Agreed that the actual amount was relatively middling but it was the lack of thought behind or rather to the extent that there was a thought behind it, it was simply to punish primarily metro Atlanta drivers who are more likely to not be Republican.

You are correct regarding flat fee vs usage fee. My problem was that it was not grounded in any sort of rational analysis by the legislature — clearly punitive to Atlanta. You’re also right that the current and future generations of EVs will have ranges closer to those of ICEs and legislation should take that into…

You’re right it’s not unrealistic to drive 50 miles each way to work...if you have an ICE. It would be logistically almost impossible to do so in all but the rarest edge cases in an EV. For us, and I suspect the vast majority of Leaf drivers, Monday-Friday we drove maybe 15 miles a day and almost nothing on the…

No it does not because the $250 is completely arbitrary and not related to actual usage unlike the gas tax. A better scheme that was actually aimed at fairness would have included a yearly odometer check. But this was not about fairness, it was about punishing primarily Atlanta drivers since the state legislature is…

Do the math on what that $250 registration fee equates to in terms of gasoline taxes collected and how many miles an EV would have to travel for it to balance out and then tell me it’s equitable. Hint: it’s not. I’m all for paying a fair share but the flat fee is not the way to do it. They could easily put in a…

It’s wildly disproportionate to actual usage though based on the current gas taxes. To contribute $250/year in gas taxes is the equivalent of driving 15k miles/year in a car that gets 30mpg. Which means you would have to drive 41 miles per day ever day. Given the fact that most electric cars don’t go anywhere near…

15k miles/yr equates to 41 miles per day every single day of the year. I had my Leaf for 2 years. Guess what the odometer read when I turned it in? 6k. Given the relatively limited range and what most people who owned them use them for (very short commutes, errands around town) I’d be willing to guess that my…

WHAT?!?! So...many...questions...why is s/he so uptight about there being food around? And no flip-flops? Cause THAT’s somehow objectionable but jerkin’ it in literal shit-stew ISN’T?
Assuming this is real of course...

You Excel at this.

Occam’s razor time. Which is more likely— A young, handsome, well-built, wealthy athlete with a gentle demeanor has never sexed up a lady because he is a devout Christian? Or because he is homosexual?

Agreed.

+1 for the begs

As much as I hate publicly financed stadium deals, to the extent that there is an authority/governing body which oversees its use and administration, it does seem reasonable that they would have a justifiable use of such a suite or at least some sort of access to the facility. As for the unlimited booze and food that…

The best advice I can give to my fellow federal employees is to stay; we owe our fellow citizens a functioning government.

I know objectively the two should be unrelated but I can foresee it shifting focus from the very real issue of the batshit insanity present in the video.

Is this posted some place else? I would LOOOVE to share it but if you go to “Roman Navy”’s twitter feed, about 2 posts below there is a loop of 2 people engaged in vigorous cunnilingus. Nothing against that but I feel it kind of hurts the credibility of the argument...

Amen. They will simply refuse to acknowledge the possibility that he is somehow messing up and despite having every branch of government working for him he will somehow successfully manage to pin it on the left, of this I have no doubt. I’d like to believe that the people who voted for him are reachable/teachable…

You realize that is exactly what he is going to do and there is literally nothing and nobody that can convince him to do otherwise, right? He completely blew up the playbook when it came to campaigning and there is zero evidence that he will follow any sort of conventional path when it comes to actually you know,…

That’s the joke.

Yes, I know I am livid and astonished when I look at my FB feed and see the astounding level of ignorance spouted by my hometown “friends” from BFE small-town South Georgia. But me being all college-educated city-boy liberal in my responses to them will not help bring them around.