In remote areas, sudden load from fast chargers can cause a bit of trouble with the rest of the local grid. It may be that those rest stops can't yet support a fast charger without upgrading their transformers.

That's not nearly the problem that people think it is. Industrial and farm operations often use that much.

Upgrading is the problem though. Many of these stations were installed when 50kW was normal. With no other competition nearby there is no incentive to replace everything. It would mean new transformers and potentially even new lines.

They wanted to take them over.

The ME has very low cost to produce, shipping is negligible.

It's not price, it's availability. You construction will slam to a halt. Plumber neighbour is now hiring security dogs for his supply yard as they now have to deal with theft of pvc and PE pipe, in addition to tweakers going after copper.

Pre-existing conditions also continue to frame healthcare as 'insurance' against a bad thing happening to you, when it should just be a regular service like any other.

You don't need 'insurance' in order to get your vehicle serviced, but that is what the US does with healthcare.

The most it will ever cost me to go from “not having a working car” to “having a working car” is the cost of used car that will reliably get me from point A to point B.

I can’t say the same about health care

What Hollywood considers most attractive (blinding white veneers, botox, fillers, blephs, steroid use etc) is not necessarily what the rest of the world finds attractive, and for some audiences can be distracting and immersion breaking.

> what the rest of the world finds attractive

People want to watch local. Local people, places, settings, and situations that have meaning to them. Hollywood could never deliver this.

Content and distribution used to be hard and capital intensive.

Netflix and YouTube solved distribution, but content still took millions to make.

That's changing rapidly now. There's no more need for Hollywood.

The suuply chain for repair parts is still supported by oil (freight, packaging, any plastics).

Better hope your vehicle is never damaged.

Sure, but increasingly less so as electrification takes off. And using less gas means you can redirect that to the other derivative products such as plastic.

> freight

I know the US primarily uses diesel for its trains, but have you ever been outside of the US before?

Freight can also mean shipping, I’m not sure electric ships are a thing yet.

yes. And if you look at costs:

- $0.005 to $0.01 per ton-mile (for ocean ships)

- $0.05 to $0.08 per ton-mile (for diesel trucks)

- $0.015 – $0.025 per ton-mile (for electric trucks)

- $0.007 per ton-mile (for diesel trains)

- $0.002 per ton-mile (for electric trains)

- $0.002 – $0.004 per ton-mile (electric ships, not widely deployed yet due to battery weight)

Expensive to install, less expensive to maintain.

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The point of the system is for wealthier areas to have good schools, and not be forced to contribute their property taxes towards poorer minority areas.