Also, while we’re on the subject, can we talk for a second about how completely unnecessary a 900-mile EV is? Why not use a battery a third of the size to give us something much more affordable with a still-useful 300-mile range? Hauling around a battery you barely even use would just be wasteful.

I want to know what kind of funny math they’re using that says trains derailing all the time is cheaper than just maintaining the damn tracks.

Also: Tort reform.

It’s almost like they choose to ignore the entire human history of paid labor that says ownership will always sacrifice public interest in order to make more money personally.

Anti-government conservatives have successfully pushed for industry self regulation for decades and so we get what we get.

I think so, judging by some of the activism and organizing we’re seeing among the current crop of teens and folks in their early 20s.

No.  Not until the added delay at the canal makes up for the bunkerage costs to round south america.

Heh, just yesterday I likened the US to “standing knee-deep in floodwater whilst having a gunfight over where to hang a Made-In-China disco ball”, but now it sounds like the disco ball may not arrive at all...

Worst drought since 1914 and not the only drought between.

BUT CO2 IS GOOD FOR ALL OF US

Can’t they find some way to use ocean water instead of lake water?

The Panama Canal, one of the major shipping routes through which 40 percent of container goods sold in America travels, currently has a 21-day wait time for ships attempting to make the passage.

Make Guillotines Great Again

Gotta make it difficult to find out which private island Justice Thomas is headed to these days.

I’m shocked that global warming will disrupt the global just-in-time shipping system.

I remember reading an article in Hot Rod magazine forever ago about how to turn a 350 Olds diesel into something ludicrious like a gas 430 ci small block once you remove all the extra metal in the block that was needed for the diesel compression. 

Along with one those Toyota Celiac cars I keep seeing listed on Craigslist.

I will wager that the dangling POS Cadillac was dumped by the owner, who reported it stolen.

I need to know if there is a white 72 Mustang Mach 1 down there.  If there is - it was supposed to go to my on my 16th birthday, it was stolen from my grandparents in Miami.

Hollywood explanation: serial killer dumping ground