What did I tell you about Coal Burning Cars?

POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 30, 2025 8:05 AM

General Motors Lays Off More Than 3,300 Electric-Vehicle Workers in U.S. Plants

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/general-motors-lays-off-thousands-o
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You people are delusional. It will never happen until we've got Nuclear power everywhere.

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GM isn’t alone in pulling back on EV plans. Ford is moving workers from the plant that makes the electric F-150 Lightning to a nearby factory that makes the more popular—and profitable—gasoline-burning version. Nissan has decided not to offer its Ariya EV as a 2026 model and Honda has halted orders of the electric Acura ZDX, which is manufactured by GM.

How old is that piece of shit of yours now, Second?

Have fun selling that on the used market when a new battery costs more than every car I've ever owned since I was 16 years old combined.

SIGNYM

Thursday, October 30, 2025 2:19 PM

It's just another money making scheme.

Doesn't climate change isn't a problem tho.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, October 30, 2025 2:46 PM

If they want to be serious about doing something this time around, more power to them.

Dreams of solar panels and wind farms are not the answers to anybody's climate problems when we have 8 Billion people on the planet and more of them are becoming modernized and industrialized every year. And it sounds like AI is going to take up more juice than 100 Million coal burning cars would have too, so I'll bet that the right people are finally talking about seriously doing Nuclear.

I suspect that this is what the YIMBY movement is really about when you get to the bottom of it. Whenever they tell you something is for the people it's never for the people. Follow the money.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

SECOND

Thursday, October 30, 2025 8:13 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

How old is that piece of shit of yours now, Second?

Have fun selling that on the used market when a new battery costs more than every car I've ever owned since I was 16 years old combined.

Want to know how much I pay for electricity? Actually, the Ford Lightning is my "Company Car", so it is not me who is paying, but if I were, the cost is $0.093/kWh. The contract says 100% Green Power. It is charging at the company, right this second, with the sun shining for free and the wind turning the turbines for free.

It is time to buy another Ford Lightning because this one is fully depreciated:

https://www.google.com/search?q=business+depreciation+of+vehicles+

Section 179 deduction

This option allows you to expense the full purchase price of a vehicle up to an annual dollar limit, which is adjusted annually. It is often the first deduction applied.

For 2025, the maximum Section 179 deduction for a business vehicle is $1,250,000, with a total equipment spending cap of $3,130,000.

To qualify, the vehicle must be new or used (but new to you) and placed into service during the tax year. It must also be used for business more than 50% of the time.

Special limits apply to heavy SUVs (6,001–14,000 lbs. GVWR), with a maximum Section 179 deduction of $31,300 for 2025.

https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150-lightning/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SECOND

Thursday, October 30, 2025 8:29 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If they want to be serious about doing something this time around, more power to them.

Dreams of solar panels and wind farms are not the answers to anybody's climate problems when we have 8 Billion people on the planet and more of them are becoming modernized and industrialized every year. And it sounds like AI is going to take up more juice than 100 Million coal burning cars would have too, so I'll bet that the right people are finally talking about seriously doing Nuclear.

I suspect that this is what the YIMBY movement is really about when you get to the bottom of it. Whenever they tell you something is for the people it's never for the people. Follow the money.

Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think

Solar electricity is growing rapidly, but can it really dominate the global energy system? Here is what it will take for us to power the planet on sunshine

By Madeleine Cuff | 23 October 2025

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2500013-solar-energy-is-going-to-
power-the-world-much-sooner-than-you-think/

Is solar power going to take over the world? The past few years have seen a frankly astounding acceleration in the rate of its deployment, with total generation capacity doubling between 2022 and 2024 to supply a full 7 per cent of the world’s electricity. Just how high can that figure go?

The first six months of 2025 saw wind and solar together pass a historic milestone, generating more power than coal for the first time and making renewables the world’s leading source of electricity. The driving force behind this “crucial turning point” in the energy transition, as the UK-based think tank Ember described it, was the growth of solar. It accounted for 83 per cent of the total increase in the world’s electricity demand in 2025, Ember’s analysis indicates, and has been the largest source of new electricity globally for three years in a row.

Solar’s secret weapon? How cheap it is. It is the world’s lowest-cost electricity, with the cost of installing a solar system dropping in price by 90 per cent over the past 15 years. “Right now, silicon panels themselves are the same cost as plywood,” says Sam Stranks at the University of Cambridge.

In other words, we have a plentiful and cheap source of electricity that can be built quickly, almost anywhere in the world. Is it fanciful to imagine that solar could one day power everything?

At the most fundamental level, the supply of solar energy to Earth is almost limitless. Even once you factor in the efficiency rates of modern solar panels, supplying all of the world’s energy needs with the sun’s power would require around 450,000 square kilometres of land, a 2021 report from the UK think tank Carbon Tracker estimated. That’s just 0.3 per cent of global land area.
https://carbontracker.org/reports/the-skys-the-limit-solar-wind/

Kingsmill Bond, one of the report authors and now at Ember, says that, while there are “trade-offs” when it comes to land use – solar may compete with agriculture, for example – “for most countries, there is plenty of space to deploy these technologies”.

A new generation of panels

The question, then, is what is stopping solar power from taking over the global electricity supply entirely? The first issue is that of efficiency. Silicon photovoltaic panels, which make up the bulk of the global solar market, currently convert about 20 per cent of the sun’s energy into electricity. By comparison, hydropower plants convert 90 per cent of the potential energy into electricity, wind turbines about 50 per cent and fossil fuel plants 30 to 40 per cent.

In real terms, this means you need many more solar panels to provide the same amount of power that you could harvest from other sources. That’s why solar firms and scientists are hard at work trying to unlock more efficiency gains from solar panels, in the hope that an efficiency boost will deliver a double win for solar: even lower system cos

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 31, 2025 1:47 AM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

How old is that piece of shit of yours now, Second?

Have fun selling that on the used market when a new battery costs more than every car I've ever owned since I was 16 years old combined.

Want to know how much I pay for electricity? Actually, the Ford Lightning is my "Company Car", so it is not me who is paying, but if I were, the cost is $0.093/kWh. The contract says 100% Green Power. It is charging at the company, right this second, with the sun shining for free and the wind turning the turbines for free.

No. It isn't.

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Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think

No. It's not.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

SECOND

Friday, October 31, 2025 7:50 AM

A brand-new study on the fortunes of Elon Musk’s Tesla shows, using careful empirical analysis, that Musk’s foray into far-right politics — and especially his role in the Trump administration — has cost his company enormously.

Tesla would have sold as many as 1.25 million more electric cars in the past three years had Musk behaved differently. This is equivalent to roughly 83 percent of Tesla’s actual sales during this period, meaning the company could have nearly doubled its sales had its CEO not alienated its heavily Democratic customer base.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34413/w34413.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/08/major-brand-worries
-just-how-toxic-is-elon-musk-for-tesla

Partially, this is a story of individual liberal consumers making their own choices. But it’s also the story of an organized movement — the #TeslaTakedown boycotts and protests that began in response to the cruelty and lawlessness of Musk’s DOGE.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, October 31, 2025 1:03 PM

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A brand-new study on the fortunes of Elon Musk’s Tesla shows, using careful empirical analysis, that Musk’s foray into far-right politics — and especially his role in the Trump administration — has cost his company enormously.

No kidding. I told you that was going to happen. You were his base. And he still did it anyhow.

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Tesla would have sold as many as 1.25 million more electric cars in the past three years had Musk behaved differently. This is equivalent to roughly 83 percent of Tesla’s actual sales during this period, meaning the company could have nearly doubled its sales had its CEO not alienated its heavily Democratic customer base.

Partially, this is a story of individual liberal consumers making their own choices. But it’s also the story of an organized movement — the #TeslaTakedown boycotts and protests that began in response to the cruelty and lawlessness of Musk’s DOGE.

The third point to be made here is one that seems to have gone right over your head...

Elon Musk has cheated himself out of 1.25 Million units of Tesla sales, and ALL of the major car manufacturers that benefited from this loss of Elon's are still laying off thousands Coal Burning Car laborers and greatly reducing or completely eliminating their manufacture going forward.

It is a product that nobody intelligent wants.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.