A safer car driven poorly isn’t truly safer.

Right? A hybrid would be perfect for the slow, stop-and-go use case of mail delivery and would add a much smaller cost on the vehicle itself and no additional infrastructure cost. Also it seems deceptive to initially announce both gas and electric versions as if to imply the mix would be anything close to 50/50, while…

A larger vehicle with A/C showing a minuscule improvement in gas mileage rather than a massive reduction honestly doesn’t surprise me much. I’m disappointed they didn’t go with a hybrid for the gas version though. Something like that wouldn’t require any new infrastructure and would be perfect for the postal delivery…

1st: Someone has to sell something to all the former Dodge Journey customers now that it’s out of production.

Hot take: I wish Biden would just leave the high gas prices alone and call them a natural EV incentive. Better yet, threaten a proper carbon tax. (I bet $4 gas will look a lot better when $6 gas becomes a real possibility.)

Cue the folks claiming to be pro-union but wanting the government left out of workers’ decision to unionize. Because Henry Ford was famously ambivalent about unions and would’ve allowed his workers to participate in free and fair union elections without FDR’s support for the UAW. /s

C-suite executives, especially at legacy automakers. Roger Smith was the most infamous, but lots of folks were paid millions to run GM into the ground.

Lane etiquette. I’ll regularly have someone ride my ass in the right lane when the next lane to the left is wide open for them to pass, or I’ll see cars sit in the left lane and match the speed of the semi on their right. Both kinds of people suck.

Because the police and prosecutors see him as part of the in-group (pickup truck driver, almost certainly white). It’s the same reason that some people spend more time in prison for drug possession than others do for assault.

There’s a way to use discomfort and inconvenience to drive more thoughtful purchasing decisions - and this ain’t it. Something like a fuel tax (with the revenue redistributed to low-income households to offset its regressive nature) makes more sense. Targeting one mom without knowing her full situation isn’t going to…