I sincerely do not get it ..we slather the wealthy with more and more swag ..what are they doing for US ??? Elon could be building houses. He could be helping with clean water..he could be building schools and hospitals in rural areas .. I have no desire to go to Mars ..or have a driverless car.
No Elon could be STRIPPED of his Ponzi scheme. Ppl he buys stocks in his own companies to inflate and then sells at high and drives down price only to do it again. This is why the stock market is so hi. The wealthy r driving up stocks and transferring ever more wealth to themselves
Conservative? Here I was thinking that the Trump/Musk government was all about fascism, hate, division and, most of all, absolute corruption and a transition to totalitarianism for the purpose of personally controlling all resources and people on earth.
Another thing we need is good public transit, but Musk hates trains because viable transit competes with his car company, and unlike his vehicles, electric trains are meaningfully better than ICE's for the environment.
Sadly, the auto makers here hate trains. That is why we don't have them now and we never will as long as the automotive industry calls the shots.
This will go down as the history of how capitalism killed the world.
Unbridled anything without regulations is not good .
Musk hates trains but wrote the white paper for the Hyperloop… ok 👍
The Hyperloop isn't a train, it's an infeasible concept Musk supported to shut down California's HSR. He wrote it *because* he hates trains. www.aol.com/news/elon-mu...
Hyperloop was hype to stall High-Speed Rail and did for at least a decade!
Electric vehicles are meaningfully better than ICE's for the environment, and work in more rural areas where trains will never be practical. Both are appropriate technologies. I don't think Musk is too concerned with the current 300 million cars in the US being replaced by rail anytime soon.
They're *marginally* better, they're still cars. Half the carbon emissions of a vehicle come just from production. They're heavier and cause more road wear (road maintenance has emissions), they still have tires (tire pollution is horrendous). 80% of the US lives in metro areas, not rural.
The "weight" argument is a red herring, when you compare similar vehicles there is often no difference at all. Tesla Model 3 weighs the same as BMW 3 series for example, and the vast majority of road wear is from construction vehicles, garbage trucks, buses, etc, because the weight is far greater.
No, but even so you miss the point. Why are you focusing on a marginal improvement because it's better for 20% of the population rather than a massive improvement that's also more economically, socially, and physically inclusive like trains, trams, buses, bike lanes, and walkable infrastructure?
With 300 mil vehicles in the US it's factually better for far more than 20%. The simple fact is that cars exist in large numbers and cause pollution both globally and locally, EV's will help mitigate that to a large degree. Rail is a governmental issue solved by legislation not individuals.
TL:DR there are dozens of problems caused or exacerbated by cars, and EVs only fix the problem of tailpipe emissions. That's not nearly good enough to justify the insane cost to both the individual and the government when a far superior option exists if you just have the will to pursue it.
You're also forgetting that not everyone can afford a $30k+ EV. Trains don't just solve the pollution of cars, they reduce the cost burden of travel on society, especially the working class. Furthermore, removing cars makes cities much safer, quieter, and more accessible.
Roads are contracted and built by governments. It is far better for the 80% living in metro areas to have options that aren't cars, and that's what we should focus on. Road travel is like, 8% of overall emissions. EVs only eliminate maybe a quarter, trains eliminate almost all of it.
You've lost the plot. As I said, that is up to government, not individuals. Your initial, and false, claim was that Elon hates rail, as if it's up to him to develop it. It's not and never will be, it's up to governments and legislation. In the meantime replacing ICE with EV is a good thing.
EVs are a capitalist's fake solution to a problem caused by capitalism. Cars aren't dominant due to superiority, but because auto makers lobbied governments to destroy our cities for their private profits. Individualism isn't a solution to a societal problem. Your "point" is moot.
My point is accurate and on topic, unlike yourself. We live in a capitalist country, and in case you forgot cars replaced horses for individual transportation because they were a better solution. EV's are a better solution than ICE, even if you can't see that. Cars aren't going away in the US.
Once again, governments fund roads. Government's subsidize EVs. Half the emissions are just from production. Producing 300 million new cars isn't environmentally friendly. Building out rail and removing 70-80% of cars is, and it's economically better for the working class and small businesses.
Cars exist, they will continue to exist, the US is a car culture, you are not going to change that significantly and you are deluding yourself if you think otherwise.
It's literally not false, I even gave you a source. Elon Musk, as an individual, literally bought the government. He can manipulate the stock market with a tweet. You think he has no say in it when he's proposing alternate government projects just so he can literally shut down rail projects?
There are no rail projects which threaten automobiles in the US, you're living in a fantasy world if you think otherwise.
So your argument is that a 20% improvement that benefits most people is not worth it because maybe someday humans should like, totally change how they build physical manifestations of society? You’re not going to change how cities and suburbs work, my dude. Focus on real things that can be done.
The Netherlands has reclaimed their cities from cars. We bulldozed our cities for cars. It absolutely can be done. It just takes people to make decisions instead of auto makers and oil companies. 20% of people isn't most. 40K deaths on US roads every year, trains and bikes can fix that.
Mars colonisation is Musk/MAGA BS, he knows it’s impossible at this point in human technology. It’s a pipe dream he sells/flogs to MAGA illiterates who eat it up like the “dimestore” comics they’re able to understand from the pictures. *apologies if preaching to the converted*
Elon is a narcissistic sociopath like tRump, just smarter and more dangerous. He only cares about getting richer. i can't empathize either, but that is who he is... 🤷♂️