Also additional wear and tear on their engine - idling being the second worst way to warm it up.

Yes, it sounds like Sirocco denies having made those exact statements.

Hitler was ready to go to a full war (with whatever weapons existed at the time), and Putin is doing the same. The difference is one of magnitude.

I could consider this. Two companies I generally trust.

We need systemic change. The gardeners don’t have much choice in setting their prices. Since only the wealthy buy new vehicles, used compact vehicles are becoming ever harder to find.

Chrysler (and the others) spent hundreds of millions pushing large vehicles, and spent a couple grand pushing the cars they didn’t make as much money on. The results are no surprise.

Get out of here with your real world experience. Americans are busy complaining about some of the cheapest gas in the world.

I agree that they’re annoying, but I guess people do need them. Not using (much) energy while standing still is one of the few incontrovertible advantages of electric vehicles. I also expect that the average EV driver would dread seeing their range dwindle as they sit parked in the sun with the A/C on.

No, Hitler didn’t have nuclear weapons (they hadn’t actually been invented yet) but Chamberlain and the rest of the world chose not to stand up to him because they were afraid of the full-blown war which happened in either case.

He should have remembered not to say the quiet parts out loud. There are also all sorts of other expressions one can use (“closer ties to the community” etc - like dog whistles in reverse) that won’t give lawyers anything to latch on to.

I think just this comment was approved. Baby steps, perhaps.

Well, that pretty much sounds like the reason people let Hitler have his way (I am not saying you’re stupid, I totally understand not wanting nuclear cataclysm).

Making things happen (road trips and the like) costs money. We can’t expect every writer here to have a lifestyle which in itself produces content (like Mercedes and David Tracy); such a change would require corporate spending. Never gonna happen here.

Yeah, and I think that period is best characterized as anarchy (the bad kind, not the fun kind).

I agree with you on all of those points, while excepting Gorby, Lenin, and Krushchev from the list of strongmen. Although who knows what Lenin would have become had he lived.

That’s probably the real price of gas, if you incorporate the cost of its impact on the environment. Obviously this kind of change would be impossible overnight and without measures to ameliorate the immediate impact, but it is absolutely necessary.

Yep. Grown-ups should be able to deal with masks; forcing little kids to wear them any longer than absolutely necessary is cruel. Also, kids having Covid is actually part of how a pandemic turns into an endemic disease.

The only way I can put over $20 in my Honda Today is if I get Premium. That’s the joy of driving something considerably smaller than your landyacht of a Honda Fit! 220-250 mile range in mixed driving.

Fix the commenting system, and get me out of the grays.

Not to mention STOP IDLING you blithering fools (not you Alice). On my morning walk to the train I pass a half dozen cars, idling outside of houses. At the grocery store, people leave their cars idling while they shop. At the train station, every single person waiting in their car has the engine running. During…