Corporation opts for short term solution to long term problem, news at eleven.

Big governments have been consistently better than small governments for the economy.

The US is a net exporter of energy, not of crude oil. We still take in a ton of foreign crude.

While they didn’t take bailout funds technically, Ford still got billions in other loans and tax breaks from the federal government in 2009.

The U.S. governments job is to secure Americas energy security. Fords job is to maximize profits. These are goals are in direct competition with each other, specifically due short term demand goals dictating Fords R&D goals. which is why, as a regulatory body, the EPA puts into place and enforces regulations which…

Here’s the thing you’re missing:

Ford isn’t being forced to make “shit no one will buy”. The EPA regulations have a MPG target for each vehicle based on its size. Ford could sell 100% F-150s, and as long as those trucks got the mpg requirement for a vehicle its size, they’d be fine. Gone are the days when they’d have…

One thing that helps is that the standards are far more lax than they seem.

If it wasn’t for the government then the US Auto industry would’ve gone out of business 7 years ago, if not decades sooner.

No one is paying me to say this:

They are up 30% from 2015 sales. I don’t know why people say they aren’t selling

Ford is a company with a grand history of slithering. We all know about the racism and historically creepy manufactured culture for employees, but I find it interesting that in the book I’m reading (something of a travelogue published in 1933) all the vehicles mentioned on the roads of Soviet Russia are Fords and…

It’s not for next year. These are for way down the line so carmakers have time to innovate.

Unless they’re decals, something is fucky about a “2002 E46 M3" with face-lift headlights.

so we can make shit go faster than it did stock. next question?

Ha. Yeah, outside of Red Deer sure. This entire damn city is built in and on a river valley. You don’t go north or south without going up or down a slidey hill.

By law all vehicles in the province of Quebec have to have snow tires. If you don’t you could be held responsible for the accident.

No matter how much experience you have with ice and snow, sometimes shit just be dat way.

Yeah, it is pretty steep. Also, it’s our first official snow fall of the year in MTL and it rained all weekend, so it’s probably a solid ice rink under that thin layer of snow. Most people don’t have their winters on yet.

1. Snow tires will do precisely zero if you’re sliding down an icy slope.

They’re the folks from “up there” who only take breaks from hockey and profuse apologies to laugh at us Americans who voted for Trump.