Agent Smart

Sometimes twitter is like diving into a cool pool on a hot summers day. Other times a nice warm bath. Nice people. Nice vibe. Sometimes it's like jumping into the surf. Fun if you know how to swim. More often it's like sharing a spa with 12 strangers and a floating band aid.

@gomichild 🤣

@Spanners_cat Where's the rest of her?

Elon's throttling #smokefleet but that's OK because we're cars and we're accustomed to being throttled. As you were, team

@liber8SA @redo72JR lol. You're a fucking idiot. Perfect fucking username though nimrod.

@redo72JR @agentsmart Charging time and infrastructure is the problem. Unlikely to be solved satisfactorily for decades.

Cheaper, cleaner electric trucks overhaul China’s logistics “Economically, there is no more question at all that electric is superior. I think we’re right on the cusp of a total obliteration of diesel trucks as a product category.” freemalaysiatoday.com/category/busin…

@jonathanstea 😂

Debating anti-vaccine activists.

@itsme_urstruly 😂

"can you explain this large gap in your resume?" yeah i tried to move an image on word.

@SandyHorne61 @BlokeonaQuest65 That is an awesome shot.

A scarlet robin in flight. Kaiserstuhl Conservation Park, South Australia.

@JamesCoyne Could probably call it a "side chick" in that case. 🤔

Bought a bachelor's handbag. I'm married.

@cosmicjester Horrible stuff.

Bought some VB because I hadn’t drunk it in years and couldn’t even remember what it tasted like. And look I’m far from a beer snob but it’s not great.

@DestryBrod Probably get more traction if you DM this to people. 🤔

Stop falling for DM's asking you to click on an unfamiliar link you stupid motherfuckers. They're trying to hack your account, and you won't be able to get it back. This is the last time I'm going to tell you.

#Methane emissions at Australia’s #coal mines are falling, but because of lower production, #offsets and accounting tricks rather than much abatement.. reneweconomy.com.au/australias-coa…

@3AW693 Lot of words to say they lost. 🤔

Following the Nepean by-election held on Saturday night, polling indicates that One Nation has gained significant influence. CLICK HERE FOR MORE 👉 brnw.ch/21x29Wj

@higgsyxh @EVCurveFuturist Your solar guy is ripping you off. That's $55k here in Australia. An average install here for the most common roof top system at around 6.5kW is about $5,000 Australian. That's without any incentives. Even adjusting for local markets there's no way it should cost ten times that.

@EVCurveFuturist The solar sales guys want me to believe it costs $40,000 to install one of these on my roof

War destroyed Aleppo’s grid. Solar rebuilt it. 🇸🇾 Two years ago, almost no panels. Today, rooftops are saturated across war-torn Syria. No subsidies, no green policy, no billion-dollar programs. Just a collapsed grid, unaffordable diesel, and cheap solar flooding in. People didn’t wait, debate, or lobby. They installed. One rooftop at a time. Centralised failure became decentralised reality. From blackouts to ownership. Messy. Fast. Unstoppable. This is how solar wins. Unburdened by regulation. Unblocked by utilities. Enabled by China’s manufacturing scale. Driven by collapsing cost curves.

@monocag1 @aaronsmith @TheIPA He's built a decently paid career out of it.

@aaronsmith @TheIPA Few people are prepared to be publicly wrong as often as Adam Creighton

“The fuel crisis actually has been a really big negative for the solar and wind groups.” Reality is cutting through the narrative. Australia runs on diesel. Fossil fuels still matter. And policy decisions are leaving us exposed. 📺 Adam Creighton on the Power Hour Sky News Australia: bit.ly/4t8LmqG

@KimCarrera007 True but we live in a vast brown land and there's lots of road in-between the areas we decide to live & work. That's the infrastructure I'm referring to, coming back to the topic of trucks etc. There's also a hefty chunk who live & commute local but don't have a place to charge.

@agentsmart Personally I think the whole charging infrastructure thing is over blown as 99% of the time people will charge from home for the 65 kilometers they do a day.

It's been 3 months since the US forced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz yet those that doubt this has been a catalyst to accelerate a move away from diesel feel justified because every single diesel truck or ute hasn't been replaced with an EV yet. Three. Fucking. Months. FFS.

@XdGhia80692 *yawn and mute*

@agentsmart China has shitloads of coal to power them all.

@KimCarrera007 Yes we need every incentive we can to get more on the road but I'd rather they pour money into charging infrastructure really. Used markets are just starting to mature now. My comment was for those saying it's not happening because they look around & still see diesel on the road.

@agentsmart The way to do it is to ramp up subsidies for local & state government fleet purchases along with federal to flood the market in coming years with cheap fleet evs for the class of people that can only afford preowned vehicles.

@Nov30500 Oh they can't help but feel the pain but there are plenty here waiting for the EV scam to be revealed and guzzalene to somehow drop back to a dollar a litre and they'll chug-chug-chug-a-long as though nothing happened.

@agentsmart Na they feel the pain.. I bet, like you said, if this prolongs itself the economics will drive purchases..

@Richard01357064 Yeah a lot of folk make this assumption. Don't confuse immediate with inevitable. No one's dumping a working diesel truck or ute to go electric but when that vehicle's service agreement is up it's unlikely to be replaced with diesel again. The wise plan ahead. The rest can wait.

Technology forecasters make astrologists look good, and economists respectable. Let's wait and see what happens ... yes? So far all I see are diesel trucks pulling B Doubles and doing the heavy haulage. Truckiest are the smartest. If ET's are the way to go ..... then they'll be into them in a flash. But so far - no flash. So far, it's all diesel.