This is an interesting example of how culture affects our common custom.

As someone who has worked with several different cemetery associations, I just would not recommend actually running among the graves themselves, just because of safety. You often can get little dips or holes where you don’t expect them, and it would be very easy to turn an ankle that way.

Ooof. I’ve done a lot more inappropriate things in a cemetery than jogging through it... 

Those ‘atmospheric river’ things are like Mother Nature giving us a backhand for not paying attention when she said to knock it off.

Again. Just stop. You want to try and be insulting? Go for it. It just further makes you seem like the asshole you probably are in real life. Of course its so very easy to type shit on a keyboard at people you don’t know when in reality you wouldn’t dare say that to me personally because that’s poor decorum. But…

Another answer to fuel price shocks is to figure out ways to drive less.  Some of the obvious ways will get dismissed for being beneath the driver’s social standing and only something the desperate and “the poor” will ever contemplate.  Instead, they will continue to bitch about prices that people in Canada and México…

Dude, could you for once respond to me without being rude? You’ll get a lot more respect if you can manage to carry on a discussion in a civil manner.

We’ve been making lithium batteries for 30 years commercially and we recycle less than 5% of them by weight. You’re underestimating both the corruption of the giant lithium companies and the unwillingness of the end consumer to pay for recycling.

On a road trip this past summer up along the US Canadian border I drove on a Sunday morning for over an hour without seeing any thing but pick up trucks. I was looking for cars on the roads and only saw pick up trucks. Their hyperbole is not factual perfect but the sentiment is not unforgivable.

“we cant afford new vehicles, so old vehicles with poor MPG are what we fall into. I cant afford an EV or a new hybrid, but i can afford a 15 year old Toyota Sequoia”

That’s true of some. But Tesla’s growing sales and sales backlog tells me that plenty of people did learn and are doing something about it.

You are right on the plug-in hybrid. I’ve had one for a little over a year, and it’s great. Kind of a game to see how much electric driving you can squeeze out of it. I’m paying the equivalent of $1.20/gallon for gas for my electricity (and nothing when I charge at work), and when I do fill up after 550-600 miles or…

If and when a hybrid AWD Maverick becomes available I’m going to be all over that thing. The utility I need and similar gas mileage to what I currently get in a sedan? Yes, please!

In Europe (well, EU), the standard for new 2021 cars/SUVs is 95 grams of CO2 per km as a fleet average (153 g/mile). This translates to 57 MPG (US gallons), as a fleet average. Manufactures exceeding this fleet average pay a fine per gram per car. In the US, as you’ve shown, it was 25.4 MPG for 2020.

Anyone buying a huge vehicle and complaining about gas prices can get bent, as far as I’m concerned. Especially those nitwits that ROLL COAL BRO. You bought a huge truck that gets bad mileage, then spent money to modify it to run rich, and get worse gas mileage. If you’re complaining now, fuck right off.

Totally agree about the inevitability of PHEV going forward. At least until there is a major change in battery chemistry, and a more robust electric grid infrastructure.

I’m thinking of the ridiculous argument we got here just a few days ago, that we all need to drive huge SUV’s, because ‘they are safer’, despite all rationality regarding efficiency and fuel demand.

Surely John Carter himself and his Princess Deja Thoris, standing on top of a dead green six armed Martian

Frank would work also