99. The Madness of Elon Musk

<p>Telsa's Elon Musk is concentrating on humanoid robots and Canadian truckers. Is he losing his way? Plus Big Oil is screwing us on orphan wells but lookout for lawsuits from environmentalists paving the way to cleaner future.</p> <p>After a winter blizzard hits the home city of this podast, James learns two things: 1. Siding comes off houses easily and 2. Gas cars are dangerous when you're stuck in a snow drift. Not true for electric cars.</p> <p>Brian researches an 1920s story of light bulb companies colluding to make their bulbs only last 1000 hours.</p> <p>A local EV buyer was surprised at range loss in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 even though it's not that bad. He also says the sales person knew nothing about electric vehicles behond that they have four wheels.</p> <p>Elon Musk Cray or Slay: humanoid robot obsession and unpopular political opinions. Will Elon stop believing in climate change one day soon and if so, what will that mean for the planet?</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tennis Australia announced that it had ended a sponsorship arrangement with oil and gas company Santos early. The sponsorship deal covered Santos’ logo being featured in on-court signage at both the ATP Cup and Australian Open and was supposed to run across multiple years starting at the 2021 Australian Open.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A new study by Atlas Public Policy on the total cost of ownership for EVs says EVs are beating gas equiv. vehicles in all categories across the board.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ford Escape room game.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A federal judge on Thursday canceled oil and gas leases of more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, ruling that the Biden administration did not sufficiently take climate change into account when it auctioned the leases late last year.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The decision by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia is a major victory for environmental groups that critic