Couple of things on that...the market will fix both before long. Coal plants in Australia are having a tough time of it now because they can’t be just turned off. Ramp-up/ramp-down times are too high for coal to deal with demand spikes and valleys and solar is gutting their revenues. Sure, Australia is very sunny and…

Agreed. The market is much better at getting folks to save fuel. When gas hit $4, SUV sales imploded. Anyone seen a Hummer dealership lately? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the government that killed that line.

That always struck me...why would people think that’s a good impression to give customers? The camera angle in the vid I linked doesn’t really show it well, either. The one I’m thinking of was the same concept...huge bag of grain...certainly over 500lbs...dropped from a height of several feet. Bottomed the truck out…

Reminds me of the Silverado ad where they drop a bed-sized bag of grain into the bed with some grain elevator in the background. I’ve always suspected that the truck was perhaps not quite driveable after that. This has a different angle of the shot I was thinking of around 12 seconds.

Fucking have coffee all over my monitor now. Thanks.

That engine must have incredible power to allow for those banks at that low an altitude.

They don't have as much time as you think. It'd take decades for them to catch up and they probably don't have decades. Their export economy is going to disappear as more automation comes online...something that more of happens every year. All of this stuff, government, military, etc...isn't going to resemble…

Not really...for instance, Tesla is working on a concept where your car can become the battery for your house at night, and charge via solar during the day. I don’t know if it is or will go anywhere, but Tesla is not the friend of the traditional electrical grid.

GM needs to keep their Cadillac people the hell away from Corvette.

Doesn't Ms. Schmidt already work on TG Deutchland?

He should give Steve Bartman a call.

They'll probably find a way to do it like Letterman did with Larry Bud Melman/Calvert DeForest.

Forgot to add "...while spitting fire out its ass" to the title. Great gif.

Baby steps.

Just loaded up a buddy's low rider with a felled mulberry tree last week. He had...trouble...but the tree got where it needed to go.

You forget HBO, Netflix and Amazon Prime...

When that web site goes live...it'd be awesome if you update this post with a link.

"It allows them to move the conversation away from ever decreasing lap times at the Nurburgring..."

This is the most brilliant idea I've heard yet. Better yet, HBO.

They're toward the end of negotiations on that. It's my understanding that none of the three presenters has yet signed the contract.