Absolutely it is better than not subsidising EV cars. No doubt. My issue is with the original comment painting this as something “barely any effort” implying that any country could do this. This was a unique situation and I’m glad that Norwegians chose to make themselves feel better about being an educated western petrostate bane on the planet by buying themselves EVs instead of feeding it to a king, ceo, sultan or emir.
Care to point out what hate and misinformation is relevant to this? If other countries didn’t buy their oil, they could not have achieved this. Norway is a small petrostate with a side gig in poaching EU fish. No amount of Irish salmon would have covered the cost of this. If you don’t understand that a country smaller by population than the city of Barcelona exporting the fourth largest amount of natural gas in the world taints this achievement to some degree, you are entitled to your opinion, but it’s not misinformation.
Yes, sorry, I hadn’t thought of apartments. In my defense where I live, having an apartment and having a car rarely overlap, people use public transport.
You don’t need to install an EV outlet to charge at home. EV outlets are convenient but they are just dumb cables. All the interesting technology for charging is in the car itself. You can get plug-in-adapters for charging a car that go into an ordinary socket and they work just as well as the wall mounted direct type.
Am I missing something? While dedicated, wall-mount-style chargers are convenient, car “chargers” are literally just a power adapter. The ones that plug into a socket (outlet?) are functionally the same. They just supply electricity, all the interestingly technology is in the car itself.
Someone mentioned renting apartments which is fair enough, I live in a country where of you’re in an apartment you use public transport so it didn’t factor.
Why are you telling me about America?
Who can’t charge at home? Who is getting an EV before electricity in their house?
To be absolutely clear, Norway has achieved this by selling oil to other countries. This wasn’t a heroic sacrifice or noble vanguard effort.
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Didn’t tell on yourself until the second sentence this time, well done
His point is that they did it already. Like 5 years ago?
So your assertion is that we need to seriously consider that a ‘wild’ coronavirus with the same signature as Covid-19 evolved somewhere in China, spread to Italy and elsewhere in Europe and probably dozens of other untested places in the summer of 2019, and - coincidentally - Covid-19 itself mutated in bushmeat or was engineered in Wuhan in an unrelated zoonotic transmission or, uh, “biocrime”?
Which of us is stretching probabilities to breaking point for political purposes, ‘HK’?
I don’t know. But I don’t see how that’s relevant to Wuhan having a lab that studies coronaviruses if the pandemic didn’t start in Wuhan, which even now is still repeated as if it was truth by proper journalists and DW alike.
Covid’s presence in Europe before Wuhan was known all the way back in June 2020: https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/italy-sewage-study-suggests-covid-19-was-there-in-december-2019-idUSKBN23Q1J8/
By November 2020 it was pushed back as far as September 2019: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2020-11-17/COVID-19-was-spreading-in-Italy-by-September-2019-study-indicates-VuSqUttP8s/index.html
Here’s a scientific source:
Overall, the results of this blind retesting of a selected set of samples indicate the presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in some SMILE samples collected in the prepandemic period. The oldest samples found positive for IgM by both laboratories were collected on 10 October 2019 (Lombardy), 11 November 2019 (Lombardy) and 5 February 2020 (Lazio), the latter with neutralizing antibodies. Two additional samples collected on 17 December 2019 (Campania) and 28 January 2020 (Lombardy) tested as IgG positive by VisMederi and positive for IgG S1 and IgG S1+NP by Erasmus. Additional IgM positive cases could have been detected also by Erasmus by lowering the cut-off of the commercial IgM assay. The older among these putative additional IgM positive samples was collected on 3 September 2019 in the Veneto region, one of the first and mostly severely affected COVID-19 regions.
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Because it makes no sense. Covid has been detected in waste water in Italy from summer 2019. That’s not to say it originated in Italy but that connecting the Wuhan outbreak in December 2019 to a lab - or indeed a wetmarket - makes no sense.
This is a great explainer but I do want to let you know I chuckled at “mid-end”.
If anyone’s wondering, yes it has already previously been free
The question had nothing to do with whether or not to nominate Harris or Biden for the election. The question was a hypothetical “would someone with a fully functional brain be using these 2 months productively?” question. This applies whether it was Biden that lost or Harris that lost or Bernie that lost.
The election is over and lost. You can give the “vote for anyone except Trump” hair-trigger response a rest now as it turns out they didn’t.
The usual distinguishing factor is choices vs innate. If they’ve decided to make “cheap plastic surgery that already is outdated from cheap plastic surgery trends” their identity, that is their choice.
Not every country has ungodly reserves of fossil fuels providing essentially free money. “Richer” is a bit silly - by raw GDP per capita, Norway has been one of if not the richest country in the world since the establishment of State Oil. Combined with not being a dirt poor monarchy ready to sell its resource extraction rights to Britain/America when the resources were found, Norway is nearly unique.