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[–] Contestant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of the trims listed here are 5800 lbs: https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/2023/models/f150-limited/

If you look at the f250, some are over 7500lbs: https://www.ford.com/trucks/super-duty/models/f250-xlt/

[–] Contestant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't even convince my "liberal" friends and family to buy an electric car (That I know they can afford), because they are afraid of the slight inconvenience of charging. He is right, the West is unwilling to accept a lower standard of living to address oil usage.

[–] Contestant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know I'm generalizing a large group by saying this, but the type of farmers protesting are usually generally against government regulations. I believe in this case, they are protesting restrictions on pollution and nitrogen use, not asking for regulations on distribution.

[–] Contestant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As a model 3 owner of 5 years, your math is just wrong and charging is a minor inconvenience if you have a level 2 charger at home or work. I went the first 3 years with no home charging.

[–] Contestant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you took the cost of gas engine and had a bigger battery instead, you could make it home without burning gas. How often do you travel more than 250 miles round trip? For me, that's only once or twice a year.

[–] Contestant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

These farmers are idiots and are protesting the government instead of the corporations paying them low prices and making massive profits

[–] Contestant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

This is the real disconnect. As long as executives' pay are related to profits or stock prices, they will never make safety the #1 priority.

[–] Contestant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In many other countries, they wouldn't even report these numbers.

[–] Contestant@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (75 children)

All the complexity of a gas engine, plus the cost of a battery. Just so you can use the range once or twice a year? What happens when you don't use the gas engine for months and then go to start it with gelled gas? You're trying to solve a problem that the article shows doesn't exist for 99%

[–] Contestant@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that point is?

[–] Contestant@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He did from the perspective of the Orcs

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