Your statement doesn’t make sense, but if you’re asking if I ever received money from the government based on my income, the answer is no.
If you are asking if I ever received money from the government for any reason, the answer is yes, I received the same Covid Relief funds that most Americans received. And I gave it all away (+) to people who needed it more than I did, and, I didn’t take any tax deductions for doing it. And I received a paycheck from the US government when I served in the US Navy.
The graph below and a $10 calculator will help you understand why the answer to our tax problems can’t be solved by having people with no money left after monthly expenses pay what you consider their share of what it takes to run our country.
McKinsey & Co.'s Mobility Consumer Pulse for 2024, released this month, found that 46% of EV owners in the U.S. said they were “very” likely to switch back to owning a gas-powered vehicle in their next purchase.
Lemme guess at the titles… “Big Oil is Your Friend,” … “No, it Ain’t Hot, It’s your Imagination,” and " The Ocean Isn’t Rising… the Land is Sinking From Overpopulation!."
I know this is apples - and - oranges comparison, but it seems like the auto industry has taken every bit of fuel economy / carbon reducing technology and has turned it upside-down… they have abused it by spending those savings getting us hooked on larger, more powerful, faster vehicles. I guess I know why, so they can normalize the $75,000 vehicle and the $1,000 car payment and you’re upside-down when you replace, so you’re forever their wage slave. Sorry, I guess I answered my own question.
I just can’t help to think if we drove 1980s sized vehicles with 2024 engine tech, what average MPG would they get? Guessing at it, 75? Actually close, I think, to the EV “equivalent MPG”, which is over 100.
As I am in Houston, I don’t think our grid can really take any more EVs. It’s SO fragile and not just during storms. We go down all the time. ERCOT asks us to conserve any old day. It’s maddening and it makes me want to leave. But I’m still working.
I think ICE-car technology has been taken very close to it’s limits. It’s similar to where we are with digital computing, the end is in sight for both technologies.
In terms of acceleration, assisted driving and overall day-to-day transportation use, EV’s have it all over ICE cars in all categories except long-range trips.
The problems that the state of Texas has with their electrical grid is more political than it is technological. As I’m sure that, as a resident, you are very aware of that painful fact. It’s a great example of the “we don’t like govt telling us what to do” syndrome.
“These vehicles need to be profitable,” Lawler said. “If they’re not profitable based on where the customer is — where the market is — we will pivot and adjust.”
Ford is also reducing spending on EVs to 30% of capital expenditures from 40% previously.
In addition to the canceled EVs, Ford is pushing back production of its next full-size electric pickup truck to late 2027. Output of that vehicle was planned to start next year at Ford’s new EV assembly complex in Tennessee.
This reminds me of when Delta tried to get into the discount airline model with a brand called Song. They trashed it after a couple of years and admitted that they did not have the cost structure to support it. I think its very hard for a historical ICE manufacturer to branch into EVs.
