That’s the name of the platform.

I am going to call the Giulia the Giorgio forever now.

I stand by my decades away prediction. It’s one thing to hold a press conference and say you’re going all electric in 2 years, but very hard to actually make it happen, especially the infrastructure (charging) part.

Why can’t we just tax everyone at the same rate?

No kidding. Just like when Jerry mandated water cuts during the drought, then the water utilities started charging everyone higher rates because of the reduced overall usage.

I don’t think you understand how the tax cuts work. At least small businesses got a tax cut finally.

80% of Americans received tax cuts, I guess 80% of America is now part of the 1%. Amazing

Yep, tax them until they’r poor like the rest. Isn’t that the great progressive mantra? What you tax tax tax and tax tax tax some more supporters forget is that these people know how to hang on to their money. They will simply move it out of reach and you’ll still get a net improvement of $0.00.

I’m still at a loss as to why FCA hasn’t handed the Giulia platform over to Dodge, so they can throw a 60s/70s jaw line on it and stuff it full of engine. Sergio bet the farm on a platform currently only used for cars with limited US market appeal, and should be mindful of ways to actually make it pay. I have to…

And it was already old when we got it. It’s a shame we never got the Panda in the US.

Yawn... I am sick to death of hearing this grossly outdated statement. For the billionth time the typical power plant is heavily regulated and have emission controls which in many cases means they run fairly cleanly. Coal is giving way to natural gas , which burns pretty cleanly. That versus the millions of cars in…

“Small cars are dying because nobody buys them. FCA already killed off the Dodge Dart and the Chrysler 200.”

“(It would be a shame if Fiat withdrew from the U.S., though, especially after it just came back here in 2011 after a 27-year absence. Plus, we’d miss the 500 Abarth.)“

To be fair, water districts have a huge fixed overhead cost in pumping, treatment and delivery. The balancing act between billing on pure usage which incentivizes conservation and flat rate, which matches the operating cost better but disincentivizes conservation is tricky. The drought in CA is nothing new, the…

Mark my words, that digital plate (with tracking) is going to be used to support new per-mile licensing fees. Hell, if you pair the California HOV sticker with the mandatory digital plate and per-mile fees people will eat that shit up.

Yeah, usage based taxes are great politically except when tech moves on and the govt was actually relying on that tax revenue to be an annuity.

They raised the fuel tax in CA. Not only did they do that, they did it during the summer->winter fuel switch to disguise the cost increase.

The feds could be like CA and drive off the cliff by raising fuel taxes to penalize everyone for consuming less fuel.

Electric cars are not as environmentally friendly as people think. How do we make electricity to charge the car batteries? Fossil Fuels (coal + natural gas)! The government will just add more tax to electricity

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