Ah yes, the old “when all else fails, call the other person ‘too emotional’” trick.  Well played, clearly you win now, I’m gonna go cry

I never claimed it was 20 years old, I said it *could* be. There’s a whole lot of people jumping to conclusions. I have no idea how you magically know that’s a ‘12-13, from a shot of the rear quarter panel. Looks exactly like an ‘07 to me.

Here’s an idea for you-there could be *2* Silverados getting tires at the same…

KBB says otherwise, at least around me.  Dunno what to tell you

I’ve said this multiple times already.  That body style is as old as ‘07, it’s an LT, and could have well over 100k miles on it.  Worth $8,000 at the most, per KBB.  I’m amazed at how little Jalopnik readers seem to know about vehicle body styles.

As early as ‘07, if that one is hers.  12-13 years old, could be worth as little as $8k.  Your point?

The one in the first garage bay? Could be as old as 2007-proof below. Furthermore, it’s an LT. With a conservative estimate of 100k miles, KBB says it’s worth $8k. Not $30-40k, and not entirely unreasonable for a single mother.  Moral of the story-people are judgemental assholes.

I missed the part where it said it was a new Silverado?  Could have been a 20 year old hand-me-down for all we know.

I mean, you gotta start somewhere, right?  Obviously if she tried to push a ton of controversial legislation through right out of the gate she’d get nowhere...

I’m not discounting that, they’re way ahead of us, but their population density is in a more favorable config than ours, that’s all.

To be fair, she *does* have a degree in International Relations & Economics from Boston University, which makes her more qualified than 99% of us, I’d think.  Not an expert necessarily, but not just an “underemployed bartender” either as you so dismissively categorized her.

I never said that at all! I just don’t think it’d be as easy for us to get the same population coverage as they have, that’s all. We should definitely start with the low-hanging fruit and set up short lines between high-density areas, but I don’t think we can reasonably expect to attain their level of success any time…

I don’t think very many people would fault you for that position, either. Skepticism is fair to me, as long as you give new ideas their day in court.

How did you get that out of what I said? That’s just being disingenuous. You argued that China was just as difficult of a landscape as the U.S., but that they’ve achieved significant high-speed rail coverage.  I argued that the U.S. is significantly harder geographically, you disagreed and chose to dismiss most of my…

China’s cities are all much larger than ours-I believe the stat is something like 300 million in just 15 cities-their density is incredible.  See the population density maps I posted above-~90% of their density is confined to the Eastern 50% of the country, whereas the U.S. is far more spread out, all things…

Consider population density maps of the two-yes, the U.S. does have a similar hole in the Western half, but the layout is not nearly as favorable as China’s. We’d still have to connect SLC, Las Vegas, Colorado, Oregon, WA, NorCal, SoCal, Arizona, etc., whereas China sends a single finger out west and covers 90% of…

Perhaps extremely limited in scope wasn’t entirely fair, but they have one high-speed line in the entire Western half of the country.  I’d argue that we’d need at least double the high-speed rail mileage in order to achieve the same population coverage they have, if not more.

We do have a large region where people don’t live, but that region is surrounded by population centers on three sides. The entire Western half (and a good portion of the Northern bit) of China, except for like one city, is rural and disconnected from their high speed rail network.  If you’re willing to focus on a few…

I’m a big high speed rail proponent, but I gotta challenge you on that one-there are bigger countries by land area with significant high-speed rail?  If you’re referring to China, they’re about the same size and their high speed rail network is extremely limited in scope, leaving out most of the Western 50% of the…

If you’ve read any of this supposed plan, you know it’s a framework, not a hard and fast plan with concrete details and/or a concrete budget. It’s also not binding in any form or fashion in its current format-even if it passes, it simply represents a set of ideals that the House is supposed to work towards.  But sure,…

So we should effecitvely fire half of Congress because they are “junior members”, and never elect any new ones? Junior members become senior members, you know.

You may question her relevance now, but damned if she hasn’t gotten a lot of people talking about legislation to combat climate change, which is a large part…