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I hear they are a solution to the problem of increasing mileage/efficiency. I am no fan of Tesla, but we have to admit, there is some merit to that argument, however debatable the efficiency benefits are.

That's not to say safety isn't a serious issue. The biggest problem is the reliance on electronics. Now if someone can reinvent the design with a highly reliable mechanical system, with multiple redundancy.

Real life example of being blinded by "can we" instead of "should we". This society needs a great deal of introspection.

Define "never". Never in as in never in the history of 21st century America? Pretty tame assertion. Never in the anthropological sense? That would be completely farcical.

Reality check: you don't make boatloads of money for having useful skills everyone has (or should have). You make boat loads of money when you have useful skills that few people have.

Why stop at appliances? By that logic, humans are nothing more than self-propelled heaters. The whole universe is nothing but shifting pockets of heat like the ripples of a pond bouncing back and forth until they all disappear.

Such nihilism.

Sounds like the Narcissist's Prayer to me.

This is how the United States of America turns into the States of America.

A few hundred billionaires own more than the majority of Americans.

I think your assertion is factually incorrect. Or at least significantly overestimates how much ordinary Americans actually get to participate in America.

I think for most people, America has already collapsed, and that is exactly why they voted for Trump.

Here's the thing. Y'all sitting around waiting for the institutions to do their job. Y'all waiting for the institutions to do the right thing. But y'all institutions have been corrupted, so they ain't gonna do anything. It's up to you, the people to clean up house now, by sending a strong message. And it doesn't take that much to take action. There is incredible power in the people and in collective action. But for now it is locked away in tepid comfort. That comfort won't last though. It never does under tyranny.

I would not try to create a separate path to ground. The ground should be bonded to neutral at one and only one place: at or just behind the main panel.

GFCI is rated to protect two wire receptacles downstream of the GFCI, but check with the local authorities on the subject.

Also, don't discount oppression and misinformation used to squeeze people in giving up their collective power.

The plastic (including polyester fabrics) in your car was most likely derived from petroleum. The car parts were most likely shipped around during manufacturing using combustion engine vehicles. The energy to cast those car parts, probably some of it comes from non renewables. The labour to build the car almost surely comes from other people who consume gas (for example to drive to the EV factory)

That "100%" renewable energy? The installation and maintenance of it was/is almost certainly done with large industrial equipment and vehicles burning fossil fuels. (Similar issue with production of parts).

Look, I'm not saying you aren't making positive choices by choosing renewable options. What I am saying is, while they are more renewable, they aren't truly 100% renewable when you factor everything involved in it. Fossil fuels are so pervasive in society, it's virtually impossible to both function in a modern society and not contribute to the consumption of fossil fuels.