There’s a joke here . . . I can’t drive 55 on Teslaquila?  That’s not quite right.  

I love that it has 14 propellers and four seats.

The new 992 doesn’t look too much different from its predecessor, but it is all new under the skin and is said to boast more efficient engines and better driving dynamics than before. A hybrid variant is expected this time around too, which should be especially interesting.

But when you stop, all the wood goes flying out the front.  

I am confused by this article.  Why did you melt the chocolate chips?  I can’t find that step in either recipe you linked to and, well, it just doesn’t make sense for cookies that we know are supposed to have chips in them.  

Who cares? If I had to guess, I would say that the history of car dealers is directly related to the history of permissible interstate jurisdiction and products liability.  States needed someone to be present in the state to hold responsible when a poorly constructed car failed and injured someone.  For a long time,…

This is interesting, but not really unexpected. People who don’t have a choice will use public transportation. There is an assumption among American planners that the number of people driving on the highway is always going to increase. We need to have real metros in every city that has a metropolitan area of more than…

Most of the time?  When people identify a problem, the response is usually rational.  The problem here is too much carbon.  It would be irrational to say, ok, electric cars, but also coal that produces the same amount of carbon.  People think that being rational is a high bar that leads to single solutions.  It isn’t…

I take your point. I get frustrated with the essentially reactionary argument that says we shouldn’t switch to electric cars because producing batteries causes more damage than the lifetime production of CO2 from an ICE car. They used to make this argument regularly on Top Gear when Clarkson ran the show, and I have…

What evidence do you have to support your position that gasoline engines, which are a major factor in climate change, are less dangerous than electric vehicles?

It might, though, since burning coal to produce electricity may not be a one to one replacement for the CO2 emitted by cars. Does anyone have evidence on this?

Is it just me, or is there a lot of RX-8 here?

One thing that people really don’t know about Manhattan is that it simply does not have alleys. It was never designed to have them. So, if you’re in a downtown type area in most other towns, there will be small back streets where people dump their garbage and it gets picked up. In Manhattan, the garbage gets set out…

Yeah, this is what I’m talking about. You don’t need two trucks. That’s ridiculous. Every car that is sold in America can be easily maintained.
I just don’t by that claim at all. You bought a second truck, because you want to be a guy who drives a truck.  Whatever, keep trucking that chicken.  

Exactly.  I was going to say that it sounds like they were right to stop production.

You’re right.  I don’t know how I got $48k for a 3 series in my head.  

Sure, whatever.  I think a lot of people maintain the same critique of consumer culture that I am advancing here.  

Considering that the 3 series starts around $48k, you could be right. That is, the 3 series base price is the same as an average transaction price for an F-150. And the 3 doesn’t seat six.

This is mostly true, but also kind of demonstrates the situation we are in culturally.  There are very few people who actually need a six seat luxury sedan that also tows 13,000 pounds.  Lots of people are buying them to fit in.  I’m not going to tell them to stop, but I do wish people would stop for a minute and…

And they only puked because of their weak stomachs!  WEAK STOMACHS! Why won’t you believe me?