On 9/12 there was a real sense that anything was possible; more attacks, learning that the terrorists were state sponsored, a shooting war starting immediately, etc.

1st Gear: Sure would be great if we could have finished a secondary big pipeline to act as redundancy.

Wow. Wrong.

It seems to me the article told you exactly what you need to know.

It’s a non-mandatory life saving device and you can go ahead and just pay $800, which is what all the other options on the market cost. 

You should see the case socialism sometimes makes for capitalism. 

In this case you’re just paying for a product and breaking it up over time. It’s also an expensive, non mandatory item that didn’t even exist a few years ago.

As a US patent attorney, maybe I can shed some light on the situation. You are correct, Jason. After a year, you cannot patent an invention that you have made publicly available (and publishing on the internet counts). Whether you sign the declaration or not, Canoo will be able to use the internet article as prior art…

Living in the Detroit area means that odds are more than 80% you can get the employee discount for one of the big three. My dad is a retiree and, at the risk of losing his job and now retiree benefits, he’s never given a control number to anyone not allowed. I’ve personally seen others sell these control numbers to…

Maybe.. I’m guessing a lot of those sales displaced other sales. That is, people were lured to that specific dealership and salesman because he was selling cars for an average of $4K less.

It’s easy to be a better salesperson than anyone else when you don’t have to play be the same rules.

Yeah, there are some big mechanic distinctions between rubicon and sahara

You know how I know you know nothing about Wranglers...you typed this sentence:

700k in unwarranted sales bonuses leaves $8 million. The linked Auto News article indicates Nimo used these codes for “nonqualified buyers thousands of times” 8mil divided by 2000 would be $4000 per transaction. Who’s to say how many thousands of sales are involved? But I agree, it would have cost FCA more to NOT make…

I know we like to rip on hydrogen, but it we find a cost effective way to produce metallic hydrogen, we would have a fuel that could be more safe, more plentiful, better for the environment (vs fossil fuel/battery manufacturing), and current day engines could be retrofitted to use it, which is more environmentally…

As someone who works for a regulatory agency, this is absolute bullshit.

Thats an odd thing to say that you certainly wouldn't say if this post was about FCA

As someone who actually studies the economic effects of regulations at the microeconomic level, I can tell you that there certainly are examples of the EPA making rules that are “overly strict”. This, however, ain’t it... this isn’t the EPA making up a “nitpicky” rule just to stick it to Tesla... this is Tesla failing…

Your comment is technically correct (the best kind of correct), but in this context it is based on a faulty premise. As far as I know, no automotive manufacturer is using truly water-based paints. What they use are waterborne paints. It is more precisely referred to as a suspension than a solution. The paint is not…

Yes that would be sane thing to do. But writing about cars is literally David’s job. Crazy gets clicks. And that is ok with me.

The Tracy does not do this for financial sense.