This site is littered with comments from people who insist that they need their giant vehicle - sometimes just due to the perception that it makes their life a tiny bit easier sometimes. Crazily, people seem blind to the ways it makes their life more difficult. The reality is they don’t care because it’s driven by a…

We are self entitled assholes for the most part...

They follow the market; they don’t drive it.

My wife and I have a five-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter. My wife, myself, and the two kids can easily fit in my car (2016 Mazda6). It gets 40 MPG on the highway and can make it to the Florida state line (at the panhandle) from our home in Kentucky on just over 1 tank of gas.

To all them folks that rushed out to have 3 kids I have the world’s tiniest violin on standby.

I remember filling up my ‘08 Honda Fit manual, when a guy with an Odyssey noticed the childseats in my car, and struck up conversation that started along the lines of “you’ve got kids, you need a minivan!” - then he asked me how much a tank of gas cost me. “About $40 for a full tank of 87 octane”

Excellent, as this will help to bring back small cars. Regular gas is USD6.30/gal in my city, and that’s low compared to Europe. As a car enthusiast, I think it should be higher. $15/gal would be fine with me.

Mother in law is retired and not using her plug in so now I am using it for work on the days I actually drive in, 54 miles round trip in often heavy LA traffic. The other days, I work from home or take the train. I know everyone is not able to do this, but trying to do my part to use less, pay less.

Rising gas prices suck but people should have known that cheap gas wasn't a thing that was going to last. I stings a little filling up the hybrid Sienna, but I only have to do that once every two weeks. It probably sucks even more for the poor saps who thought daily driving a monster truck/suv was a good idea.

Gas is expensive? The solution is to drive less and prioritize your routes. At least, that’s always worked for me. May not work for others. It also matters where you live.

If you live further out from groceries and other services, you’re an idiot. You’ll get killed by the high gas prices AND you’ll put more cO2 in the…

Correction. American companies are not willing to pay people enough to afford American-made goods, nor are they willing to accept the smaller profit margins. We bought American for a few centuries before everyone started outsourcing to increase profits.

I can’t think of an EV on the market today that would work as a cop car otherwise.

It’s a result of equipment bloat, but having been in a modern police truck - I didn’t do a crime, don’t worry - a Mirage could probably carry one cop and all of the equipment they have to pack in there.

I always found this to be funny. We have people, including politicians, bitching about China, but China makes all of our shit.

There are no, repeat NO cars that are “too small for police work”, only cops who are too spoiled to make do with what the taxpayers give them.

Good thing many of the infrastructure components in use in the US come from China, and the Chinese would never do something like this, right?

Tangentially, I’ve never really considered an EV (partly as a consequence of not having access to good charging options in my building), but between Razputin, the Saudis (or really just the whole Gulf states), Venezuela, etc., my wife and I are seriously considering one for the first time.

I also want to be able to roll back that update easily if it breaks something.

Given how much, in the films at least the Sith were based off actual fascism, it’s kinda wildly irresponsible to depict the Jedi and Sith as some kinda both-sides situation.

I’d say the problem with things like that is, while the warrior story was really cool and well done, once you finish it - it has absolutely no bearing on what you do the rest of the game. Worse, they’ve reduce the story time massively - you can max level a character by the 4th or 5th planet if you know what you’re…