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Probably cost them $50 to send you 1 penny. Corporate/banking stupidity at its finest. Given my above post, your example suggests to me that they send you $30 normal 1st class mail, explain it was cheaper than FEDEX. Win/Win. Imagine the tens of thousands wasted sending small FEDEX checks...

And that will change. ICE will surge in demand. Or they'll be eaten by another company with a money printing press making reliable simple ICE at a low cost. Bank it.

Sigh. You don't understand logistics. Or military needs. Or EV costs. Or EVs. Or their capabilities or cold weather performance, or their longevity. Or EV capabilities. It seems you're envisioning little 2 person clown cars in the military. No. 170,000 Noncombat vehicles? That's like 1...

Is this the same pentagon that has gotten everything important wrong for 50 years? One that just hired a questionable person for Navy recruiting this week?

And a similar investment in ICE over the next decade, would return radical improvements. Just look at the radical advances in ICE power and economy since just 2005. It's amazing. Typical sedans now have 300hp motors with 30mpgs. That's the same power as muscle cars from the 1960s but with...

You apparently live in San Fran. Have you ever served in the military or in any capacity similar? I'm telling you, I have. EVs are almost entirely unsuited for military duty. They don't have the range, durability, and weight capacities. They require MASSIVE infrastructure and are really...

I'd photocopy it and keep the copy for a interesting conversational piece, maybe frame it... It's pretty funny. It is a compliance issue so you should cash it to clear it out. I've gotten a few similar checks worth pennies. The dumbest was my XYZ bank where I had accounts, handled my...

1. Authorities? "The Economist" and the "WSJ" Aren't these the dying print media no serious person bothers with anymore? You're being misled by MSM. That has lied to you about everything and failed to predict anything important for 20 years. 2. 3-front war. Let's see. We are in a...

No it's not manageable. If it were manageable, we'd have managed it and paid it down. The opposite occurred. Look at the history of our debt. 1980. Less than $1 trillion. 2000. $4 trillion 2010. $9 trillion 2020. $19 trillion 2023. $32 trillion 2030. $50 trillion projected Growing...

You're totally right. Let's just ignore 1/2 the world dumping the dollar, global wars kicking off in 3 fronts or more, the 2nd largest bank collapse in US history occurred this week, inflation at highs not seen since at least the 1970s, massive supply chain problems in many industries...

A day 1 class for ECON 101 would be to have students look at this debt clock and understand it. Every category. I encourage you to spend time reviewing it. Write out these numbers, watch them. There's not enough money to repay these debts. https://www.usdebtclock.org/ Would you loan...

For around 5+ decades the US dollar was the global reserve currency, known as the petro dollar. Much like the Dutch and the British in eras past, abuses in this fiat currency, are pushing nations to dump it as the global reserve currency. That will seriously harm our 1st world wealth, status...

And yet this program taught you: You'll never get out of debt, paying just the interest. This is beneath Econ 101. So fundamental, I'm surprised to even have to type it.

Not a tax person, not your financial adviser or lawyer. That understood, I appreciate your mortality concerns. If I were similarly situated, I'll pull out everything not needed for sustaining life, and go have a good time. I have a very dismal view of short and long term US currency...

Yes, these short ranges are great. And yet if it's this nonsense, why the major overhaul to infrastructure for obviously so little gain? Again, makes no sense. Great, glad my tax dollars are making the lives of ultra wealthy officials better. This is just the furtherance of absurdity.

Partly correct. But the EV sector is dying or really really struggling. I posted in another one of these EV threads a summary of the losses in the top 10 or so EV related companies. A bloodbath across the sector, some down as much as 90% losses in stock valuation.

And these costs, plus scarcity, are reasons I'm wrestling with the decision to replace my 5/32nd 6 year old tires now, or wait a year and squeeze the last miles from them. It all adds up... I have a new set of 2019 age tires in the garage waiting to be put into duty. Wait or swap now, is the...

But the 2nd sentence of the article is a bold-faced lie. EVS are not "zero emissions." They just move the pollution from the tailpipe, to somewhere else. These are powered by coal factories, diesel generators, etc. "Green" power is less than 3% globally. How can anyone base anything...

It truly will be a straw breaking the camel's back. I am dumbfounded at how utterly dumb these people are, and that so many are somehow in positions of authority brainwashing masses of people, wasting billions of dollars. Meanwhile these leaders personal behaviors of private jets, mansions...

Love the law. Should be more widespread and larger fees.