But EVs are easy. Mainstream automakers can crank out EVs and put Tesla out of business any time they decide to. I’m not a Tesla-stan but you have to acknowledge that making electric vehicles with great range, charge speed, updatability, and ease of use is a real Tesla advantage right now. But about those panel gaps...

Not amazing at all. That is business as usual for all parties.

I think ‘frunk’ is slang for male genitalia in German. 

I carry all my take-out food over the engine in the rear of my Corvair.
Except for sushi.

One day someone will buy a ticket on Musk’s “Starship” and end up on the Moon or Mars. Just another example of Musk dangerously mislabeling his products.

Au contraire mon frère. By exploding, SN10 revealed another potential failure mechanism that can be corrected for future versions. The worst thing in testing is a test that doesn’t fail.

This is my last post because you are making arguments that are silly. Obviously everyone in the US shares in the upkeep of Yellowstone Park, even though it is in Wyoming. It is FEDERAL land and a NATIONAL park. It is for the good of all whether they choose to use it or not. A high-speed rail in California benefits…

Your two examples were ones that I explicitly stated were federal responsibilities: federal land/park administration and interstate commerce. You also seem to have ascribed some anti-tax zealot label to me. I am not against taxes. I am against taxes that give more power to politicians to dole out to their supporters…

I can’t argue with you because I start with a completely different premise. We should not share our tax revenues across the entire US except for national responsibilities: defense, courts, interstate commerce, enforcement of individual rights (Bill of Rights, rights to vote, etc.), border enforcement, environmental…

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Yes, I can’t name a single enlightened dictator, philosopher king, or wise oracle. Guess we’ll have to muddle through with corrupt demagogues.

Yes and they run roughshod over their people and environment in doing so. It seems you can have either fast and cheap projects or a clean environment and rights to your property.

With property rights, environmental laws, powerful NIMBYs, and the incredible price of real estate in California, there was absolutely no way to construct that rail. I love high speed train transportation in Europe and Japan but I see no realistic way it can be done in the US.

Many proposals, mostly on the left, call for direct investment by government into infrastructure that was previously the domain of private utilities (see the Green New Deal). Large road and train projects are always trying to get government grants (see Boston Big Dig, California high speed rail to nowhere and Atlanta…

You get a BMW, and YOU get a BMW, and YOU get a BMW!

Actually district senator says we should raise taxes outside his district to fix district infrastructure. Always follow the money.

As today’s super aggressive SUV styling goes, this one is far less disjointed and scary than most. I’m grading on a curve but I say B+.

The left and the right agree on infrastructure but not what kind. Red projects are roads and nuclear power stations. Blue projects are trains and wind farms. They are both right and wrong. We can’t keep building roads but we can improve the ones we have. Most train projects have a terrible payback and no realistic…

So the civil engineers say we should allocate 2.5 Trillion to fix our infrastructure and hire a boatload of civil engineers. No conflict of interest there.

Pickup trucks are being used as everyday transportation so they should meet the exact same standards for fuel efficiency as other passenger vehicles. The government has created incentives for this arms race by having easier regulations for “light trucks”. Fix the incentives and maybe things will come back into balance.

The long range Teslas have almost enough range but at a very high cost. A cheap ($25k) EV with 300 miles rated range (real world = 250) will sell to many even with today’s infrastructure. A cheap EV with 150 miles rated range won’t sell at all. But yes, to get widespread adoption we need a place for apartment/condo…