It’s a subsidy because it immediately drops the consumer price, thereby (in theory) upping demand, but leaves the commodity price untouched. Suddenly, buyers and sellers of oil are paying the same amount, but consumers are demanding it more, so they sell more units and therefore make more money.

It’s pretty clever really, when you consider the truckers want to end “man dates”...

Police are never powerless. If they aren't doing something, it's because they don't want to. 

Maybe not, but we clearly have such an excessive supply that we’re able to export.

Unfortunately, that would be playing into protesters’ hands.

This would be fine if we had proof of vaccination to fly, but otherwise it’s one half of a solution. My opinion is that if your freedoms prevent you from receiving the vaccine, then you’re free to use your car and experience America’s many miles of beautiful roadways.

why does twitter exist.

Oh for fuck’s sake. The CVT is fine. I have an outback with a CVT and it does exactly what it’s supposed to do. It replaced a VW sportwagon with a manual transmission and honestly, it’s fine. No normal person and 90% of “enthusiasts” do not care about the CVT. It works, it shifts, it gets you where you need to be. It…

5th Gear: About a year ago work was finished on converting the street (Government St) in front of my house from 4 lanes to 3 (including the middle turning lane and bike lanes on either side).

A town in Vermont is testing an approach to bussing where you call a bus like you call an uber. Which on the surface sounds insanely dumb. The results are predictable. People don’t like it, and about half as many people are using the bus as they were before they instituted this new approach.

Why isn’t it an EV.

It has a prescribed route with a predictable repeatable range.

It is operated at low speeds and makes frequent stops.

This deal was worked and approved by the Trump admin’s USPS Board and finalized 31 days into the Biden administration.

I can offer one possible explanation:

which begs the question: “Why the hell are these not EVs then?” it’s literally the perfect use case for EVs since idling does not waste energy like it does in an ICE.

Not defending the choice of these turds in any way but consider that these trucks are basically doing stop and go every 60-80 ft in an urban neighborhood and I can completely understand how the mileage is going to be complete crap. I expect that if you did this drive cycle in a Honda Fit you would get crap mileage as…

And this is what you get in a society that fetishizes guns.

Ok. Slowly and clearly.

“NATURAL GAS CAN’T MELT CONCRETE BEAMS”

It was the Jewish Space Laser!

Solar storage seems to be the best use for these. Recycle the batteries that are truely no longer good, but reuse the batteries that have some capacity left. With most single family homes(82m in the US), space and weight is not an issue like it is in a car so a heavily degraded battery is not useless. A battery bank…