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But the company in the article isn't filling the gap. Farm owners want the technology. They don't want to be held hostage over the technology when it needs maintenance, repair, or adaptation after the initial sale.

How are you in any way qualified to know that what you said is correct, besides that being a wild guess?

That's a lot of words to cover for being intentionally obtuse.

The ICE agent was 100% in the wrong, completely, totally unjustified in murdering Renee Good.

Nothing you wrote changes that.


I'm not arguing the necessity of him having to shoot, but there is absolutely enough reasonable fear for it to be legally justified.

Quibi doesn't seem like a good example. It wasn't marketed as the next big thing. It was a trial balloon that popped.

You voted against free speech. The sooner you can admit to that the better.

Trump has been very clearly against free speech well before 2015. He's been anti-American and anti-constituion well before he came down that escalator.

It doesn't make me feel better that you're still pretending otherwise.


Please give examples to your accusations if you want to be taken seriously.

Our current President disagrees and has pardoned political violence. Take it up with him.


Those contracts are direct subsidies. They would not exist in the private market. Government spending subsidizes whatever it spends on.


> Those contracts are direct subsidies.

They are not. You are imputing your own meanings into the word "subsidy". If you buy a Coke from a Coke machine, you are not "subsidizing" the machine's vendor.



Who is this a problem for?


People taking action against climate change and CO2 emissions. Policymakers, etc. You wouldn't want to subsidize PHEVs in any fashion if they weren't contributing to the targeted outcome of reduced CO2 emissions or fossil fuel consumption.


PHEVs when bought by informed consumers making a financial decision still pencil out just fine here.

It’s the silly regulatory games played by manufacturers and regulators that cause stuff like a hybrid cayenne or 6000lb BMW M5 Touring to exist when neither the buyers or manufacturers want them to exist to begin with.

These things are not remotely in the same actual category even though on paper they might be. They exist for entirely different reasons, one is market based and one is regulatory workarounds and gamesmanship.


I want a PHEV Cayenne. If budget wasn't a concern, that'd actually be my first choice for replacing my ICE SUV. The convenience and flexibility of a PHEV far outweighs any cost savings from fuel economy improvements for me. A Porsche was never about financial sensibility anyway.


Who are you granting grace to? Who are you denying it to?

We know the answers to these questions for Norris.


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