Only the cool parts, though, so they can say they live in Baltimore without actually living in Baltimore.

There is the Transit Connect 7 passenger wagon. It’s down in power from all the other actual minivans but it is smaller and better handling.

Academia says yes, racism in porn still exists. News at 11? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07393149808429832

My bigger concern is that if Trump does get removed from office that his supporters in the armed forces will openly revolt and start a coup. Tell me this is just my fear.

No, the D was the guy who questioned this Einstein. The human excrement who said this shit was a big R.

It really takes a special someone to want to run for office. Most of the time it’s incompatible with science.

It all comes down to donating stuff that has less value than book value. One example I’ve read about is rich people donating 11 months’ worth of their vacation home to the local battered women’s shelter. A huge tax break at market value for something that is 1) worthless to them and 2) assessed at far higher than what…

We make a tenth of that and we have a vintage Mustang, and two homes, and we live in California.

They already believe the Medicaid they’re getting is thanks to big R fighting for them. Nevermind the Medicaid expansion plan in ACA.

Nah, that’s strictly incorrect. The AHCA won’t fix your AC because functional appliances isn’t a covered essential benefit. They can’t not pay for preexisting conditions, remember? That’s what their base was screaming for.

Yeah, the real-world 40mpg in a 2003 Matrix colored me impressed. That’s the last time I shopped for a Toyota. I’m also not sure if that particular one is going to fail emissions regs soon, but I do know that rest of world rarely sees that 1.8 in use.

Yeah, definitely older technology, and I see your point about not being able to amortize the EU/Asian new technology across the US product line as well. I don’t see “quality” going down per se, but I can see us getting shipped the old tooling for tech too dirty to use in EU/Asia.

The 2.3 in the Focus Wagon was only in CARB states. Which goes back to a slightly different point about how automakers will and did give entirely different engines to CARB and non-CARB markets.

No, they’ll just use fully amortized engines that are dirtier for the USA market. IF California gets to keep its own regulations, the rest of the US will just subsidize the more advanced engines that Californians will get.

As recently as 2004, Ford offered completely different sets of Focuses for CARB and non-CARB markets. CARB markets got the 2.3 MZR and non-CARB markets got the 2.0 Zetec. Entirely. Different. Engines.

Well, no, I don’t think any of the multinational corporations are going to abandon R&D. But interesting you brought up Toyota as an example, because they’ve been using the same 1.8 in the USA for decades. If they don’t have to improve on it, they won’t. The USA market engines are already much different from the world…

It’s only “almost” as efficient because the manual/FWD Escape (when available) was a 2.5, where the Focus Wagon was a 2.0/2.3.

Unless your city in California has a public utility for 11c/kwh, and additional discounts for electric car charging... privately run utilities are a scam (I’m looking at you, PG&E)

Those aren’t electric vehicles. Don’t get me wrong, plug in hybrids are great (source: the wife has one), but pure electric still has a ways to go psychologically. If I have a commute that is not bike-able but less then 40 miles OW you bet I’d be in an electric car. It’s just, for most people, they don’t have a spare…

Yeah I’m not disputing that it’s going to take decades. Electric / hybrid started being developed in the mid-1990s and is just now being commercially viable. What the point of the article is is that the fuel economy targets are currently commercially viable. It might get easier with breakthrough advances, but don’t…