It’s not just about the cost of renting a car though, but about the convenience as well. Renting a car is a HUGE pain. Getting to wherever the rental company is, waiting in line, and then it turns out they need to wait for someone to return a car before you can get it, or they need to get a car from another location.…

100% agree. I believe the majority of new vehicles sold right now should be PHEVs. The vast majority of journeys would be electric, but you avoid all the problems/anxiety that long-range electric trips cause today. As battery tech improves, increase the batteries and shrink the ICE until we can go pure electric with…

I can promise you, a couple sports cars are used for fun sporty driving more often than a truck ever trucks anything.

My personal, unscientific opinion about food is that humans can live on just about anything. Historically, we have eaten just about anything.

To play Devil’s Advocate here for a minute, it’s not actually about whether or not you’re a good driver. It’s about how likely you are to have a crash. If you drive in Miami and constantly have to slam on the brakes because people are doing crazy shit all over the road in front of you, you’re a bigger risk than if you…

A quick search tells me 19% of Uber drives do it more than 35 hours a week.  So your position is you should tell the other 81% what’s best for them (and probably some of the 19% as well).  Thank goodness they have you looking out for them.

This! Progressives don’t seem to understand that if Prop 22 is rejected, these jobs all but disappear, hurting the same people they are claiming to want to help. Good intent, poor policy. 

Fwiw.. I think that their business model sucks... but voluntary gig workers still are voluntary and can leave if they dont like what they agreed to work for.

“I’m fine, so everyone else should be too!”

The amount of plastic a person goes through is not actually going to put a dent into the global impact even if they cut out all of it.
A comparison: Marriott Hotels last year announced that they were going to stop using single use shampoo, conditioner, and soap bottles in their hotel rooms. The estimated reduction in…

As a consumer I can pick what products to buy, but where do I get milk that isn’t in plastic jugs, or bread not in a plastic sleeve, I cant tell Amazon to skip the box and packing materials and just drop off my junk at the door.

I wouldn’t be suspicious of the interior. VW interiors of the era just didn’t hold up.

Plug in Hybrids make more sense than electric for the foreseeable future (barring a major battery revolution). 15% of the battery handling 90% of the needed driving... No need to stop to charge on a long road trip. It would be much easier and cheaper to move more of the automotive fleet over to plug in hybrid and get…

Anyone that predicted lowering corporate taxes would increase hiring or lower tier employee wages was either flat out lying or doesn’t understand how the labor market works. That said...

Neutral: I live in Michigan and the Democratic Party has a big problem on its hands with respect to organized labor. In my opinion (and I’m not sure when exactly it happened) the Party transitioned from championing organized labor as its #1 priority, to championing social issues as its #1 priority. The Right has often…

I don’t think it’s that the parties have swapped positions, I think it’s more that both walk a tightrope between domestic populism and international free trade.

It has a column between the doors, an upright greenhouse, and a solid roof. It also has 4 independent doors (not that is actually a sedan requirement). This could be the dictionary picture under the definition of sedan.

This isn’t a bike for riding. It’s a bike for pulling up at a car show, revving the engine loudly as you slowly back it off the trailer and very carefully shepherd it to where you’re displaying it, setting up a print in a $30 frame that shows the build process, and parking your butt in a folding chair hoping that…

“Protests and strikes non stop” is right wing propaganda my dude :)
We have a lot more than you, that’s for damn sure, but that’s also why we have so much more social safety than you guys. We fought for them, we fight to keep them, and it works :)

And we don’t have 25 yr import rules or crap like that here. You want a…

I can’t help but smile when I see a well-maintained example of a mundane car, simply because almost nobody cares about such cars.