The roads are shot because ther is always an argument about money. What we need is to treat funding like an engineering problem rather than a political one. Simply make users pay for what they use, don’t use the money for anything not related to that se and there won’t be any issue. Mileage tax with some formula…

Yup, they are. They thing about roads is that there is a threshold of weight before any vehicle creates any damage. Heavy trucks and busses actually cause wear but standard passenger vehicles do not. Most road degradation happens due to weather, not use, which is on all users to pay for equally.

Will it become a complete money pit when it reaches about 80k miles?. Sorry, the answer is yes, of course it will. Have you never owned a VW product? Luckily there are still plenty of people dumb enough to buy these used so the do maintain a decent resale value. Lease away!

Funny thing is I had a Prius that was nothing but a pain in the ass. Ever since buying as a Certified Preowned with 18k miles it had an issue where it just wouldn’t start. If you waited for 20-50 minutes and tried again it typically worked fine. It was under warranty so I brought it in about 6 times and the dealer…

2003 VW Jetta GLI with the 24v VR6. I purchased it in 2005 with 20k and drove it 60,000 miles in 5 years. I have had a few VWs so when at 80k miles the electrical issues started up I knew it was time to go. It had been a really good car but over the last 3 months I owned it all the coils went out, 1 or 2 at a time,…

I want to build a massive car museum. It would be built as a shallow spiral where at the center would be the first and oldest cars and as the spiral went out the cars would get newer and newer. I figured it would need to have between 10 and 20 cars from every year on average. Arranging them so their front always…

The issue is you made a bad assumption on the intent of the discount. It is a marketing ploy, an not even a dishonest one. They are actually giving a discount to those in the military, which costs them money and saves money for the people in the military. But you read far more in to it because you wanted to. The…

You have it exactly right. The military discounts are marketing efforts, like all of the other discounts and rebates they offer. Only those with military fetishes believe they are somehow worthy of special treatment and therefore the discounts are different for them. True, the companies bring on themselves by…

What self involved drivel, it is the pinnacle of the clueless entitlement. You pissed because somebody doesn’t give you enough of a discount, period. if nobody gave any discounts for military this wouldn’t be an issue but as soon as somebody does you complain that it isn’t enough. What an ass.

Yes, with the caveat that since it is hidden it means people who pay it blame the retailers for unreasonably high prices. Hence the whole article.

Everything you wrote is wrong. Rents are high because the airports use them to pay for maintaining the infrastructure. Rents aren’t high because the airport is trying to get their share of the inflated prices, they cause the inflated prices. Most large airports have multiple places to get the same basic stuff and…

So here is the deal with airport prices from someone that knows. I have worked on many projects for venders looking to get spaces at airports all over the country and have seen how the contracts are set up and all types of proposals. I have developed dozens of retail and restaurant retail concepts for five different…