That’d be a nice story, if laws were actually consistently enforced with minimal guesswork and you never heard about people getting fucked over...

The Chevy Colorado will still take about 25 years to get a return on the investment of the diesel over the gasoline version. With 30,000 miles of driving (10% city, 90% highway), the diesel will only save you about $200 is fuel a year over the gasoline version. Plus, the diesel Colorado is dogshit slow.

No, we’d typically call it a road. More precisely, and single-lane road.

a religion that holds that all human life is sacred and precious

Until you trip...

Oh, cool, victim blaming...

The money for roads have to come from somewhere. A higher gas tax would tax people that use more gas (and for the most part, put more wear on the roads). I normally don’t support higher taxes, but clearly trying to get the government to cut poor spending and run more efficiently hasn’t been working.

BMW’s mono-headlights are ugly has hell (excluding bucket headlights like the R nineT). Looks like some weird Power Rangers face shield.

Not really. Because of the massive price fluctuation that have happened with gas, we can easily predict what sales would be like based off price.

And that somehow counters the fact that—when gas prices rise, people drive less— how?

It wouldn’t be regressive. It would be flat.

Which still happens today... with the lower tax rate.

he was out after a state-issued curfew, and therefore breaking the law

But the current system makes new cars more expensive... eventually making used cars more expensive. Also, the current system allows for gas prices to drop and thus (dumb) people to believe it is a good idea to buy that pickup/SUV or whatever is bad on gas, and then they get fucked when they can’t afford to put gas in…

So making new cars (and thus, eventually used cars) more expensive is the better choice?

Instead of the government raising fuel economy standards, why don’t they just increase gas taxes. This would increase funding for infrastructure, while also creating an incentive for people to buy more fuel efficient vehicles.

I never thought it was that bad of a system. Sure, doing things like turning on/off the heated seats involved entering a menu on the screen, but most everything was pretty easy to find after about 20 minutes of use.

It totally depends. I drive about 25,000 miles a year, and switching from a ‘13 Xterra (average 17 mpg) to a ‘15 Golf Sportwagen TDI (average 45+ mpg) and I’m only saving about $1,600 a year. The average driver would only save about $800 a year.

They’re both ugly.

Is the Prius Prime eligible for the $7,500 tax credit?