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Here's the deal on this. I'm perfectly fine with petroleum being used to make durable plastic goods. The very truck you now are spending a great deal of time and energy here today on multiple threads publicly talking yourself out of (because your specific trim level is going to cost you more...

$24,999.99 for the 150 mile version, $27,999.99 for the 240 mile one.

I have to challenge your mention of the alleged veracity of the Landman video clip. A counterargument to that, courtesy of the very entertaining and informative Rollie Williams, is linked below. Draw your own conclusions . . .

Yes. Thank you. Some of my messages on this thread and another like it were deleted by the Slate Forums moderating staff yesterday, as were some of the contrarian messages I was challenging and debating. Some of the posts I made at the beginning of my discussion with this contrarian forum member...

All that would be fine and well if fossil fuels themselves weren't so heavily subsidized . . . and that this legislation also didn't go after the domestic manufacturing of solar, batteries and the like with such a vengeance. It's all very stupid and short-sighted at this point. I don't have an...

There was even an interim technology, called cold cathode florescent (CCFL.) These had similar efficiency to LED but were cheaper, maybe around $20 each when LEDs were still fetching $30 or $40. Because they put off less heat, they could make the bulb out of clear plastic instead of glass (less...

The topic of this particular thread refers to federal legislation that's attempting to make these cheap electric trucks more expensive.

Yes. Mercury inside the bulb. Note that long tube florescents have had the same issues since the 1950s or thereabouts.

But the point has been made elsewhere on this forum that the fossil fuel industry is allotted approximately 760 billion dollars annually in direct and indirect subsidies from the federal government . . . https://www.fractracker.org/2025/03/fossil-fuel-subsidies-free-market-myth/ Please debunk...

Could you be more specific? I opened your USEIA PDF once to glance it quickly. There is a section in there on fossil fuel subsidies (yes, they're real,) but I didn't really read through it carefully. When I went back to take another look, the Slate Forums administrators wouldn't let me open it...

Great! Glad you agree. The United States should not be "picking winners and losers" when it comes to things like this. So I'm sure you're as outraged as I am that the fossil fuel industry is extracting as much as 760 billion dollars annually from the American tax payer in direct and indirect...

Probably not a fossil fuel industry troll, but certainly unaware that it's possible to get beyond fossil fuels to the degree that he currently envisions. The argument presented was not so much the viability of oil vs. electricity to get from point A to point B, but the building of the...

Actually, such a thing has existed for years in the DIY world. One of the most common subject for gas-to-electric conversion is vintage Chevy S10 pickups. I was fortunate enough to be involved in an electric vehicle club a decade ago when one of the members was able to locate a late '90s vintage...

And something like 94% of all new electrical generation installed in the US in 2024 was from renewable sources. But, as you'll almost certainly point out, the whole thing is a ruse because fossil fuels were involved in the manufacturing and deployment of said infrastructure, life cycle...

Creative people can sometimes be a pain to be around. I've also known a few who were "a nice couple of fellas."

Do you know that Utah is the only US state where it's legal to install so-called "balcony" solar? The JerryRigEverything channel on YouTube just put this one up today . . .

Not true. It's still more than it should be - and I'm afraid it's not going to get better in the next few years (especially here in uh-MERK-uh) - but to say the entire infrastructure will always be or currently is 100% supported by fossil fuel is truly defeatist. Interestingly, there's a lot of...

All I've ever bought have been used cars, for the past 50 years. Because a lot of new car buyers actually lease instead of buy outright these days, I keep an eye 2 to 3 years in the past to remember what's potentially interesting. Leased vehicles seem to get watched carefully by dealerships...

OK, Rich Benoit (aka: Rich Rebuilds) is on the job! For those who don't know, Rich is the guy who took Tesla to task for insisting independent repair shops be able to access Tesla service manuals and parts. There's one Youtube video from Rich that shows how to repair a common Tesla battery pack...

That's a refundable $50 "yeah, I'm kinda interested" deposit. You really don't start owning this thing until you make a real down payment (a couple thousand, maybe) and start signing legal documents. That might not start happening for most of us until sometime late next year (2026.) I've been...