On one hand, you have a point, and that taxes will need to be re-evaluated at some point regarding EVs. On the other, this all reeks of culture war bullshit.

Assclown is the perfect choice here. Asshole is too generic and simple. Asshat is far too light. An assclown is someone who revels in their behavior and thinks everyone else who doesn’t get them is wrong. Unlike a hat, which can easily be taken off or put on, an assclown wears the face. I think someone making all the…

Oh good Lord, it’s a Texas license plate, too.

I’ve seen this same niwit complaint regularly since I started reading Jalopnik [mumble] years ago. If you want nothing but cheerleading pablum written to a fourth grade level you’ll find it somewhere else.

ANOTHER Frank, Dodd housing crisis? shit.

I used to “depend” on cars, and couldn’t imagine a life without mine. As much as I love cars, time has shown me car-dependence is just unsustainable. And it really makes life harder, not easier.

How do you know that’s all you have in common, until you meet them?

My elderly neighbors across the street are better than a security system. Yeah they turned me in to the HOA once for leaving my trash can out at the curb for an extra day, but they see EVERYTHING.

So... as you get older this changes. Especially if you buy a house or some other form of “I’m going to live here for a long-ass time.”

Um, excuse you, how will they compensate for certain things and rundown cyclists if not in a diesel?

Probably shouldn’t buy a diesel if they can’t afford to maintain them.

Yeah - neither of those things are true:

Good fuck them, also fuck any company that uses a Pit Bull as part of their logo. I don’t have an issue with them as a breed as many do, but it seems like just about any company that uses them as part of their logo or marketing end up being shit bags.

The fine should be $20K+ per modified vehicle instead of a flat fine and the proceeds should go to a legitimate fund that benefits the environment.  That would help to make things right.

Using “dumbass” to describe this fellow seems a little...generous.

Yep, when someone terrorizes you due to their own incompetence and they have the legal authority to kill you and your entire family with consequences (if any) to happen later, best put a smile on your face and say, “THANK YOU SIR! Can I have another?!”

I am sorry you went through that is not the same as I am sorry I made a mistake.

Texas is Hell.

People are either ostriching or hunkering down.

I think it’s a joy ride in the sense that it was apparently parked perfectly well (Mr. Luck is quoted as saying he watched the valet park the car in front of the restaurant) and the valet took the car onto the streets. Afterward, the reason for the car not being in the parking space up front was that it had to be…