But there are two opposing parties, one is Donald Trump citizen of the USA. The other is President Trump, president of USA.
And the 2 barely know each other, fuck they barely know themselves from what they did a week ago.

So the joke is on the Democrats, Trump will get away with it again. Or maybe not, 1 out of 10 of his corrupt shenanigans are stopped, maybe this is one, but that’s OK, he will just move on to something else, while crying about how victimized he is whenever he is stopped in his corruption.

USA is wonderful country, full of entertainment, but personally I’m beginning to find the Trump show a bit boring and unrealistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

Israel and USA are both flawed democracies placed at 30 and 34.

But they are still democracies.

It’s a dysfunctional democracy. So it’s absolutely not a good democracy.

But it’s OK because Israel is a democracy. /s

It’s funny how rare this argument has become, a few years ago politicians used it all the time, as if it was some kind of free pass to genocide, war crimes and discrimination.

Just remember that “But it’s a democracy”, is not an argument for anything. USA is also a democracy, but that does not in any way justify their attacks on Iran either, or their blockade of Cuba, or all the dozens of other things they are doing that are against international law.

LOL 😋 I live in Denmark a country that is mostly flat, our highest “mountain” is a hill you can “climb” in half an hour.
And I live in the flattest part of the country. I just recently figured out that to brake without the regenerative braking, I have to put the car in Neutral. Regenerative breaking does not have a setting to disable it.

I think the blinker stalk may have become law here in EU, the directive for the door handles are AFAIK passed, but has a grace period, so China came first with making the door handles illegal, passing the law later, but enforcing it sooner. Kudos to China on that one.

I think in USA the department to make these regulations was closed by Elon Musk, in a very legal and very beautiful cooperation between government and private efficiency, as Trump would probably put it. 🤡

I don’t see anything worrisome, because of problems with the ICCU they have the extended the warranty, and I haven’t heard of problems with neither Hyundai or KIA here in Denmark. A decade ago, it was a gamble to buy a used KIA because they were rust buckets, but they are way better protected now.

Why can’t you trust Hyundai and Kia warranty?

And after May regret, there will be an even worse June regret.

It’s amazing I will make billions!
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Why aren’t you cheering?

That’s a very good warranty, I think most companies have 4 years here, but BYD is new to their export markets, and they need to give people confidence to capture market share.
KIA and MG offer 7 year warranty here. KIA had serious quality problems not so long ago, so I guess they had to up the game. Here BYD offers 6 years, and Hyundai 5.

Ah yes sorry, let me correct that: They are corrupt idiots.

The breaks is the same for all EV’s though. So there is no reason for Tesla brakes to rust more than other brands.
Here Tesla recommend service at 4 years, IDK how it is after that first service. But that coincide with the first mandatory safety check. Most brands have biannual intervals, which coincide with the safety checks being biannual after the first one.

I bet most Tesla users have their car serviced before the mandatory safety check, because the car warranty also end after 4 years. So it would be pretty stupid not to.
So my guess is that the Tesla service checks are shit too.

It is also remarkable that Tesla has 2 design features that are about to become illegal, the blinkers on the steering wheel, and the flux door handles because they don’t work for emergencies.

Tesla is simply not designing and building with safety in mind as much as other car makers.

So yes a shitshow indeed.

Except that’s not how wear scales.
Wear is also by weather, and wear from traffic on major roads is mostly from heavy trucks, and the fact that major roads have a lot of heavy truck traffic, also makes the road more expensive to build and maintain.
Yes there is some justice in taxing the gas when all cars are ICE, but there are many other costs from ICE cars than roads, for instance asthma and global warming.

In Europe gas is taxed accordingly, to limit the use of it, and USA has failed to do so for decades. The result is that average European cars in general have almost doubly the mileage of American cars, and now that gas is expensive, instead of the price increasing 50% like in USA, it is “only” increasing 20%, and people feel it less, because we drive more economic cars.

There have been talks in EU that all cars should be equipped with an odometer, and road tax should be based on that.
But that was years ago, and it seems like the idea is dead for now. But I think for heavy trucks they have something like that in some countries.

Thanks. 👍

would be changed to EV drivers who are not currently paying the 18.5 cents per gallon federal gas tax.

That’s bullshit IMO. That’s like punishing people for buying a car that uses renewable energy, over an ICE stinker that ruins the environment both locally and globally.

So they continue more than half a century of bad practices.
My god American law makers are idiots. 😡

Goddam this is bad, it gives me an eerie vibe that this is just the beginning of such consequences globally due to rising fuel costs.

Some of the regions that will do best are probably EU and China, because we have good economies and a high degree of renewable energy.
Other regions will feel it both faster an harder. Because they are more dependent and/or can’t as easily afford higher prices.
USA will probably be worse off than EU and China, because USA has higher dependency on oil.

Also USA should be sanctioned like they sanction Cuba. USA deserves it a 100 times more than Cuba does.

DON’T BUY AMERICAN!!

I don’t see what that answer could be even hypothetically and if Trump wasn’t a moron.
USA is not the world leader in production anymore, that ship has sailed. Now China is the leader in production, and USA is mostly a service based economy.
So cars isn’t even the major problem, technology is.
Before the Japanese entered the market, and put a serious dent in US car manufacturing, American automakers were the biggest in the world, now the biggest American car manufacturer is GM at no. 5 internationally down from no. 4 in 2024.
Most likely USA will decline further because of the Chinese makers, that have not entered top 5 on production yet, but almost definitely will very soon.

USA is still significant with Ford following directly after GM. But the current home market GM and Ford are operating in, could make it even harder for them to compete internationally, as USA is somewhat held out of international trade by the Trump Tariffs, and those tariffs make production in USA more expensive.

So international competition by GM and Ford will be from factories outside of USA. But still disadvantaged because they can’t make international deals to cover all their factories.

So is the $ 130 Fee for EV extra? Is it cheaper or more expensive than ICE?

IDK what the fee is for ICE cars, but here (Denmark) all cars have a yearly fee, but EV is generally cheaper, because the fee is based on fuel economy, and the fuel economy of an EV is way better than ICE.

These cars are relatively new, for some countries the first mandatory safety check is at 2 years for others it’s at 4 years. so these checks are while most cars are still under warranty. By far the most people have them checked at the regular service intervals.

There is also no reason to expect either Tesla owners or other EV owners should be worse at having their cars maintained than other car owners.
And while Tesla has a failure rate of almost 50% in the countries that have the first mandatory check at 4 years, other electric cars are way way better, and top of class. Here in Denmark the VW ID.4 which is currently the top selling EV, has a failure rate at first mandatory safety check of only 2%.

This is not about EV cars in general, but Tesla alone that has a very bad problem with their quality and safety standards.

Oil prices were up more than 1% for a short time overnight

Sigh