Um - I think you’re confusing tax credits with tax deductions.  The $7500 is a tax credit - it will knock $7500 off your tax bill.  A deduction, on the other hand, reduces your taxable income by some amount, so it isn’t worth the full face value (ie, if I’m in the 22% tax bracket and get a $7500 deduction, I save…

Note: Often times, incentives are tied to your zip code - so you may not be eligible for all incentives if purchasing from out of state.  Better check with the dealer to make sure they’ve done their homework before you head out there....

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) for you, degrees in education don’t follow your strategy. BS in premed? Pass / Fail. MD? Pass / Fail. Seems like a binning process to me.

I must not be as sensitive - I infuriated a nest near my grill when doing some metalworking probably 7 years ago or so. Got stung 4 times, but the pain honestly wasn’t that bad - not nearly as bad as a minor burn. Of course, I did apply baking soda paste to the stings pretty quickly, so that may have been the key.

I…

But that’s socialism.

Here in Cincinnati, we voted down a $4.2 billion plan in 2002 to build a comprehensive mass transit system including 7 light rail lines, 72 stations, 60+ miles of new track, utilization of existing underused/unused track, and a significant bus expansion. 10 years later, we started spending that…

Whose fault is it really in CA? Most states, the lack of funding isn’t because that is the priority. The lack of funding is because the priority for years has been to avoid taxes at all cost, even if it means pushing bills back to later.

Hell, in Illinois, they have failed to meet their required state pension…

Now consider this - in most states, roads get less than 50% of their funding through gas taxes, tolls, and registration fees. So even if Uber was “breaking even”, it isn’t actually covering the true full operating cost of its service.

Hehehe...

If only Americans could experience well-run public transit. Took a business trip to Quebec, and wanted to do some sight-seeing. Tour guides all talked about taking paid tours to get out to sights like Montmorency Falls. $$$ and take forever. Didn’t even mention the bus system. It’s like the American authors…

It’s all the advertising they do...

Oh, wait... what advertising?

Seriously, how the hell is a company that isn’t much more than a phone app, that can’t even bother to spend money to do background checks on their drivers, losing that much money?

The second they raise fares that much (or anywhere close to it), their business goes away.

Last time I used one, it was about equal to the cost of renting a vehicle for the day.  So instead of an Uber from the airport to downtown, I could have rented, driven downtown, dropped off the car with the rental agency, then…

These rail projects are often pushed up in cost based on the need to purchase and prepare right of way. Many BRT projects utilize existing roads, and those that include their own new right of way aren’t nearly as cheap as those that don’t.

For example, Cincinnati’s Streetcar was 20% cheaper per mile than Los Angeles’…

Though often to get BRT to work, you have to have a dedicated lane, and if you included that dedicated lane into the cost, it could be outrageously expensive. For example, here in SW OH, adding one lane to I-75 for ~25 miles is going to run a bill close to $4 billion.

Apart from that, it can be a great option  - but it…

Yeah, no - binning occurs all the time in rankings where it has no place. Nice theory, but wrong.

And you said premed and med - where GPA sure as hell matters. And most med schools still do honors, so no, not pass/fail.

And still, barely passing does NOT make you as smart as the kid who flies through all the work with…

You can bin anything. But that doesn’t mean you’re the best just because you were binned.

If I ran a bank and offered a 0.02% APY savings account, then binned all competitive accounts into two bins, one <0.1% and one >0.1%, could I claim I had the highest interest rate available when the bank around the corner was…

Nope, Nope, Nope.

Tesla is claiming the lowest probability of injury. That can’t be binned. And, no, you can’t claim you’re the smartest kid in your class if you’re routinely outscored by someone else, even if you get the same binned letter grade.

And the Pinto example isn’t beside the point. They did tests. It came out…

LOOK AT THE COMPLAINT RATES ON THEM, FOR CHRIST SAKES!

NHTSA has MANY complaints about them completely losing power, horrid transmission lag, etc. It’s an embarrasingly high number of problems. Hell, even the rental I had could accelerate quickly now and then - but the vast majority of the time, you step on the gas and…

So if you’re in Physics class in HS and you get a 90.1% average and a classmate gets a 100% average on her work, you both get an A. But are you the smartest kid in the class? NOPE.

Just going on the ratings here, yes, Tesla gets great ratings. But that doesn’t mean it is the safest car out there. Even if its ratings…

“the vehicles may be missing the manual park release cover, which is not a minor issue.”

Ah, didn’t know where you were coming from. :)  Got it now. 

So you deny the obvious?  No one has talked more about Workhorse and Lordstown than Trump, even though everyone pointed out the obvious inability of the whole deal to work to save jobs...