Pay off all debt, probably around $200k including current mortgage.
Get a bigger house for my family. Probably $500k, given my area.
Get my wife an EV, maybe a Polestar 3. $100k configured.
Get an imported car (or cars) under 25yr rule, up to $50k total.
Keep my original house as rental.
$150k in a retirement account or…

I wonder if GM considers (or cares) how this might impact their customer satisfaction or ability to retain repeat buyers? I’m sure some analysis told them it’s worth the tradeoff for whatever incremental subscription revenue they will make.

Yup, just few to TX and wound up driving my friend’s Nissan Rogue for a few days.

Even when I go out on longer trips, needing 100% charge and range is still pretty damn rare... It’s just that there aren’t any DC fast charge places in some of the more remote places that allow you to drive through and keep going. Can’t just settle for driving like 4 hours out and then staying overnight just to get…

The reason I asked is the way you used public transport (busses in particular) seemed to come off more along the lines of “car = comfortable/success, public transport = poor people”. And I didn’t want to jump all over you for that if that isn’t quite what you were going for.

Not true at all. Been there, done that. You put up signs, obstacles, roundabouts, speedbumps, stops, etc, many drivers will simply challenge them or retaliate. It’s actually very hard to stop people from doing what they want to do.

Combined with a traffic camera ticketing setup it would work.

Is storage space on the state’s hard drive so precious that they need to purge unresolved vehicle thefts?

The article is pretty misleading.

While I like certain aspects of this idea very much, can you imagine some Hall Monitor Street Karen trying to give you a citation?

Honestly, the ONLY two issues are the charging situation... The cheaper cars can’t DC fast charge that fast (most are limited to 50-70 kw) and that there just aren’t enough along most longer roads and back roads and in cities where there’s mostly no charging infrastructure inside massive towers and apartments...

Apparently, Norway taxes the crap out of gasoline cars, so it’s cheaper to buy electric cars.

First I need to ask what’s with the tone towards public transit? You mention the having to ride the bus in both of your posts, and the tone there is not good.

Even so, I own a 2015 Frontier, mildly loaded with the V6 AT CC, that I bought new for about $25k. I’ve been watching the prices of all mid-size trucks.

In 2020/21, Nissan experimented with the new VQ38DD and 8-spd, putting it in the old body style before the new body style came out, in 2022. In doing so, they…

Dignity, comfort, and safety should be guaranteed. Good pay, that’s another issue.

If its a job that should exist, the people doing that should be able to live in dignity, comfort, and safety from doing that job. So yes, I believe that all jobs, all skills, all levels should be paid a living wage because I’m not a fucking monster.

Read the article.

Right? That was my first take-away.

I’m not a fan of caps/toppers.  It limits how high I can put things in the bed and putting a rack above the topper would simply make it harder to reach things.

Here’s a more to-the-point answer. Here’s a “Living Wage” in my state. Tell me that EVERY worker, at EVERY level should be able to fit on this chart: