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    SpaceX seems to be getting by on private equity.
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    Zero to sixty in six seconds?
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    I am against subsidies of all kinds, pass the true cost onto the end consumer and let the free market decide. Same with government spending, if you want a program? Pay for it. If you want a tax cut? Forego the government program. It drives me crazy when the Ds want more spending and the Rs want to cut taxes, and after some hard knuckles bargaining, they decide to raise spending AND cut taxes.
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    I’m not denying progress, at the rate we are going almost everyone will have an EV in fifty years, I just don’t think we need to subsidize them.
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    No it’s more like; when an EV can do what my SUV can do at the same price point they will become a viable alternative. (BTW not a single EV in the top 25, not one)
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    Fair enough, maybe second or third. Once they have the range, carrying and towing capacity of current SUVs and a price point that is equal to or less than their IC counterparts, everyone will buy them
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    What is? Are you saying that Americans don’t prefer large SUVs?
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    That will be the tipping point. When I can load up the kids, wife, dog, luggage, snowboards and skis for a trip up north for less money than our current GL450, I will be first in line. Until then EVs will remain a curiosity, given the consumers’ preference for large SUVs.
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    Agreed, it is cheaper, easier to transport, and cleaner, not to mention we have a century’s worth right here at home.
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    Except for something I like to call, the rest of the world https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=66&t=2 that said, domestic coal usage is just being replaced by a cheaper fossil fuel, natural gas (not solar, much to the chagrin of BillV)
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    Never going to make it to carbon neutral at that rate, especially since natural gas is growing at a much faster rate, sorry.
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    That is why I said Kuwait and Iraq and not Saudi Arabia. Good new regardless. Now that WTI is back above $40, they can cover their costs and stay in business. Ironically, the COVID-19 imposed stress test will shake out weak players and help the industry in the long run giving us many decades of cheap reliable oil and gas. Again a good news story.
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    Oil rigs are back on and crews are going back to work as prices recover from the COVID panic. We are now producing more oil and gas than Iraq and Kuwait combined. (I know that some of you were terribly worried about the fate of workers in the oil patch)
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    The social cost of carbon is negative.
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    Both of those use fossil fuel “It may be more cost-effective to put a concrete plant next to a source,” says Schuler. An obvious source would be an oil refinery. “ “However, Kavanagh pointed out that electrolysis is only as clean as the grid that feeds it, so if the energy comes from a coal-fired power plant, there may not be any carbon emissions savings.“
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    I’m glad you’re online. How do we make cement and steel in the next thirty years without fossil fuels?
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    iPad acting up
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    Bill, you gotta love that I was able to wrap unicorn farts and rainbows (aka wind and solar) into a single emoji.
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    Bill, you gotta love that I was able to wrap unicorn farts and rainbows (aka wind and solar) into a single emoji.
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    Or south into Florida, Arizona and Texas (Like they are already doing)
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    https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/7/14/21319678/climate-change-renewable-energy-technology-innovation-net-zero-emissions ”around 35% of the cumulative CO2 emissions reductions needed to shift to a sustainable path come from technologies currently at the prototype or demonstration phase,” the report says. “A further 40% of the reductions rely on technologies not yet commercially deployed on a mass-market scale.” “If clean energy technology isn’t even ready to hit the SDS’s net-zero-by-2070 target, how can it possibly hit net zero by 2050?” Bottom line, the Green New Deal = magical thinking
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    So would you agree that the science is far from settled?
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    I don’t see Al Gore in any of those quotes. Are you saying that NASA scientists are alarmists?
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    Very appropriate, a work of fiction, just like catastrophic man made global warming.