Capacity and generation are two different things. Grid operators have capacity markets that ensure peak load can be met, and incude generations assets, demand response, energy efficiency, etc. Batteries absolutely coumt as capacity so long as they are managed to do so.
They weren't talking about how long EVs have been around, but for anyone curious EVs generally predate ICE cars and were quite popular around 1900. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle
The people I know with expensive trucks still get everything delivered anyway. There's always some excuse why their super versatile amazingly useful truck isn't quite the right tool for the job, but somehow it's always the right tool to drive around town to their office job or the grocery store. Literally makes zero sense, ever.
You spent somewhere around $54k in gas over 7 years @15 mpg and $3/gal. I wouldn't take an Escalade for free if I drove that much.
I'm more a fan of sticks than carrots when it comes to stuff like this, but voters need coddling and this will still move the needle. Even assuming automakers capture the full $7500, that's pure profit and they're going to try very hard to sell more EVs. And thanks to the IRA, that manufacturing will happen in NA. You're absolutely right that it's a corporate subsidy disguised as a consumer tax break, but it will still have a real effect. I'd rather just have proper emissions requirements drive the change and have a carbon fee and dividend of course, but I think this scheme is still better than nothing.
And the naysayers don't actually run calculations to see what their true costs might be, they already decided gas is king. A couple of good ol boy type HVAC folks that all say "just get a furnace" is all they need to know, reality be damned.
You got that backwards. Suburbia and car dependency are already aggressively subsidized.
https://medium.com/by-the-bay/subsidizing-suburbia-2c3b66f88d4c
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/4/16/when-apartment-dwellers-subsidize-suburban-homeowners
Gen X is actually worse off from a lead poisoning perspective than boomers because lead is much worse for babies/kids than adults. I saw a cool graphic once but can't find it. Here's a boring article though.
Y'all surprised that Porsche of all brands is making expensive cars now? If you're upset about the Macan pricing, you can't afford it (new).
It's more like successive generations of inbreeding. Unless you have perfect AI content, perfect meaning exactly mirroring the diversity of human content, the drivel will amplify over time.
OPs list is wrong, that's why. DOE revised the definition of a general service lamp in 2022 to include the vast majority of reflector lamps. Bug/appliance/left hand thread/etc are all sold im tiny numbers and therefore exempt.
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It looks like 80% ioniq 5 and 20% old beetle to me. It was a nice surprise but I don't think they will age well.