Complicated logistics, lengthy planning cycles, high cost to mistakes or delays, and highly paid personnel. It’s the same problem.

Yeah this is what you get for sub $100k paint job.

It is a little hard to describe how a new 1 bedroom apartment is $5900 a month asking rent or why older 2 bedroom apartments in bad neighborhoods are clearing for $1,380,000. Scarcity and high carrying cost factor in, like the cost of these renovations. It’s why every building has a $1000/mo HOA fee, or $2000 if it’s…

That was before a gigantic tech and real estate boom got started. Call for a quote. I’m not trying to argue with you, I’m conveying that is costs $60,000 to paint a 3 unit building in 1 color all in. If you’ve got a fancy 6000 sq ft house with a color consultant you’re in for a lot more. At this particular juncture in…

As a thought exercise, what would it cost to build a gas station on the moon? Hint: $43 million.

Lol ok. You know nothing about the market. Try to get a handyman in San Francisco to come to your house for less than $20k and let me know how that works out for you. They have plenty of $200k jobs to work on.

Permits, scaffolding, tarps, laborers. Takes 30+ days. It costs $100k to paint a 3 unit building in 1 color. Those victorians you see on full house cost $500k to paint.

Why do you think it costs $500,000 to build a gas station? It costs $500,000 to paint a gas station in San Francisco or New York. The same price applies when the location is in the middle of nowhere.

I don’t know what to tell you man. It’s not like napa cabernet - it doesn’t get better with age. First, adhesion is better when it’s sticky new asphalt. Second, over time the pavement starts to wrinkle and then buckle in the braking zones, neither of which are good for traction. It forces you to move your brake points…

Yeah he did. Then when he took a second look at it to explain how cars were going faster than their theoretical top speed through a corner, he discovered it was more like 1.5.

I’m sure people sign up for track days. You don’t need to be Neil deGrasse Tyson to know that old pavement isn’t great for friction. Might as well run on all season tires and rally suspension.

Every track falls into disrepair if you can’t repave it every 5 years or so. Even annually the track needs major overhauls and partial resurfacing. It’s a very expensive sport for everyone involved. You can tell tracks that aren’t in a strong financial position. After a while they start to look like backyard tracks.

He’s a better driver than most auto journalists. Randy Pobst is better than Chris, but Chris is more entertaining. Chris is the best cohost on Drive and most shows that he is on.

A Boxster brings a lot more joy than a Cayman. You can hear the exhaust a lot better with the roof gone.

Thiel covers it in his book. The goal is to have monopoly power but to appear to be something else that confuses or distracts people. Google does this well. From one angle they have a monopoly on search, but they do so much else that it’s hard to call them just a search company.

That’s incorrect. Tesla is opening many global factories. At least one will be in Europe. At least one will be in China. The European one is strategic - he wants to get a supercharger network going there and he can probably convince a country like Denmark or Netherlands to install one in exchange for a factory. The…

Even if they sell as many Tesla as BMW in the United States, it won’t be a monopoly success unless his battery technology is in other electric cars.

I have no stake in it other than I’d like to buy American again after I found out BMW ultimate service sucks, Audi is too close to the VW traitors to be trusted again, and the fast Porsche I actually want is $180k. I’m willing to get burned by Mercedes before I come full circle. I’ve enjoyed all of these cars but not…

Good point, there were no monopolies before the Internet came around.

It’s a question of how you want to spend your time. Gas stations are shitholes. Tesla superchargers are typically somewhere I want to be, like a vineyard or a steakhouse or a five star hotel or a scenic overlook in the rockies.