Holy shit, that’s like the holy grail of Fieros! ‘88, GT, V6, mint condition and only 23k miles??!?

Aaaaahahahahaha. Ok, there’s so much wrong with this post I don’t even know whether you’re trolling or just that dumb. 95% of electricity is made from fossil fuels? Aaahaha, try 60%. And falling rapidly. And 2/3rds of those “fossil fuels” is actually natural gas generation which is far cleaner than traditional ICE…

If you want people to use less of something, increase the price. It really is that simple. And I want *everybody* to use less gas, not just rich people. If poor people can be incentivized to use less, GREAT! If it comes at nothing out-of-pocket to them, even better!

Don’t forget the “loser politician” part of their branding, too.

They should have just called it Scum class.

Sorry about your inheritance.

“Pump and dump.” It’s a strategy of maximizing current profits at all costs, including sacrificing long-term growth and customer development.  Then, when your balance sheet looks great (but long-term prospects are far worse) you sell it to the next schmuck who doesn’t realize how fucked the company actually is.

Lol, for all the hand-wringing about “the poors” there’s an easy solution. Refundable tax credits. Offer up an annual refundable tax credit of ~$100 for anyone making, say, $25k or less per year.

I’ve posted this elsewhere on this thread, but doubling the gas tax would be less than $100/year for the average American driver driving the average American car:

Lol, killing the XL pipeline will keep oil prices low in this country. The entire point of it was to have a pipeline from western Canada to the Texas Gulf coast so that oil could be exported around the world. Right now oil prices in Western Canada are *drastically* lower than those in West Texas because it’s hard for…

So what you’re saying is that we should provide a refundable income tax credit of a couple hundred dollars for people to cover the (tiny*) amount more that people would have to pay?

Actually, have you done the math on your son’s expenses vs what it would cost to own a car? I have an older car (fully paid off) that is mostly reliable, and it *still* costs me~$1k/year. Registration is ~$125, insurance is $400-500, oil changes and routine maintenance is $200, and the odd repair probably averages out…

Yeah, except Tattoo Mike probably votes Republican so that “we can cut taxes on job creators.”

Yes. It occasionally is replaced by “but why don’t we spend that money on homeless vets,” but that only lasts until whatever pro-immigration policy stops being debated.

This is false. There’s far more transfer of money from the general fund to the transportation fund than the other way around.

So the people benefiting from expanded mass transit (both mass transit users *and* drivers who experience less traffic since there are fewer cars on the road) shouldn’t be expected to pay for it?

Actually, it’s usually the reverse. States dip in to general funds to make up for shortfalls in the transportation funds, as well as issuing general-issue debt for road projects (that are paid for through the general fund).

Eh, pretty sure that professional thieves operate 100% independently of kids taking them for joyrides. The vast majority of car thefts (probably close to 100%) are kids who drive around and look for cars warming up in the driveway, or where people leave their keys in the car.

Around here most car thefts are young kids looking to take it for a joyride.  They aren’t professional car thieves like you see in cheesy movies.

It’s my version of “first!”