Gordon Bakke

"I am waiting for all the "electric car" batteries (which run on power generated by coal or gas, or hydroelectric,  but much less efficiently) to start being "recycled".  There will be a pile of oozing batteries that can't be "reused, recycled" but simply destroy the scenery or the planet."

Not entirely true. Car batteries such as those used in Teslas can be re-used for quite some time (years) as part of a home electric system. Even though these batteries are no longer viable as car batteries - there is much useful life. And they CAN be recycled at the end of their useful life to some extent, as long as recycling is mandated.

  https://www.tesla.com/blog/teslas-closed-loop-battery-recycling-program

https://www.vox.com/2016/8/29/12614344/electric-car-batteries-grid-storage

So here is my answer to your post; would it have made any difference whether Al Gore or G.W. Bush was elected in 2000? I made the same kind of arguments you made here back then. I was wrong. Just ask the 4,000 dead and 32'000 wounded as a result of our actions in Iraq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_water_buffalo_breeds

But really, aren't Canadians the worst form of "Gringos"? They look like us, they dress like us, but then they go all Trudeau on us? C'mon!!

Yes, I often advise newcomers that there are just too many *uckling Gringos in Boquete.

How about; you're not wild about Boquete because there are too damn many Gringos (bet I hit a sore spot here). :-)