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Wasn’t there a group or a website or something called “the Ornch Car Society”? (yes, with an “h”).

This color was also really popular in 1977, so we can narrow down the age of the jerk in question to someone under fifty. 

Does it matter in any practical or historical sense? No. But it does provide (more) evidence of his (lack of) character, which, admittedly, we don’t need.

It’s aluminum, so I doubt rust will be too much of an issue.

This is the risk with buying any E.V.  As the technology improves, the value of your car drops. This is why many early adopters prefer to lease. 

Maybe he meant 50 degrees kelvin?  Now THAT’S winter. 

Channeling my inner HamNo, I see this as proof that taxes are too low on the very rich.

Same thing, really, considering how they were built. 

Well, maybe reliability, at least in the short term. 

Tucker Carlson says “Get the f#ck outta here with your socialist, communist, big government collectivist aristocracy-beheading “metric” craptons.

It’s the Social Justice equivalent to tying the CEO’s bonus to the stock price.

He was mocking me, but he is correct. Scientifically the name makes sense. It’s just unfortunate that the name confuses people. Not me, though I don’t doubt Leftlane has a better understanding of the periodic table than I do. Tenth grade was a long time ago.

Not so much a Republican plant as a political vegetable.

I worry about applying “Subaru’s all-wheel-drive technologies” in an E.V. Subaru drivetrains are great,  but they’re a really inefficient way to get power to all four wheels compared to having two motors. 

So much this. I really wish “rare earth” minerals had almost any other name. 

You can always count on the American press to focus on the most irrelevant issue as long as it contains an easy to sell narrative. 

He’s more the SCRUF type.

They can be as rich as they want, but upon election they should have to put their assets in a trust with the payout being tied to the rise or fall of the wealth of the second quintile of the population.

The shade was in the official gift to Trump from Her Majesty Elizabeth R. It was a very gaudily bound edition of Churchill’s speeches. The abridged edition. 

I agree overall, but a way to influence the manufacturers of gas guzzlers to change within this scheme would be to raise the price of the credits, or reduce the supply (same thing).