Are you sure about that? Motors and parts absolutely lose efficiency with wear. Maybe not 10%, but there is loss.

Yearly tax with some factor of frontal area and overall weight.  Frontal area also scales if you lift your vehicle

America: Our problems are easily solvable but we won’t because the solutions are unpopular to those in power.

Just recently I saw the aftermath of a refrigerator falling out the back of a pickup on a local 55mph road. Fortunately nobody was close behind. It was a mess. Generally I have more faith in a CDL holder to secure his load than some bozo who really should have just paid the delivery fee instead of trying to haul…

There are similarities though. Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth seem hellbent on forcing wood on innocent people.

So what? You think anyone can withstand a $40k loss? If they’re insured, you think the insurance premium won’t quadruple to recoup their losses?

Yes let us help criminals....

“ the employees noticed the same vehicle and man siphoning gas into large jugs.”

That’s called “working the night shift.” I used to go to a corner bar-and-grill for breakfast at 6 a.m. during night-shift happy hour. It looked like so much fun I went there a couple mornings off from work.

Counterpoint: how stupid do you have to be to continue driving off the edge of a bridge because your GPS told you to

No, no, no. This thing has been rotting at that pier for 30 years, and she was gutted to the ribs in the 1990s to remove all the asbestos. Refurbishing it would probably cost twice as much as a greenfield project with the same specs.

Real price talk. Cars are actually cheaper now than ever.

I would fully support taxation by vehicle weight. I think that’s the only way we start getting smaller cars again. We are all so spoiled.

Man, that’s clean. Tip of the hat to whoever took care of this thing all those years.

This. Plus it’s safer in general and more convenient not to have to walk around the car to fill up. And having the pump on the side of the car closest to the driver means you’re less likely to be exposed to rain, snow and anything else that lurks out there in the darkness.

Agreed, crushing cars is political despot crap:

This does seem ripe for abuse. There’s already a wave of police just taking money and valuables as civil forfeiture.

And you seriously think that a commercial aircraft is subject to the very same technical requirements as a military aircraft?

Inspections and quality control is also a big part of it. When a bolt is tested from the lots of metals used, the resulting alloy content, the forging, the machining, and destructive testing of samples, it’s no surprise that the bolts that hold a wing onto a $75 million aircraft cost $600 each instead of the 79 cent…

Reality is that for ANY airplane part, a HUGE part of the price, and most of the markup over an otherwise all but identical non-airplane part, is the certification and paperwork costs.