Police departments across the Midatlantic region would be able to fund themselves entirely based on revenue for writing tickets to people who park at the pumps in Wawa’s parking lots. And whatever is left over would go a long way in reducing local property taxes, too.

Huh. I believe that was actually the first time I’ve read an article written by someone intentionally trying to get fired due to their writing.

As far as I know, the oil companies are behind the 3,000 mile scheme. My Honda has a plate in the engine compartment indicating it needs the oil changed only every 7,500 miles. And that’s what I’ve stuck with since 1994.

Some fan you are, spending all that money to watch the movies on Netflix instead of buying the DVDs.

LOL. All they need to sell those electric safari vehicles is the right tag line: “They’ll never hear you coming.”

Good luck with that. I have yet to actually encounter a USB cable on Amazon that’s actually capable of transferring data.

I worked in an Amazon warehouse for extra Christmas money a few years ago. I swear someone was attempting to buy a Jeep Wrangler piece by piece while I was working there. I handled about a quarter of the parts as either a picker or packer over the course of about 6 weeks. Everything from rims to body panels to light…

I’ll just point out that “digital camera box full of rocks” scam that hit the big time on Youtube about a year or so ago was done via FBA.

LOL. My first thought was “390 cu. in.” was the minimum airflow being sucked into the scoop, making it akin to the “stay clear” labels they put in front of the intakes on jet aircraft.

And more than 12 hours later, it still stands uncorrected. Caught me off guard, claiming the yen is worth more than 9 1/2 dollars. Maybe the dude has been busy writing for Kotaku while research a new Japanese booze book.

How are you shocked when solar roadway do not generate sufficient power to do so? ;3

Here in Southern NJ, PSE&G installed tens of thousands of telephone pole mounted solar panels. The network overall does generate sufficient power to offset the nighttime power usage of street lights across the company’s service area in the state. So in theory, solar panels over the roads my not be the horror story you…

The purpose of an experiment is not to discover knowledge, but rather to prove or disprove a theory. In this case, the experiment was valuable for proving that the theories regarding failure were indeed correct.

So you’re saying that if the wind blew in your face right this instant, it is pushing equally hard on a tree it blew past 5 minutes ago and a couple miles away? I suspect you are misunderstanding physics. The windmill pushes back against the wind with equal force to the wind pushing against it. This is the thing…

There have already been some small scale experiments using vertical wind turbines mounted in the center divider of a highway (in the UK, IIRC)maybe 6 or 8 years ago. The results were pretty dismal. They couldn’t even generate enough power to run a few overhead street lights on a summer night.

Don’t dump on the French government. Thank them. Someone had to throw some money at the issue to definitively prove the concept will not work. Between this and the idiocy of that public square in Minnesota, I hope this concept is thoroughly dead at this point and nobody will throw more money away trying to pursue it.

The automakers should send Trump a public letter that boils down to “awwwwww, that’s so sweet of you! You go right ahead and roll back emissions standards, but we’re going to stay right where we’re at technologically, because we’ve already spend all the research money necessary to meet those standards, so we’ll simply…

Speaking of the half-baked 911 graphic... Does anyone even manufacture a car with a “hidden behind the rear license plate” fuel port anymore? I haven’t seen one of those that was made later than maybe 1982 at the latest.

There are LOTS of holes in the concept that need to be plugged first. You bring up the issue of insufficient recharging stations, but that’s simply the end link to a bigger problem - the necessary electrical power generation to support all these electric vehicles. You’d have to depopulate southern CA, and most of AZ,…

You missed a tidbit. In one of the photos, take a closer look at the H2's front bumper tow ring. Your DJ-5 managed to successfully infect it with the red automotive wasting disease we all rue and despair as rust.