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I think you underestimate your audience. From what I can gather you think you know some OMG facts no one else has considered, and when asked to share those facts you bail. Let's have those facts! I think you'd find a lot of interest and get some good discussion. As of yet, not so much. |
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11-02-2021, 05:18 PM | #90 | |
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11-02-2021, 07:46 PM | #91 | ||
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And these are "very easy answers to get", but you won't provide them. Okay. |
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11-02-2021, 08:06 PM | #92 | |
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The article you linked to asserted that the USPS undercharged package customers "like Amazon" by $1.46 per package from at least 2017–2020. First, note the words "like Amazon". Not just Amazon. So even that article—which itself notes the number is disputed—points out that other companies receive the same benefit. Second, let's imagine that the number is right (could be), and that only Amazon gets that credit (no, but I'm being generous to make a point). This analysis from the same general time period as the piece to which you linked claims that in 2017, Amazon shipped 3.3 billion parcels, 33% of them via USPS. That's 1.1 billion parcels. 1.1 billion parcels times $1.46/parcel in savings equals $1.606 billion in savings. So how much profit did Amazon make in 2017? $3.0 billion. So even under the most favorable possible interpretation of your assertion, Amazon still would have made $1.4 billion in profit without the USPS discount—a discount which, as pointed out, was not exclusive to them. Also, this analysis is at the most favorable point in time for your assertion. In 2020, Amazon made $21.3 billion in profit, so any savings from USPS would have been a small fraction of their net. Last edited by synchronicityii; 11-02-2021 at 08:20 PM.. |
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11-02-2021, 08:06 PM | #93 |
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Also, just to get it out there in case it matters, I don't have any investment in the subject. I like EV's fine, but not a fanboi. Just trying to push a functioning human being to back up a somewhat brash statement. If it'd been that EV's were unicorns and rainbows with no downsides I'd be doing the same thing. Or any other subject. Last edited by tracer bullet; 11-03-2021 at 07:16 AM.. |
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11-03-2021, 09:06 AM | #95 | |
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PS-are you going to try to cancel me now? That’s usually next. |
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11-03-2021, 10:47 AM | #99 | |
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11-03-2021, 11:16 AM | #100 | |
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Neither has nasa provided actual photos of earth from space. Photos that have not been edited or CGI graphics. Go ahead, try to disprove anything i said. I DARE YOU |
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11-03-2021, 12:54 PM | #101 | |
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Anyhow. Back to BMW and EZV's perhaps? |
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11-03-2021, 08:02 PM | #103 |
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ICE ban will come VERY fast. In the Belgian news today, no joke:
1. All political parties are in favour of an ASAP ban on ICE cars. The scenario now is to prohibit new ICE as from 2027. For company cars, 2026. This includes the ban for PHEV. The norm has to be 0 emission! 2. 2nd hand cars can no longer be sold or change owner as from 2029 when they are not zero emission! So they become economical scrap within 8 years (including your new M5 CS or still to be delivered Ferrari 296gtb). 3. As from 2023, new houses are no longer to be equipped with gas heating or oil heating. Everything has to be heat pump electrical. 4. When you buy an old house, you commit to refurbish it to "very low consumption" standards. which is "almost not relying on external energy feed". So I don't believe the fairy tale of ICE has still a bright and long future. It won't, it has just become obsolete. |
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11-03-2021, 08:11 PM | #104 |
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Good grief. I'm all for progress, and can understand giving it a little pat on the rear, but - that's a bit absurd.
Any links to the details? I found a Brussel's Times but their main story was about a porn video filmed in a church |
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11-03-2021, 08:50 PM | #106 |
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Back on track. None of us are. EVs are going to be great but not until the charge time and mileage between charges equals, or bests, ICE vehicles. Once that happens it's a non issue. What has to happen is a world-wide charging system that equals the current gas station capability. Otherwise over half of the world's roadways will have to be equipped with a charging grid so we don't have to stop and we get charged for the miles we drive/charge.
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11-03-2021, 09:39 PM | #108 | |
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The only question is - when? When, for me, is what I described above. |
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It is usually something like "...and where do you think that electricity comes from to power your car? COAL!" and "...dont you know how harmful lithium mining can be?" As I look at about 20 lithium ion tools behind them... I am an ICE guy. I will always be an ICE guy until I die or they don't sell gas anymore, at which point I will STILL sit in my E92 and pretend and go "Vroom Vroom" but fighting some form of electrification is fighting against the times. The good news is that there are still a ton of ICE only cars that are a little older to enjoy! and the right ones may gain value someday. |
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