That’s what I’m waiting for. A hybrid AWD Maverick in XLT trim is my sweet spot. I’m sort of glad it wasn’t available right away because if it had been I probably would have ignored logic and bought a first year model at current market adjusted prices. My concern is that they’ll see how well it’s selling and think…

The Maverick is one of the few new cars I could see myself buying anytime soon, because I’m a cheap bastard. Of course, because I’m a cheap bastard, it also means nothing new until the market settles down, but that should happen within the Maverick’s first generation (hopefully).

Burning fossil fuels in brand new cars is dead/dying. New cars are boring anyway. Combustion engine + excitement -> classic car, or at least something that has already been built.

Maverick.

As someone who works inn Albertas oil sector, where ever you are pulling your info from about KXL is bunk.

I think you missed the “Not all oils are the same” part.  The XL tar sands oil is not like the light and sweet WTI and Urals crude from Russia.  These don’t refine the same, hence...one would not replace the other.

Ok. Let us hear those reasons.

XL would eventually have carried Canadian tar sands contaminated oil to refineries in Texas before being shipped off-shore as it hasn’t any use in the US.

The Xl Pipeline was less than 10% completed and nowhere near ready to actually send any oil. In fact it was years from being made operational. Hence there was no oil from it in the first place and no means to configure it into the current supply.

I for one welcome $105/barrel oil. Reliance on a scarce commodity that adversaries control is idiotic. You’re always under the jackboot. Moving to electricity (generated by renewable resources, nuclear, hydrogen, etc) is the way to go to free Americans from that reliance. It’d also get all these asinine godforsaken…

“You continue to think Trump capitulated to Putin, but it’s the other way a around.”

Russia is a major supplier of a particular sort of oil to the US. It became useful to import that when other foreign suppliers of similar composition became unavailable. Refinery operations are built for particular oil compositions and it was easier to shift the supply origin than re-build the refinery. Presently the…

Miata, as always, is the answer here.

The United States never, not for one minute of the pandemic, had any sweeping federal mandates. There’s nothing to even protest in D.C.

“They’re not sending their best”

Good for those drivers. Absolutely something all the drivers should commit to. F1 needs to cancel, and do so because it is the right thing to do, not because they may be forced to because of economic sanctions. F1 seems to rarely do the right thing until too late, so we will see.

Thanks, will look into that!

Depends on a brand. Some like BMW will let you order from factory and you can customize everything. Others like Toyota will be virtually impossible to order from factory.

Kia dealers are going to kill Kia. It’s one reason I won’t consider one. It’s been that way for a long time, but traditionally, Kia dealers catered to people who were either dead-set on a value-oriented product, or people who had no choice. Those people weren’t too picky about the experience. Now that they have cars…

They’re too used to selling cheap cars to people who can’t get approved on a Toyota. They don’t know how to deal with people that are actually wealthy and able to buy what they really want, and they end up driving away a large portion of that segment with shitty tactics.