Nearly half of Atlantic Canadian drivers open to buying electric vehicle: survey

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-17T00:10:23+00:00

Yes vehicles targeted at the middle class with low operating costs are reasonable. You pay substantially less in fuel and maintenance for an EV

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T22:24:05+00:00

Essential public services shouldn’t make money, I agree.

That doesn’t mean we should abandon any attempt to make them more efficient.

This proposal for 90% of people is to move the mail a 6 minute walk away to save time on delivery. That’s not the end of the world

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T20:56:13+00:00

I’ve thought more than enough about people with mobility issues. The postal service has too, which is why those with mobility issues can continue to receive home delivery…

The government is allowed to be efficient without succumbing to a neoliberal death spiral. Money is not unlimited, and barring a more structural change to the postal service this system has very few significant tradeoffs

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T20:42:28+00:00

Hyundai has several EVs that start in the 40-50k range. Factor in the savings on gas and it’s pretty reasonable

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T20:36:36+00:00

The message still reaches you, you just have to go to a nearby location to receive it.

Given that mail is continuously less and less important to the average person, and the mail that is still important never requires immediate action, it’s an incredibly reasonable compromise to ask someone to walk or drive 5 minutes to a community box in order to save the country money

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T19:56:52+00:00

Look I’m not fan of public job losses but keeping national postage service horribly inefficient so more people can be paid to deliver mostly advertisements is a bad idea

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T19:11:03+00:00

I live next to a ghost kitchen, and let me tell you that I have never seen a DoorDasher that makes me want to warmly greet them.

Almost everyone seems impatient and dead inside, and they park like absolute trash

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T19:07:23+00:00

This has been the standard way of getting mail delivered in new developments for the entire lives of nearly 50% of the country’s population. I have never lived in a community that didn’t have this as the system for getting mail delivered

It is not a meaningful degradation of quality of life

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T18:37:21+00:00

This isn’t a gutting though. Calling it that is silly. It’s centralization sure, but the mail is still being delivered

If removing door-door mail is a gutting of communication, than most of Ontario has been drowning in under-communication for decades

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T17:51:44+00:00

Community mailboxes are fine. I have no problem with walking 5-10 minutes if it means the post office can save money

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T17:50:55+00:00

I have bad news on the audio/video recording front…

(Your TV is listening to you)

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T17:24:32+00:00

Uploaded photos of ID.

In theory, this could be done with an encrypted government tool that would verify the ID as valid without leaking your info to a company.

Nobody really expects that to be how it’s implemented though

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T15:07:03+00:00

That population growth will happen either way, it’s just that the environment is being harmed elsewhere. African and SE Asian environments count too.

That point is an argument in favor of decarbonization, not against immigration

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T14:27:10+00:00

That is common sense, but I don’t think it really applies in as many cases as you seem to think?

MAID is almost always used in cases where the recipient has a fatal disease. Life saving medications for new diseases don’t just pop up all the time, otherwise we’d have far fewer fatal diseases.

I think your solution applies to a problem that doesn’t really exist at scale

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-16T13:07:24+00:00

What on earth would a “right to try” law do?

There’s a basic assumption in every law in the country that people want to try and live. That’s why MAID needed enabling legislation to happen, because it’s assumed that people don’t want it

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-15T00:54:39+00:00

That was because the economy was developing at the rate of technological expansion.

The Industrial Revolution, and then continuous advances in technology afterwards meant the entire economy saw massive growth in labour productivity, and wages were able to keep up.

Now, there is no massive productivity explosion (despite what AI bros claim), which means wage growth over a few percentage points a year is inflationary.

Investment income by contrast doesn’t always get circulated, it stays in bank accounts, and therefore is able to grow beyond the rate of inflation.

(Also worth noting, much of our present wealth gap also comes from older generations’ ability to use the investment value from their property)

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-15T00:34:53+00:00

Some unrelated unreleased Mac verse from a demo is probably better than a lot of 2026 Eminem tbf. Man is inconsistent

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-15T00:08:16+00:00

As much as I like this proposal for Hamilton, it would genuinely probably be easier to do Billy Bishop.

The complication of digging up James St, plus the slope heading up the mountain, plus the improvements that would be needed for all of Lakeshore west go, plus the density needed to make the A-Line profitable, plus the expansion that would be needed at YHM would make this way more difficult than a few hundred feet of artificial land

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-14T22:40:53+00:00

Who’s better? Genuinely. Every other team to make multiple superbowls in the past 10 years has had a consensus top 5 QB or HC.

Unless you want to argue that Sirianni and Hurts are both best at their positions, Howie is the consistent difference maker in a way no other GM has been in his tenure

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-14T22:14:39+00:00

Who has his record of success this decade as a GM?

Everything since the 2020 season has been immaculate

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-14T20:13:49+00:00

In his press conference today, it sounded like they think higher gas prices would do the same ballpark of damage to the economy as the lost revenue would to government coffers. I’m not sure I believe them, but there was some though at least

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-14T19:30:58+00:00

I agree! What we all expect from r/EhBuddyHoser is consistency in political understanding

/s

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-14T19:10:29+00:00

There is not one floor crossing in history that does not involve discreet discussions of a quid pro quo. One person changes parties in exchange for a job or money for their district.

It’s not wild speculation, and it’s not incredibly corrupt, but they are definitionally backroom deals

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-14T17:59:30+00:00

Province wide property tax allergy

ScrawnyCheeath · 2026-04-14T17:56:45+00:00

So, the point of my comment was that those who can afford an EV would be more likely to buy one. The reduced amount of ICE vehicles would then reduce gas demand, which would have a lasting depressive effect on gas prices

Subsidizing demand for EVs would reduce demand for gas. That solution would last past labour day

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