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Long term, this strategy has never worked anywhere it has been tried.  What it does is encourage people to buy another vehicle so they can have one with an odd plate and one with an even.  Because most can’t afford to do so, it ends up with people pulling junkers back onto the street - so even though you may still…

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Long term, this strategy has never worked anywhere it has been tried.  What it does is encourage people to buy another vehicle so they can have one with an odd plate and one with an even.  Because most can’t afford to do so, it ends up with people pulling junkers back onto the street - so even though you may still…

Cars are given different targets than trucks, and MANY cars were at or exceeding their goals for 2025 already. It wasn’t the standards that were killing sedans - its consumer demand. People are demanding taller crossovers. Hell, you don’t even have to go tall to claim truck status if you want to get around the rules…

Your first point is valid.  But you clearly don’t understand CAFE.

Hate to break it to you, but gas taxes, tolls, registration fees and the like all put together still only cover about half of what Pennsylvania spends on roads each year. They aren’t diverting funds from gas taxes away from roads - they’re diverting general revenues to cover the deficit they would have otherwise.

That map isn’t accurate - Ohio has regressive taxes on hybrids and EVs, but the map claims there are none.

I agree - they should have cut the Fiesta and the Taurus - but it’s not accurate to say their plan isn’t working, either. They’re seeing improved profitability in the areas they really were struggling, while not losing profits in NA. The downgrade was a result of market forces and political forces out of their control…

Also in Ohio here, and an F-150 crew cab would cost me the same in taxes per year as a Prius now because of our extremist corrupt legislature.

Ohio has the same bullshit fee, also brought to us by ALEC.

I drive about 8000 miles per year. Now if I drive a Prius, I would pay $0.385 per gallon in state taxes on the ~154 gallons I would use - or $59.29 per year. Then I would get to pay an extra $100 in registration fees above that charged to a non-hybrid, for a…

As pointed out countless times before, their “monstrous trucks/SUVs” actually aren’t getting that bad gas mileage. A new Ford EcoSport/Escape/Edge all beat my 2006 4 cylinder Fusion for mpg. Hell, even a 4 cylinder Explorer is only 2 mpg off.  Those aren’t efficiency penalties that will get people fleeing for the…

What state do you live in that you think the state spends less on roads than it collects in gas taxes?

And those that don’t can simply require owners to self-report when mailing in for their registrations.  Sure, some people would argue that people would just lie, but you can strongly discourage that by applying hefty penalties for that when you sell / scrap your vehicle (the odometer is recorded then) - if you see a…

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No shit.  Here in Ohio, they followed the standard ALEC plan of applying a huge penalty for owning a hybrid or EV.  If I drove a Prius, they’d tax me as much as if I was driving an F-150 crew cab.

1st: That’s a terrible read on things.

A couple major issues:
1) The turnaround plan is expensive, and they aren’t saying it isn’t working, but that it poses a risk if the market softens and profits vaporize.
2) China and Europe are no longer bleeding cash, which is a sign that their changes are having an effect
3) Some…

This is funny, as when I last shopped for a car, it was the Japanese brands doing this bullshit - to get electronic stability control in a Honda back then, I had to go to the EX-L trim and pay for a bunch of crap I didn’t want. It was standard on domestics.

But note as well, that the Ford 360 package that is becoming…

Sounds like a nightmare for cost and reliability.

Also, consider that with one blade covering approx. twice the area of a conventional setup, it will need to move about twice as fast as a traditional blade to sweep any given area at the same frequency (crude analysis there).

Sorry, but while a cool idea, this is just…

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And this is why Moody’s downgraded Ford debt to junk status yesterday - despite a strong cash balance, and improved financial results in Europe and Asia....  It’s all about the risk this nonsense is creating.

Are you denying that Trump is making the situation worse in nearly every way?

That’s grossly incorrect. You have to pay attention to their asterisk - they’re counting dealership jobs to get to that figure.

The correct figure, if you dig through their state pages and sum up direct jobs, is 36,657 - a far cry from what GM or Ford employ directly.

The alliance requirement in China is already effectively dead...