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CSIS_CIA_pure-evil 1 point ago +2 / -1

Battery powered cars are crap for hostile climates.

So you get up in the morning and the car is covered with ice. With gas cars, you can remote start them with the rear window defroster on bust, the electric seats on, the front defrost on -- then have breakfast. When you are ready, the rest of the ice and snow can be scraped off easily.

Then you can drive or idle, heat on full bast, for 8 hours or more. Refueling only takes a few minutes. Even at Costco with six cars in front of you, you can still get out in 10 minutes.

Compare that with limited range when it is -10C and the cabin heater and defrost is on continuously and you get to a charging station on the highway and there are eight cars in front of you.

Hybrids were the solution. Regenerative braking, gasoline backup, excellent fuel economy.

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CSIS_CIA_pure-evil 2 points ago +2 / -0

Inbreeding would explain the extensive mutual cross holdings in the elite group of old banking/insurance companies that in turn, control the world.

These companies are incestuous and own parts of each other -- probably through family connections. They also control 40% of everything. They are like a black hole, eating up the financial universe.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025995

Click on appendix A1, see page 17.

BARCLAYS PLC GB

CAPITAL GROUP COMPANIES INC, THE US

FMR CORP US

AXA

STATE STREET CORPORATION US

JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. US

LEGAL & GENERAL GROUP PLC GB

VANGUARD GROUP, INC., THE US

UBS AG CH

MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC. US

The Network of Global Corporate Control (well worth reading)

We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic “super-entity” that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025995