Markets get distorted from government intervention. Have you ever bothered to see why those wall street types are so rich? You and I would be super rich too if our downside risks were covered by someone else and we could borrow for free.

How do you what the market price is when it is usually restricted, regulated and heavily taxed? Why would an unheated and unfinished space cost more than one that is? Chicago sold off (leased for decades actually) the street parking to a corporation. Part of that agreement requires the city to restrict off street…

I am well aware of parking minimums. But this discussion was garages open to the public at a fee, not parking for the sole use of occupants. I am also aware of groups who use politics to minimize any and all parking created.

I seem to think about property taxes? Did I write a single thing about property taxes here in this thread? No. It’s amazing how you statists just make up shit and attribute it to those who make a statement or argument you don’t like, knock it down, then make a disparaging remark all while thinking you’re so fucking…

That’s what I stated, you pay and you get access. Those willing to pay or who have relationships can get spots. And again, there would be more garages where people wanted them if government didn’t determine what land could be used for.

You can build ordinary more ordinary cars to be nice on the inside, even from the…

If the defense of Tesla motors is that features are still in ‘beta’ then that just reinforces my opinion that Musk and company don’t know how to develop product. Not that I haven’t worked at a company that tended to use the customer base to find problems, but it’s still not the way to do it.

Full is a question of price. All the regular rate spots for the public at large may be taken but that doesn’t mean the garage is actually ‘full’.

PS: If it wasn’t for government restrictions garages would get built where ever there was market demand for them great enough to make it profitable.

Most people who buy six figure cars want to be noticed, want the car to be special. This is why the exotic brands care more about their exclusivity and appearance than the technical and performance desires of gearheads.

Also such people can usually afford to park in garages in cities too. People of much lesser means…

It is unlikely for state governments to go through the hassle of determining which VW VINs are part of this and then denying registration. If they can figure out a way to shakedown VW for money they may threaten it, but other than that I just don’t see it happening.

Depends on what was damaged inside the wing and by how much compared to the remaining useful life in the plane. In other words, can’t tell from here. I would say it’s probably saveable but there most likely design details in play I have no idea about that could say otherwise.

The main emergency exit doors are over the wings requiring the passengers to go through the fire to get out or use the rear emergency doors where they would get in the way of fighting the fire and into the smoke. Then there is the time factor. Put the fire out early or risk the entire plane becoming engulfed while…

All the above would contribute something. There needs to be the right combination of fuel vapors, oxygen, and ignition source to get the fire going. My guess is that the speed of the aircraft simply prevented fuel vapor concentrations from getting high enough while also pulling away heat for ignition. Add altitude for…

DRLs are just plain useless. One of these stupid ideas that “works” when just a few cars have it but becomes visual noise when every car does. Highbeam DRLs are worse than useless, causing glare.

Traditional dash backlighting did nothing to stop people driving around with DRLs on at night. (old saturns with the high…

I’m not in the UK however a criminal government that is nearby has a lot more concern about being on the wrong end of a pitchfork or a torch than one far away. Ideally if government should exist it should be as small and local as possible. Regional governments like the EU were not built overnight but through decades…

The so called elite have never been a monolithic block. Some have been against the social engineering and utopia building while others have been indifferent. This is part of what has put the social engineers and such so very far behind schedule. I’ve not seen any indication that Borris Johnson belongs to that social…

The age groupings correspond well to the degree of conditioning through the school systems. This is how the social engineers work. They work through the schools to make the younger generations believe a little bit more of their plans for the world than the generation before.

All it takes to understand what the old…

Borris Johnson best I can tell is not in anyway connected to the so-called elite that have decided they should manage and engineer society. In fact he appears to be the opposite by most/all accounts I have run across. Furthermore while even the UK itself may be too large and centralized London is closer and the office…

They are racists because they have decided they don’t want to have their lives managed by and their productivity owned by far away and faceless and unaccountable bureaucrats. These tropes about racism and such are what the self proclaimed managers and engineers of society have the media put out when someone is…

Scrapping and replacing the cars is probably more harmful to the environment than just letting the cars run out their useful life.

“environmental remediation projects”= money to be spent on whatever. Just like the tobacco settlements.