I totally agree with your take other than that their cars are anything special at this point - what features are unmatched by competitors? Yes they were innovative at the time but they currently don't lead in efficiency, range, charging, ride quality, interior quality, and FSD was/is an absolute grift.
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That's fair, I was more referring to the casual internet use so many folks enjoy (YouTube, maps, search for literally everything, all the apps and updates, etc). Denying them revenue through ad blockers and avoiding their direct services gets you pretty close though.
How many times did you ping Google servers today? AI bullshit aside, this is still on us for using all of their services. Yes they need to find a way to deliver their services sustainably but it's our job to regulate them and force the issue and not just hope corpos do the right thing (they won't).
Plus there's always the backup plan, which is using a sharpie to draw a new hurricane trajectory on a poster.
Gas is not a simple global market like oil is and there isn't a single methane price everyone pays. That would require significantly more LNG terminals around the world and policy changes. This is precisely why gas companies want to build more LNG terminals - this would increase volume while raising domestic prices (and likely lowering foreign prices). It's not a simple econ 101 global free market though.
Let's pack it up then, if there's a cooling tower in a picture we can't use it, even if it's actually a picture of a sprawling petrochemical plant with a massive smokestack emitting CO2 that also happens to include the cooling towers that are part of the facility.
Its just not that binary and people change their minds (intentionally and unintentionally). Let's say you meet some people and you're not sure if you'd like to date any of them, but you at least know you'd like to get to know them and hang out more. Then after getting to know them (likely in group settings) you then realize that you'd like to date one of them. Then you get the courage to ask and they're not interested and just wanted to be friends. Sprinkle in some apprehension here and there and then you have the meme. It's not as black and white as immediately categorizing people you meet as "friend" or "carnal" and then sticking with that label forever. None of this is static and we're all just making it up as we go.
Didn't he die just today trying to suck on his own penis? Hard to keep up with the news these days.
That's not how this works and a golf club isn't a court. This means the lawsuit can proceed. If they had already decided to rule in O&G's favor on this, they would have done so by hearing the case and making a ruling in their favor.
It seems like the forces trying to ensure car dependency won that one. I'd have much preferred a history of expensive roads because we'd have more walkable/bikable/transit oriented development this whole time.
The planet is warming though, so the term is not without merit. We have headlines every day about 1.5C of warming. The problem has always been that the earth's systems are too complicated for regular folks and they don't understand that a more energetic system can produce all sorts of anomalies in any given location. There's no magical term that will resonate with denialists anyway so why bother trying?
It's both. Electrified transport and electrified heat are displacing fossil use directly. Global ICE sales peaked in 2017 and appear to be in permanent decline.
What matters is total carbon, and unfortunately 2024 appears to have been another record year. Hopefully 2024 was peak and 2025 is the start of declining carbon. Every other metric is just an interesting part of the overall story.