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That's why batteries exist ... but they don't need to be exposed to the sun.
The OPEC had its meetings, which didn't prevent Goldman Sachs from expecting a further price dump.
The Chinese car market was 34% electric or hybrid in March alone (~ 534,000 cars sold in China March had batteries). Plus, there seem to be quite a bit of smuggled Russian oil that is sold at minuscule levels.
Brent is at ~ $72 and isn't likely to keep on climbing. Yet, certain politicians are extolling the US oil producers to keep drilling. At even above cost.
The Chinese car market was 34% electric or hybrid in March alone (~ 534,000 cars sold in China March had batteries). Plus, there seem to be quite a bit of smuggled Russian oil that is sold at minuscule levels.
Brent is at ~ $72 and isn't likely to keep on climbing. Yet, certain politicians are extolling the US oil producers to keep drilling. At even above cost.
Predictions about the future are so much fun. Electric cars and Chat GPT being the latest technology about which we peer into the future. We should collect all the articles like this and then re-read them 20 years from now.
Grandchildren of the television age won’t be able to read. That was a popular saying when I was growing up.
In 1904, The New York Times reported on a debate in Paris between a brain specialist and a physician about the dangers of driving automobiles at high speeds—because the brain can’t keep up. “It remains to be proved how fast the brain is capable of traveling,”
Electricity is just a fad - So said Junius Morgan to his son J.P. Morgan. J.P. had hired Thomas Edison to wire up his mansion, making it the first private residence in New York to have electric lighting. Luckily for his bank account, J.P. Morgan didn’t listen to dad,
In 1950, Associated Press writer Dorothy Roe used what she called “scientific evidence” to predict that by the year 2000, all women will be six feet tall.
Grandchildren of the television age won’t be able to read. That was a popular saying when I was growing up.
In 1904, The New York Times reported on a debate in Paris between a brain specialist and a physician about the dangers of driving automobiles at high speeds—because the brain can’t keep up. “It remains to be proved how fast the brain is capable of traveling,”
Electricity is just a fad - So said Junius Morgan to his son J.P. Morgan. J.P. had hired Thomas Edison to wire up his mansion, making it the first private residence in New York to have electric lighting. Luckily for his bank account, J.P. Morgan didn’t listen to dad,
In 1950, Associated Press writer Dorothy Roe used what she called “scientific evidence” to predict that by the year 2000, all women will be six feet tall.
The first real electric car was built in 1898 called Egger-Lohner C.2 by some Austrian young engineer who'd go on to design other cars, most notably for Mercedes Benz/Auto Union in the 1930s, assembling the greatest racing team in history with Rudolf Caracciola, Bernd Rosemyer and Manfred vonBrauchitsch. During WWII, he designed a super heavy tank destroyer called Elephant. It had two electric engines powering two ICE engines.
Oh and that NBC is complete crap just dumping on Musk for buying and then changing Twitter. Because that's how the media works.
PS. This is exactly how the media tried destroying Ellen DeGeneres for appearing at a football game with GW. Fortunately Ellen had tons of money by that point and could retire with hundred$ of millions..
Oh and that NBC is complete crap just dumping on Musk for buying and then changing Twitter. Because that's how the media works.
PS. This is exactly how the media tried destroying Ellen DeGeneres for appearing at a football game with GW. Fortunately Ellen had tons of money by that point and could retire with hundred$ of millions..
Ok my Jewish/Russian/Soviet friend ........ How come...... How come....... ok, I've got nothing. I just wanted to use that line; 'my Jewish/Russian/Soviet friend'. It rolls of the tongue so well. I see a dark bar in a tough blue collar neighborhood of New York; serving cheap beer to tired men. In a shadowy corner is DLD with the American operative, discussing secret plans for perestroika and its effects on the world economy.
Oye. I've got to get more hobbies.
Run&Gun
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People…. I saw a post on Reddit today, this girl said she was going to end her friendship with this other person if they would not start wearing their seatbelt.
We had an opportunity to come to Brooklyn in 1979. But we didn't like the potential neighborhoods, so we had friends help us settle in Milwaukee. Now, if you want a place with plenty of bars and plenty of beer, Milwaukee was the place. Back in 1979, the drinking age was 18 too. Until Reagan changed it much to the chagrin of the locals.
ahalpert
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Since buying Twitter, Musk has made his political opinions known much more loudly. Don't get infected by the "Woke mind virus", Democrats are pedophiles and there's a conspiracy to change the sex of all our children. (I think that one of Musk's children is trans and no longer speaks to him?) I don't think the problem is Musk buying Twitter so much as opening his big mouth, and then also being much more closely associated with the Tesla brand than many founders or CEOs are with their brands. Someone said driving a Tesla is akin to wearing a MAGA hat. But I imagine that the political association will fade if he shuts up. He has hired a corporate advertising specialist as CEO at Twitter, so presumably he is pivoting away from narcissistically spewing his stream of consciousness.
Who would you say has done more to make America great again than Musk? Or is that even something to aspire to? Do you want America great again? The answer I suspect is no, just political rhetoric. But my reverence for Musk's accomplishments has no bounds. Forgetting about Twitter and Tesla, he founded and is CEO and chief engineer of Space X. He landed spent booster rockets on barges. His Starlink satellite network is enabling the people of Ukraine to defend against Russian genocide. He has single handedly done more for this country and the world than anyone alive.
ahalpert
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I'm explaining why someone else may have soured on owning a Tesla. I forgot to mention that Teslas were a bit of a virtue signal to begin with. "I'm rich but I'm woke," as one analyst put it. So, Musk took the brand identity and smashed it. There was a strong association between Tesla ownership on a county basis and Biden/Trump vote share. If Tesla were the only electric carmaker, then it might not matter. But now there is competition.
My personal feelings about Musk? Well, he's obviously brilliant. And I appreciate the value of what he has done in the electric car space and with reusable rockets. I don't think any of this is really altruistic. But that doesn't matter.
He has always been a huge asshole and a compulsive liar. But that doesn't set him apart from his peers.
A lot of the stuff he says is just crazy. I would still buy a Tesla if I thought it were the best choice, and I still use Twitter. But what you're asking is like with Bud Light -- hey, why did people stop enjoying the delicious taste of Bud Light just because they hired a trans influencer? I wonder... This is the basics of marketing.
Run&Gun
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Maybe people just finally woke up and realized what Bud Light really tastes like.
I’ll see myself out, now…
And, clearly, political opinions have to be controlled by the state.
Just like People's beer. Are you applying for the role of a "beer commissar"? But be forewarned- if you take it too far left, I'll just drink Tsingtao.
Abe, let's pick on each others ideas, not them personally. By the way, I admire everyone here. The ideas and dialog have been mostly civil and entertaining. I find it so much fun to watch left brains and right brains in action.
Is Tsingtao any good? I haven't had it in ages. I forgot what it tastes like.
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ahalpert
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You're right, that was rude of me. My apologies to DLD. I was struggling to grasp why he thought people who regretted their Tesla purchases because of Musk's vocal anti-woke tweets were in favor of state censorship. But now I realize that we are not on the same page.
When Musk offered to buy Twitter, he made a commitment to uphold the principle of free speech in its management. This commitment has been violated six ways from Sunday, and I'm happy to talk about how if anyone cares. But that was the propaganda talking point in favor of his ownership -- if you're against the Musk takeover, you're in favor of state-ordered political censorship.
That was not why anyone soured on Tesla. He has done and said a lot of stuff since buying Twitter and letting loose that has alienated a lot of people while endearing himself to the alt-right. It's that simple.
drboffa
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I just want to step in briefly and say, for the record, that Musk's key strength is selling himself as a person who is brilliant (and arguably he's not even that good at that, as recent events show).
Much like Trump selling the fiction of himself as a brilliant businessman, Musk has crafted an image of himself as a brilliant rocket scientist / EV designer / coder / tech whiz. If you dig even a little below the surface, and listen to what people who work for him say, it's not hard to find out that he really knows very little about those things compared to real experts. He's good at marketing and he made some smart, and lucky, business moves early in his career. He is not, by any stretch, designing rockets or EVs, or writing Twitter code.
Sorry to derail a thread (that is already derailed), but buying into the fiction of Musk as a rocket scientist (or as anything other than a tech investor and marketer) does a disservice to the *actual* people who do the hard work of rocket science, coding, EV manufacture, etc.
That is all.
Much like Trump selling the fiction of himself as a brilliant businessman, Musk has crafted an image of himself as a brilliant rocket scientist / EV designer / coder / tech whiz. If you dig even a little below the surface, and listen to what people who work for him say, it's not hard to find out that he really knows very little about those things compared to real experts. He's good at marketing and he made some smart, and lucky, business moves early in his career. He is not, by any stretch, designing rockets or EVs, or writing Twitter code.
Sorry to derail a thread (that is already derailed), but buying into the fiction of Musk as a rocket scientist (or as anything other than a tech investor and marketer) does a disservice to the *actual* people who do the hard work of rocket science, coding, EV manufacture, etc.
That is all.