Gas prices are low due to heavier dependence domestically on fracking, and less on OPEC. It’s my understanding that prices won’t ever hit the $4-5/gallon rate again, and if it does, it won’t be due to the Middle East.

Cars with better fuel efficiency and alternative energy options Newly discovered reserves and hydraulic fracturing have basically tied our OPEC friends’ hands and they no longer hold the leverage over us they once did.

I cant wait will it be a 2019 or 2020 ? I’d buy one for a dollar !

Well, not GM much because they’ve just bailed out of Europe.

I for one welcome the disappearance of the teeny tiny turbo engine for a larger displacement NA engine that actually gets better fuel economy under normal driving conditions. Oh. Wait. Toyota already does that.

Cue the usual anti-Trump rhetoric.

“GM lost money for half a goddamn century while building shit” Huh? GM had good years and bad years, but they certainly didn’t lose money for 50 years straight. 

My favorite part ofjalopnik is when this erstwhile blog for car enthusiasts decides to argue that cars—even though they are cleaner than anytime in history and we are in the golden age for horsepower—are a plague on the earth and that we need to cripple cars like they did in the 80's.

Everyone cherry picks what they want to progress their agenda. Hell even you the author decided that your own personal scientific models of future projection are superior to the ones the car companies decided are better. This just shows your progressive beliefs being pushed on others. Don’t claim “It’s science” when…

So are we going with “Basic Science” to describe the erroneous data that seems to be constantly popping up and artificially corroborating the scientists who believe in absolute AGW, or are you going with “Basic Propaganda” in the NYT (they would NEVER mislead, sir, NEVER) to tell us that the erroneous data was being…

It was all there. Fuel. Food. Supplies. It was all sitting at the ports....rotting away. The problem was they couldn’t get it from the ports to the people. That is all widely known. Not really sure what else could be done? Or why it is our responsibility to ensure that everyone has power? We tried. They failed.

Former VW Service Advisor here:

As seems typical these days, interesting how infrastructure needs like this are just presented as a given that the federal government should be paying for most, if not all of the cost.

Buys giant SUV with big wheels and tires.

Yes, coming off of several record sales years, they’re too fragile for any potential challenge. Unlike how 2009 was the perfect time to force additional costs to automakers through increased CAFE requirements and more stringent emission regulations.

Their vacuums are already cheap plastic hunks of bad QA, I can’t see their car faring much better.

Wow.

Bolt is my ride- it’s a fantastic car. Enjoy it better than my S4.

The hyperbolic character of his assessment leads me to wonder how long he’s been familiar with mechanical engineering

Dear fellow West Coasters: You think you want a Model 3, but you really should look at the Chevy Bolt. Just pretend it’s not from GM if you must.