I don’t think I’ve ever had a car where I can get all the fluid out without a flush. But I don’t let that stop me.

Instead, I buy enough fluid so that when I drain the pan, I can fill it back up. Most of my cars that has meant getting 4-5 quarts out of 7 or so out of the transmission. Then after a year, I do it again.…

Please stop using the Post Office as an example. They’re a punching bag at this point where certain members of congress essentially force them into bad operations to prove that the government can’t do anything right. It isn’t a valid case at this point.

Hell, in my hometown, there are 3 US post offices. Two of them are…

More expensive? Not necessarily.

Currently if someone doesn’t have insurance, they can generally get treatment, but the costs are simply transferred to other patients. When ACA passed, our local children’s hospital saw such a drop in charity cases that they cut their rates across the board by 25% for anyone with…

I don’t understand why businesses don’t team up on health insurance.

One thing that makes health care ridiculously expensive is that we have an utter lack of competition among providers. Most Americans live where there is at most 1 or 2 providers for hospitals or specialty services. Heck, I live in a major metropolitan…

They haven’t head a nationwide strike in several decades, yet they negotiate these deals every couple of years. It’s actually pretty clear that they DON’T expect to strike when they don’t strike the overwhelming majority of the time.

Exactly.  Which gives even more evidence that Tesla’s previous announcement was very poorly thought out and they’ve realized what a big mistake that would have been.

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Do we need any more proof that Tesla is in desperate need of people at the top who know how to actually run a company?

This one is EASY:

Walked on to the lot of a Ford dealer out in farm country. Asked to test drive a vehicle, and the dealer responded by handing me a dealer plate and he said to feel free to test any vehicle on the lot - the keys were in the ignition on all of them. Just return each one within an hour or so of driving…

Y’all are dead wrong. It’s Ford. You’re letting your bias show. Here are the latest export numbers from the Dept. of Commerce (or corrected for newer data when available, as noted):

Ford: 380,000
BMW : 235,000 (from above)
GM: 233,000
FCA : 180,000
Toyota : 160,000
Mercedes : 120,000 (estimated)
Honda : 109,000
Hyundai :…

Actually, a Fusion is generally significantly cheaper than a Camry. Same with a Malibu vs. Accord.

What legacy costs are you referring to?

Health care? Nope, that was spun off years ago onto the UAW.

Pension?  According to Pensions & Investments, GM had to pay just $70 million for its US plans this year (despite the rhetoric, GM’s US and Canadian plans are actually very well funded - nearly every cent of their…

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Why would ANYONE believe ANYTHING that Andrew Wheeler says is an accurate representation of the facts? There are plenty of affordable vehicles on the market already that are at the 2025 EPA targets. And if you fail to meet the goal, the penalty is tiny - just $14 per 0.1 mpg you miss the targets by, and they’re…

A midsize car is not generally smaller than a midsize SUV - just shorter.

Only the steel and aluminum tariffs would have impacted the Fusion.  I believe my point stands that they could have killed off the Focus and Taurus and seen Fusion sales/profitability jump.

I do the transmission fluid changes on my Mazda6 and Fusion myself. Fluid isn’t cheap (~$7 per quart at the Mazda dealer, cheapest place I’ve found), but I can still swap each car for around $50. Oil changes on the Fusion are ~$25 each. They’re free on the Mazda from the dealer. Tire rotations on the Mazda are free -…

When they want more for a used car out of warranty than for the same car new off the lot, you think you need more experience?   

Hell no, they’re overpriced.

Hey, buddy - CarMax doesn’t negotiate on price.

It’s basic math. $18,400>$17,200. CarMax was more expensive for a 1 year old car with 36,000 miles than for the exact same car brand new from a dealer.

You’d be STUPID to buy the used car.

I love the shareholder class system used by Smucker’s (you know, the PB&J company). If you go out and buy a share of Smucker’s stock, you get a class B share and it is worth 1 vote. If you hold that share 5 years, it automatically converts to class A shares and is worth 10 votes. If you sell a class A share, it…

Publicly-traded companies in the US are obligated to act in the best interests of shareholders.

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Ok, so it would REALLY suck to be told you were being laid off in this way. Unfortunately, though, this is common and for legal reasons.

Federal securities laws generally prevent telling employees of large scale moves like this before you tell Wall Street. This prohibition prevents employees from making investment…