Kitman’s a fucking tree hugging, lunatic, anti-automotive, NYC journo... who... wait a minute... makes all of the sense.

The 2021 Silverado -- back in the day when a grille really was a grill.  Truth in advertising, my friends.  Mighty American Grilles Amirite?

I’d tow it on in to the Jeep service department and say, “It quit! Let me know when you guys get it up and running. Where’s my free loaner Jeep?”.  Should be covered by the warranty.

So BMW took an absolutely gorgeous looking electric car, ditched it, then went into production with a car that looks like a horse’s ass? Didn’t know. So pathetic. Makes me want to promote Tesla even more.

I guess I might be a little optimistic with the 100k miles notion. I did have a ‘91 Talon AWD which took an unbelievable beating, was fast as hell (with mods), and only required a couple clutches in the 75k miles I owned it.

Full agreement! Would be a fun challenge. I’d document it and prove all the naysayers wrong (or, right, as the case may be).  At least those seats would be plenty cushy during the experiment.

Yes, indeed. Let this monstrosity never be forgotten. Never. Teach it in schools. Add a Commandment. Jail those responsible.

I mean, best grille for what? This gigantic grille has to be best at something. Best people smasher? Best worst grille? Best grille for showing how tough you are? Best grille for showing the wind who’s boss? Best quantity of black plastic grille? Best grille for killing sales? Best grille for Ram or Ford sales?

I figure there would be a lot of replacing going on. I would also be curious at just how flat spotted these tires will be. But, honestly, there are quite a few cars running around from this era, under much more difficult conditions, with many of those same rubber bits untouched. I’d have no problem going after fluids, …

Ugh, why the hell not? (Don’t answer that) For $10k, you can almost guarantee being able to get 100k fairly trouble free, comfortable miles. Maybe criss cross the country, letting this thing absorb the miles reasonably efficiently. Sure, you’ll want to give it a proper tune up and do some preemptive maintenance the…

There is a large percentage of people that could care less about a tax credit of any sort. People who are not so good with money, saving, math, etc are rarely buying things with the plan to save money on their taxes months later.

You have hit the nail on the head — many poor folks are absolutely not buying a bike for any price in return for a tax deduction of any amount. Even if you offered many, many folks a $2k tax deduction for buying a $1k bike, I can 100% guarantee an unbelievable percentage of folks would not take advantage of the…

Sometimes it is easiest to just have one tool -- the spork. Maybe you can’t shovel the food into your gullet quite as fast, but that’s probably a benefit. How the hell are you supposed to eat runny KFC mashed potatoes and coleslaw with one utensil while driving down the interstate? At least it’s less ridiculous than…

Energy usage is a nice, clean way to tax vehicles that are heavier (they use more energy), cars that are driven a bunch of miles (more energy), cars that are pulling trailers (more energy), cars that are using the roads in the winter (more energy), cars that are being driven irresponsibly (more energy), cars that are…

Putting the consumer in direct contact with an engineer? What could possibly go wrong with that plan? I can actually envision somebody being murdered.

It’s funny you mention the spork. Literally the other day I told somebody “What happen to the spork?” when musing about eating some thing or other. Many times, the spork is all you need. 

Normally when I read “breaks” in an article about brakes, I laugh and poke fun. Now, i think maybe this is the actual description. Truth in advertising, if you will.

Unfortunately, when you, as President, imposed your Big Brother taxation schemes based on miles AND GVW, the electorate revolted due to the inequitable costs, political carve outs, and sheer number of tax people you had to hire for those reporting stations. It was just too much and you got thrown into jail down in…

A per kWh tax gives the incentive to drive less AND drive more efficiently. But, in reality, it is just more fairness in taxation when it comes to road users. 

I agree — collecting the data is an infringement one way or the other. I’m just saying the electric car can give kWh or miles, so using the kWh is more “fair”. If someone is charging from home using solar, great, but they are still using the roads and government infrastructure, so they certainly ought to pay something…