That is not the purpose of RTW laws. The purpose is that employees, or prospective employees, are not forced to join a union in order to be co side red for a job. Union can still have value in certain situations, but not all unions have as much value as they did decades ago before OSHA and similar state agencies.

I’m not in a union. If I were fired for being gay, I’m pretty sure I’d have a real nice discrimination lawsuit on my hands. So I wouldn’t worry about that.

SO Toyota ain’t having any of that UAW bullshit? Fuck yes. that makes me all warm ind tingly inside.

Because the Canadian government is subsidizing Bombardier so they can sell the aircraft at a loss.

Have you looked at how the Japanese and Europeans run their auto industry?

I’ve ridden on and off for almost 30 years. About to sell my perfect-condition BMW motorcycle, which I really like, because I’m sick of worrying about distracted drivers.

I live in SoCal and see quite a few young riders. Riding also tends to be a pretty pleasant experience here. I tell people I like commuting by bike because I get wave thank you at least 40 times before I get to work to people scooting out of the way so I can split. I rode in Michigan a couple weeks ago and it was…

People in general, including older established riders, are not riding anymore because of the head in the clouds, fingers on the phone cagers who make riding a terrifying, near-death experience.

Younger adults (aka Millennials) aren’t buying them, so the company’s total market is shrinking. That’s all the article says.

Yeah, let’s blame it on those pesky millenials! Let’s not blame it on a range of motorcycles where the lightest weighs as much as the Death Star, the cheapest is still fucking expensive, the most powerful couldn’t pull the dick off a chocolate mouse, the most sporty has the dynamic prowess of a bag of shot badgers and…

True. But my Honda Element was better than the Equinox too. I was just baffled by how they managed to get so little power out of that engine. That was sort of the point about the Evoque - smaller engine, heavier car.

There’s a lot of redundancy on that list, like BMW and BMW (rolls-royce), and manufacturers are not regrouped under their parent companies.

Are you familiar with GAAP accounting, vs the actual marginal profit a car creates? Teslas cost less than they sell them for. The margins are near 20%. If you factor in all reinvestment, Tesla as a company isn’t making profit. Amazon didn’t make profit for years because they were constantly pouring money back into…

Some dickwad flicked a cigarette towards my pump while I was refueling. As that happened a highway patrol serendipitously pulled in and saw the whole thing. Good times.

“Third, cell phone and refueling”

To me, you just described Chevrolet’s entire lineup.

Neutral: Do you find the Chevy Bolt appealing?

You use the term “virtue signal”, bring up “gotcha” points that, while indeed are facts, pretty much every car enthusiast (or at least reader of this site) knows already, and claim you don’t have an axe to grind?

???? Did you look at the table you linked to for 2016? I just did and whether you define total energy used to power anything in CA by in-state production or mix in what we buy and “import” in from other places via interstate transmission lines (total power mix), Coal accounts for 0.16% or 4.13% and oil for .02 or…

Missing the point. To not rely on the middle east would be a HUGE benefit to us. It’ll employ local labor & keep us independent. I’ll take good ol USA carbon over anything overseas.