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stewgreen
I knew the numbers but hadn't done the arithmetic - A story I saw about Tesla sales department taking a photo-op coupled to the delivery arithmetic looked a bit macabre.
Tiny CO2
The car finance bubble is difficult to scope out - the leasing market is in trouble that much is clear. I've read that in the USA epic numbers of finance deals on new vehicles are not being renewed and the numbers of returned cars are causing a storage headache...
In other news the Intel processor problem has been edging into panic territory with some suggestion that the company might be forced to replace *every* x86 processor shipped in the last 10 years +. It looks like heavyweight lawyer types are saddling up.
tomo
The BBC is wallowing in the report of falling car sales. They deseperately want to blame Brexit but all the evidence points to the problem mostly stemming from the governments plans for punishing diesel vehicles. The other main factor is the unsustainable purchase of cars on contract where diesel cars could be worthless in 3 years. The Bank of England has been warning lenders for over a year now of a new financial bubble.
TinyCO2
I saw that story on Dec 23 in Auto-Express
stewgreen
5-Live news just led with
"CO2 emissions from NEW cars have increased for the first time in 10 years
... manufacturers say it's due to the decrease in diesel sales, as more people buy petrol instead"
Actually this news has been out more than 1 week, this shows that BBC News is political agenda pushing, rather than actual news.
... their prog continues with alarmism about plastic.
stewgreen
An Elon Musk number that just jumped out at me...
At the present rate of production some of those people who paid $1000 deposit for a Model 3 (over a year ago now) will have to wait up to 83 years for delivery...
h/t Ezra Levant
tomo
UK
Free Speech:
Gov.uk: Create a Freedom of Speech Act and Bring an End to "Hate Speech" laws
Brexit:
1. UKIP Nigel Farage Wants Your Questions For His Meeting With Michel Barnier
2. Michael Gove MP Speaks About The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
3. Remainer Tells Nigel Farage How The EU Bullying Converted Him To A Brexiteer
Blair faced liar
1. Tony Blair has embarrassed the so-called ‘Remain Resistance’ by repeating debunked claims that the Brexit vote has created “significant staff shortages in the NHS”
2. Blair: Britain Needs a Second Referendum, Maybe a Third Too
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EU "Empire"
1. This matters: Trading Volumes Crash As MiFID II Regulations Go Into Effect In Europe
“We don’t want to live in an empire. For us, the European Union is still the alliance of free European nations”, declared Orbán
Free Speech:
1. German Hate Speech Law Backfires After Twitter Immediately Blocks Satire Account
2. Ve have vays of making you not talk
EU RoP "cultural enrichment"
1. A 38-year-old Somali man has been arrested after attempting to rape a 43-year-old pregnant woman in a hospital in Rome after he was able to sneak into the facility and dress up like a member of staff
2. Ireland Refugee Knife Rampage - Egyptian asylum seeker who called himself Mohamed
Arrrggghhh
Green Gove: UK Govt Will Replace EU Farmer Subsidies with ‘Environmental’ Cash After Brexit
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Good News
2. Tesla Bonds Tumble - Now 'Riskier' Than Indonesia
3. Trump Announces Massive Expansion In Offshore Drilling; Environmentalists Outraged
4. TheRebel.media proudly welcomes outspoken UK commentator Katie Hopkins to our international team
Good night from me, and good night from him
Pcar
clipe
Alerts for: Channel-Port aux Basques and vicinity
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clipe
Uibhist a Tuath
"Perhaps we'll never have the situation where a researcher will say I spent 3 years looking into this and didn't conclusively prove anything"
Apparently the researchers from Scripps who came up with the "universe in a grain of sand / Total Perspective Vortex" approach to measuring total ocean heat I posted about earlier spent 15 years coming up with that...
I wonder if they had other duties in that time.
tomo
That annual car sales thing. A statistician would call that reversion to the mean. Which is a normal thing often ignored by alarmists of all types and journalists. Or do I repeat myself?