Oso planning to go pro
Bizarro World in Wyoming ...A group of state legislators are seeking to end sales of new electric vehicles there by 2035 in an effort to protect Wyoming’s oil and gas industries. The bill is the inverse of efforts by other states to eventually ban gas-powered cars, and comes as electric vehicle sales are becoming a bigger part of overall global car sales.https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3815311-wyoming-lawmakers-propose-ban-on-electric-vehicle-sales/?campaign_id=4&emc=edit_dk_20230117&instance_id=82917&nl=dealbook®i_id=108420427&segment_id=122725&te=1&user_id=d36dcf821462fdd16ec3636710a855fa
But honestly, so is the mandating of the opposite, like California has done. It won't significantly move the needle.
I don't disagree with most of Wags' post. One nit to pick is with the above - CA's market share is sufficient that when they were allowed to determine their own emission standards, automakers had no choice but to comply becuase CA's market share is too large to ignore. Just last year, automakers actually supported a move to allow CA to institute their own emissions standards, likely because their catalogs of vehicles would comply and there's a barrier-to-entry benefit to the higher regulations.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
So again, a nice step in the right direction
I think a 2% decrease in global emissions would be pretty substantive. Is it a solve? No. But I think it reaches the threshold for substantive.
Rough Tuesday for Musk:A Tesla engineer testifies that a video promoting self-driving technology was staged. In a deposition taken as part of a wrongful-death lawsuit, the head of the company’s Autopilot division said Tesla workers had planned out the car’s route in advance and that drivers had participated in test runs. The 2016 video had claimed no human input was needed.Meanwhile ...Twitter reportedly suffers a 40 percent drop in daily revenue. A senior engineering executive told employees that the year-on-year decline came as more than 500 of the company’s top advertisers had paused spending on its platform, according to The Information. It’s the latest sign of how cash-strapped Twitter is becoming; another is an auction of goodies from the company’s San Francisco headquarters.Above from NYT's daily "DealBook."
Didn't the Theranos frauds go to jail for a long time for similar reasons?
Holmes and Sonny went to jail for defrauding investors, i.e., rich people. Our system is a lot more lenient when you merely defraud regular old customers.
Hot take, I at least sort of understand their reasoning. And lets be honest, its symbolic. A state with a total population less than Milwaukee knows that they won't stop the progress of electric cars, but at least they can show their constituents that they have their back, in a way. So its performativeBut honestly, so is the mandating of the opposite, like California has done. It won't significantly move the needle.I may not bang the climate change/green energy drum as hard as some people, but I think its very important, when viewed pragmatically. US emissions, much less passenger vehicles emissions in the US, pale in comparison to the emissions from Asia and Latin America. Thats where the changes need to occur. And that will come from investments in truly scalable, mass producible clean energy that is cost effective. And that latter is important, cause developing countries or less developed countries that produce huge emissions really couldn't care less in the face of other challenges they face. Otherwise its performative stuff that may be well intentioned or make people feel better about themselves but its not truly impacting the greater problem.I don't think the carriage maker/buggy whip and car analogy is apt just yet, maybe in another 20 years when the above has been addressed.