Add in a few charging outfits and battery tech companies, too, since it’s going to rain $$ for them. Might as well get on board for the ride . . .
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
— Thomas Sowell
Nah, I am a “buy and hold” type of guy. I have a hunch the “EV” vision being pushed under today’s agenda is a faddish, flash in the pan - and I don’t want to get stuck holding the bag investing in the Tesla’s (Motors) of the market.
I could be wrong/time will tell.
Either way, it’s going to be an interesting couple of years.
…going to be an interesting decade.
There, I fixed it for you. 
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If we transition to EVs as many predict, it will be one of the few times labeling something as a paradigm shift will actually be true.
No doubt there will be a lot more of them. Circa 1900, EV’s represented a third of the “horseless carriages.” Here’s one estimate…
Interesting couple of articles, especially the first one talking about the light entertainment TV show cabaret music (as a backlash to the late 60s), and the second one about some specific songs of that genre.
I partuclarly remember “Mouldy Old DOugh” (with the singer’s mother on piano) being played on various TV news magazine programs (including “Nationwide”, which I enjoyed as a child for the technical feats involved).
I grew up hearing that music (my parents were very much anti-rock, pop etc.) until I finally got my own pocket transistor radio when I was 8, at which point the musical world opened up for me (thank you John Peel and also Radio Luxembourg!)
RIP Pharoah Sanders
Fascinating. I’d been wondering about that!
Add to all this the normal decline in hearing as we age and you have the perfect storm of frustration. I now use a set of Bluetooth headphones and sometimes flip on the captions precisely for all the reasons stated. Never had this problem with the movies made prior to the 80’s in which the action scenes and musical background took second place to the dialogue.
I feel like I adjust our center channel volume several times a week. At first I thought it was the difference between apps like Amazon and Netflix, but soon realized that the volume differences are case-by-case.
I was willing to concede that maybe it was me getting old/having listened to too much loud music, etc. But on many occasions in the past decade, I’ve rewound because, “wait…what?!?..” It seemed like what was said might have been important to the story.
I’d listen multiple times with the volume turned up and then give up. NO IDEA what was said. Just a sonic mess. When I started out in the audio and video biz, I recorded dialogue for a living, mostly for commercials and industrials. Those sectors may arguably value the words over everything else, but this never used to be an issue with films, where story was paramount.
These days, I at times get material from what I assume are younger producers or editors where the music swamps the dialogue. Not to mention visuals that are unrelated. I’ve often pointed out to crew and clients in the past that in many cases, the critical information in the production is contained in the words. You could get rid of everything else, and the client’s message or writer’s story would be communicated solely by the dialogue. If you only had the pretty pictures or cool music and SFX, often none of that meaning is retained.
This reminds me of auto ads that are almost entirely filmed showing people out doing things like fishing, with the car in the background.
“Lifestyle” advertising. In that case, the message IS in the image projected.
A number of companies rely on this heavily; i.e., e.g. the Harley lifestyle.
