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Even before that, who would want to be in part of America by choice? The health care horror show and massive inequality are but two reasons.

Exactly. Best of both worlds. We actually want a currency that can be manipulated by government. That's how they stabilise it. An unstable currency isn't much use. Block chain transfers is great because it means easy, secure transfers in the open. No gatekeepers like WorldPay.

It's worse for the economy if people have to buy and run cars because that's money that could have spent elsewhere. It's "lost opportunity cost" to have to have cars.

Bicycles also help reduce health costs. As does walking and good public transport.

I know what you mean, but it's not like Voat the last time I left Reddit. There are nutters and instances full of nutters, but it seams Lemmy can self regulated better.

No point installing a charger unless it's were you live. If you have to use public chargers only, an EV probably doesn't work out cheaper. At least here in the UK. The public chargers seamed to have the cost set to match fossil fuel. About 70-80p per kWh. Telsa chargers are less, but who wants to give that man any money are all?

If you can't charge at home with the cheap EV electricity tariff, not sure I'd suggest an EV yet. I get 7p per kWh and 3 miles per kWh. So that's 2.33p per mile. For petrol to match that, at say, £1.50 a litre, you need a MGP of about 300. If you kWh is 70p though, you might as well use ICE for now. Unless you want an EV for planet or local polution reasons.

Telsa is the top end of the market, so these two are not like for like. There are now EV reaching price parity, or cheaper. The cost is mostly battery and the price of battery is come down a lot since EV started going mass market.

When buying an EV, you should do it on maths. If it will cost extra every month, compare that will fuel savings. For me it was £16 a day on diesel for my long commute in the large family van. Now it's <£2 a day in the large family EV van. So it's a big saving.

It's UK, which at the moment doesn't mean EU, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megger_Group_Limited

If EU car makers doesn't get good at making affordable EVs, they will get wiped out. You'd be mad to buy an ICE car over EV at the same price. Dino juice costs so much more (x5-x10) to run (if you can charge at home).

Not for the planet. It burns dino juice. That also means 5-10 times the running cost.

The ones I met really don't know anything else. If you got to the point of being a Windows power user (slight oxymoron), having to start again on another platform is enraging when it seams different for the sake of it. It seams like others are cheating when achieving more using something else. They aren't playing by the same rules!

Similarly, if you don't know anything else and don't know Windows really either, change is scary. Basically humans don't like change and will fight to keep things unchanged, rather than embrace and utilize the change.

Trump is basically the same as Erdogan, and Putin. Same network of "leaders".