Ford eating its own to feed EVs

John Larkin is easily amused.

Short flights do seem to be whats on offer. Passengers are perfectly practical.

Gas doesn't cost $70k/gal

What, are you a sexist? Sure sounds like it.

That has been done, or "proved" to the extent that a scientific hypothesis can be said to be proven . The fact that you can't understand the evidence is your problem - not ours. A gibbering idiot who can't find his bottom with both hands isn't easy to educate, and it's sufficient to point out that he is an idiot, and tell him to go away.

We know it is. You are too stupid to have got the message,

Not as severe as the backlash to the degradation of the environment which we are already experiencing which is getting progressively worse.

She's more likely to revolt against the social system that is only paying her $20/hr.

The USA goes in for remarkably high levels of economic inequality. Other advanced industrial countries don't. People like Bernie Sanders have pointed out that the US would work rather better if it adjusted it's social arrangements to look more like those in Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands.

"Practical?" They are NECESSARY for commercial flight!

WOW! Let's see, how far will 160nmi will get you out of NY? OOPS! Just to NJ!! Might as well drive!!!

I forgot to mention that commercial flights require 30 min of fuel (OOPS, battery capacity) to fly to an alternate airport, 45 min in IFR weather (Bozo doesn't know anything about this as the closest he has gotten to a pilot is a gas water heater!). This would cut the range AT LEAST in half!

Not really - other forms of freight can be used to generate revenue.

Or take the train, at least when the US graduates to high-speed trains.

Gnatguy hasn't heard about freight,

Driving over water doesn't work all that well.

Back when I read Aviation week regularly they didn't make any fuss about it, but it is a cliche of commercial aviation, and I have known about it since I was a kid growing up in Tasmania and getting flown over to the mainland from time. I'm sure Frisia Luftverkehr knows about it too. We went there with our car and took the ferry back in the 1990's. It wasn't all that quick.

Door-to-door, driving is faster. And no waiting in car rental lines.

They might as well when the useable range is 80 mi or less. Or ride a bike - it would probably be faster considering the time required to get to and from the train station plus arriving early. Of course, it could be an electric bike!

OF COURSE they know about it, but talking about it doesn't help their cause of raising funds. They are hoping investors don't know about it. But the regulations are REAL and pilots plan fuel loads to comply with it. This makes that plane virtually unusable.

The fund raisers would have to be as stupid as you are to think that. It's not impossible, but it is very unlikely. Gibbering idiots don't do well as fund raisers. Donald Trump did raise a lot of money, until he demonstrated his capacity to lose it rapidly.

Save even more energy by never going to NJ.

(Spoken as someone who spent far too much time in Freehold.)

They'd have to be remarkably stupid to listen to you.

Trump's failure to do anything effective to slow down the Covid-19 epidemic in the US didn't help the economy. The current world -wide inflation is a direct response to Trumps' buddy Putin deciding to try and invade the Ukraine and messing up international oil and gas prices in the process.

A bit more investment in renewable energy sources under Trump would have made that much less of problem. Blaming Biden for it is what the Republican clown car is stuck with doing, but nobody sane - and you aren't remotely sane - takes them seriously.

Coal-fired power plants are big, and take a long time to build. Both China and India still have some in the pipeline. Solar cell production lines are even bigger, and take even longer to ramp up. China has invested hugely in making solar cells in remarkably high volume, but still can't yet make enough of them to keep head of the rising demand for electric power. Try to think a little more about where the word is going, rather concentrating on what it was like back when your brain still sort of worked.

The US developed one Covid vaccine - Moderna's. The Astra-Zenecca vaccine (also known at the Oxford vaccine) was developed in the UK and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was developed in Germany. Trump's "leadership" didn't have anything to do with any of them. The '"record time" had a lot to do with the work that had already been put in on trying to get a vaccine against against the SARS virus a few years earlier.

Cite? Since Trump didn't actually accomplish anything in that area, it's hard to imagine what you are misunderstanding here.

Because renewable generation gives you cheaper electricity than any other source. Trump might have been there when this advantage was being exploited, but he was too busy touting for votes in coal-mining communities to draw anybody's attention to the fact (which does seem to have escaped Gnatguy's notice).

Cite??? That's COMMON KNOWLEDGE, FOOL! If you don't know it - GOOGLE IT!

You blame Trump for NOT investing in renewables, then, when you see how WRONG you are on that, you CHANGE the story to it wasn't BECAUSE of Trump. Bozo, you lose ALL CREDIBILITY with this kind of sleezy dodging. Recommendation: that you actually RESEARCH your screwball claims BEFORE making them!!!

It's as claim frequently made by Trump. He is a serial liar as even you should be well aware. Nobody sane takes him seriously.

Trump didn't invest in renewable energy sources. He doesn't seem to have tried to stop people investing in them either, but that's the same story as his wall on the Mexican border - he was pretty much ineffective.

Oh, I do. There's nothing screwball about my claims. What's screwball is your devotion to propopagating fatuous nonsense.

Hardly, Bozo, since they increased TWENTY PERCENT during his administration. Name ONE executive order preventing them, if YOU CAN!

No, you DON'T Bozo - you NEVER back up your claims, even after REPEATED REQUESTS!!! BTW, LEARN TO SPELL!!!!!