American Politics

[Spidy]

Here's reason #74 and #75, why you just might want to consider, buying an EV (BEV / PHEV) over an ICE vehicle.

Reason #74: If you just haven't quite yet figured out, that sitting in your snowed-covered ICE vehicle, waiting for it to warm up, in a blizzard or winter storm, probably isn't the best way to understand how carbon monoxide poisoning works...it's probably to late. (...kkkk!)

Jan 25th, 2025: Carbon monoxide poisoning suspected in deaths of man, 84, dog found in car stuck in snow. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...ning-1.7441783

Feb 18th, 2025: Man found dead in snow-covered car with engine running ... When emergency services arrived, they found the 57-year-old man in cardiac arrest and his vehicle was reportedly stuck in a snow bank, blocking the vehicle's exhaust pipe. His death was confirmed in hospital. https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02...ide-poisoning/.

Reason #75: This reason is more EV/Battery adjacent. When all you really need, is a long power cord to your EV (V2L) or a portable battery power station.

Jan 7, 2025: Why the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning grows after a winter storm. It's a silent killer responsible for more than 500 deaths every year across the country. https://wtop.com/health-fitness/2025...-winter-storm/

Feb 18th, 2025: Carbon monoxide poisoning likely caused deaths of two men in ice fishing tent ... the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning "likely resulting from a heating source used inside the tent," https://ca.news.yahoo.com/carbon-mon...190516022.html.

Just saying, 2-more reasons you may wanna CONSIDER an EV/Batteries...Yes!

[Sirioja]

Elon Musk is a racist and Trump has a history of being involved in racist policies denying housing to his fellow Americans. That being said:

There is plenty of Waste, Fraud and Abuse in the Government. I have no doubt. But if you are really trying to have an impact you would start in the Defense Department.

People act like Trump / Musk Co-Presidency is doing something new. I will simply say that Musk and Trump must follow the law of the land. The moment either one of them does not and receives no sanctions for their actions, grab your guns and and your go bag because kinetic civil war will start and the first step towards dictatorship will have been taken in the United States of America.

No, Musk is facist and stupid Trump is dangerous. Our world have to resist to him, except Putin he is ready to suck for business, and fucking Ukraine and Palestinians where no business, except robbering Ukraine.

[Sirioja]

Nah, Bro. I do not love cars. I do not love things. I love people.

As for my knowledge about cars, why would I have knowledge about something that I don't use? So, everyone who has superior knowledge of vehicles over me I will stipulate to that. I actually have not operated a vehicle of any type for almost two years. I feel my mental health is better because I have stopped. My flow is strong and my stack is so big I pay people to drive me around!

Why don't you own a Bugatti?

https://youtube.com/shorts/va1cm5NZP...LFqkIjxC3rveQB

https://youtube.com/shorts/675djomWh...H961M_0EgPRDrx

ROTFLMAO!

You really know nothing about cars and Bugatti price, too expensive for me, but far higher quality than chinese and USA, and french hands made. About asian quality, when Japan is above China, but japanese airbags TAKATA are dangerous and can kill. Dodge, Chrystler and Teslas use these airbags, better to go to service to check, before explosion projecting metal pieces.

[SubCmdr]

Hey, by all means, please do "geek out" on anything solar, wind, nuclear, or clean/dirty energy related. I don't mind at all and enjoy a good amateur "geeking" in this space, myself.

I really do like hearing/debating what other BMs views are, on our worlds energy problems and solutions.

BTW, thanks for sharing, those are great inspirational back-stories, with regards to, how you were introduced into the world of nuclear and solar energy. BTW, your setup in the Dominican Republic, sounds pretty good. Sure you have some interesting tales to tell about it. That would definitely be my off-grid vision for living in Brazil, depending on remote or poor gird reliability!

Abashedly, but unapologetically, its only been since Tesla popularize the EV and opened up the choices for powering a vehicle, virtually for free (if you had like rooftop solar), was when my interests first perked up. Anything to avoid the big oil companies (...kkkk!). So my recent foray into learning about various aspects, that make up the U.S./worlds energy mixes, was more about being thrifty at first, and has since became slightly more political. So nothing quite as inspirational, but here I am nonetheless!

Yes, I definitely agree with your assessment of producing Green Hydrogen and definitely a topic for another day, as many still think hydrogen is a good use case for many forms of transportation. I do not.

I think, the next generation of batteries (solid state, Li-Sulfur, Silicon-Anode, Graphene...etc) will render the use of hydrogen, with people strictly sticking to the upper tiers of the of the Hydrogen Ladder. https://cleantechnica.com/2021/09/01...hopium-part-1/

You brought up many good points and laid out an excellent critical analysis to the problems with nuclear energy. I have no plans to dispute what it is you have to say about it. But, what is your solution for base input into the grid?

That was my point, that there are only two current ways to have reliable base input into the grid: Gas Fired Plants or Nuclear Plants. Otherwise you are back to coal and although the cheapest certainly not the best for the environment.

As the articles laid out the need for more energy is growing. The long game requires a look at what is actually sustainable. I don't believe that sustainability is in fossil fuels. Cold fusion has a long way to go. I still put my vote on Nuclear Power in the short term. Because it is not possible to power an electrical grid without a consistent base input of 40% of the grid output needs.

[Spidy]

LOL. Maybe if you keep saying that you will think it is true. The specs on the most popular BYD car are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Song_L_DM-i#Powertrain.

As you can see, there is a 1.5 liter internal combustion engine in this car. Say what? I thought you said BYD was not making combustion engines.

Do you really not know how to READ? Or just too lazy to educate yourself? Get a clue man!

In your Wiki page, the BYD Song L DM-i, is classified as a plug-in hybrid, with a hybrid drivetrain...DUH!

BYD and all other websites, classify the Song L DM-i, as a PHEV. It would behoove you to do your homework, before spouting off at the mouth!
https://carnewschina.com/2024/06/13/...dy-for-launch/
https://db.carnewschina.com/byd/l-dm/2025/params

If it's a hybrid (HEV), PHEV it is classified as a sub category of EVs? Got it!

Wiki:
Powertrain: Petrol plug-in hybrid: 1.5 L BYD472QC I4 Atkinson cycle
Electric motor: Permanent magnet synchronous
Transmission: E-CVT
Hybrid drivetrain: Plug-in hybrid
Battery:
12.9 kWh BYD Blade LFP
18.3 kWh BYD Blade LFP
26.6 kWh BYD Blade LFP

As for your study on reliability, hybrids historically have been less reliable than pure EVs or pure ICE cars.

You sound like Sirioja, denying the hard cold FACTS, with lots annoying wrongheaded opinions, with nothing and no FACTS to back them up. You both should get together and try having a debate...I'll bring the popcorn! (...kkkk!)

[EihTooms]

Trump's Pandemic Part 2 is probably coming at us, on steroids!

And, please, no more ill-informed bullshit about how "gee, that Covid pandemic would have happened no matter who was president. It just came out of nowhere"!

No. THIS happens because Repub Donald Trump is so-called president.

And without THIS happening, Trump's Pandemic and all the deaths, worldwide economic and global supply-chain collapse, millions upon millions of jobs wiped out, the business and school Closures, hyper-inflation and skyrocketing prices for everything that naturally followed doesn't happen either.

CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts.
Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal probationary employees.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...oge-rcna192420

"We have come up with a new slogan for LLS: the disease detectors. If youre not testing, you dont know what disease is there, a current fellow, who was among those who received termination notices, told NBC News.

Termination emails, which were sent to LLS staff members Saturday evening, cited poor performance as the reason for the firings, even though most of the dismissed employees have excellent performance reviews, a midlevel CDC official said.

Multiple outlets reported that a larger sister program at CDC called the Epidemic Intelligence Service, or EIS, known as the agencys disease detectives, was expected to be cut significantly, as well. As of Sunday, though, the two officials who spoke to NBC News had not heard of firings at EIS. One, a senior CDC official, said everyone who was going to be terminated had been notified by Sunday.

"Even if EIS was spared, there are multiple other fellowships that were not, and that's a pipeline for the next generation of CDC leaders," the senior official said. "We're being cut off at the knees. It is going to cripple public health for decades."

Tuberculosis, HIV / AIDS, Ebola, Covid-25, something else new and terrific? What will Trump's Pandemic Part 2 be about this time? All of the above?

[Spidy]

Not trying to go energy nerd on you, but Nuclear and Solar has been my interests ever since I learned that we could put a nuclear plant on a ship and could get sent to the bottom of the ocean. Still trying to figure out why we don't worry about the environmental impacts of that. My interests in solar occurred as a kid when I learned that how they power space vehicle electrical systems.

Hey, by all means, please do "geek out" on anything solar, wind, nuclear, or clean/dirty energy related. I don't mind at all and enjoy a good amateur "geeking" in this space, myself.

I really do like hearing/debating what other BMs views are, on our worlds energy problems and solutions. Personally, its a nice break from the American Fuhrer and the Repub admin clown show and shit show, currently on display!

BTW, thanks for sharing, those are great inspirational back-stories, with regards to, how you were introduced into the world of nuclear and solar energy. BTW, your setup in the Dominican Republic, sounds pretty good. Sure you have some interesting tales to tell about it. That would definitely be my off-grid vision for living in Brazil, depending on remote or poor gird reliability!

Abashedly, but unapologetically, its only been since Tesla popularize the EV and opened up the choices for powering a vehicle, virtually for free (if you had like rooftop solar), was when my interests first perked up. Anything to avoid the big oil companies (...kkkk!). So my recent foray into learning about various aspects, that make up the U.S./worlds energy mixes, was more about being thrifty at first, and has since became slightly more political. So nothing quite as inspirational, but here I am nonetheless!

Hydrogen sounds good until you look at the energy necessary to produce Green Hydrogen.

Yes, I definitely agree with your assessment of producing Green Hydrogen and definitely a topic for another day, as many still think hydrogen is a good use case for many forms of transportation. I do not.

I think, the next generation of batteries (solid state, Li-Sulfur, Silicon-Anode, Graphene...etc) will render the use of hydrogen, with people strictly sticking to the upper tiers of the of the Hydrogen Ladder. https://cleantechnica.com/2021/09/01...hopium-part-1/

In US Nuclear Plant News
Two articles below. I think it is a good start. I don't live in the United States of America. So I don't think I am in the position to debate the issues. But hard choices are going to have to be made in the future. The best to ways to provide a base input to the grid with the current technology available are Nuclear and Gas.

The United States of America is losing it's influence in the world. There is a lot of land mass available. As a society we need to be thinking about how to become self sufficient energy wise, now and into the future.

https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...ot-2024-10-22/
https://www.technologyreview.com/202...and-microsoft/

Just so you know, my love/hate (or rather mixed feelings) for nuclear, SMRs and hydrogen (whether its grey, blue or green hydrogen, is a topic for another day), all come with a several harsh caveats. These sources of energy, I think, are more applicable or better suited, to specific instances, where the use case and circumstances, are clearly defined, as being more advantageous over solar, wind and BESS.

My Nuclear/SMRs Caveats:

• High Upfront Costs: Cost overruns are very common, as much as x3 to 5x the initial cost.

• Long Build Times: As much up to 1.5x to 2x initial time estimates.

• Technical Expertise: Is there local talent to maintain the technical and regulatory aspects of a nuclear facility? Short-term and long-term?

• Waste Management: Disposal of nuclear waste, requires high level expertise and logistical challenges

• Public Perception: What are they, on nuclear energy? NIMBY or can they be overcome?

Those caveats IMHO, makes nuclear and SMRs, a whole lot less desirable, as to what I would consideration as the first or second choice, as the least expensive, least complex or time sensitive and cleaner energy solution, for almost any place, anywhere in the world.

That said, I'm totally in agreement with restoring, refurbishing or upgrading any off-line, shut-down or decommissioned nuclear power plants/reactors, providing it can be done with little to minimal tax-payers dollars. If large amount of tax-payers dollars are involved, then ROI/Cost viability studies should be considered, alongside today's other cheaper, clean energy solutions.

I think its a great idea, for Microsoft and Constellation Energy (CEG) to champion the 3-Mile Island nuclear plant restore project. I'm surprised Microsoft isn't putting some of their money in the pot, on the upfront costs or shares in CEG, for the rebuild and then take a sweeter deal on the 20 year back-end. They've got the billions, they certainly can afford it, especially if the project is primarily for their benefit, why does CEG need govt dollars?

Unfortunately, as the article mentions, CEG were looking to get some of that Biden IRA money. So who knows, if they'll even get the funding to continue, if the American Futhrer, puts the kibosh on the IRA?

Finally, CEG are investing $1.6 billion and its unclear how the federal tax breaks will pan out for them or taxpayers and as I understand it, nuclear power plant reactor restores and/or refurbishing, suffer from the same affliction as new builds, outlined in my nuclear caveats above.

So while this may be, the very first nuclear plant/reactor brought back to life, from a decommissioning, its not the first attempt in the U.S. The Crystal River (FL) plant in 2009, that was shutdown and decommissioned, due to structural damage during a maintenance project, should serve as a cautionary tale. Attempts to repair and refurbish the plant ($1.2 billion) were abandoned due to high costs and then had to be decommissioned again ($1.2 billion). Total cost $2.4 billion dollars.

Again as per my nuclear caveats, whether its a new build, refurbishing or restore, any nuclear project should not be taken lightly and is almost always guaranteed to have cost overruns. So the CEG and Microsoft, 3-Mile Island nuclear restore project, may wanna double (2x), if not triple (3x) their project estimates.

[Elvis 2008]

Yet you manage to hallucinate, fuck-it-up and twist the article's reporting on EVs, into a rant about the biggest Chinese automaker still making huge ICE sales, when they'd stopped making ICE vehicles some two (2) years ago

LOL. Maybe if you keep saying that you will think it is true. The specs on the most popular BYD car are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Song_L_DM-i#Powertrain.

As you can see, there is a 1.5 liter internal combustion engine in this car. Say what? I thought you said BYD was not making combustion engines.

As for this.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the complexity of two commingling propulsion sources, more can go wrong, so PHEVs fare worse than their hybrid brethren in reliability metrics.

That was taken directly from Car and Driver. So you pull the Democratic douche move of attacking me versus attacking the fact.

As for your study on reliability, hybrids historically have been less reliable than pure EVs or pure ICE cars.

And the hybrids not the pure EVs are dominating Chinese sales right now. And hybrids have combustion engines in them.

So to your point, Spidy, if EVs were so fucking great, why are the hydrids outselling them now? And if EVs were so fucking great, why did China start putting combustion engines in their electrical vehicles?

I cannot say this is a surprise given your binary thinking. EV, China, Biden good. Trump, ICE, USA bad.

[SubCmdr]

Nah, Bro. I do not love cars. I do not love things. I love people.

As for my knowledge about cars, why would I have knowledge about something that I don't use? So, everyone who has superior knowledge of vehicles over me I will stipulate to that. I actually have not operated a vehicle of any type for almost two years. I feel my mental health is better because I have stopped. My flow is strong and my stack is so big I pay people to drive me around!

Why don't you own a Bugatti?

https://youtube.com/shorts/va1cm5NZP...LFqkIjxC3rveQB

https://youtube.com/shorts/675djomWh...H961M_0EgPRDrx

ROTFLMAO!

Because You just don t know about cars. Best quality cars, Bugatti are built in France by french hands, not chinese robots. A Megane RS or an Alpine would fuck almost all American cars, even most powerful and for sure all chinese, when they are real sporty efficient cars. I choose Germans, even I drove legend RS500 Cosworth for more than 20 years, because more powerful than french cars, but not always better quality. Many Mercedes Benz used Renault engines. But better to know a bit. For car balance and grip, USA cars are far behind french cars and many Germans can t compete. Just better German engines when free speed culture in Germany. Good point is my beloved for my holidays Italy and also NL are increasing speed on motorway, when they found not more pollution with thermic cars. China just build connected little busses to move not far, not what I call quality cars. Moving far with plane pollute a lot, and risky with Boeing. I won t learn chinese, because not my standard for quality and I hate to waste my money and would feel shameful to support such no human rights government making big pollution, fucking our world with their pollution and low quality products. Only cheap.

[Sirioja]

So shameful USA new government: when USA never protected Ukraine, they now try to robb poor Ukrainians who are in misery. I really wish Ukraine and EU will refuse such robbery. Trump really has to BJ Putin to swallowing. Shame, shame, shame.

I wish, even making a lot of noise for everything with his mafia Vance and Musk, but Trump may understand he is not king of the world, even he dreams about, so he should stop to BJ dictator Putin who attacked Ukraine and will have to face Canada, Mexico, Panama, China, EU, UK and Ukraine. Need big balls, when he more behave like a small size with women and criminal Putin who can t travel because of international law prosecution as criminal.

[SubCmdr]

Elon Musk is a racist and Trump has a history of being involved in racist policies denying housing to his fellow Americans. That being said:

There is plenty of Waste, Fraud and Abuse in the Government. I have no doubt. But if you are really trying to have an impact you would start in the Defense Department.

The Packard Commission reported that there was "no rational system" governing defense procurement, and it concluded that it was not fraud and abuse that led to massive over-expenditures but rather "the truly costly problems are those of overcomplicated organization and rigid procedure

People act like Trump / Musk Co-Presidency is doing something new. I will simply say that Musk and Trump must follow the law of the land. The moment either one of them does not and receives no sanctions for their actions, grab your guns and and your go bag because kinetic civil war will start and the first step towards dictatorship will have been taken in the United States of America.

[Sirioja]

Most people to do not love things. They love other people.

France cannot protect itself. That is why it is part of NATO. Audi is not produced buy the French. I do not know of a single French car manufacturer that would be consider quality. It that why you purchased an automobile designed and manufactured by a German Automotive Company?

Because the USA and China are becoming so powerful you only have to learn to speak Chinese in order to survive and thrive in France.

Because You just don t know about cars. Best quality cars, Bugatti are built in France by french hands, not chinese robots. A Megane RS or a Alpine would fuck almost all American cars, even most powerful and for sure all chinese, when they are real sporty efficient cars. I choose Germans, even I drove legend RS500 Cosworth for more than 20 years, because more powerful than french cars, but not always better quality. Many Mercedes Benz used Renault engines. But better to know a bit. For car balance and grip, USA cars are far behind french cars and many Germans can t compete. Just better German engines when free speed culture in Germany. Good point is my beloved for my holidays Italy and also NL are increasing speed on motorway, when they found not more pollution with thermic cars. China just build connected little busses to move not far, not what I call quality cars. Moving far with plane pollute a lot, and risky with Boeing. I won t learn chinese, because not my standard for quality and I hate to waste my money and would feel shameful to support such no human rights government making big pollution, fucking our world with their pollution and low quality products. Only cheap.

[Spidy]

Actually, you need to get what BYD is producing. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/ele...does-phev-mean.

A plug-in hybrid is a type of car that can run using a combustion engine...

So you do not get what PHEVs are.

https://www.caranddriver.com/feature...rid-explainer/

Thanks for the update on PHEVs! I can only imagine that was a nice refresher for you, but I'm well aware of what a PHEV is! And I don't need YOU or Car and Driver, to tell me the difference between a BEV, PHEV, HEV, or FCEV. But thanks anyways!

However, I do have a question for you! Do you even know, what is meant, when the term EV is used?

Clearly you don't! Because according to your limited understanding of the article YOU provided (if you even read it at all?), https://autovista24.autovistagroup.c...china-in-june/, makes it's plainly obvious, you didn't have a clue as to the "categories" of EVs and the vehicles it encompasses.

YOUR article CLEARLY reads, "What were the most popular EVs in China in June?" and ONLY showed charts and information on EVs, in several categories. Yet you manage to hallucinate, fuck-it-up and twist the article's reporting on EVs, into a rant about the biggest Chinese automaker still making huge ICE sales, when they'd stopped making ICE vehicles some two (2) years ago (...kkkk!).

• Elvis 2008, do yourself a big favor, and before you try educating others, perhaps try educating yourself first!

And once again, you have to bring in the dickish MAGA gish gallop shit when honestly you do not know what the fuck you are talking about! It is every fucking post, Spidy. This is why I call you a Democratic douche. You are so fucking arrogant you think being a dumbshit Democratic douche means you are more intelligent.

(...kkkk!)

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the complexity of two commingling propulsion sources, more can go wrong, so PHEVs fare worse than their hybrid brethren in reliability metrics.

So once again, you're just spitballing and speculating, with that MAGA educated, gish gallop prowess of yours! But why guess, when I've already provided you, with the one of the most recent definitive studies on the subject matter?

Well allow me once again (for like the 3rd time), point you to the study out of the UK that examines (not 30, as I had previous wrote, but) 300 million vehicles, spanning 17 years, https://www.motor1.com/news/748745/e...vity-uk-study/ and concludes that EVs are on par with ICE, if not better in some cases, w/r to LONGEVITY.

Perhaps you were confused by the term EV? Which, by the way, includes...you guessed it, PHEVs!

[Elvis 2008]

Me neither! But it's hard to have a reasonable debate and come to any kind of resolution, when the other side provides nothing but "opinions."


You should give your article another read. I think you may have misread your article, since BYD stopped producing pure ICE vehicles, since March, 2022.

In the article, the line the first of four offerings from the carmaker in the overall top 10 which includes internal-combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.is somewhat misleading to readers, since no "overall" chart of the top 10 vehicles, was provided. Just charts of the top 10-20 EVs.

BTW, what evidence or facts, do you have to backup your claims about PHEV less reliable than ICE, or should I just write it off as the same old gish gallop, MAGA disinformation?.

Actually, you need to get what BYD is producing. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/ele...does-phev-mean.

A plug-in hybrid is a type of car that can run using a combustion engine like a normal car, or using an electric motor and battery like an electric car. Yep, it's two cars in one.

It's called a plug-in hybrid because you have to plug in a cable to charge the battery: this is what gives you a certain amount of zero-emissions range, for which you can drive around without using the engine and with nothing coming out of the tailpipe. Polar bears, rejoice!

Once the battery runs out, the engine seamlessly kicks in and you're back to driving a normal car again. So for short distances you've got all the benefits of driving an electric car without the drawback of having to worry about charging when you travel further afield.

So you do not get what PHEVs are.

https://www.caranddriver.com/feature...rid-explainer/

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the complexity of two commingling propulsion sources, more can go wrong, so PHEVs fare worse than their hybrid brethren in reliability metrics.

And back to my original link.

A total of 875,904 EVs, consisting of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), took to China's roads in June. This equated to a growth of 23% year on year. Plug-ins took a best-ever market share of 49.9% in the month, with BEVs alone accounting for 28% of new-car deliveries.

With PHEVs though, if people are using the battery mostly, there would be emissions saving, and I suspect most are.

And once again, you have to bring in the dickish MAGA gish gallop shit when honestly you do not know what the fuck you are talking about! It is every fucking post, Spidy. This is why I call you a Democratic douche. You are so fucking arrogant you think being a dumbshit Democratic douche means you are more intelligent.

But while the headlines in your article are scary, you MAGA naysayers and doomsayers, should take solace and think for a moment, at just how much worse it would be if solar, wind, EVs, BESS weren't around to chip in and do some of the heavy lifting.

LOL. Most alternative energy is wind, and the red states produce way more alternative en https://www.fool.com/research/renewa...-by-state/ergy than blue states.

Yes, China leads the way and is the biggest consumer of coal at 56%, but some reports have China at peak coal in 2024. Not sure I believe the experts, but we'll see.

Only way that happens is if they keep building NG pipelines.

Instead of battle cries of "drill baby drill", the U.S. should be ramping up, not abandoning things like solar, wind, BESS, nuclear (w/caveat) and HVDC lines to upgrade the gird, along side gas and coal, as demand requires. Giving the U.S., a steady growth path to a cleaner grid and meeting increasing demands, while slowly weaning off on coal and gas, and decreasing the dependency on fossil fuels.

When you look at trade deficits, increasing energy output is one way to compete. Our energy costs are much lower than other nations. The USA can be a net oil and gas and potentially energy exporter if energy companies are not messed with.

BTW, this is exactly what China (and Biden's IRA/Chips and AI) is doing, with a good deal of success! But if the U.S. keeps under estimating China, in true "DeepSeek" fashion, with backwards thinking, it'll be curtains.

Uh, Biden was president when the Chinese were making Deepseek, and Biden's goal of a private-public consortium of controlling AI blew up. If the USA allowed all companies to compete, the AI outcome would have been different. I am hoping it still will be. I am not sure what Musk is doing making a bid on open AI, but I trust him. I know you do not, but I do.

But you MAGA yahoos need to stop putting all the gird woes and blame on EVs.

The grid cannot handle all those EVs now. In China, EVs are cheaper to run.

Gullible MAGA, needs to pay more attention to what your robber barons are doing and less on the avg. working Joe.

LOL. This from the Democratic party pimping for Pfizer and the Covid vaccine? Unbelievable. The blue collar types have abandoned the Dems in droves.

[EihTooms]

But Musk-o-Trump is saving billions mostly paid by Blue States and transferred to deadbeat Red States by firing American Working Men and Women who are now applying for billions in Unemployment Benefits.

Therefore, "Best Month in Four Years"! Right, MAGAs?

Delta plane crashes on landing at Toronto airport, injuring at least 15.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/17/delt...ndroidappshare

The accident comes weeks after a fatal midair collision in January at Washington D.C.s Reagan International Airport, which killed all 64 people on an American Airlines regional jet and another three people on board an Army Black Hawk helicopter.

Separately, the FAA was recently hit by layoffs spearheaded by President Donald Trump and Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency, with several hundred air traffic controllers receiving firing notices over the weekend.

The friggin' plane came in upside down and burning.

Like Trump's America.