That picture shows first-class (domestic) seat spacing.... and what first-class section doesn’t already have footrests?

That picture shows first-class (domestic) seat spacing.... and what first-class section doesn’t already have…

Yeah - I got a tax cut out of the final bill (earlier versions had a huge tax increase for me). But its fleeting and not worth the damage it is doing to the deficit, IMO.

Most people don’t realize that they’re already rolling back the individual cuts for the little guy, and fast. The tax changes also changed the way…

The top 5% pay TWO THIRDS of all taxes in the country

“Some say”, as in oil and gas interests.

Just like when the Prius came out and they warned us of the horrors of nickel mining in Canada, using data that was 40 years out of date with modern practices, they’re blowing a lot of smoke up our rears on this one.

Would it be nice if we didn’t have to mine anything? Sure. But…

“Illinois Conservation Police have full police powers for the entire state of Illinois covering all codes of the Illinois Compiled Statutes.” 

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Google Maps shows two lanes going north there from the 27th street intersection, and those two lanes are never shown to merge down to one - traffic from Broadway merges with traffic in the right hand lane further on, but you still have two lanes continuing even after the merge with the interstate.

This seems pretty…

So - I’ve never had a ticket, never been in an accident, and always do my best to follow the rules of the road.

But one afternoon I got a call that my 5 year old was missing from school and they had no idea where he was (he had been there during the day). When, on the rush from my office to the school and home, I got…

Well, domestics typically range 70-90 nowadays. Used to be more. But no one really wanted inventory that high... that was just a sign of the manufacturers dumping on the dealers to keep their production numbers up, but it ends up hurting values and profits when you have that much unsold inventory...

90 days? Oh, no - the goal is not to exceed 90 days.

45 is actually about optimal.  Below that and the odds are high that you won’t have a vehicle in stock meeting a customer’s desires and they buy from your competition instead.  Above that is pretty much just excess inventory costs.

400k / day?

That’s child’s play for some industries...

1st:

Starting to make Ford’s management of JLR look good by comparison...

The idea that these jobs are unskilled labor is a little absurd - the days of simply turning a wrench are long gone.  Are they skilled trades?  Some, but not all.  Are they unskilled? certainly not.  It takes a fair amount of time to get a new worker up to speed.

Current gas tax collections don’t even approach what any level of government spends on roads. The idea that those taxes are diverted is a ridiculous myth.

1st: I love Elon Musk’s corporate speak in his interviews. Demand for the Model 3 is “insanely high” but people “can’t afford it”.

You know, I think demand for Bugatti Veyrons is probably insanely high but the affordable part is what keeps sales down, too.

Fact is that if your sales are dropping off and inventory…

The Taurus was a stupid, worthless car after the 2010 remodel. It looked better, but it was worthless.

Compared to the Fusion, the Taurus looks clearly bigger. But it isn’t. It was a worthless car with no reason for existence. At a roughly $5,700 MSRP markup over a fusion, you’d get no real increase in features…

You’re “percentage does matter” argument basically is devolving into mine - percentage doesn’t matter - the absolute $ value in depreciation matters - so your truck could depreciate by 38.5% and you’d have a $20k hit while the minivan could see a 50% depreciation to get to the same hit. It’s the hit that matters, not…

Well, yeah - leasing is a horrid idea unless you have an ability to write off the lease payments on taxes (ie, business vehicle) or just can’t cope with the idea of not changing vehicles at a ridiculous frequency.

Sure makes that look like completely fabricated numbers, eh?

Sorry, but that’s a TERRIBLE source. 5 year cost for an AWD Fusion of $50,000?!?!?   If it doesn’t pass the sniff test...

You’re making some pretty bold assumptions on lifespan there. Half a million miles on any vehicle is actually pretty darned rare. First off, at an average 12k per year, that represents almost 42 years of driving. Second, stats show that average miles per year driven drops pretty significantly after the first 150-200k…