Yeah, exactly. “Our summer getaway cabin is 3km down a dirt road”, “we get a lot of snow in this part of the country”, ... 

Sure this was a factory error, and not a “it was damaged in transit, and repaired by a body shop” error? 

Take a moment to learn about what Dolby Noise Reduction does (if equipped), what the difference between Dolby B and Dolby C is, and find out what tapes you have were recorded with it. It makes a big difference and wasn't commonly understood in the '90s. You may find that your player has the feature and your tapes were…

19mpg city is 12.4L/100km. That’s awful. That would make my 60km round-trip commute cost me about $12 at current gas prices, in BC. No thanks!

Correct. Same thing is true with consumer electronics, etc. I’ve been using an app called Al Dente on my Macbook, to cap the battery at 75%. It has a runtime of “much longer than I actually need in a day” at that charge, without putting long-term wear on the battery.

Moreso than that: cells used in consumer electronics are pushed hard. It’s not uncommon for manufacturers to push them right to 4.5 volts/cell.

Triple that gas price, and you can bet that new Suburban sales will just about tank.

Brought in slowly and applied correctly (eg: that fuel tax is used to improve public transit and lower its cost to the poor), taxation works very well.

Nothing happens overnight. You start off by taxing fuel, increasing that tax slowly over time. You use that money to fund transportation infrastructure, beginning immediately. 

Crank it up so that it’s “about $3 more / gallon” and you’ll start seeing some significant changes in the type of vehicles people own. We pay about $1.55/L in BC right now, and the average vehicle types that people buy are about a size category smaller than what’s popular in the USA, in general. 

We have full-service in Coquitlam and Richmond, BC as mandatory. You can pump your own fuel if you really want to, but by default it must be full-service. It’s a “create entry-level jobs for youth” initiative. I’m all-for it, as these full serve stations don’t cost anything more to buy gas from - like, they’re almost…

Mazda has done a lot of form>function design late, to be honest. I love the new 3 Sport, but man -- all of the reviews which talk about the complete lack of rearward visibility are true. You can’t see a damn thing back there. 

Probably more continuous power. REX is very underpowered - if you drive an i3 when the battery is flat, the REX engine struggles to generate enough power to get the cars up mountainous hills at a reasonable speed. It’s also really coarse - lots of vibration.

British Columbia.

The turbos do a lot better in heavy traffic, where “nearly idle” consumption far exceeds “power” consumption. There’s simply less displacement to run.

Don’t empower them. They’ve totslly abused it here.

The hybrid drivetrain is shared with the RAV4 Hybrid: it’s bulletproof. I’ve spoken with a few owner-operator RAV4 taxi owners who have put 400k+ on their 2016 RAV4 Hybrids. They’ve described them as being fluid changes, water pumps and not much else. As a bonus point, they go through brakes half as often as the…

No way. I love the silence of it all — the fact that you can punch it, in the daytime, without drawing any negative attention to yourself for “being the jerk who drives like that - they should think about the children!”...

Do be careful with that: it's a classic race to the bottom, eliminating an entire field of employment.

A lot of them are ex-military, ‘murica! types.