While it certainly looks like the car could have gone faster with more room, the rate of acceleration once it reached above 270 doesn’t look like 331 is anywhere near possible. 290+ is believable. Cracking 300 may be possible. But much more than that doesn’t seem likely without more power and/or reduced drag. Las…

I think the idea of people paying something to offset their use is generally fine. On mass transit people pay direct fares which are then used by whatever transit authority is in charge. A gas tax isn’t an ideal solution as it isn’t necessarily directly used for road upkeep, and it has a ton of weird factors in terms…

So to specify a few things that I do at least have a little understanding about and clarify another thing:

I think I speak for everyone here when I say how much I hate the working class. If you have a mattress on the floor of your childhood friend Steve’s basement, a glass of water, and a bowl of oatmeal, you’re practically middle class.

The “conventional wisdom” is that running the tank low picks up sediment from the bottom of the tank. Of course, the pickup is at the bottom anyway, so if you have sediment, it’s picking it up if the tank is full, too.

They always trot out the old “what about the poor” when talk of raising taxes comes up.

You can’t go after wealth, that’s just not possible in America. Taxing INCOME required the 17th amendment and when it was passed there was only ONE man in America that qualified for the income tax: John D Rockefeller. Now we all pay INCOME tax because we gave the the ability to tax income and we all suffer for it.

Nothing says libertarian, much less Ayn Rand, like saying regressive taxes are bad and taxation and spending aren’t related.

This is not exactly how MMT works. MMT advocates keeping interest rates fixed at 0% and controlling inflation via increased taxation. What it ultimately leads to is eventual devaluation of the dollar since we’re not living in a bubble. You’re essentially temporarily shifting the burden onto foreign governments (who if…

While I do agree that for revenue generation purposes, taxing a billionaire’s wealth is the correct move, a gas tax and a gas guzzler tax are more about shaping the way car buying works. You’re not trying to raise money, you’re trying to de-incentivize buying a car with poor fuel mileage.

(Full disclosure: This is a blog for people who are interested in paying taxes for a better society. If your idea of a good country is one with zero taxes, then please close this tab now, there’s nothing for you here.)

The Jalopnik game was shelved for 2 reasons:

“Today on Handy Man Corner we’re going to show you how you can run your own airport!”

All it means is they have customs and immigration available there. Airports do more than just scheduled service - you can bet they get plenty of private international traffic in and out. It’s not just about commercial service. 

I guess Red Green moved on from chopping up K-cars to Neins and got a job at the airport. 

Emailed this to my friend who used to be an engineer for a baggage tractor company. His response:  "at least the Neons won't do as much damage to the planes".

I used to be a baggage handler that worked nights when no supervisors  gave a crap. We used to hoon the tugs on snowy days in the dark areas of the airport where they got little traffic. The neon is no speed demon but I could definitely see some inexperienced kid crashing the neon into plenty of things. 

the problem with that is the other shit gobblins will see that there are no consequences if they are somehow elected.

As an old dude, I wholeheartedly agree.

Wipers blades.