How about also merging the lighting standards, DOT vs. whatever the EU uses? Better headlights for the US and easier for manufacturers in both places make one vehicle for both markets.

The EPA is a victim of its own success. People don’t remember how bad the pollution was in most major cities back in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Or don’t care.

Thorium reactors can take care of that.

They see being polite as being a weakness, therefore you will be among the first to go.

Am I the only one who sees an EV Miata as kind of low hanging fruit? People drive Miatas for fun, not to make long trips, which is perfect for an EV.

I wish. The law doesn’t apply to the rich.

I think Low_Cal was misinformed. Both Senate seats in Georgia are up. They are runoff elections because no one got over 50% in the general. One is to fill a seat that was vacated.

One party is actively tearing down our education system because they claim that education turns people into liberals.

Most American voters this morning think that the half that didn’t vote the way they did are morons. It’s morons all the way down.

But still leads the other states in “Roe v Wade is just a suggestion” legislation.

Counterpoint: our growing addiction Amazon Prime-type levels of service.

Good luck with that.

Or it could be GM importing and rebadging the Changli.

Rats/mice in the engine bay could mean chewed up wiring, which would not be fun to repair. Add that on top of whatever else needs work.

In case I wasn’t clear, I’m saying that the kids might follow in the footsteps of Mom’s bad decision making. That seems to run in some families. It was intended to be funny, nothing more. Don’t quit my day job to go into comedy?

Needs to be $500 so David Tracy can buy it.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree?

“...seems like even getting a job flipping burgers...” From personal experience, if you were good at what you did, you didn’t need a degree to work in a lot of the electronics industry in what were considered engineering jobs. Today, if you don’t have an engineering degree, good luck. Does that mean that every…

If you had attributed that to Musk, I would have almost believed you.

Sure, but on the other hand it seems like even getting a job flipping burgers requires a college degree. It’s another gatekeeping item on job openings that HR departments use to filter out applicants.