You don’t have to wager. This is something you can do the research on and come up with an actual value. It is most definitely NOT a third of the weight and you should not be a gambling man because you aren’t even making an educated guess. There’s probably less than 50 pounds of lithium in a Tesla battery, and that…

My country (Scotland) is already producing more carbon-free electricity than it uses.

Try 26% for total renewables. Solar is 5.8% of that. As to the balance, “

You realize that ONE car like a Tesla has more battery material than thousands of phones, or many hundreds of laptops, right? Tesla Roadster had more than 900lbs worth of batteries, where Lotus Elise had ~90 lbs. of fuel in a full tank... and the Elise still had better performance due to the lighter weight and longer…

The demand for cars would still be there. Ideally, the people responsible get punished, the shareholders get hosed for appointing irresponisble leadership, and someone who’ll run the company better gets a good deal buying it in bankruptcy.

So here we are with more technology than ever and more ability to make power with fewer emissions than before, and we’re just done? No more need to improve? Jalopnik had an article here a few months ago about how the EPA regulations have forced technological advancements in powertrains that just weren’t coming along…

Count the number of people in Congress who campaign on ending the EPA and gutting environmental regulations. Count the number of auto enthusiasts in these forums who call for the same.

So, this is just like baseball. “They all do it” sounds too much like what my teenager would say when I caught him at something he knew was wrong. Somebody needs to start holding these huge corporations responsible for the indirect costs of what they consider to be ‘acceptable business practices’. I’m starting to see…

Going forward, can we refer to this as the Patriot Defense?

This is funny and typical Prius smugness. The only ones that VW pissed off is the EPA. Most hardcore TDI owners are more pissed that the less emissions friendly Euro versions aren’t available in America.

Everyone can laugh at someone. Somewhere a leaf owner is laughing at you, somewhere at Tesla owner at them, someone at them, and on and on.

The answer to any pro-Prius/Reliability argument.

High heels stay on. Always.

You know, I read a Transformers comic a while back where Megatron himself posed three questions that he believes should be asked of anyone in a position of power:

I mean, it’s a funny line, but moving us to the metric system is 1000000x more beneficial and sane than anything anybody uttered on stage last night.

Gawker sites have, as much as anyone in the sane portion of the country, pimped the Hillary Clinton email non-scandal.

“Waaaahhhh!! They’re liberal!”

Maybe there’s significantly less crazy on the Democratic side than on the Republican side, is that ever a consideration with people who cry bias and unfairness? Just a thought.

I don’t think you know what communism or socialism actually mean. Sanders is, truly, party to neither of those ideas in full. Further, what does the qualifier “boring” have to do with the noun “liar?” Would you rather an exciting or entertaining liar who wages a global war and robs its constituency blind?