a new rise in what is apparently still called “buccaneering.”

Depends on if you mean Thomas Midgley Jr. or Carl Lowig. Lowig invented the chemical, but Midgley Jr. made it into a fuel additive.

We know for a fact now that Midgley Jr. claimed publicly that there was no alternative, but privately knew that ethanol was at least one alternative.  

Yeah. I think the number is 500,000 children are still exposed to leaded fuel fumes daily because of Avgas

Driven a few GV80's before. The seats are fine, but I find that it steers like the Evergiven and rolls like a 15' sailboat in 3' swells.

Maybe it was a rental and the driver was just returning the car to Avis?

See also: Chattanooga

Cool. Enjoy the 4 AM sunrise!

Counterpoint: I’d much rather commute during daylight than at dawn.

Just do what my dad said he did to keep warm going to school: pack some hardboiled eggs in his gloves.

Counterpoint: EV’s require almost none of the regular maintenance that an ICE car does. You don’t need to change oil, filters, sparkplug, alternators, etc...

That quote becomes SUPER problematic when you realize how racist and classist H.L. Mencken was

Jobs wasn’t a visionary. He was a raging asshole with resources.

But that's true of all Fortune 500 CEO pay packages

Well yeah, but he needs a helicopter capable of landing his mistress’s helicopter on, so does REALLY have that much cash left?

No, Nissan could be the Tesla of EV's if they had design a battery pack with actual thermal management

There is stuff you can do, though. Pre-warm the car while plugged in, for example

Unlike 2020 though, we have him for four years, not one

Your argument might be more convincing if Jaguar hadn’t designed the thing on an N64.

No, the key driver of one of those crashes was a sensor that was installed incorrectly, causing the plane to think it was stalling

Not a bad idea. Isn’t there that Russian company that rents a private jet to wannabe “influencers” for photo shoots? IIRC, the plane never even leaves the ground.