Uh, he retweets Libby Emmons who inaccurately refers to an article written by Schnur as “evidence” that media didn’t care. Yes, he is absolutely to blame, and he is wrong. It’s one thing for me or you to be sloppy, but someone with that size following can’t be shitposting.

And what did he do with it afterwards? Sell it to other gas stations? Sell it from jugs out of a roadside stand?

Uh, yes they did, and that’s why they had to be (mostly) banned to end their use. Asbestos was a wonderfully easy and cheap way to fireproof things and no one would have changed over unless they were forced to. I don’t think it’s fully analogous to EVs versus ICE, though, and banning new ICE sales is indeed hasty.

Uh, that takes much longer than five minutes (add slowing down, speeding up) and would cause them to miss deadlines. The entire point of this article is that we have to figure out a way to allow truckers and Amazon and Uber drivers the time to use the bathroom.

Here in NYC they’re Uberbombs - in my Queens neighborhood, about half of the parked cars are Ubers (with a scattering of yellow cabs) and piss bottles are rampant. Not sure if they spring from the people who live here or from others, but it’s awful.

They definitely have $406 million available to burn. They could pay 2,000 people $67,500 per year for three years, which is probably three times longer than those jobs will exist...

On top of the top of that, I imagine that a car’s second or third owner is much more likely to live in an apartment than new car buyers - which is likely to have an effect on resale values.

The main problem with which technology is superior is that the environmental cost of ICE cars (or two-stroke leaf blowers) is not born by the buyer and isn’t felt until later. This is a textbook case for how and when the government must steer the market - they can do it well or bad, the method is a separate discussion.…

Uh, this journalist made sure that the video was turned over to the police and they charged the suspect with murder. It’s hard to make a media circus about law enforcement when they are actually doing their jobs.

It’s actually a somewhat different car, didn’t want to incriminate myself too much. I do have over 5,000 car photos uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons and they sometimes appear here - user name is Mr.choppers there, too.

Yeah, I would have except it was like 6am and I was travelling, so it wasn’t like I’d have a chance to come back later. I am also not arguing that mine was the correct course of action, this is more of a mea culpa.

This is GM’s entire MO. A few years after they had killed the diesel, they finally had a functioning diesel engine, which they discontinued a year or two later after several dozen had been sold.

As someone who photographs cars as a hobby, I will recognize the occasional feeling of invincibility when looking through a lens. I did walk thirty feet into someone’s driveway once to take a picture of their car (with a tripod), but in my defense it was a Corrado ON THE ORIGINAL WHEELS and no other mods! Also, there…

I mean, if I was running from the police I might’ve tried slipping away like that. Easy fix though: try to pull the car over before PITting them.

I sometimes drive a kei car around and I can’t tell you how much I love to have my entire rear window filled with a grille designed by some guy who never got over his love for Transformers.

29% is about equal to emissions from all buildings or all industry - it’s not a small proportion. It’s like saying you shouldn’t try to budget your food expenses because they only represents 29% of your overall expenditure.

I have to ride with Contractors in their pristine “work” trucks from time to time, and I swear they are unable to not be either on the throttle or the brakes. Like, dude, you can just coast or engine brake towards the stopped cars at the light - no need to burn a lot of gas and then switch to hard braking at the last…

To quote a friend’s mom upon meeting her son’s new boyfriend: “beauty fades, crazy is forever.”

I am sure I am not the only one who will say it’s my Mother-in-Law. To put it in perspective, my day job involves climbing down 50-story building on rope (Rope Access) and riding with her frightens me more than my very first time going over a parapet.

“Then the prices will go up to the same as Taxis and they won’t be as popular.”