Does it make financial sense for most commuters to get an EV yet? Let’s use the Nissan Leaf and Versa as examples.

EV batteries have about a 15yr lifespan and cost about $5500 to replace, and commuters average about 20,000km/yr. 🧵
Cost of a Nissan Leaf = $45k
Cost of a Nissan Versa = $20k
Point at which an EV breaks even (assuming 20,000km/yr) = 8yrs
EV’s require less maintenance, so, if you’re buying new either way, and you drive more than 13,000km/year, you would save more money, in the long-term, getting a Leaf than getting a Versa and, with financing, you probably wouldn’t spend much more monthly in the short term either.
Obviously many other factor come into play, if you start looking at resale values, you’re buying used, or if you start bringing differently priced EV’s and different levels of fuel efficiency into the mix, but…
Generally, it seems like we’re well past the stage of EV’s only making sense for wealthy early adopters, and I don’t see hybrids holding their value very well.

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6 Sep
Here’s an article full of juice transphobic quotes from @maximebernier, which I will now break down in a 🧵, for anyone who believes they might have merit:

langleyadvancetimes.com/news/peoples-p…
In crafting that tweet, I discovered that @maximebernier has blocked me.
#GreatSuccess
Anyway, back to his quotes…

He starts out strong by saying “the @peoplespca believes that adults can identify with the gender they want and undergo whatever medical procedure they want in order to change sex. They must be respected and enjoy the same rights as every Canadian”
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4 Sep
I’ve told @NDP candidates that I will shout my support for them from rooftops if they’re just able to tell me that they won’t let the party whip bully them into pushing forward legislation that furthers environmental damage, and still they stay silent.
Does this surprise me? No.

This isn’t a theoretical, this is what happens here in BC. We have a @bcndp government who ran a campaign where they convinced voters they were the party to vote for if you want climate action. They’re now destroying our environment.
Every single @bcndp MLA is complicit in raiding Indigenous lands, logging old growth forests, expanding LNG & fracking, flooding farm land, and the refusal to ban conversion therapy, because they stayed silent and allowed themselves to be whipped.
#bcpoli
Read 6 tweets
4 Sep
A big shout out to two local politicians who I know care deeply about our environment- @BonitaZarrillo & @LDupont4Poco! My only hesitation in supporting these two amazing people is the party they’re running for, because every party, except @CanadianGreens, whip their votes.
While the @NDP are my first choice for a whipped party and I struggle to support @CanadianGreens because of their leader and internal politics, I’m inclined to always look for candidates who are not whipped, and therefore won’t be pressured to abandon their principles.
The @NDP link themselves to the @bcndp and, as we’ve seen in BC, the NDP whip their candidates to avoid taking climate action and, in fact, push forward projects that further destroy our planet. They trample on Indigenous rights, and they refuse to ban conversion therapy.
Read 6 tweets
4 Sep
This is a genderqueer flag, designed by by Marilyn Roxie in 2011. Lavender represents androgyny or queerness, white represents agender identity, and green represents those whose identities which are defined outside the binary. Image
This is the suffragette flag, which was created to represent the Women's Social and Political Union, founded in Britain in 1903. It has now been adopted by Trans Exclusionary Radicals (TERs) to make their presence known.

They’re turning a suffragette symbol into a hate symbol. Image
Do not confuse the genderqueer & suffragette flags. People who are currently using the suffragette flag to represent themselves are transphobes. The ones represented by the genderqueer flag fall under the trans umbrella. The two flags look similar, but represent opposing sides. ImageImage
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29 Sep 20
1/ The @bcndp talk a big game about protecting the environment, but actions speak louder than words, so let's take a look at their actions over the past 3.5 years.
#bcpoli
2/ Trans Mountain Pipeline:
The @bcndp vowed to fight the pipeline in the courts through all available means. They tried to regulate it; for example, by requiring a permit for heavy oil flowing through the pipeline.
3/ The @bcndp fought for that in court. That court case was ultimately dismissed by both the BC. Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Canada. They could have ordered a “Made in B.C.” environmental assessment of the project, but they didn’t.
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28 Sep 20
We need better healthcare coverage in BC! I’m barely working right now and I just had to spend $185 for 3 months of medication that I need to survive and that’s not the only medication I take. That’s minimal compared to what some people pay and yet it’s still a huge burden.
To put that into perspective. I just spent more than what I’ll make this week on what amounts to about 1 month of my total medication costs.
Coverage for medication isn’t a handout, it’s good economics. Preventative actions are almost always less expensive and better for people than waiting for a disaster to occur before treating the issue.
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