Much to my surprise, sugar beets account for 55% of US sugar production. But either way, it’s really corn (syrup) that won the battle.

USAAF making chemtrails in 1941....

The U.S. is no longer the most important auto market. China is, and Europe is right behind. Citroen has always pushed the envelope and has been at the forefront of automotive design. I think the 2CV is the greatest design of all time because it provided the most with the least. In 1959, Jan Myrdal drove a 12 hp. 2CV…

“Our conviction, simple as it is, is that freedom of mobility is important, so 2.5 tonnes and €70,000 [£61,700] is not the answer.”

Except minivans have a smaller cross-section / frontal area than most SUVs. And they are lower to the ground. Air rushing under the vehicle is one of the biggest contributors to poor aero, so you want minimal ground clearance while still being practical.

Pop rivetted fender flares is a look that needs to die.  Like yesterday.

At nearly $56k, they couldn’t spare like 30 minutes and a little bit of red paint to touch up the rocker covers? 

How about colors in general?! There are so many makes and models where you can’t even GET color anymore. It’s just swatches of greys, blacks, and whites on a lot of car customizers, MAYBE an army green or a dark maroon if you are lucky, but come on! Give me reds and blues and greens and oranges of many shades! And…

...a conservative think tank...

It’s a clean and luxurious wagon, so that’s good. The seller is a dealer posting as a private owner, so that’s bad. NP if it gets a clean bill of health from a mechanic who works on fancy pants German cars. The usual caveat that you will be paying in maintenance much of what you saved in depreciation applies. 

The problem is the exception.  It is leveraging car makers to make giant POS barges to get the SUV designation.  The best thing for consumers is to make it easier so we have better lighter less stupid /wasteful vehicles 

“There’s no way a restaurant like this is doing 100 covers a night.”

“The problem is how to pay [the employees] enough to afford children, a car and a house in the suburbs.”

Or maybe stop being a dick and use the common abbreviation that everyone understands (K).

I didn’t confuse it - I just don’t agree with it, and not many people understand it.

I’d like to image you just introduced 10,000 people to XKCD.

I would suggest taking things a step further and saying that the heavier the vehicle, the smaller the federal rebate- With a weight target that keeps going down, kinda like the way we do MPG requirements now- set it to a 6,000 pound limit to be able to qualify for anything and a 3,000 pound limit for the maximum…

12 Hasselblad cameras are still on the lunar surface. The cameras were left behind to astronauts could bring back lunar samples. The astronauts could only bring back the film. These cameras had to withstand the most extreme conditions without sacrificing image quality. If not for these cameras, we would have no photos…

The only real depressing thing for me was more Ecosports sold then Mazda3’s. I’m sure most buyers weren’t cross-shopping the two, but I know which one I would pick if it were my ~$25k.

I think you mean “eminently” as in very much rather than ‘imminently” as in very soon.