Now I’m thinking about her character from Bad Trip and wondering if that was, in fact, a documentary.

Not to mention, “drivers can be seen going around a barricade”

Even so, they could’ve had the decency to talk to the first responders first and explain the situation. Who are much better suited to access the risks near and around the area. 

Mid grade is actually extremely helpful in the rockies as 87 is mid grade here and 85 is garbage despite the claim that higher elevation makes a difference. 

Where are the three grades 87, 88.5, and 90? Is this shopped? Where I live (Long Island) it’s generally 87, 91, and 93 - and my GLI specifies 91 preferred (will run on 87 but with reduced power/efficiency).

It’s clearly people gunning to get a Tik-Tok ASAP of the bridge collapse from up close. I’d argue an even more odious brand of idiot than one who is simply trying to go around barricades to get where they (think they are) going.

Yeah it’s not like wine at all.

The Simpsons predicts it again:

I’ve seen the pictures of this bridge. You aren’t making it across without an AMC product, an English Accent, and a slide whistle

Listen, some people have a long way to go and a short time to get there.

Big oil needs big profits, the expense for producing and handling the different octanes is likely more than offset by the sometimes significant premiums paid for the higher octanes.

I used when driving through the Mountain West.

In truth, what’ s the point of more than one octane? A number of years ago there was talk about one octane - 96. From a logistics perspective, one octane make a lot of sense - refining, pipeline shipping, trucking, storage and selling, not to mention vehicle manufacturing. Likely be cheaper as well just because of the…

Plenty of people live with and/or care for others who are severely immunocompromised. Now yeah the chances of it are probably on the lower side, but I don’t blame those for being super cautious.

A friend has a double lung transplant and as such is on immunosupressant drugs and wears a mask ALL the time. He works in a very conservative community in Alberta and was told by the boss that he can no longer wear a mask as it upsets the clients and co-workers. He presented his dr’s notes and continued to wear it and…

I saw a quote about this somewhere. The gist was that what’s underpinning a lot of the insanity we’re seeing is that people want their “hunches” to be given the same weight as someone else’s well-researched, informed conclusion. And they become indignant when faced with the reality that those two things are not equal. 

I have a niece. She has an undergrad degree in microbiology, an MD, and a string of letters after her name indicating all the research and schooling she’s completed. She’s a critical-care pediatric intensivist. She treats the sickest of the sick kids; including kids with severe COVID, during the pandemic.

Ok, as an airline pilot I can tell we do not assume you are drunk and kick you off. Here is the rule; If you appear intoxicated by federal law we cannot allow you on the flight. That’s it, not even actually drunk, but if you stumble up, slurring words, and acting like an ass then yeah, no ride for you

also, still with…

People this belligerent rarely admit they were wrong. Do you remember a former president’s triumphant return to the White House after he was hospitalized due to covid? 

”I’m not vaccinated, I will not get vaccinated,” Smith said in a now deleted Instagram video. “I believe they compromise your immunities … It’s no offense to anyone. It’s just my beliefs. I just don’t believe in that stuff.”