Since we weren’t given any of particulars (see all the buzz about the Green New Deal), it’s hard to gauge what the hell this cap and trade initiative really is. Maybe it’s the greatest financial engineering effort ever proposed in the history of futures and derivatives trading.

If you haven’t watched The Gymkhana Files on Amazon Prime already, I highly recommend that you do.

but the skill

I’m sorry anyone that hates on this is just a bitter hack, it might not be your thing, fine but the skill, creativity and production values are all off the charts.

I know we’re supposed to hate these.

And I really am trying to.

But I just can’t.

I had fun.

Followup: This guy lives within 5 miles of me and his ad for this car is VERY detailed. Read it. He doesn’t attempt to gloss over the problems and seems extremely knowledgeable about Porsche in general. There’s some room for price negotiation here.

I have lusted after a good 944 for a long time, but job/a new baby/other-things took priority back when these were newer. Living in Minnesota for a long time where this would be a two-season ride, didn’t help.

Don’t.  We’d all give up driving if we actually knew the fully-loaded cost.

To be fair, nobody is forcing you to lift the Jeep.

this is more of a “proof of concept” than anything actually implementable

I do a lot of driving for work. In 15 minutes I’ll still be “freshening up” when the car is charged. Big bonus with this system, or any electrical fast charger, is that I don’t have to stay at the vehicle while it is still refueling.

Ok, sis. 

62 miles was in 3 minutes.

Again, this is a garbage argument, still.

The problem is not the lobbying effort. The problem is:

They are writing copy, that Gov’t reps are then spewing to influence policy, word for word. Also it they are creating and paying for misleading and false adds on the internet and covering up the fact that it is oil company propaganda. To influence the election. Both illegal and an affront to our democracy. But if your…

^^This^^

No, I took it as being upset at how transparent the lobbying results were, where the language used in a document from the lobbyist gets taken one by one and put forth as the language of the politicians being lobbied.

“a company willing to do almost anything to stoke its bottom line”