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Of course....

Not everyone you meet will become your best friend that's a fact.....

We do something here that the "league of nations" can't do, we either agree on issues or maturely disagree.....if that means someone has to go on an ignore list than so be it....

I guess it's in my nature to try and get along with everyone even if sometimes it's a challenge to do so.
Most times one can agree to disagree, on a mature basis, and move on. Think you and I have been able to do that. I enjoy your posts, sometimes I disagree and it takes us a number of posts, but in the end we figure it out. You are a better debater than me, Bee, although I think occasionally you stir the pot with a big wooden spoon. Sometimes I am brutally honest and it offends people who have to be correct, when they are not. Sometimes I am wrong, and I apologize.

I have been here a loooong time, use to enjoy the Busa get together events at Eureka and Robbins and met the nicest folks one can imagine. Sadly those days are gone, occasionally one of the old crowd will pop up.

Sometimes we find that one person who is emotionally not capable of agreeing to disagree, who is not capable of accepting an apology and there is no solution.

I only have one guy on my ignore list and found the ignore list to work pretty good. I have another guy who hates my guts on the Gaza issue, but I think we are both big enough to throw a couple of punches, then sit back and move on.

Not going to mention names, but one of the biggest entertainments at the old Busa bashes were two guys, who were and I am sure still are best friends. They use to entertain all of us with arguing endlessly on a humorous basis, joking with each other. It took me a while to figure out, they were best friends just having fun with each other.
 
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I used to put a lot of importance on a person's beliefs. As I get older, I realize innate goodness is all that matters.
I've seen and done too much to ever again be naive to the evils that surround us....

However, with this experience and knowledge, I can weed out people pretty quickly even over the internet....

I have encountered a few on this forum who are thankfully no longer posting....
 
Of course....

Not everyone you meet will become your best friend that's a fact.....

We do something here that the "league of nations" can't do, we either agree on issues or maturely disagree.....if that means someone has to go on an ignore list than so be it....

I guess it's in my nature to try and get along with everyone even if sometimes it's a challenge to do so.
You might have a lot more time for tolerating b/s than I do! Congratulations. :-)
 
I have a very different view of things than many others.....

One of my former colleague and team mate says we are both weird from what we've experienced...

There was a time when I was far less tolerant and patient.....thankfully that time has long passed.
Maybe it has something to do with what we did for a living, but I've become less tolerant and patient as I age, or at least it's become more difficult to be so.
 
Excuse me if I go back on topic. But big problems in the used EV market, such as it is.

Leasing companies are demanding concessions from EV makers, including agreements that manufacturers will buy back vehicles​


Ayvens, the biggest multibrand leasing firm, already has received checks in recent weeks to make up for slumping prices, according to CEO Tim Albertsen. Leasing companies are demanding concessions from EV makers, including agreements that manufacturers will buy back vehicles, to protect against further erosion in the $1.2 trillion second-hand car market.

Prices for used EVs plummeted last year as weakening demand for new battery-powered cars prompted Tesla to slash sticker prices, forcing others to follow suit. The moves are reverberating through leasing firms, such as Europe-focused Societe Generale Ayvens and BNP Paribas Arval, which serve as middlemen in the corporate car market that accounts for roughly 60 percent of sales in the region.
"Manufacturers today need to keep selling EVs," Albertsen said during the company’s earnings call this month. "We then need some kind of protection from the manufacturers in terms of their future pricing."


Typically, leasing agreements are based on the estimated used value of a vehicle at the time the contract expires, with payments designed to cover depreciation. If the value drops more than expected, as it has recently for EVs, the leasing companies lose money on those cars. A range of carmakers operate leasing arms, like Volkswagen Financial Services, Stellantis and Credit Agricole’s Leasys or Mercedes-Benz Mobility. Ayvens, formed from the 2022 merger of ALD Automotive and LeasePlan, has more than half a million EVs in its fleet.
Carmakers need to comply with tightening fleet emission levels, or pay fines. In the European Union, the permissible level of carbon dioxide emissions will drop next year with Volkswagen still some way off, according to an analysis by market researcher Jato. In the U.K., zero-emissions vehicles must make up 22 percent of sales this year, rising to 28 percent the year after.


But without stable pricing in the used-EV market, Europe’s target for phasing out sales of new combustion-engine cars by 2035 looks less likely. To recoup the drop in second-hand values, EV leasing rates have started to go up to exceed those for combustion-engine cars, according to a study by CAR Institute that focused on Germany.
 
You can guaranteed that China already has one along with all the models and have it already reverse engineered.....

But they don't advertise this.....

While we are on the acquisition model, I can guarantee this sort of thing happens in all industry.....I'll bet Kawasaki (and others) had a Hayabusa in their possession to study and figure out how to beat it...
 
Our power grid here is very fragile....we've lost power 3 times over the past week due to component failures....

I have a Generlink and Generac stand alone generator and I've used it quite a bit this week....which I guess is a good thing so it gets run.
 
People just accept things without question, their mind sees a good idea and the media reinforces it. But eventually the questions no one ever asked begin to asked. Like what are you going to do with all the Gasoline you don't burn in cars? It's not good for much else and it would be near impossible (and dangerous) to pump it back underground once it's been refined. Yes! It's there with the Diesel we need so desperately, the bunker oil for ships, the Jet fuel, the asphalt to build the roads. It's gonna come out of the refinery with all the other fractions so what do you do with it? And if anyone suggests 'cracking' it into lighter fractions I'd like to know what those uses are.


They do a lot of Catalytic cracking, but it's to make gasoline out of heavier fractions
 
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