By not using the pictures from the same month, the impacts look far more impressive than they really are. April is typically when in the annual cycle snowmelt starts reaching the reservoir, and July-August would be a low point in a regular annual cycle. Don’t do this, we’re smart enough to compare apples to apples,…

Do you know California’s geography? Do you understand that the Fresno-Bakersfield segment would be the core chunk of unbuilt rail between SF and LA, as the rest is designed to share trackage with existing commuter rail? Do you also know about eminent domain and building over farmland is fast? Do you know that the Feds…

This part of the western US is actually mostly large hydro and natural gas, you’re thinking east coast.

If they did not do the illegal thing, there would be no problem. It should not be “well did you have enough locks on your door?” and more “he shouldn’t be stealing peoples things.”

Arguably contractors don’t really need F-250s either: in countries that don’t have them, most contractors run around in things sized like a Transit Connect, and those who actually need F-250 sized vehicle get a diesel 5.5 ton truck (Think Isuzu NPR) with a bed.

Pretty much.

You have young nephews who love guns, they get into your unsecured drawer where there is a gun, they play with it, hit the trigger. BAM! His fault for digging around where he’s not suppose to, right?

So you would have option packages taxed at higher levels depending on a politician’s assessment of whether it constituted “need”? That sounds like a bad parody of what a tea partier thinks progressives are.

MD-1 is drawn to encapsulate as many Republicans as possible with the constraint that it must be contiguous. MD-5, 6, 7, and 8 are all vast swaths of rural Maryland with enough of the DC or Baltimore metroplex in it to guarantee Democratic victory. If they could have filleted the entire population of MD-1 into slices…

CDN$5.37 an American gallon, silly, I know, that American gallons are smaller than Canadian gallons. Just about $4 USD, which isn’t all that bad considering parts of California are pushing $3.25-3.50

Democrat gerrymandering of Maryland is pretty efficient. How many GOP reps are in MD?

CARB is tasked to make regulations about the environment based on science. Like other things science related, I’d rather have my doctor appointed based on credentials than elected on popularity.

The problem though with that is any climate-related taxes and incentives aren’t going to be progressive. State incentives for clean energy cars, of course, those are regressive, you’re giving $2500 back to someone who can afford a $30k car. There’s a $600 incentive by my local utility, too. The old VLF regime that…

So the state is communist for closing a loophole where people buy non-compliant cars new out of state and ship them in?

They’re likely talking about the impending collapse from unfunded pensions, though since 2nd gear says California pension systems are heavy investors in growth areas, we might actually be doing okay.

That will not fly because that will play right in the hands of anti-tax right wingers. Americans need supply-side regulations like CAFE because we don’t want to see a tax line item, so we have companies roll it into their development costs.

Too accurate, based on point of final assembly of the cars...

There is a “right-to-repair” law (Lehto probably knows better than I do) that says as long as you can document that the maintenance schedule was followed, they can’t deny you warranty even if you did the work yourself. My understanding is that receipts for the parts needed for maintenance are sufficient.

Well, $749 for a Galaxy S8 that pays for $0 OS development, or a $749 iPhone that pays for non $0 (but probably still low) OS development, who’s gouging more?

You mean the XC90 T8?