The pipeline was less than 8% completed so that would have made no difference.

So cancellation of a non-existent pipeline will “increase” gas prices? Huh? Is there a formula that says every x amount of time without a new pipeline will increase gas price x dollars that you’re using?

“Gas prices went down, and people went back to buying bigger trucks/SUVs as if the same thing that happened in 2008 and 2012 couldn’t happen, again.”

The impact of the XL cancellation is tiny in the context of global crude demand. Canada is building a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific, which means that the oil will simply be sold to Asia instead of the U.S., which means the aggregate oil going into global inventory is the same. That Canadian oil will be oil…

that pipeline was just so a canadian oil company could dodge taxes here in the states it wasnt gonna do a fucking thing for gas prices.  

The XL pipeline has pretty minimal impact on oil prices. The pipeline just makes it easier to ship crude from Alberta to the U.S., but it doesn’t change the amount of crude in the aggregate (at least in the near to medium term). Unlike natural gas, crude is a global market, so if crude isn’t making its way to the…

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

You’re probably thinking of the 1994 Spanish GP, where his car got stuck in 5th gear. However, 1) this was at Barcelona, 2) Schumacher was driving for Benetton, 3) there were no mandatory pit stops, but this was the refueling era and it made sense from a strategy perspective to always do at least one stop, 4)…

Early adopters or car radios knew not to obscure their forward vision,

Have you thought that maybe just maybe people don’t want to work in the service industry anymore? Is it possible at all in your mind that a bunch of people aren’t just sitting at home and decided instead to work office jobs instead of at a Wendy’s?

420k were over 65, and another 100k were. over 50.

I think its more that the service industry laid off a metric shit ton of people. And then the vaccination progress was so fast that within a few months people were back to going out and about. It was a ghost town here for over a year. But now? Holy shit. Its crazy. And all of a sudden restaurants that had a skeleton…

The support payments aren’t the problem. The only people who aren’t getting a job because of them were minimum wage earners. Anybody at an automotive plant is making a lot more than that.

Have you considered there’s a labor shortage because 600,000 people died, and not because people “don’t want to work”? I’m so god damn tired of this uninformed, bullshit opinion.

Separating oceans has always felt weirder to me than even the borders of countries. It’s like the imaginary line in the back seat to keep the kids from fighting. What are the criteria? Can you commit a crime in one ocean and flee to another to escape capture? Are there bouys with signs letting you know when you’re…

...permanently shrinking our solar system family to eight and giving grade school textbook publishers across the world a massive headache.

No.... No, man...Shit, no man. I believe you’d get your ass kicked driving somethin like that, man.

“but I still want to have some street cred with my uncles and cousins who still dominate the dirt track where I grew up.”

From Merriam Webster -

Well, they don’t like them, anymore.