Sooo, how is it that Hertz is allowed to file so many false police reports?! Why would prosecutors indict anyone at this point just because Hertz said so? I’m pretty sure if I was on Turo and I reported even a single car stolen when it was properly paid for, I’d be in some serious trouble!

Prior to these “theft” stories over the last year, Hertz was my go-to rental company.  Never again.  I have no desire to be caught up in this sort of misery.

Hertz is trying to imitate Enterprise but getting some of the details wrong:

The tragedy of commons is the achilles’ heel of the free market. It can only be solved through intervention.

I can sense a new Ad campaign:

I’m also a Presidents Circle member with Hertz (it’s fairly easy to get btw - most fancier credit cards have it as a benefit) but Hertz was always my usual go-to for rental including for months at a time when I first moved to the US. I will say that Hertz back office admin is a total and utter mess and has been for…

A Telsa Model S weighs about as much as an F150 or an E-class, a Model 3 weighs about as much as your average CUV. So they’re really not heavier. Yes, they don’t use gas but using gasoline taxes an essential source of infrastructure funding is what lead the US to the mess it is in.

The more I read about these stories, the more I wish Hertz didn’t survive bankruptcy.

what a mess. i suspect what’s happening is that Hertz cut their admin/processing staff so much that things are falling through the cracks left and right. I am not making excuses for Hertz. I suspect this is one of the many unintended consequences of their restructuring.  

Not a big deal but gasoline taxes are mostly diverted to other non-road expenses already. And damage to roads is primarily a result of temperature cycling, poor initial foundations, and heavy trucks. Making a small change to passenger vehicle weight won’t make a difference.

Well I don’t rent cars very often, but this, right here, will push them down to the bottom of my list the next time I do. 

Now if we can address the US ban on digital sideview monitors next.

Bu the regulatory credits tesla gets isn’t in the form of a handout from the gov. tax man, they are credits they can sell to other car companies for cash by just making the EVs they already make. The other companies need them (for now until their EV production ramps up) to meet the federal requirements, and Telsa has…

I said this just today in a different article. Our local politicians will bend over backwards to throw every tax easement and kickback at any big business that starts sniffing around the county..but then cant seem to understand when we get passed over because our local healthcare,  education, and infrastructure is…

I don’t think its wrong at all. I do my best to pay as little as possible to the government every year.

Miss the days when the writers actually wrote and thought about stuff. 90% of the site is now quotes and copy and paste dribble...Original thinking is hard at times, but worth the effort. Trying to rile up the ‘masses’ is a whole other thing altogether.

I miss when Jalopnik wrote about cars

“Thanks to the billions in losses it has racked up, Tesla earned sizable net operating loss carry-forwards that it could use in the future.”

You realize that just about every international country does this. Its not a secret at all. There was even a town in UK that even set it up for local businesses.  Its so prevalent I would say if you own a business and dont do this you are stupid.

I won’t blame Tesla for this, just like I won’t blame any individual for taking a SALT deduction. This is the tax code and the only ones to blame for it are the politicians we voted into office