It absolutely is not. It is a commodity fuel that can be converted into heat energy when vaporized and ignited by a secondary energy source. You can pour it directly into a combustion engine and nothing will happen until you provide a spark. It can evaporate without being converted into a significant source of energy.

Electricity is energy. It does not need a secondary source of energy to convert it into heat or light. Electricity arcs through the atmosphere it instantly and automatically converts to light and heat.

That's why they are produced, transported, and sold in such radically different ways.

Gas isn't energy, it's fuel. It's a commodity with a global market. Producers have to physically store it. Refined gasoline has a shelf life and production is planned weeks to months in advance. If demand falls off their product depreciates and they have storage expenses. If a gas company cuts production below demand competitors can ramp up and eat that market share because consumers have options.

But electricity tends to be a captured, monopolistic market. There's no scalable physical storage. The supply is whatever they are producing locally right now and they have some say in that. There's no tanker of Saudi electricity coming to relieve the market and you're not going to drive your house to a filling station to top off your electricity.

Liquid natural gas is similar, in that most people will just pay whatever is asked for what's pumped into their homes, but less dramatic because it is a physical commodity that can be replaced or substituted.

Yeah. Any car that isn't armored should be assumed 0% bulletproof. I wouldn't trust a car door to protect me from a .22.

The engine block is the only thing on a regular cop car that would reliably stop, deflect, or at least slow most bullets.

Exactly, so there's never a reason to bring down the price. If anything you'd bring down the supply (e.g. Enron during the California energy crisis).

No, those are all necessary.

I needed a machete one time and honestly could have managed with a different tool. I now own three of them.

Another BioShock... Don't mind if I do.

They can turn off some generators and adjust the supply down for ideal revenue/profits, reduce staffing levels, and extend equipment life. There's no reason for them to charge you $50 for something once you've told them you'll pay $100 for it.

You should listen to some of the recordings of the energy traders at Enron. They did this stuff all the time.

We did alcohol prohibition in the US once. I wouldn't describe the effect on crime as "settled down". A more apt description might be "St Valentine's Day Massacre".

It probably doesn't matter if they are actually bulletproof. They'll be used as propaganda show cars, or personal vehicles for the brass, and never called into actual service.

No one in their right mind is going to pick the "bulletproof" cybertruck over an armored Bearcat in a scenario where they expect to be shot at. For non-tactical applications they're no more or less bulletproof than a standard potrol vehicle.

I'm sure I'll get down voted to holy hell for saying this, but I've always appreciated that the rules are pretty transparent and it was easy for me to rack up a great credit score even before I had a decent income. To me it always felt like an open book test.

Same. Unfortunately I'm very forgetful and the distance between now and then is often greater than the release window of that movie I want to watch.