Not to be that guy, but I’m gonna be that guy.

For example, the new fees and taxes imposed by states like Texas could fall hardest on low-income people who can least afford it.

$200 doesn’t strike me as punitive. High but not punitive. Quick calculation shows that if I lived in TX instead of AZ I’d be paying around $130 in state gas taxes a year. (plus the sales tax that is built into the gas price.) Add in another 120 in Fed gas taxes. 

Yeah $200/year for a car that’s likely $70k+ is pennies.

Those trucks already pay more for that damage by way of fuel tax.

Oh, you mean drivers will have to help pay for the roads their overweight EV is destroying?
Seems perfectly reasonable as everyone driving ICEs pays for roads via gas tax.

Let’s be real here, if $200/year breaks you from driving an EV, you couldn’t afford it anyway.

I live in Texas, so I also have 0% confidence that the rules around digital IDs will be properly written.

My biggest knock is that I don’t want to be forced to hand various people my phone any time they need to see my ID. Most of all, being forced to give a cop an unlocked phone.

So rather than put the “soot and contaminates into their engine” they put it in the air we breath. Yeah that’s great. 

Well, let’s consult the DOJ’s press release:

For me I have problems with cropped eared dogs. I think pits have cute ears that are so expressive.

Good fuck them, also fuck any company that uses a Pit Bull as part of their logo. I don’t have an issue with them as a breed as many do, but it seems like just about any company that uses them as part of their logo or marketing end up being shit bags.

The fine should be $20K+ per modified vehicle instead of a flat fine and the proceeds should go to a legitimate fund that benefits the environment.  That would help to make things right.

“We have investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong.”

Rational, keyboard-warrior thought? Yeah, you’re probably right. Irrational, holy-oh-fuck-shits-going-down? Noooooooooope. I’m pegging the needle to a hospital.

To be blunt, in what feels another time, aka the late 90s: I’ve done about as bad, for no reason beyond I worked late and got off with “you’re five miles away,…

1971 Buick Riviera?  An example is up for auction on BaT:

WTAF?!?!

If you are in a rental car and don’t know the area, especially alone...please don’t go “exploring”. This, stupid people and animal encounters, and slip and falls are about 95% of all SAR efforts.

Never forget what they took from us. 

Definitely the 23 Prius. I don’t know how Toyota suddenly decided to turn their ugly duckling into one of the best looking cars on the road, but I’m glad they did.