<looks around at Red states and their like minded blue state brethren>

they don’t have that much money or even borrow that much money.

1st gear: Long term, new car prices simply can’t continue to rise at historical rates. $30K for a new relatively basic car is ridiculous, let alone the $70K trucks. And that’s before the EV price bump. Middle/rural America just isn’t going to sustain those increases.

Another important factor....if you have push start button feature, your keys may be in your purse way down in the footwell and unreachable.

Really wish they’d provided more info on side laminated window strategies. Mentioned it, but mostly seems like you’re basically screwed if you need a fast exit.

Ah ok, I thought you were saying it permanently lost the capacity.  resetting it once in a while with a 100% charge is more reasonable

but in general you never charge to 100% and after awhile your battery starts not recognizing that additional capacity

SC has had the ever hilarious cardboard/sharpie “Tags Applied For” thing going on for decades.

Counterpoint:  A bird in the hand is worth a field goal and other badly mixed metaphors

As I said, it’s all intertwined.  You have mandatory minimums *because* of ridiculous under-sentencing.   The extremes drive the overreactions of law.

Counterpoint: white male judges letting white male prep-school convicted rapists off with probation

The dimensions are all wrong.

“by the worst of society and the worst of bureaucratic bullshit”

Agreed. Though I’m by far not the target market. I’ve bought a grand total of 2 cars since 2003, both new.

I thought I’d heard that one of the reasons for the number of trucks was just efficiency. they aren’t all fully loaded, but are uniformly loaded. i.e scaffolding trucks, a speaker trucks, lighting trucks etc. so you can move fast and quick in order of need of stage building.

I’d be all in for states being able to do their own thing...as long as the red states don’t come with hat in hand when reality bites them in the ass.

Agreed on the Senate being the important part.

Where did Tesla get it’s electricity?

Our focus seems to be on interstate charging networks. Which is stupid, because it only really helps the rural population regularly, and they are a small population.

Both can be true at the same time. Hence, there being a significant problem in the system.