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Who is this a problem for?

People taking action against climate change and CO2 emissions. Policymakers, etc. You wouldn't want to subsidize PHEVs in any fashion if they weren't contributing to the targeted outcome of reduced CO2 emissions or fossil fuel consumption.

PHEVs when bought by informed consumers making a financial decision still pencil out just fine here.

It’s the silly regulatory games played by manufacturers and regulators that cause stuff like a hybrid cayenne or 6000lb BMW M5 Touring to exist when neither the buyers or manufacturers want them to exist to begin with.

These things are not remotely in the same actual category even though on paper they might be. They exist for entirely different reasons, one is market based and one is regulatory workarounds and gamesmanship.


I want a PHEV Cayenne. If budget wasn't a concern, that'd actually be my first choice for replacing my ICE SUV. The convenience and flexibility of a PHEV far outweighs any cost savings from fuel economy improvements for me. A Porsche was never about financial sensibility anyway.

Who are you granting grace to? Who are you denying it to?

We know the answers to these questions for Norris.


If you look at the wider context, it's harder to deny the racism.

You should reconsider it.


You just said that he entered legally. Then you said the opposite.


Entering on a tourist visa with intent to stay is illegal. Do you know what the word tourist means?


You do understand that visas have terms and limited durations, right?


WTF are you talking about? Next time you fail to obey a yellow light signal, you'd be rightfully distraught if you were put in prison and someone were to say that you deserved it because you should have thought about stopping at the yellow as the law prescribed.


You're going to need to explain how all of the unethical actions of Tech companies don't count for your statement to make sense.


There are few unambiguous bad actions by US tech companies. Certain people just hate them for various reasons that have more to do with their size/success than their actions.

Facebook in particular has been a scapegoat for years now.


Seems like he's recommending secondary sources over Wikipedia as a tertiary source.


That’s probably more correct actually, I guess primary source would be talking to witnesses or the subjects themselves.


The line cook is relatively as valuable as they were in the past, they're just being out leveraged by people asserting a self-centered entitlement mentality.


I didn't realize that self-centered entitledness was a new phenomena?


Your unwillingness to read the primary sources linked in the Wikipedia article because they show how you're flat out wrong indicates that your entire thought process can be disregarded at no cost.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/01/29/us-freeze-on-foreign-aid...

https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-foreign-aid-does-the-u...


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