic, but holding Volvos feet to the fire on this doesn't seem fair. If they said they were cancelling EVs entirely and plan to be an ICE only company, sure.
Not sure where you live, but 8kWh/day is very low for a house. You'd have to have gas heat/hot water and no/minimal AC to get anywhere close to that. Just putting this out there for perspective - almost nobody will get 2 weeks of power out of 90-100 kWh, and if they do it's usually because they're burning other fuels. I'm in Colorado in an all electric home and use 3x as much as you. Totally agree that we dont need such bloated EVs though.
The extra votes in PA beyond the magical single winning vote are meaningless too by that logic. And there are paths to victory for both candidates that don't involve PA, so you don't really know who got to cast the special winning vote until afterwards. The "swing states" only exist because of states like CA that vote more predictably. The EC is dogshit because of the disproportionate voting power and because the winner takes all at the state level (usually), not because of some post hoc analysis.
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That's entirely the wrong denominator for this comparison. IRS doesn't write the budget nor do they write tax law, they just collect.