If you’re not interesting in helping to reduce emissions to address climate change, that’s your choice. If you want to spend thousands of dollars putting fossil fuels in your car every year rather than cheap electricity (often sourced from renewables) that’s your choice. It’s not mine!
Jon Ossoff will hopefully be the Democratic nominee for president and will destroy MAGA. Come on America, make it happen.
Ollie Wines said he didn’t say it. So you’re calling both Wines and Butters a liar, and Sportsbet umpire is definitely not lying? Right. Bit of prejudice at play here.
Yes, so disingenuous to imply that you wouldn’t usually stop on a road trip if you didn’t need to charge a car. Does he usually drive interstate without stopping to rest?
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Yep, that was the most disappointing part of all! Not one mention of EMISSION REDUCTION! FFS
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Yes, women have learned to fear strangers but the least they can expect is that their husbands aren’t drugging and raping them! Horrific.
Here’s the factcheck on the 7 Spotlight hit job. We all see what you’re doing here @7news.bsky.social and you should be utterly ashamed! We know Stokes has fossil fuel interests, but what’s the ABC’s excuse?
And with solar power, and if you’re even luckier, a battery, basically free to run.
He seems to think you’d need to download the app everytime you charge. Which is odd. Or, his journalism is so sloppy that his narrative about it being time consuming made it sound like the app was more than a one off few-second download, which is also off. The whole article really annoyed me.
Sales are down exploding as new cheaper models come on the market and petrol goes through the roof. My husband and I have a novated lease and with the pre-tax payments we are saving one third of the price. Couldn’t recommend an EV more!
Yes, it’s ridiculous to suggest you would be in too much of a hurry to wait and charge. Breaks are necessary for safety. You just plan your meal breaks where there’s a charger. Far more inconvenient having to stand by a petrol bowser filling up before having a break.
It’s a shocker. The breaks are only “jerky” because you don’t have to break! If you are using the break, the car thinks you’re about to hit something - hence jerking. I find it weird how to drive a petrol car when you do need to break - because I’m used to the smooth EV non-jerky technology.
And by the way, you’re meant to take breaks every two hours on a long road trip - not five minutes to go to the toilet but proper meal breaks. So that works with charging EVs - once or twice between Adelaide and Melbourne. No one should drive that far without a proper break - seriously dangerous.
I’ve had one for a year and absolutely love it. It doesn’t take long to charge, and if you’re doing something else like shopping, it’s more convenient than stopping at a petrol station. Australian petrol stations will slowly get with the program and will supply for charges - there’s already many.
And if you can’t get an EV charger because some petrol car has parked there, that’s hardly a mark against the EV! The person who wrote this needs to take a good long hard look at themselves because this is woeful and any EV owner will tell you that. Do better, ABC!
For those interested in EVs who want to know what they’re like from someone who owns one (no charger at home), you download app to pay at chargers once. Not hard 🤭. Charging becomes part of your routine - I charge when I do groceries. Easy. On long road trips (rare) you charge when you have breaks.
This is disappointing by ABC. I’m not surprised to see 7 Spotlight bashing EVs (helping fossil fuel lobby) but expect better of the ABC. This whinge about EVs doesn’t mention $ savings from not buying petrol. Also, how about cutting emissions? Climate change? Hello?
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Yep, charge when you do the grocery shopping. Charge when you go to the hairdresser. Charge when you have brunch at a cafe. When you go to the beach. There’s charges everywhere. It’s really not an impost. This guy made it sound like you have to sit and watch the car charge.
What a dumb article. You download the app to charge once, obviously. Also, I don’t have a charger at home but organise myself to charge when I do the weekly grocery shop. Not difficult! Not paying for petrol is also nice. He might have mentioned that.
Not all men. Just a lot of them, indeed enough to make women feel unsafe!
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When are MAGA voters going to realise they’re being whipped into hatred and fear of false-threats to enrich Trump, his family and billionaire mates. Wake up people! You’re being used and I’m sure Trump is laughing at how well it’s working!
Abul Rizvi, former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration, has calculated that Angus Taylor’s proposed social media visa check would require 15,000 extra processing staff. Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus 😳
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No one says it better than Keating 👏🏻
He seems to think life is theoretical and I guess it is for people like him so privileged that politics and consequences don’t touch him.
It’s nice these right wing people are starting to (decade late) realise Trump is an unfit person for the presidency. Maybe if they had listened to progressives FROM THE START rather than dedicating themselves to revenge against progressives for wanting equality, the world wouldn’t be in this mess 🤷🏼♀️
The majority in Australia see the economy is better for them when wages are growing and there are public services and a safety net. The neoliberal orthodoxy that “wealth trickles down” is dead. People understand that. Trump voters are voting for social inequality to ease their wealth inequality.
Historically the right have been assumed to be better economic managers (not true, just hegemony). Yet, particularly young people are waking up to this falsity. In Australia, centre left Labor won landslide “cost of living” election and were rated better economic managers than right wing opposition.
This is everything.
The Coalition wants to bring in an anti-tourism policy just like Trump's which has decimated tourism numbers in the US. Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus!