You're assuming that the electricity is generated using fossil fuels?

I feel like you're mistaking my conversation as an argument so I'm gonna stop here. Congrats on winning the argument.

With the math you provided earlier, it should be equivalent to driving 144 hrs less for every car. It doesn't seem like much, true. But when combined with every vehicle also producing 0 emissions and consuming 0 gas in the hypothetical where all vehicles are EV, it then contributes to negative emissions. This sort of regulation in a vacuum does not make much of an impact. It requires other changes. But 100 of these incremental improvements would make a difference.

Yes, that's what would happen once a majority of vehicles in the road are electric. You have to roll out these types of regulations slowly for them to work well. Targeting it at EVs to start makes sense because the manufacturers are consumers are aligned in the interest of going green. Only after a significant proportion of vehicles have this feature can you then extend the regulation to gas powered vehicles, when public opinion is on the government's side and can shame/boycott manufacturers into committing to the new feature. Otherwise, they will find the cheapest way to implement it, or lobby against it, or self sabatoge the feature (like making it difficult or expensive for the owner to maintain) in order to eventually turn public opinion and have the regulation removed.

Yes but if every electric vehicle had this feature, it would really add up, especially as EVs start to take increasing market share

That's why they said ten of these cars would equal 1 tree

Don't give Florida any credit. There are just a bunch of kids who already know Spanish who are taking it in school for the free A.

I agree on the budget idea. I was just updating mine yesterday. I like to tag each expense with the account name that will pay it. I split my expenses to different accounts for different reasons, like shared expenses with my partner get paid from a joint account. I also think it's not fair to split joint expenses 50/50 because we make very different salaries so we split it according to the proportion of our post-tax income. So I have a formula that does all the math and then tells me how much money I need to deposit into the joint account each paycheck to cover those expenses, and same for my partner. I get paid twice a month whereas she gets paid every 2 weeks, so even if we split the bills 50/50 our deposit amounts per paycheck would be different.

It does a lot of other stuff too. This could all be done as quickly by hand the first time, but where spreadsheets really shine is reusing them later. Now, whenever I need to change an expense amount (prices for stuff change over time), add/remove expenses, or change income (which happens every year), all the info I need is recalculated instantly.

Yeah you might wanna get a new job. Having a short-sighted boss is a pretty clear indication that the place is never going to expand and flourish.

Kinda not really the point. Excel should be taught in gen ed

You are forgetting that not all children participate in the tooth trade.

Yeah in all mythological lore I know, fairies are either female or non-binary

Yeah definitely an option. However, some banks still charge a fee for this kind of service so it doesn't necessarily save money. Also, they it usually do not account for due dates and if the mail doesn't run on certain days, then arrives late, you can still be penalized by the recipient with late fees. So if you do auto-pay by mail, definitely schedule it to send 4-5 days early.

You might be right but there might be good reasons for using methane that I don't know about. Is it cheaper than electric? It almost certainly refuels faster. You can move a gas super quickly. Is it more efficient than electricity? Longer trips without refueling is a good thing. These are all perfect for commercial trucking, but not necessarily for a daily commuter. Large batteries for a truck must be expensive, and at some point I think we will start to see lithium shortages, especially if EVs become more popular. Both methane fuel and electric can thrive together.

Your take seems correct. That other dude is really bad at making a point. However, I don't think it's practical to just stop all industrial cow farming as a solution to the methane problem. Burning the methane is a much better solution. And it also solves his hypothetical supply chain emissions problem if you use trucks that run on the methane they're supplying.