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I have trouble with it myself. Musk is a bit of a whack job but most people that are uber smart are. He didn't get so rich by being dumb. EV's and Crypto are coming and all the hollering and complaining aint gonna stop them. I don't like it. I think they're dumb but I don't like my ex wife either. She's dumb and makes no sense but she's not going away anytime soon. Sometimes you just gotta live with it.
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For there to be mandates planned when EVs are still in the development stage with only well off people driving the prototypes is certainly putting the cart ahead of the horse. Accelo, yeah.
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Other than the grid and other shortcomings of EVs like range and charge times. Rarely do we hear the discussion of the cost of replacing the batteries and the problem with recycling and or disposing of those batteries. 30 to 50 years ago it was common to replace an engine in a car after 10 years/100,000 miles.
It shouldn’t be too long now before we start hearing about people complaining about the cost of replacing the batteries in their electric vehicles. Internal combustion engines last 200 to 300,000 miles these days. That is often 20 years give or take. Some of these electric vehicles aren’t going to be worth the cost of replacing the batteries in my humble opinion. The electric vehicles are not all that common yet in places like California are asking them not to charge their cars because the grid can’t handle it. What will we do when there’s 10% or 20% of the vehicles operating or electric? It will never be 100%. And are we going to have electric cargo ships and airplanes? I’m not flying in one.
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And not to forget the problem with putting an EV fire out. Reported earlier this week was another one in Cali that took 6,000 gallons of water to put out. Way more if the car was in the garage attached to the house.
Nope nope nope, the world ain't ready for all EV.
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Meanwhile, British Petroleum looks to cut investments in renewable energy to boost profits: https://www.barrons.com/articles/bp-...gy-51675261526
“BP has lagged U.S. oil majors in recent years, with the underperformance often blamed on renewable investments at the expense of maximizing profits in oil and gas, where it has a competitive advantage.”
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^^^ And there we find one big reason we see the mandates. Can't leave the responsibility to oil companies with one goal in mind, profit.
In Frederick, MD Solarex built a solar facility to make photovoltaic cells, as I recall, in 1980 (43 years ago). That was the first I learned about making electricity from the sun's energy. I had been working for a builder who did passive solar homes, which meant just heat from the sun, the first solar technology. I-70 runs right past the place and you get a full view of it. At some point in the 2000s BP bought Solarex out and right away began construction on an big addition. Before it was completed it started being dismantled, and next came the original facility. Nothing there now. The word was that foreign competition had come along producing cheaper cells so BP was consolidating it's headquarters to a location in Texas. But it sure did seem like BP Solar bought up Solarex just to shut them down. All that investment into buying a leading high tech business at the base of the immensely growing field of solar energy production market, then tear it down claiming foreign competition. You'd think before investing BP would have done a little market survey. I'm sure they did. When you look at all the profit from oil production I guess that money was a drop in the bucket worth investing to keep that bigger train rolling.
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Govco has made some idiotically stupid policy decisions lately.
Exxon is a publicly owned company so those "excess" profits will be paid back in the form of dividends to the stock holders. Thank You! Everything around us is made from petroleum. We should be kissing their feet rather than demonizing them.
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It will be interesting to see if Thailand gets their money back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFYPY27lsU https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/...80186226098177 |
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The CEO of Toyota gets it and isn't afraid to put it out there. Maybe I find this so refreshing because this has been my line of thinking for a long time.
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Way back Yonder I bought Chevron stock Marathon Oil stock and Tesla stock. I don't really see the point in this whole discussion. I'm pretty happy.😁😁
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It might be educational to check what products are made from oil and wonder what would happen if the ceased to exist. Naa, not important.
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Everyone gets that about everything we use has petroleum product in it. So the cost of the items is also affected by oil price. It's part of the inflation that has been hitting us. "We should be kissing their feet" is how I see the industry's attitude and I feel we do kiss their feet. The oil industry has a huge responsibility in what they supply. A lot more than making money. There are many other concerns involved and the result is regulations enforced, also as a responsibility to the public. Self-regulation is always best but in it's absence come new regs. Should fugitive methane emissions be released freely, for instance? We demonize the gov't for regulations on oil production but it's not like they aren't in bed with each other with more sweetheart considerations given and protections than the negative we tend to focus on.
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Not sure how expendable income really relates… as said above if you’ve got a 401K you’ve likely been a beneficiary of there profits. That post goes around in circles more than the cars in yesterdays Busch light Clash at the LA Coliseum. There was 7-8 hours of racing that’s a lot of circles… I’m still trying to figure out what your point is.
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"We're going to need oil for at least another decade." at least
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“Profits” are not inherently bad. Just because we are jealous.
The problem is not profits. The problem is not solely regulations. The problem is government-corporation corruption. Lobbyists control the government, not the people. The solution is most certainly NOT blanket “regulations” or “taxes”. The solution is Free Market. That’s the only way prices come down. The government should focus on making sure corporations operate fairly. That’s it. It’s rigged, them against us. The medical industry is the same. Look how we “punished” them with obama care. Er I mean punished us, their profits somehow went up there too!
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The wife and I own mineral rights in Oklahoma and we see monthly checks from various companies. That total around 8-10k a year and has not changed for the last 8-10 years. Wither gas is near 5 dollars a gallon or 2 dollars at the pump , so we are not seeing the difference. The explanation from one person we dealt with told us oil costs the same getting it out of the ground, the profit is when it is sold. We get offers all the time to buy our mineral rights but not nearly as many to lease. So pretty easy to see who gets the profits from the oil being produced. It amazes me people blame everyone for high gas prices but the oil companies themselves. Oil is in every product from plastics to make-up so they are making profits regardless. I am all for companies making a profit but to keep supply low to inflate the price is wrong, that is what OPEC has been doing. Not to mention Exxon a billion dollar company paid less then 3% in taxes. So lets not prop Exxon up as some kind of victim of the Government.
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I'm not convinced those are facts and have reason to suspect there is bias but am open to reading an article from a non-partisan, objective source. Can you provide that?
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If Steve Bannon just as an example wrote it, would you see it any differently? “Facts” are not always facts.
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I have worked in the building industry all my life, with most of that time being a small business. We are heavily regulated, too, and it's small businesses that are hit the hardest by those. Housing is also a thing that is very important to everyone. Regulations account for 40% of the cost of building a home these days but we still build them and try to make our money in spite of all. 401Ks aren't exactly plentiful among construction workers, so nothing to relate there. All Boog did was report profits are up for Exxon. Just a fact. It's a fact I'm used to hearing. Seems to be the case every year. I'm tired of hearing our government being demonized. Especially when it comes to their relationship with big oil. Let's talk about all the perks given the oil industry as well. Now there's a circle for you. Back to record annual profits
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Literally no one said that. The government and corporations are in bed and WE are the victims. My point is our enemy is not the oil companies, just because you don’t like them making profits. Monopolies like OPEC should not be allowed to exist and have the control they do, for just the reasons you say. That’s where government can actually help, to ensure there is a free market.
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