I’ll obey the “Bridge Ices Before Road” signs, even in July!

Neutral: Isn’t one of the biggest reasons that China is up on this is because the Government, who still shoots people who disagree with it, has decreed such a thing will happen?

Some years back, my Wife (a really smart girl) drove out of a dealer in a $22,000 Malibu for $16k.  But that was a lot of homework, including some fascinating rebate information.  Apparently, some dealers aren’t so upfront about regional, area, or state rebates.  She had a friend in the main offices, though, who gave…

You want to win over my big pumpkin?  Just sit down.  He will jump in your lap to investigate.  Darn thing thinks he’s a dog.

I don’t think this is a racist thing, personally. I am getting quite familiar with campers eating up all the space while bringing nothing to the company. Places are getting tired of paying customers having nowhere to sit. Just because you’re too cheap to get an internet connection does not give anyone homestead rights…

True.  Not every truck driver has ‘nads of titanium.

1st:  I think the only thing you could rightfully be worried about as a security risk is the entertainment/computer/internet systems that are getting so prevalent.  We do really know that the Chinese are hacking every tech thing on the planet.  Why shouldn’t we worry about millions of internet connected Chinese system?

Is this all the scooter’s fault, though?  I saw a guy roughly the size of a medium Buick on one last weekend.  

So I’ve been charging my battery pack for 9 hours, but someone downtown decides someone else needs that power more than me, and takes it back? I see that going over real well.

I’m a late boomer and ended up with a Shadow... same comfort, more quiet, and way, way less money.

That’s pretty accurate info, but let’s look at reality a bit more, as in, what I perceive to be ‘first generation’ EV owners...

Then you simply have to at least double storage capacity.  Already, we know that (a) Solar works best in daylight.  You need the sun, remember?  and (b) Most people would be charging their cars at night.  So now we have to store electricity even under ‘green’ conditions.

That has been my question from the beginning.  With big cities already having brownouts, what happens when you add half a million electric cars into the mix?  In a New York summer, no less?

But that is all betting that the status quo remains as is.  2001 and 2008 hasn’t taught them anything?  We can’t assume that the banks and Wall Street are going to do everything right forever.

I think part of it is that there is still a segment of younger or non-hauling people that like smaller cars. Some people, when they can afford it, like to buy new and keep for a while. Ford’s choice was to build either a better, more popular car, or give up. I think it’s rather short-sighted myself, but they don’t pay…

Good ideas, but there is no perfect tool kit. Over 30 years, I have amassed a varied and strange assortment of odds-and-ends from all over the planet.

Good ideas, but there is no perfect tool kit. Over 30 years, I have amassed a varied and strange assortment of…

Study the rest of the World. When I was in Germany, every Police car and Taxi was a BMW. At Frankfort’s car rental, they gave us a Mercedes.

Because people today don’t have the money, or sometimes the space, to own both now. Once I could own a coupe, a wagon, and a truck for everything I needed.  Not now.

No, it’s because you can put that 48-pack of paper towels from Costco in the back easily.

Then fix it! They were supposed to vote the ratio of the voters, not give away states.