Happens to all of us. :)

But a 240 mph subway would be cool.

It’s nowhere near 60 miles from Logan to South Boston. South Boston is directly across the main channel from Logan. The Ted Williams tunnel actually runs from South Boston to Logan. Providence, RI isn’t even 60 miles south of Logan.

Public transportation should never be made that expensive, as it only discourages use.

Of course, logically, most people working downtown who drive have to pay for parking, which I’d bet might not be much cheaper (if not more expensive) than that pass... Heck, even in Cincinnati, the average price is $150 / mo for…

The blue line has an “airport station” which is a short shuttle bus ride around the airport grounds to the terminals. It doesn’t go directly to the terminal, but with the shuttle, it does service the airport. In my experience, it’s faster than the silver line service, which is a bus the whole way, but has to get out…

What, like the $900 million in federal funding they’re actively trying to pull from light rail to fund more roads in Minneapolis?

Look, I get that light rail needs subsidies. But roads are subsidized, too, and at some point, it doesn’t make sense to keep adding lanes. Here in Cincinnati we’re spending as much to add 1…

And why on earth don’t more people use that mass transit system?

Last fall, it took me nearly 3 hours to get from South Boston to Logan because of traffic (I’m sure if I knew the area better, I could have done it faster - although by getting off the freeway rather than driving through Ted Williams Tunnel, I know I…

Was about to suggest that.

I had a bathtub drain flange stuck once - it had leaked around the flange with old plumber’s putty, and the cross at the bottom you’re supposed to be able to wrench on with a special wrench broke off when I tried to get it out.

I carefully cut through the side of the basket portion of the…

I completely agree on using median vs. median.

Unfortunately, Edmunds didn’t publish median prices, only mean. Since the Census Bureau publishes median and mean, I could make a comparison of the means, but not the medians.

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Talk about a misleading report from Automotive News.

The median household income reported by the Census Bureau is inflation-adjusted.

The average transaction price reported by Edmunds is NOT inflation-adjusted.

You’re also comparing median (50th percentile) with mean.

If you look at mean (average) household…

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“There is some validity to what automakers are asking for beyond the typical request to duck regulations: car companies say that with gas being as cheap as it is, and looking to stay that way for a bit, consumer tastes have shifted away from smaller cars and hybrids toward larger crossovers and SUVs.”

So? Those…

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This actually might be overstating things. It isn’t clear, but it implies in the article that they calculated their cost based on what vehicles are imported, but some of the border adjustment tax proposals give credit for exports - so you wouldn’t actually get taxed on imports if you’re exporting more than you…

Note that after adjusting for inflation, the actual cost difference is only 1100 GBP....

I look forward to endless congressional investigations into this.

YEMEN!!!!

What you see in the 54.5 mpg standard is highly misleading. That would actually mean vehicles getting around 40 mpg combined on the sticker. Furthermore, offsets from flex-fuel vehicles and EVs would allow for even lower averages. A fair number of cars already meet this standard.

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Market demand should have nothing to do with how standards are determined.

CAFE standards are determined based on the size of the vehicle, so a small car has to get better mpg than a large car. If the maker can’t meet the standard, they’ll get hit with a penalty which they add on to the price of their car. If…

That’s been the corporate world for decades. Somehow we make do.

But here’s a little factoid: While defense spending decreased from 2011-2015 before climbing again in 2016 (and in all future budget projections), if you adjust for inflation, defense spending today is still higher than it was in 2005. Or 2004. Or 2003.…

Working in industry, I can state factually that you couldn’t be more wrong.

We had very little pressure on us for the past 16 years when it comes to environmental regulations.

I don’t - but know quite a few people who do.

They all look like they could vomit every time I see them. It has to be hard when you’ve devoted your career to honest science (and yes, they are honest - they get lots of flack from lefties when they refuse to regulate something because there isn’t scientific evidence…

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Who knows? All I know is that the GOP only stands for local control when it is THEIR control. As soon as the local government does something they don’t like, they grab that power from above.

Take Ohio, where they’ve banned local governments from setting the minimum wage higher than the state, but they want local…

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I’m stunned they’re paying so little. Those payments to victims are actually pretty small - if it was just the deaths, that’s still just $11.4 million per victim, which is on the low end for these sorts of judgements. And $850 million to automakers? No way does that even come close to covering their costs. Only a…