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'Climate change' is not the issue, unrealistic population infrastructure capacity is. In California the ecology is that we have regular cycles of heavy rain every 5-7 years. The reservoir systems were originally built to store water for the dry years.

Forestry management took into account tree disease and the fact forest floors have self cleansed with fire for millennia.

Today we appear to have forgotten all this and are instead astonished and horrified if it rains/ doesn't rain and when there are fires during fire season.

Arizona is in a far more serious situation with inadequate infrastructure capacity to sustain massive population increases, but currently the mania for housing anyone who wants to live in the west outstrips common sense.

Obviously good ecological stewardship of our planet is a no brainer but it seems as though a lot of people just can't join up the historical dots on this and feel human migration to the more pleasant geographical and climate areas are a human right independent of 'tragedy of the commons' logic.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1124448463/germany-coal-energ...

People who need to drive 100's of miles daily in diesel vehicles are having to pass on their increased energy costs to the customers ...which then equals fewer customers.

I cited California because it 'leads the way' in idiotic legislation by out of touch bureaucrats and to some degree influences European environmentalists who are eager to leverage the conceptual idea this is going well. i do know a long distance trucker in Sweden who regularly drives Skorna>Stockholm. I'd be interested to know battery performance on an EV Heavy truck in winter there, at least it's relatively flat.

Gasoline and diesel in California was around $3 3 years ago which has a huge supply chain impact on the overall economy. your suggestion that heavy vehicles going through a lot of tires is 'a bunch of nonsense' demonstrates a lack of real world experiences. Truck tire pollution is a very real problem and heavier EV battery powered vehicles are exacerbating this problem, particularly due to the different torque characteristics of EVs which are similar to diesel engines.

https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-...

very volatile costs of fuel (diesel is nosebleed higher than gasoline in California this year, a disaster for businesses and tradesmen)

Effective, efficient, fast refueling networks

Complexity of fleet equipment, speed to repair

Tires - an 18 wheeler gets through a lot of tires in its lifetime in service. EVs are very heavy unloaded

Fleet trucking is a brutal business where every penny counts and owner/operators are whipsawed by fuel prices, demand waxing a waining and endless politicla meddling.

Once we have nuclear, a credible supply grid and have overcome the battery capacity and fire issues EV will be viable to businesses. Until then it is the unrealistic slow motion disaster being forced through in California.

https://www.freightwaves.com/ is a good site to track developments

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/06/23/newsom-misled-t....

By fueling 'climate change' anxieties the California supermajority and the monopoly power company PG&E mask their deadly incompetence with massive media spends, stoking fear and with the inevitable result of insurance being withdrawn and businesses leaving the state.

It's a shame there's no credible political opposition in the state, the infrastructure is crumbling, street dwelling drug tourist visitors are out of control, we are not on top of water storage during the heavy rain cycle years that occur every 5-7 years.

https://www.judicialhellholes.org/hellhole/2022-2023/califor...

Many people think 'global warming' (or 'climate change' as it now called) is 80% snake oil and that there are many alarmist evangelizing grifters making a fortune and changing the global balance of power in its name.

This is another failed example of 'trust me I'm a scientist' that has lost a large segment of our population.

Honesty and transparency would solve most of this, not just insulting people and accusing them of believing in heretic theories that have been cooked up by a secret cabal of 'non existent' conspirators. Yuo don't win hearts and minds that way.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/asia/china-weather-modificati...

It's not hard to understand why people are anxious about global 'weather modification' and annoyed when they are insulted and dismissed as cranks.

This is another of those obscure areas of operations that need a lot more transparency, explanation and openness so we don't freak people out. 5G and chemtrails appear to be two areas that make people extremely anxious, whether legitimately or not.

https://youtu.be/nwonVY_cNS4

CNN isn't helping anyone by talking about 'conspiracy theories' and claiming

'.... In Spain’s case, much of the 'trolling' revolves around the rehashing of an old conspiracy theory: so-called “chemtrails.”

'Under many of the agency’s Twitter posts, especially those that refer to more extreme weather, users have posted images of blue skies, crisscrossed with wispy, white trails. They falsely claim the trails contain a cocktail of chemicals to artificially manipulate the weather – keeping rain away and causing climate change.

It’s a theory roundly rejected by scientists'.

One of the reasons CNN is a failed, irresponsible media company '(when it launched as a lightweight cable version of the vapid USA Today tabloid and was nicknamed 'chicken noodle news') is this type of dismissive, sloppy article that dismisses people's concerns.

Anytime I see the phrase 'conpiracy theory' I usually just skim and move on.

Also penalizes tradesmen who have trucks and vans.

'Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors Researchers found that 77 percent of Wikipedia articles are written by 1 percent of Wikipedia editors, and they think this is probably for the best.'

Thermal runaway issues will increase as more lithium devices malfunction and age, as the endless electric scooter and other battery fires demonstrate.

https://youtu.be/4IrN9MTj5YI The 1948 Steam Locomotive Boiler Explosion Outside of Chillicothe, Ohio

It's crazy out there right now - massive political pressure with tax breaks, climate anxiety marketing for EVs, mass confusion about energy supply chains and pollution whether oil or electric, a lack of clarity about battery ingredients and lifecycles from extraction to disposal.

I have quite a lot of rare vinyl and a good turntable but it's a pain constantly getting up to change records unless you're in the mood.

Regarding vehicle size, driver visibility of surroundings is more critical. I'm not a fan of huge SUVS but I don't have 4 kids and 2 dogs. Being hit by a commercial vehicle on a 2 wheeled vehicle is going to be bad, but I'd argue generally commercial drivers pay more attention to their surroundings than the typical soccer mom, far better training and regulations.

I also feel distractions play a large part in many collisions - the replacement of analog tactile knobs and dials in cars with giant flat screens is a major safety setback - and of course smartphones are a disaster for distracted driving.

(replying to a now deleted comment)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/biden-bankruptc...

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/01/11/the-gilets-jaunes-a...

I was badly beaten and robbed 12 years ago in the early hours by an unknown assailant downtown. It is exponentially worse today and something needs to happen and fast to get this under control so more people don't die or are badly injured and to stem the flow of talent leaving the area.

THIS NEEDS TO STOP.

'Surveillance footage reviewed by The Standard appears to show Bob Lee, a 43-year-old former top executive at Square, walking on the sidewalk up Main Street away from the Bay Bridge at around 2:30 a.m., holding his side with one hand and using his phone with the other.

Lee then crosses the intersection at Harrison Street toward a parked white Camry with its lights flashing, the video appears to show. Lee lifts his shirt—as if to show the driver his wound and ask for help—and then falls to the ground after the car drives away.

He then gets up and walks back down Main Street toward the Bay Bridge before falling to the ground in front of 403 Main St., an apartment building known as the Portside'.

Very distressing.

https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/video-appears-to-sho...