It may not be harmful to humans to mine, but the largest productions aren’t as eco-friendly as you might think. The salt flats that produce some of the largest volume of Lithium is essentially strip mined, and the landscape is changed permanently after. The real issue for me personally is that so much of the largest…

As long as you don’t care how much food costs I guess corn liquor is a good option. And as long as you don’t care about the ridiculously low energy density and the costs of manufacturing alcohol for fuel. And as long as your fine with probably 90 something percent of the cars on the road not being able to burn E85…

The customer was also different. Chevy buyers are harder on their cars than Toyota buyers who baby theirs. It matters.

As someone who claims to work with regular car buyers everyday, it might serve you well to understand us regular car buyers ARE concerned about what happens inside the car as much as we are under it. I don’t drive from the engine compartment, I don’t sit on the transmission, and I don’t listen to the rear end on the…

Sorry, I just couldn’t finish this foul-mouth curse fest you try to pawn off as an article. Did you miss any cuss words at all? Maybe it was just filler for the 3 or 4 paragraphs of actual words that you were able to string together. But you probably get paid by the word, so quality is about the last thing you’re…

What “top notch quality” former Audis are you talking about exactly? That’s pretty funny.

I mean, it’s pretty and all, but I’m starting to fear it’s just another flashing, souless remake. I can ooh and aah about the visuals, but if there’s no story to back it up it’s only gonna be another Fantastic Four disaster.

I don’t totally disagree. I know a little about logistics and the cost impact of this, and it’s huge really. But I see older trucks on a daily basis spewing black smoke so thick you could walk on it. The exemptions for commercial trucking almost make the regulations for private vehicles pointless. They need to have…

Not only is the tech not ready, or society as you say, but legally we’re not ready either. Us humans have to take tests and get a licences to drive on the roads, because you know, other people are there.

Imagine how the majority of the country feels when we accidentally find ourselves in one of the nations human cesspools you call a city and find Che Guevara and Pol Pot painted 50 feet high on the side of building, because I guess genocide isn’t a bad word there. The fact that Bernie Sanders, a cranky-ass little…

Agreed. I don’t get the hate. No one complains when career builders buy a running chassis and bolt a mail order body to it, but somehow this kid is a loser? He designed his own car, sourced all of the parts or built them, and assembled a running vehicle. That’s friggin amazing.

But it’s perfectly OK for Putin to act outside of the UN without a vote from the US? And apparently Obummer didn’t work too well with Assad to get his chemical weapons out because he’s used them since.

Great analysis Derek. I don’t have as good a grasp of the air to surface toys as I do the surface to air/surface goodies I got to play with in the Army (ADA guy). I’ve been out for almost a decade, and this level of precision was available in my day. That makes it even more impressive really, because who knows what’s…

Unfortunate but true. Racing is a business now, not a hobby or a passion.

Too bad the Justice video is exactly how the black youth in America think acceptable behavior looks like. Zero respect for other people or property. And they wonder why they’re viewed with suspicion and not trusted.

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It’s really exactly as cold-war Russia needs it. If they can put the bordering countries in a state of conflict it’s almost as good as having them as allies. They have accomplished that with Ukraine. They have a stalemate condition in Georgia in the Caucuses already. Even in the north they are poking at Sweden to see…

This looks to me like such a huge opportunity for the US and our allies to deal Russia a real blow to their foreign expeditions. They are stretch pretty thin it seems, but confident enough that we wont act that they don’t mind. I think we should start supplying SAMs, artillery and other heavy weapons to the Kurds,…

So you know your car is spewing noxious gas into the air but you don’t care because, well, typical VW/Audi driver. Got it.

You don’t really think the majority of us Americans would really would mourn Obummer’s demise do you? Don’t get me wrong, there are a few sheeple that think he’s the second coming of Christ, but the rest of us, not really. We’d be pissed that the Office was violated, we’d take enormous offense that we were attacked as…