Do provide a link that shows wind to be the cheapest per watt.

If your autonomous cars need to see the paint on the roads then probably half of the continent will be undrivable when it snows.

but the sales would be higher. And CUVs would be lower even though they appeal to different markets/demographics.

Utilities -see demonopolization of telecoms, transport - rail, trucking and air - in North America.

You will note I used the term coerced. Which you agreed is happening. And it is significant- between 10 to 20 percent (or more? Sometimes very expensive technology has to be added to get a vehicle below the Guzzler tax or reduce the cafe penalty (or the model is not made - as apparently happened to the AWD hemi…

What a bunch of hokum.

If the car had been a huge hit that might have been different. Sales were not poor due to lack of supply - it was lack of demand.

You overlook the cafe and gas guzzler regs that force/coerce them into SUVs.

Well, she’s a twit isn’t she. Autonomous vehicles either shared or owned are the way forward for all but the most highly dense areas - much to the far left mass-transit zealots. She’s about five years archaic herself.

You would admit -regardless of your own tastes - was a styling and sales sensation. Americans long for v-8 rwd big sedans with great styling. Regulations are killing them off. But stylingis what killed the SS - make now mistake

Probably because it looked a rental from the outside. All they had to do was look at what the 300' styling did for sales to know that it matters.

That’s a garbage column. No one is saying we should have a flat tax without closing the loopholes and eliminating lots of tax regs.

The author not surprisingly has it all wrong. Taxing one group of people at a higher rate than others is a path to poverty for everyone

Heathcare is atrainwreck in most of the G20. It is destroying provincial budgets in Canada and deteriorated to the point that the Red Cross is providing aid in the U.K. In France and Germany it is much more deregulated and decentralized than Obamacare

I agree. And I think you would agree at 10000 there will be very few takers. At 4-5000 there will be more. But if it really costs ford that or more why bother?

Ignoring resale for a moment - at ten thousand bucks and 2.50 per gallon you would have to drive over 300000 miles to maybe break even. With that number of miles you will barely get 10000 for the whole truck.

That depends on how much you drive. Anything less than 35000 miles annually likely is not worth it.

Where then?

Most 1/2 ton buyers get one for the very occasional need to haul a large or messy load. But most of the time it is used like a large sedan. A gasoline engine works best for that scenario.

Diesels are a PIA for light duty use like most 1/2 tons see.