Patrick Reddy

bluesky ID @pjred.bsky.social.

whimsical nerd, cyclist, EV driver, keen on the green future, especially for my kids. interested in future public transport

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@NJM71 Because nothing was paid from taxes. That preposterous.

Pensions are paid from new money every time. Taxation is AFTER the payment, not before.

Thatcher lied. She was desperate to bash the unions into submission so she lied.

[CleanTechnica @cleantechnica]

Electric Buses Make Up Over 50% of New Deliveries in Australia
https://t.co/T7FnEwezue

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@JamesD74431175 Take education for instance. Totally different, 100+ years of diversion.

A usual education is a 12-15 years experience including uni. When does that switch? what does it teach? who decides qualifications? Or syllabus?

Kind of important to the people who will vote on it.

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@JamesD74431175 Until Ireland works out what it is offering the unionist community as part of the deal, how it is going to make their lives better, and how it expects to implement the transition to a united Ireland, there is nothing to vote on.

A 51/49 vote won't do. It's got to be high 90s.

[Chris Smith @renewablesmiffy]

@HarrietCross_MP This represents the decline of the basin. At its peak the site processed 1.5 million barrels per day now that’s 80,000

Even if you added Rosebank west of Shetland it would merely slow the decline to closure

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@KeithMillsD7 Because there are no historical references to refer to, there is no real driving sense of loss or yearning to "return to" a known sense of "Ireland"

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@KeithMillsD7 The problem is a historic united Ireland has never existed. You can go back to any age and there has always been divisions within Ireland, often with connections, trade or religious, to Scotland or Wales.

A united Ireland is a made up construct for modern political ambitions.

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@DavQuinn It reflects who bothers to vote. If everyone who is eligible to vote did actually vote, the political landscape would be very different.

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@ChuckIOM @AudiOfficial They film a single ad, often in Portugal, with an EU spec car then to make it look all right hand drive, switch the picture around. The number plate is a give away.

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@Hurley_Stick @danobrien20 @EU_Eurostat Long range missiles from the Atlantic from planes, ships or Submarines.

Or given the Russian fondness for vast numbers of dead troops, they can actually invade Ireland as a diversion. Ireland's army is really small and not really equipped to cope with that.

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@Hurley_Stick @danobrien20 @EU_Eurostat In the modern world they don't need to. They can simply destroy the Comms cables in the Atlantic that are Ireland's responsibility.

Or they can bomb Dublin or Cork as part of a wider war to split EU defense forces. The EU has to defend the EU.

Or they can attack the EU with

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@ItsJamesHall A channel worth a watch

https://t.co/OYkLepwHqL

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@ItsJamesHall Ignore the nonsense around battery scares, Tesla's with 300k miles are becoming common and sought after on the 2nd hand market.

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@haugejostein GDP is not really a great measure of anything.

It measures sales of cigarettes and the cost of treating the impact of sales of cigarettes for instance.

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@philgee511 @dorfman_p They clearly are. You need to just look around you. EVs are everywhere now.
Especially in the 2nd hand market. Those numbers you can't hide away from

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@alex_avoigt A quiet Elon is a great corporate strategy, but the cars are starting to fall behind.

They still have brand awareness but there is not the sparkle that some of the competition now has.

And the other charger networks have caught up too. They have become a legacy OEM I think.

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@Lars_Invest Given this came after the ix3 and the i3, I am surprised this is not on the same new, future of company, platform.

And effing hydrogen. How much time, money and talent has been thrown away on effing hydrogen.

A company almost succeeding but with a lot of internal fighting

[Patrick Reddy @patrickjreddy]

@philgee511 @dorfman_p Given it has been registrations for ever and ever and ever

It is a valid and fair comparison

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

"Richard Symons, the owner of a U.K.-based used-car sales company that specializes in EVs, has found that the batteries that power these cars (Teslas) continue to perform well even after several hundred thousand miles.

“They are proving themselves to be exceptionally reliable."