Car companies have spent billions on propaganda (car ads) that have used emotional transfer and repetition to create a mental soft spot in the consumer. Now that American cities look like Germany after the war and most people are living paycheck to paycheck in a dangerously polluted world, questions about how we “naturally feel” about these gadgets are not only normal, but healthy. We should have eliminated the vase majority of cars during the 80s.

On street parking isn’t really free if you are a resident. Why not? It’s a benefit of your property taxes (paid through rent or directly), as well as possibly a local vehicle tax or fee.

I see you’re better at talking than at actually saying things.

Then how do those residents who don’t own cars, or who pay for off street parking, apply for a refund of the relevant portion of their taxes?

Your comprehension problem is not my responsibility. Now go look up Ford’s 1950s safety programs, or tempered glass in the 1930s… on and on it goes. Or maybe you should figure out where the government safety regulations were copied from in the 1960s… hint. Society of Automotive Engineers.

You’ll learn more that way. If I just tell you, you’ll remain in your state of denial.

Ford will wait until it has no options left at all and then go bust.

This is just the way businesses work. The “oil companies” are incapable of adjusting to a post-oil world, because of their executives’ mentality — they have enough money to transition, but they will refuse to do it.

From parasitic drain. Something the BMS should have cut off well above the critical charge level. Self discharge to a bricked state on quality LiIon cells is years.