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Sloppy_Tiger22 karma

It's emissions that electric cars lower. not comissions, silly!
I am sure that the manufacturers will design in lots of planned obsolescence to keep those lovely cars rolling out the door.

Sloppy_Tiger9 karma

Both of those use cases require extended time at sea - this need outweighs the significant extra cost of building and running a nuclear vessel.
Nuclear subs can stay underwater for a very long time, diesel subs rely on batteries for underwater operations and this really limits their time (and speed) under water.
Aircraft carriers and other nuclear-powered warships can stay at sea indefinitely, needing only regular supplies, such as food. This means that patrols can be extended and that a carrier can be deployed anywhere, anytime.
There's probably something about trusting private companies with nuclear fuel travelling around the world as well, but you can guarantee that if it were cheaper to build & operate nuclear freight vessels, operators would be on it like a rat up a drainpipe.

Sloppy_Tiger9 karma

CO2 is made by Big Oil and they like their money so much. So of course politicians want to ignore it/tell us it ain't real.

Sloppy_Tiger3 karma

Just checked them out and wow, what a balanced discussion! Really worth watching.

Sloppy_Tiger2 karma

Interesting choice of word, vocative. I suspect you meant vocal, but vocative actually works, as it means the use of (usually) pronouns to directly address someone.
You could call terms like "crooked Hillary" "lyin' Ted" snowflake" etc etc as vocative.