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Anyone watch "Adam Ruins Everything"?
March 14, 2021 at 5:40 am
I love that show because it exposes the abuses of corporate America.
Anywho, I was watching a repeat this morning overnight, and the episode was about how Ticket Master has a monopoly on music venues and price gouges and unless you are say Beyonce, most artists are lucky if they break even, and have to rely, not on their music, but become basically salespeople for the record label.
Anyway, anyone wanna guess which band the show mentioned? Ticket Master didn't exist during the 70s, but the show did mention this certain band in the history of music.
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RE: Anyone watch "Adam Ruins Everything"?
March 14, 2021 at 5:44 am
'The Amboy Dukes'?
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RE: Anyone watch "Adam Ruins Everything"?
March 14, 2021 at 5:49 am
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(March 14, 2021 at 5:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'The Amboy Dukes'?
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No, close though, it was the Andrew Sisters. After all I am the ABBA boy from company B.
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RE: Anyone watch "Adam Ruins Everything"?
March 16, 2021 at 1:33 am
I watched it a little bit and he seems to be wrong about the stuff he is saying like that electric cars pollute more than gasoline cars.
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RE: Anyone watch "Adam Ruins Everything"?
March 16, 2021 at 4:16 am
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More than hybrids, was their main comparison - and they can. It all depends on where you get your power from. At the time the episode was written, you'd have a higher carbon footprint with an ev than you would with a hybrid in a quarter of all us states.
Then you have to factor in that their hybrid was used but still worked - the main draw was to reduce carbon footprint...the ev.. a brand new tesla. Greenies get overprotective. He was railing against green advertising conceits - not evs. For most of us, buying a used hybrid is probably the best bet...but for those of us who already have a hybrid, and who do live in areas with cleaner energy, a used ev would be the way to go.
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RE: Anyone watch "Adam Ruins Everything"?
March 16, 2021 at 4:55 am
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RE: Anyone watch "Adam Ruins Everything"?
March 16, 2021 at 4:58 am
No, but I have seen "Ralph Breaks the Internet".
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RE: Anyone watch "Adam Ruins Everything"?
March 16, 2021 at 7:48 am
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(March 16, 2021 at 4:55 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: From what I remember (I haven't re-watched the video yet) is that Adam claims how EVs pollute more than gasoline cars because they take electricity from the grid that gets supplied by coal and oil. But that seems to be misleading.
Hybrids, again. The episiode setup was about a guy who had a hybrid thinking of purchasing a new ev to cut carbon. It was their intent to demonstrate how an ev's carbon savings are conditional. They are. In a quarter of states and for all of the people who live in them...a hybrid had a lower carbon footprint than an ev precisely because of how they generated that electricity.
That was four years ago. Last year we got new numbers. Hybrids continue to beat evs in Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, N Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. In seven more states, evs are becoming more competitive but certainly not competitive enough to offset their more costly manufacture (these two groups were the quarter of states in which a hybrid flatly outperformed evs on the carbon front when the episode aired.
W Virginia was (and still is) a huge outlier... and would actually fit the mischaracterization of the episode that lead to a bunch of well meaning but pointless attempts at a rebuttal. There's very little, if any, carbon benefit to driving an ev over a gas powered vehicle in that state. This is because an ev is estimated to produce over 9klbs of carbon well to wheel annually in WV, which is right up there with any comparable gas powered vehicle.
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