5th gear:

The Auschwitz Museum twitter account took Linsdey behind the woodshed in a subtweet: 

Everybody is pointing to the economic tariff policy as breaking GM, and that’s a big part of it; but don’t leave out the manipulation of the crude oil market which kept gas prices low.

The Occupant of the Oval Office made a big production of re-imposing strict sanctions on Iran; and with that understanding Saudi Arabia increased oil production to keep prices and supply stable. When the actual sanctions were re-imposed, there was a carve-out for Iran’s large export market.

Except their two outdoor games are five and seven games from now. They have a three game home stand and then away at the Cardinals before they play a possible cold weather game.

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.