/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>58520524
My state has higher registration too for hybrids and evs (I have a plug in hybrid)

It's kinda gay but I barely fill up gas anymore

Also semis and the weather fuck the roads up 100x more than if everyone drove an EV sedan

>climate chang cultist
>2024
the 1960s called, they want their soviet propaganda back

yeah we don't care about that
please fuck off back to /n/ with your crap

>>58520524
when will all of us learn that everybody should just pay a 10% consumer tax which would pay for everything instead of nickle and diming income five times and then still don't get shit done. democracy doesn't work financially speaking.

>>58520597
this is only going to happen after a bloody revolution and the murdering of every form of socialist on this planet

I want to say at this point that EVs are a non starter and a meme. Hybrids are superior. With an EV, your energy is still being generated, but you now have a middleman generating it. Then it's transported and stored inefficiently in a very expensive and heavy battery. The total cost to produce and energize ironically becomes far higher than a normal gas vehicle.

Enter the hybrid, which simultaneously creates its own energy while using cheap gas, with a reasonable battery and higher reliability than gas or electric vehicles. Toyota literally solved the car problem back with the Prius and we never leaned into it hard enough.

>>58520645
>Hybrids
does anybody remember "LNG" hybrids. No, for a reason.
Oil refined to gasoline has an unbeatable calorific value. Its irrational to put two engines in a car, where one is just inferior to the other

>>58520524
How about dump the tax altogether? Oh right, scratch a climate cultist and a tankie bleeds.

>>58520524
California actually has the surplus to pay for this though. Other states like Texas will need to add something

>>58520651

Nah. As I just said, the Prius solved everything. It's been done. It's incredibly reliable and efficient. There should be a whole line: compact, sedan, SUV/wagon, based off of its model and that literally covers everything we need, but people are too stupid to understand what a sweet spot is.

>>58520667
>marketing
nigger, there is no rationality to buy anything else but a gas powered car. The only rational reason to not only focus on gasoline powered cars is ideology and the socialization of capital risk, socialism, where a bunch of communists subsidize valueless crap to generate private profits for scammers

>>58520674

Marketing? I owned one for 20 years and 300k miles. Never a hitch. 50 mpg, plenty of acceleration, cargo space.

>>58520580
take the car pill little biker boy

>>58520682

>>58520687
>not using an airplane
just fuck off

>>58520524
>be glowies
>tax sales
>tax income
>tax lottery winners
>tax landowners
>tax people who are literally dead

>oy vey how are we going to pay for these roads, we must impose more taxes

>>58520878

They already have road/gas taxes as well as tollways lmao

>>58520889
Maybe if they didn't spend so much tax revenue on subsidizing shitskins with gibs they could pay for important things like roads lmao

>>58520918
Taxes arent spend. Taxes are only used to pay public debt. Everything today that involves the "government" is paid for by the assumed future productivity of somebody from the future, socialism

>>58520939
Uh huh and how much is that public debt shrinking? Oh wait...

>>58520944
yes, socialism is a pyramid scheme violating the second law of thermodynamics and is therefore deterministically going to collapse

>>58520524
are cars the biggest scam ever?
>forced to buy car to use in car based society
>forced to pay insurance
>forced to pay for fuel which is heavily taxed for road maintenance and climate now
>forced to pay for repairs
how is an industry that provides a product forced local governments to pay for the upkeep required to use their product? ie roads.
big auto is known for buying public transport in the past and shutting it down
we are getting fucked

>>58520977

Gtfo trainfag. Don't blame cars for government corruption. They are a marvelous invention and purveyor of agency/freedom to the common man.

>>58520977
big auto has been making cars for over 100 years now and still they cant make anything that lasts or easy to fix.
Im aware that its on purpose

>>58520977
its not about "cars" its about the most individually energy efficient method to get from A to B. But a socialist is never going to understand that, as they are not humans

>>58520983
bro, I own 1 car, 1 van, 7 motor bikes.
I fix and restore them. They havent made anything worth keeping like that since the 80s
I am all for keeping cars and that way of life but we are getting fucked by big auto.
it needs to be everything, Cars, trains, planes, etc

>>58521006
ok smooth brain, if you are able to even recognize numbers can you crunch them and tell me how a train is more uneconomical and energy inefficient compared to a car.

>>58521034
As an individually effective mean to get from variable point A to variable point B its pointless, or how are you going to rail everything to my doorstep? Lemmeguess with socializing risk of it being a total loss on everyone else

>>58521043
use those 2 flabs of meat under neath you to move your useless fat body