It’s not a red herring, I’m talking from a sheer volume perspective. We are consuming fossil fuels at a rate far greater than they’re being generated (which takes millions of years naturally). In order to generate enough power to completely replace fossil fuel consumption, solar cells need to be very efficient in…

There needs to be higher thermodynamic efficiency in solar panels before it becomes a viable global energy alternative.

This is NOT “shifting gears a little,” remember the original F1 was designed to be the ultimate practical road car. Lots of luggage space, room for two passengers, compliant suspension. The original F1 was/still is the ultimate grand tourer.

What does being a purpose-built weapon have to do with anything?? I was responding to SgtFancypants’ question, “why can’t we regulate guns the same way we regulate cars?”

I’d have LOVED to ride in the rear hatch area of a Corvette when I was that age.

Needs more spikes protruding from dash

Consumer vehicles in general cause negligible wear and tear on infrastructure. One fully loaded commercial truck axle (not even the whole truck) does the same amount of damage as 10,000 passenger cars going across the same road.

Tell the EPA to talk to the NHTSA. You can have super heavy, super safe caccoon cars, or you can have super lightweight, highly fuel efficient cars, but you can’t have both.

Yep, I’d rather have a greedy asshole in office than an evil, corrupt and obviously above-the-law career politician.

If it’s under 12 volts, it doesn’t matter how much current there is, your body’s natural electrical resistance will prevent you from getting shocked. This is why you can grab both terminals of a 1,000 amp car battery and not get shocked.

My 1992 Crown Victoria weighed 220lbs more than this.

I thought this stuff was common sense to gearheads, at least.

And how many of the 250 cars will be owned by rich gearheads who prefer to do their own routine maintenance?

Precisely. $500 for an oil change and $5,000 for a brake job will not be surprising for this car.

What is it about the text you quoted, that upsets you so?

Not statistically false, when adjusted for suicides and criminal-on-criminal violence. Undoubtedly your numbers for this are cited from a debunked study done by Arthur Kellermann.

What does that have to do with anything?

That’s the point. Firearms are called the great equalizer, because they give the most physically weak and enfeebled person the ability to fend off an attack by big, strong individuals in their physical prime. Modern arms like the AR-15 are lighter, have less recoil, and are easier to use successfully than most other…

Every death is a tragedy, yes, but regulating or banning small arms is not the answer.

The state has no compelling interest in more heavily regulating small arms. Despite the attention grabbing headlines of mass shootings, these are statistically insignificant (more people die in swimming pools every year than are killed in so-called mass shootings). The widespread legal availability of firearms in the…