It is indeed an exchange of ideas. Its just that super annoying and demonstrably dumb ones as espoused by Cadogen have been aired and dismissed repeatedly. His bogan dog whistling schtick is well known and routinely disregarded as the distraction at best that it is.Okay
I'm sorry
I will refrain from posting stuff .
that i know will not cause an exchange of ideas .........as the ideas seem
Angry today
3 minutes in, not a fucking fact yet. I'll persist, because you seem like a nice reasonable guy with a genuine interest and I'm keen to see what you actually see in his arguments, every one of which I've forced myself to watch in the past to call out his bullshit has been, well, bullshit.Okay
I'm sorry
I will refrain from posting stuff .
that i know will not cause an exchange of ideas .........as the ideas seem
Angry today
Actually saw an interesting argument on Youtube channel Hoovie's Garage (worth a watch if you like seeing a grown man spend lots and lots of perfectly useful money on complete basket cases). Mr Hoovie comes to the conclusion that with the increasing complexity and disposability of ICE vehicles EVs will ultimately win out because they're so much simpler mechanically and easier to work on (second point backed up by a mechanic in said video).This is simply a convenience solution, little more.
Is this all we want from EVs, more convenience?
I used to enjoy some of his written articles back in the day but yeah he's gone for the ultra opinionated dickhead route now. Yet to actually finish one of his videos.Nope, that guy is a stupid cockhead, not an opinion, i could support it with facts but I can't bear to watch his clickbait rubbish. Just the first 30 seconds made me want to vomit. Smug fuckwit is the Trump of the automotive world, how anyone could bear 15 minutes of that is beyond me.
As painful as it was, I managed to watch that one.Mr Hoovie comes to the conclusion that with the increasing complexity and disposability of ICE vehicles EVs will ultimately win out because they're so much simpler mechanically and easier to work on (second point backed up by a mechanic in said video).
I used to enjoy some of his written articles back in the day but yeah he's gone for the ultra opinionated dickhead route now. Yet to actually finish one of his videos.
I gave up when he said Hyundais / Kias were good now which doesn't support my confirmation bias.My favourite thing about Cadogan's videos is I dont watch them.
Annoyingly i agree with him on hyundai/kia products, they are actually good things so far as reliable transport related consumer products go...I gave up when he said Hyundais / Kias were good now which doesn't support my confirmation bias.
(still ignoring the repressed memory of driving a Cerato recently and not finding a single thing to complain about)
This is a big problem. A tail pipe emissions tax could bring more parity to the cost of EV vs ICE but nobody will go there.Im not sure the government ( any colour or discipline ) has the political balls to start this process - as it will be out the the election cycle - i am hoping this may change .
The really infuriating thing is 100 years ago when we didn't even know to spell environment we were building more climate appropriate dwellings than we are now. Take a look at any ye olde rural house - fuckers are cocooned by enormous verandahs and have outer walls as thick as a modern house's stairwell. But now? Nah gimmie a McMansion with a side order of huge garage and go easy on the overhangs and garden thanks.Hmm, don't start me on Australian building practices ....
The 2 billion dollars on the homestart program has increased our climate emergency ... due to short sighted ness - we have an extreme environment here - yet persist in building houses with minimal efficiency ...
Yep, make sure that the house is as close as possible to the boundary so every window gets the best possible view of an eight foot colour bond fence.Nah gimmie a McMansion with a side order of huge garage and go easy on the overhangs and garden thanks.
I had the chance to attend a webinar on housing efficiency through work and was really surprised to find that the biggest bang for buck item was sealing/controlling the building envelope for our climate in Canberra.And don't forget the extra helping of air conditioning reliance
Goes without saying that fight was the door snake's fault..yes , my ye olde house was built in about 1930 ...its weatherboard , tin roof , verandaed . We have insulated the walls and ceiling , but its is a very comfortable house in both Summer and Winter .
We had solar on a house in Sydney - was great - I am still considering ( our power usage is low )
If i was to invest in upgrading something - Doubled glazed windows and better draught exclusions - although one of the dogs had a titanic fight with a 'door snake ' ....
Just checked and in 5 years we've stopped 32691kg of CO2 going into the atmopshere with our 4.68kW system. We used less than half of the power oursleves. Would've been nice to put some of that into a car instead of burning petrol.We had solar on a house in Sydney - was great - I am still considering ( our power usage is low )