electric catamaran boat to set world record

[CUDA]

https://youtu.be/qqUuHQsfg7I?si=ukth41ExPROqkRL7

Peter, Peter you can come out now...

[Chaz]

When your stock price goes from $53 to $0.80 in a year...

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I see that no one has addressed the question. Just like always, diversion to look at Trump, look at Trump ... but I guess they get it honestly. Kumla in her interview last week with Bret (the) Bear diverted a full 50% of her response as .. it's Trumps fault. B!otch don't know she's been in office for 3.5 years ... she's as lost as the LAND CRAB ...

[pcrussell50]

Peter, Peter you can come out now...

Eh… You do understand that I was quoting an article by… CNBC… eh… don’t you?

-Peter

[pcrussell50]

https://youtu.be/qqUuHQsfg7I?si=ukth41ExPROqkRL7

As usual for you, like a hopeless sucker for clickbait you get sent to you in your feed, you post links with none of your own commentary. Usually it’s because you don’t understand the technology involved. But it’s OK. Usually I do understand it. And I try to help you not get played by it. You’re welcome.

So … your YouTube video which has nothing to do with why solid state batteries are such a tough problem, like the CNBC article I tried to use to help you with a reality check, is telling us how smart the Norwegians are for the fact that over 90% of their new vehicle purchases are battery.

Well, why don’t we have a look at just how smart those Norwegian customers are for buying so many battery operated cars, shall we?

Norway has a comprehensive set of laws, incentives, and disincentives that strongly encourage electric vehicle (EV)adoption while discouraging the use of petrol and diesel cars. These policies have made Norway one of the global leaders in EV adoption, with a majority of new car sales being electric.Incentives for EV Adoption:

1. Tax Exemptions:
   
   • EVs are exempt from the 25% Value Added Tax (VAT) that applies to regular gasoline and diesel vehicles. This makes the purchase of an EV significantly cheaper compared to fossil-fuel cars.
   • EVs also benefit from reduced or zero registration fees, which can be very high for conventional vehicles in Norway.
   
   
2. Toll and Parking Benefits:
   
   • EV drivers often enjoy reduced rates or exemptions from tolls on roads, ferries, and tunnels.
   • Many municipalities offer free or discounted parking for EVs, further reducing costs for owners.
   
   
3. Free Access to Public Infrastructure:
   
   • In many places, EVs can use bus lanes, which helps drivers avoid traffic and reduce travel time.
   • Norway has invested heavily in charging infrastructure, ensuring that public charging stations are widely available, making EV ownership more convenient.
   
   
4. Subsidies and Support for Charging Stations:
   
   • The government offers subsidies for the installation of home charging stations, encouraging more households to switch to EVs.

Disincentives for Petrol and Diesel Cars:

1. High Taxes on Fossil Fuel Vehicles:
   
   • Petrol and diesel cars are subject to high taxes, including VAT and hefty registration fees based on CO₂ emissions, engine size, and other environmental factors. These taxes make fossil-fuel vehicles significantly more expensive than EVs.
   
   
2. Fuel Taxes:
   
   • The price of gasoline and diesel is heavily taxed in Norway, making fuel much more expensive compared to many other countries. This serves as a further disincentive for fossil-fuel car ownership.
   
   
3. Tolls and Access Restrictions:
   
   • Conventional vehicles are subject to higher toll charges than EVs.
   • Some cities, like Oslo, have introduced low-emission zones, where higher tolls or restrictions apply to high-emission vehicles.
   
   
4. Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Cars:
   
   • Norway aims to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2025, pushing the transition toward a fully electric vehicle fleet. This is part of the country’s commitment to drastically reduce carbon emissions.

These combined policies have made EVs financially attractive while making fossil-fuel cars less desirable, contributing to Norway’s status as a world leader in EV adoption

Oh wait… Maybe it’s not that they’re so smart after all? Maybe it’s the guns at their backs that are forcing their hands?

Norwegians of course are as smart a people as they come. Which is why their government had to break out such big guns to force them into making car purchases they would otherwise be too smart to make on their own.

-Peter

[CUDA]

AI Overview
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Here are some recent years of federal farm subsidies in the United States:
2024: Direct government farm payments are estimated to be $10.4 billion, a 15.1% decrease from 2023.
2023: Total payments from four programs were just over $16 billion.
2022: Total payments from four programs were over $19 billion.
2021: Total payments from four programs were over $19 billion.
2020: Total payments were $46.456 billion.
2019: Total payments were $22.447 billion.
Farm subsidies have included direct payments, crop insurance, loans, and other programs. The amount of subsidies fluctuates from year to year.
The top states for farm subsidies from 1995 to 2021 were:
Texas, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.












Trivial in compairsons

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[CUDA]

Eh… You do understand that I was quoting an article by… CNBC… eh… don’t you?

-Peter

Journalism, have to say something to get attention, the most intelligent don't gravitate to journalism, football, basketball, baseball, or Vice Presidents

take

Journalism

[David]

Oh yes, the US farm subsidies. Remind me to bring them up again in a year or two when NAFTA is re- negotiated again, and the US starts to complain about Canada’s dairy subsidies.

[RiverRat71]

NAFTA
"That big sucking sound" Ross Perot.
Boy was he right. RR

[Chaz]

Yes .. let's go look at Norway to set an example as to how we want to move across the earth's surface. Let me ask : how much is a box of 9mm parabellum rounds. .45 acp or .30-06 ?? You might be able to use a metal detector to hunt some up .. but to go in the store and get a few case's of each .. what would a fella be lookin at ???

How much is a gallon of 90 octane gasoline in US dollars ???

Yea .. No, no offence to our Viking friends, I'd rather live in a free market system .. and make fun of the few commie **** ******'s among us ..

TRUMP 2024 FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA

[CUDA]

https://electrek.co/2024/10/22/byd-e...de-so-cheaply/

[CUDA]

With a 100% tariff

CHINA SOLID STATE

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/10/ch...eries-in-2026/

[CUDA]

White Crime

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/02/...-report-shows/

WASHINGTON — The top 10% of recipients of federal farm payments raked in more than 79% of total subsidies over the last 25 years — producing billions of dollars for a relatively small group of U.S. producers, according to a new analysis of federal data from an environmental group.

In total, the federal government paid more than $478 billion from 2015 to 2021 in farm support for crop insurance, disasters, conservation payments and subsidies for certain crops like corn and soybeans, according to the analysis of federal data the Environmental Working Group released Wednesday.

The U.S. Agriculture Department programs support hundreds of thousands of producers across the country. But a select group of super collectors is bringing in an outsized portion of farm subsidies.

The top 1% collected 27% of total subsidies between 1995 and 2021, according to the report.

Some of the farm payments are more opaque. The government does not release information on all of the individuals who receive support for crop insurance. And the Trump administration changed how it reported some farm subsidies, so it lists them by banks instead of individuals, making it harder to see who received some of the payments from 2019 to 2021.

More than half of farm subsidies over the last 25 years were commodity payments to crops like corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and rice, according to the EWG database.

“Based on what we do know, we can still see the most successful farm businesses are still collecting the lion’s share of subsidies … while the vast majority of farmers are getting little or nothing,” said Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs at the Environmental Working Group, an independent nonprofit that conducts extensive research.

The biggest of those were corn subsidies.

Federal spending on crop insurance has grown in recent farm bills, and crop insurance payments now make up a quarter of all subsidy payments.

In Iowa, the family farm that is managed by the son of Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a farm policy leader, received more than $1.4 million from 1995 to 2021, the report shows. The payments included disaster, corn, soybean and oat commodity subsidies.

The payments are listed for Robin Grassley, the family farm manager. Chuck Grassley and Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa both sit on the Senate Agriculture Committee.

Pat Grassley, a state representative in Iowa and the senator’s grandson, collected $55,500 in federal payments since 2005. Most of those were relatively small commodity payments from $700 to $2,000 a year — with the exception of 2020, when he received $20,000.

The database compiles data collected from federal reporting and Freedom of Information Act requests.




We are giving away money to grow corn to destroy our fuel,


“Based on what we do know, we can still see the most successful farm businesses are still collecting the lion’s share of subsidies … while the vast majority of farmers are getting little or nothing,” said Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs at the Environmental Working Group, an independent nonprofit that conducts extensive research.

The biggest of those were corn subsidies.

[David]

NAFTA
"That big sucking sound" Ross Perot.
Boy was he right. RR

I think you are correct. Certainly NAFTA was not in Canada's interests. There was already a US-Canada free trade agreement in effect. NAFTA shifted manufacturing to Mexico from both the US and Canada.

There are at least two arguments in favor of NAFTA:

(1) NAFTA that it protected US companies from China. Sure the jobs went to Mexico, but at least the US owned company was not wiped out by Chinese competition

(2) Although the final assembly of a lot of products shifted to Mexico, the components, stampings, molded parts, castings, etc were still sourced in the US. So NAFTA 'saved' these jobs. My own experience is that this was initially correct and my employers assembled primarily US sourced parts in Mexico. Perhaps it was the global nature of my last employer, when I retired, parts were coming into the Mexican facilities from every continent except Africa.

I point out these arguments, but do not buy into them. The premise behind both (1) and (2) being beneficial is an open trade policy with China.

I think there are two lessons about trade, one from the 1930's and one from now. The "beggar thy neighbor" policies of the 1930s did not create wealth. Now, we find that open borders with 3rd world countries shifts manufacturing overseas.

This poor thread, the original topic, a high speed run with an electric powered boat, is long forgotten.

[CUDA]

Dave is it true, that they quit teaching French in Toronto schools

Now Cantonese and Korean ?

Being from Niagara Falls, we see bus after bus full of Asians, going back to the 60's,

From what I hear, close to 40% of Toronto's population is of Asian descent,

Quick, do they like Hockey ?

[David]

Something like 40% of Toronto are people who were born in another country, but they are from everywhere. If nothing else, it makes for a great selection of restaurants.

the schools still teach French