Also, “speed was a factor” is an extremely vague, blanket law enforcement term that is virtually meaningless without relevant context or specifics.

For example, if someone under the influence drives the wrong way on the interstate and hits someone head on @ 20 over the limit and dies, “speed was a factor”.

If someone…

The problem with those tactics over here is the large number of large privately owned vehicles. Those visual barriers around here get hit pretty frequently. And multiple narrower lanes next to each other become places where two wider/longer vehicles can hit each other when they are passing one another.

Most Autobahn has a speed limit, which is enforced. Unlimited sections of the autobahn do exist, and when they have high speed crashes there they can be *big*. But driver licensing is taken much more seriously in Germany than in the US, and they have a rigorous mandatory vehicle safety inspection program and serious…

With all due respect, have you driven all the way across Texas a few times?

Many of the interstates are straight, flat and go on that way for ages through virtually unpopulated rural areas, where 75-85 mph speed limits are both safe and appropriate. Modern cars made in the last 30+ years are more than capable of doing…

Bolsonaro revoked those protections against clearing the rainforest for sugarcane in 2019. Did you miss that?

Or until something better happens, if we’re pulling our hypotheticals out today.

Oh GFY. Brazil lost nearly 5 million acres to rainforest clearing in 2020, roughly the same amount as the next top 9 countries COMBINED.

And the main causes of Congo rainforest clearing are: illegal logging for wood production, to sell to China and the West, and fuel for their own people to make cooking fires and stay…

So, considering that the latest studies show that every 80,000 lb tractor trailer does about as much road damage per mile as 300 cars weighing 4,000 lbs each, does that mean that Washington will be charging trucking companies $7.50 per loaded mile? (300 X 2.5 cents per mile)? That would be fair, under this system.

The emissions I am referring to are just that, emissions. Not what ends up in plants or in the ground.

Yeah, and after that I’ll fly to the moon by flapping my arms. Modern agriculture is not possible without synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, and enormous amounts of it.

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Dude. The amount of plastic in an EV (or gas car) is trivial compared to the amount of carbon pollution caused by clearing brazilian rainforest for sugarcane for a brazilian sugarcane ethanol car. Clearing rainforest for sugarcane by itself produces more carbon pollution than using the ethanol generated from that…

There’s multiple factors at play with Brazil sugarcane ethanol.
One big problem is that they are destroying vast amounts of tropical rainforest for more agriculture (including sugarcane farms). Clearing new land for sugarcane production creates more carbon emissions than the use of biofuels saves. (Fargione et al.…

No motorized transportation is carbon neutral at this point if you consider the entire, complete end to end process. But some are a lot worse than others. Over their lifetimes, electric vehicles produce less than half the carbon emissions of gas vehicles, when you look at the emissions of manufacturing, charging and…

The Bolt is still being made, and a lot of them. It will be in production until the end of this year. 2023 Bolt production is forecast to top 70,000 units, more than all of 2018, 2019 and 2020 production combined. 

Not really. Early EV development all but stopped when the gasoline car electric starter was perfected and Ford made mass produced cheap cars - but ICE car research, development and progress has been continuous and intensive across the world for over 100 years straight now.

If EV development had followed that path for…

It’s not carbon neutral when you need hydrocarbon derived fertilizer to grow it, among other things.

As a previous north jersey resident who worked in (and commuted to) lower Manhattan daily, I think congestion pricing is a great idea and Murphy is full of shit. I spent many hours behind the wheel of a company Sprinter van sitting in godawful gridlocked Lower Manhattan traffic, wasting paid hours and hours, far more…

I can’t speak for right now, but I bought my $37k MSRP 2018 TourX brand new for the advertised price of $28k in December of 2018 with nearly zero added negotiation. We got our ‘13 Sonic 1.4 turbo hatch ($22k MSRP) for $17k brand new that year.

I bought my $40k MSRP 2005 Ram 3/4 ton diesel crew cab longbed brand new in…

Re: “you can buy a gas car at any price and expect that engine to probably outlive the car”.

Not anymore, as an entire decade-plus (2011-2021) of Hyundai-Kia buyers have found out, with no fewer than four entire different engine families subject to rapid oil consumption and catastrophic premature engine failure and…

*you* don’t like the Bolt’s styling. Ok, fair, styling is subjective. But a “bucket of crap” it definitely isn’t.

We’ve daily driven one for 4 years now, and it’s been great. There’s not a lot of compacts of this size (none, actually AFAIK) that have all of the above: 200hp, do 0-60 in about 6.5 seconds, and cost $26k…