I linked to the timestamp, it’s a long ass video. The front part of the video is great, total normal TC content. Post video though, he gets into his personal politics somewhat, and here I’m thinking “oh, secret Marxist reveal?”, but then he gets into partisan politics and it’s a full-blown crash out about defiling the constitution and how Dems are always trying to make things better, but republicans show up to undo it all. He reads from the declaration of independence, waxes on about the constitution, the whole nine-yards.
It’s really great. Lots of respect. He puts it all out there. If he’s interested, I think Cowbee has a reading list he might be interested in.
They aren’t a stop gap at all. They contribute to climate change more than the obvious, scientifically-supported real solutions. And the actual minuscule difference they make means that presenting it as a meaningful contribution to fighting climate change is actively harmful. It distracts from the harder things that must be done, which is why it’s pushed so hard by Democrats, for example. Denying that we are past a point of no return and that the goal is to minimize devastation is climate denialism. There is no “good enough”.
They are pushed hard because every person buying two tons of metal which sits inertly 5/6th of the time presents bigger opportunity to exploit workers on the way from the mines than dozen ton bus carrying 20 people half the time. It’s doesn’t structurally matter whether they are ev or not, crisis of overproduction comes for all
The real porky solution to overproduction is nuking bavaria, frankfurt and guandong or inducing demand in africa and india, you can see where american and chinese porkies are leaning
(Not that they understand why they are leaning that way, they are thinking of car loans and 50000 minihitlers car salesman, and oil lobby and ethanol lobby and whatever else, but those represent in aggregate that simple fact)
(Now that i think about it, selling 5t apc to consumers also works for that, call it the hummer option)