It's awful.

I am not sure why crude isn't rapidly going up the way I would expect.  From what I understand global oil reserves are drying up.

Yeah, same idea, just a modern take.  I am sure there are a lot of people with suspended licenses riding these ebikes too.  It is interesting from an industry prospective too, because most people written off the electric motorcycle as commercially unviable, but here are these e-mopeds raising up from nowhere, filling a niche my most people didn't think about.

On the low income/poverty/day labor end of the ev world I am seeing a lot of fat tires "ebikes*" that could be purchased for less than $1,000, have about 30 miles of range and can do about 30 mph.  These things are quietly enabling transportation for many who otherwise wouldn't be able to get around.

*They are technically not legal in most states, but law enforcement isn't cracking down on them that much.

I purchased a very low cost regular tire size ebikes myself, but it tops off at just about 20 mph, which seems plenty fast for me.  Before switching to the local high school district, I was riding it on the bike trails to get to work. When I took into account parking and walking from my car the commute was about the same amount of time.

>we* Canadians

How are you achieving this?  You have Canadian ancestors?  From the research I've done age works against Americans looking to immigrate. 

I am still just lazily working out 4 or 5 days a week.

Thinking this through to farther down the chain of events and it gets interesting.  The knowledge base of AI will get stale as it kills off the very source of it's knowledge.  Then what happens? 

Side: Do we know if the AI crawlers are respecting robots.txt?  Will every publicist start blocking AI en mass as an act of self-preservation?  I could see Google making it really difficult to separate out the SE access from Gemini access.

Right, the title makes sense.  Finance and tech are two areas where AI could automate quickly.  I know transportation is inevitable, but the legal and hardware obstacles will take some time.

>Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose

Enshitifcation seems to be the universal path.

I was thinking about the VW Beetle.  I've never been a giant fan of it, but one thing about it is that it was absolutely designed to be home serviceable.  One could theoretically be kept alive forever with simple tools and a few 4x4 blocks of wood.  It is pretty much the opposite design objective of what is happening today.

>I wonder how much is the pure economics and how much is fear that a new admin will revoke them.

It is the same thing in a way.  You can't remove the risk from the economic equation.  Also, crystal balling is getting harder.  Like what is the conflict around the strait of Hormuz going to do to oil consumption in the next couple of years?  Getting oil that isn't from a war zone is good for people who produce elsewhere.  Yet, I am sure EV sales are going to increase due to supply issues and once a consumer switches to EV, they are permanently consuming less oil.

Those points hit hard Ergo.  The elderly without family support do not fair well in most places.

>Why?

I honestly think because it forces capitalism to make adjustments.  Labor and consumption are always assumed to be ever increasing.  A shrinking population turns that on it's head.  This doesn't hurt people, but it breaks the idea that the economy has to always be expanding.  It is bad for corporate earnings.

That's approaching the very top speeds of the propeller planes during WW2.

That's interesting data and it isn't really a surprise that California and Hawaii would be at the bottom of the list.  I wonder though how those places with the highest income pocketing translate for a young couple getting started today.  Do places like South Dakota and Iowa have opportunity for transplants, or strong data all from established people running on family momentum?

The good news is that they are getting found and people could patch up their systems.

Some years ago I was looking at an "internet in a box" setup for this  small village school in Nepal that my family has supported over the years.  Back then there wasn't much available.  This actually seems perfect for that type of need.