I can understand if you’re not used to it it is a shock. I’ve regularly worked outside in 110° (43°C) heat, staying hydrated is the key. You can be surprised with what you can tolerate if you must. If global warming is headed where it’s being predicted then welcome to your new normal.
What? Crops will grow just fine with the natural carbon cycle.
And many more will be created.
I’m sure the grand ideas will comfort these 8,000 workers when they are fired.
I’m sure the grand ideas will comfort these 8,000 workers when they are fired.
Ford Plans to Lay Off 8,000 Workers to Help Finance Electric-Vehicle Initiative
The cuts will affect the newly established Ford Blue unit that produces engines for gas-powered vehicles, as well as other salaried, operational positions in the company.news.yahoo.com
I’m sure all who lose their jobs will appreciate being called Ludites because they want to work and support their families. Why is it when faced with truths inconvenient to your narratives the typical retort is name calling?
Because they have small minds and can't formulate an appropriate intellectual response. That and I think their parents never taught them respect for others opinions.
They'll likely be offered training and/or relocation to the new facilities that Ford is building. They don't have to accept it, but they'll be offered it.
I think I have proven myself repeatedly here to have significant intellectual depth on both of these subjects (energy and autos). I have provided pages upon pages of long-form rebuttals to most every post you make (now, including this one). I provide authoritative links to back up my counterpoints. When trapped in a corner, you grab your goalposts and run to another spot while yelling "Well, whatabout this?!?!"
I think that's more of a marketing issue than a green initiative one.
It depends on what it is.... sometimes keeping old things in service does more harm than replacing with new. I have a 1981 car that still runs and drives fine. I don't use it much, but from a carbon perspective, if I were to be using it as a commuter car it would be better for the environment for me to replace it.
Pure assumptions
Yes, how dare I have concerns for people and the environment.
Oh really, then please rub your crystal ball and PM me the next lotto numbers since you're able to probe into things you know nothing about.
Actually I regularly seek out local retailers of products, nice try...
Actually I still go into the bank and don't use online only banks that regularly spam me with marketing, it's wonderful to interact with real people...
That's a bit of a failed example since substituting one driver with another driver isn't displacing anyone is it. But interestingly when I go to places like Vegas I only use taxis, uber'lyft is a pain in the ass IMO and I'm not interested in yet another global corp tracking my movements. And when the driverless taxis show up I'll pass. If caring about privacy makes me a Luddite then guilty as charged.
Another fail, subbing one persons labor with my own labor isn't the topic here. I'm an extreme DIY kind of guy for a variety of reasons.
While yes they are assumptions, they're educated ones. I've only been working in the industry for like 15 years. Generally, the automakers with unions offer various packages to employees. The ones nearing retirement are offered a buyout to retire early. Union workers below a certain age will be offered relocation to other plants. Non-union workers can also apply for other internal jobs elsewhere in the company. Those who pick none of those will be severenced out. The layoff script for the union automakers is pretty set in stone. And just like every other worker in the world who gets laid off, they'll go out and find other jobs or retire, just like I did when I got laid off from my job in the energy industry right before Covid. Still, 17,000 > 8,000, so it is a net positive for the economy.
By all means, go for it. But at least be consistent about it.
Well you go girl! BTW, where's your screed against amazon for killing jobs then?
The privacy argument is a good one and I agree with you there. I don't like Uber/Lyft either because of how they treat drivers. The problem with Uber/Lyft is that they are the Walmart of transportation in that while they lower prices for the consumer, they also push earnings lower for the workers. I do like the Uber/Lyft concept for democratizing the work, but the companies have gotten too big and greedy.
The theme of all of my examples is technology replacing workers. That you personally are a DIY kinda guy is irrelevant. Making a stink about a 9,200 net positive shift in employment just because you don't like the technology du jour is a strawman argument. 11,000 people are gaining jobs in the EV sector, Ford hired another 6,200 in the traditional automotive sector. That's more than double the number of jobs lost in this particular layoff, and yet some of those 8,000 will find employment elsewhere in Ford. But while you may not personally use ATMs, Uber, Walmart, or Amazon, those things still exist and have cost many times that amount of jobs not just in the US, but globally. Walmart is mostly responsible for the destruction of the Textile industry in the US. Amazon kills stores everywhere.
But self serve gas isn't about technology replacing workers, it is about replacing paid labor with the free labor of the customer in exchange for a lower price. There's a difference. The technology kicked in to deal with the theft of gas at self serve stations to get the method of payment before pumping. That was the case long before there were credit card terminals at the pump. For many years I was waiting to give my cash first, then pump and then get my change. Labor still involved, my free labor. Now when a robot pumps the gas then labor is replaced by technology in this example.
Incorrect. Drive through Oregon and try pumping your own gas, they've got one of those laws that makes self serve gas illegal, and I end up with some dip**** who's probably some tweaker and can't even pump gas and poured gas all over the side of my car. So now I get out and watch, they don't like it but it's my car, my gas and my money and I don't want another dip**** moment. I'd rather DIY because I care about my car a lot more more than any pump jockey.
The topic here is global warming. My opinion about how online retailers have impacted local business isn't even remotely the topic here. But feel free to keep attacking your "concern troll" straw man, it's at the very least entertaining. But ultimately this whole detour is about some fake argument that I don't like new technology. New tech is all around, and it is completely reasonable to ask what impact it has, the downsides, and seek some control of how much of it I have in my own life.
The mere existence of a 1981 car on the road is revolting to a diehard climate zealot. You're missing the mark there by using some common sense and critical thinking.
To the Zealot, yes, but I have a new job opportunity that I'm in the running for that would substantially increase my commute. Fortunately, it would also substantially increase my pay by more than the cost of multiple EVs. Still, I'll probably just pick up a used Volt or Bolt to be my commuter scooter.
I think it has to be assuming it's a genuine initiative backed by science.
After how many years of driving the new car would make it better?
My classic car only gets driven about 2,000 miles a year at most. If it were being used in normal duty at around 12,000 miles a year, a Tesla would beat it in about 2 years. 40+-year-old cars that get 14 mpg are notoriously dirty. I keep it in good tune, and it even has a modern catalytic converter for cleaner than factory operation, but any new average sedan or SUV would be a significant improvement in emissions regardless of fuel. Replacing it with a Tesla would be better than replacing it with a gas Mercedes, but both would be an improvement.
