Thank you for that link.

As I am not knowledgeable about electric cars, could someone help explain exactly why the Porsche’s EPA range is so low compared to real-world usage?

I actually thought this was a fever dream that you photoshopped from your basement as a result of being confined in your house too long. Imagine my surprise to discover it is legit. I’m so thoroughly confused right now.

“I’m pretty sure I can sign paperwork without contracting a virus.”

I’m a little unclear as to why you are responding to me with this.

The only obtuse person is you. My response to you was a joke, and your continued upset means that I definitely hit a nerve.

You responded to an article about an absolutely unnecessary trip across the US and whined about how mean people were being about you leaving your house.

I agree. Who gives a toss about other people dying? I want to have fun.

I think Roman Numerals would look particularly good in a horizontal speedometer.

I saw a Saab like this in Oakland one time, think it belonged to the brother of someone I knew. Sounded good.

That most recent rental was an Enterprise local office, as was my immediately previous rental from a different location. I don’t rent terribly often in general so it is possible that either my older memories are inaccurate or that procedures have changed over the years.

I rented from Enterprise about a month ago and the tank was at 3/4, so I needed to return the car with the tank at the same level. And they aren’t the only one. I’ve done that with Dollar, Alamo, Budget, the cheaper folks. I never use Avis or Hertz so maybe they are different.

By that logic, you can never compare cars from different eras because features are always improving. Which means the whole concept of inflation is meaningless as it pertains to the automobile industry.

You didn’t address what I explained in my post.

I’m not sure this chart tells the whole story. It’s the problem with statistics in general.

Who exactly is at-risk?

All the evidence seems to show that the only way to slow the spread of this virus is to keep people apart. Which means shutting everything down. But you seem to think that was a bad idea. So if you think they shouldn’t have shut everything down, what should they have done? And how many people were you prepared to let…

My hope is that we quickly scale up testing and get needed protection supplies to healthcare workers. Then we can figure out who has it and needs to be treated/quarantined, who had it and recovered, and who is still uninfected. Then we treat each group differently. (Assuming that you can’t get reinfected.) At least…

Just because you don’t think it’ll be much of a problem for you isn’t the point. If you willingly go out and risk spreading this infection you are risking the lives of others. I certainly wouldn’t want to be responsible for killing someone else, but I’m not a sociopath.

So you understand the concept of flattening the curve but can’t be bothered to actually help do it? That’s some good selfishness there. The whole point is to relieve the burden on our healthcare system because it can’t handle everyone getting sick at once. Here’s an article about the potential shortage of hospital…