Any excise tax increase is regressive; because the thing being taxed represents a larger percentage of lower income brackets. There’s no easy way around this; except to say poor people’s CO2 is the same as rich people’s CO2, and there’s societal incentive to get older, more polluting, less safe cars off the road.

That was really my point. Using the narrow focus of “How do you increase fuel efficiency of the US personal vehicle fleet?”; a gas tax that moves people from 20mpg[*] vehicles to 40 mpge[**] vehicles does that. The idea really isn’t about raising revenue in the long term; but reducing fuel consumption.  

First Gear:

The DoPS video makes it clear, the issue isn’t the timing; the issue is the head was the primary point of contact.

The SEC doesn’t want to just bar Musk from being a corporate officer of Tesla; they want to bar Musk from being a director or corporate officer of any company within their jurisdiction. That means, besides being out at Tesla, he would be out at PayPal and he’d probably have to leave Halcyon Molecular and SpaceX, too.

I hate this car. Not the Grand National; or the idea of the Grand National. I hate this particular car.

I was ready to vote nice price (“The heart wants what the heart wants”) right up to the encumbered title.

Tesla needs to have repair part inventory on hand in their in-house centers; and then regional warehouses with larger parts and parts stores to resupply their Tesla Factory Repair Centers.

For reference, the MSU board of trustees are voted positions; not appointed.

Just wait until you find out about the model trains he used to own, his minority ownership stake in Lionel Trains, and his seven US Patents for model train technology.

Why does the car-buying experience suck? Because it’s a very different experience in Detroit.

Oh, you think we’re going to live through this nightmare. How.....optimistic.

If you don’t know that story, it’s worth looking up in detail.

Because Michigan is in the Eastern Time Zone; Minnesota the Central. So the Great Lake State’s polls close an hour earlier in November.

First, the Ambassador Bridge is privately owned, and the “New” Ambassador would also be privately owned; if it's built.

Somebody should point out to her that one of the goals of IS destruction was to hide their true purpose - looting these ancient sites to sell antiquities on the black market.

1970 Caprice. The suspect car looks like it has a cabriolet by the difference in reflected light.

It’s racism. That’s the ultimate origin of the anti-abortion crowd. The “religious right” started as a response to the justice department going after Bob Jones University’s tax exempt status because of their “No Interracial Dating” policy.

She’s been working very hard to exonerate somebody she believes has been convicted on faulty DNA evidence and a corrupt district attorney who suborned perjury:

Short answer - N. Korea’s testing site is completely destabilized. There was seismic activity a couple of months ago that was interpreted as a collapse of their next testing tunnel; the thought was another test would completely collapse the whole mountain.