1) You just admitted that there is a transfer from the general fund at the state level

2) Those other expenses are all part of operating the state’s network of roads

3) You’re still ignoring LOCAL road spending (except for the portion that comes passed through from the state budget - And state roads that pass through…

First off, your link shows state revenues of $4.145 billion and road spending of $5.097 billion. So spending is already above revenues just there.

And it ignores every cent of local spending.

At the state+local level, spending FAR exceeds gas taxes, tolls, and license fees.

NO.

If you used EVERY SINGLE cent collected in gas taxes, it would cover only 22.9% of all the state and local spending PA does on its roads. If you took all other fees on cars and added them in, 58.2% of their road costs come from the general budget.

Think of it this way. They collect $22.90 in gas taxes and $18.90 in…

Nonsense.

In Pennsylvania, gas taxes cover just 22.9% of state and local road construction costs. Even including tolls, license and registration fees, etc, you’re still only at 41.8% of state and local road construction costs.

So while you whine about diversion, the reality is exactly I said - they’re injecting massive…

That diversion of funds isn’t really even a diversion, though - just a right-wing diatribe.

States and local governments generally spend twice as much on roads as they collect in gas taxes, tolls, registration fees, and vehicle taxes combined. At the federal level, we’re spending more on road construction than we…

Except for the past decade, the footprint based calculation hasn’t forced automakers to build anything. They could build whatever sized vehicle they wanted to, as long as they could meet the mpg requirements for that size vehicle.

And if they couldn’t meet the mpg requirements? The fines were so small they got lost in…

Good lord that hurts to read.

He complains that the precious metals are expensive and damaging to mine and then assumes that said damage must be worse than the damage prevented by having the cat. And then he assumes that when you’re done with the cat, you simply throw it away. I mean, it’s not like they recycle the…

“a ”significant portion” reported a household annual income of between $25,000 and $49,000 in 2015"

Sounds like a lot of Model 3 reservations are going to be canceled - those people can’t afford a car that expensive.

Arguably it could be perceived as such.

Nothing wrong with threatening to report them for breach of contract if they don’t give you the contracted price, though.

So I think he should have been indicted and all.. but some of what you claim here doesn’t match the actual document.

For example, you claim “Wilson pulled out his gun and admits to shooting Brown, even though Brown had not reached for his weapon or struck him.”, but the document only verifies that Brown had not…

So the real rub is that those prenegotiated deals are contracts - so if the dealer is reported for this nonsense, then they can be sued for breach of contract by the company that is on the other end...

I had a dealer try to pull the “perma plate” bs on me. I had the prenegotiated price deal through my insurance company - they agreed to that price right away, and it was a heck of a deal, so I thought it would be an easy transaction.

Then they brought out the paperwork and I knew within a second something was wrong as…

What also would have helped would have been to divide traffic heading for I-75S and that headed for Paddock Rd prior to the merges, so that you don’t have traffic from I-75S trying to move right while heavy merging traffic tries to move left. It would mean eminent domain seizure of some land, but would be far more…

My daily commute:

People start merging here, where the yellow line on the merging ramp turns to white.

Well, if you want to talk about some hypothetical future standard, sure, never is a big word.

When you’re talking about the standards as they exist for 2025, never isn’t exactly a big word. Our current standards give large vehicles a lower target than small ones, and don’t push any requirement for manufacturers to sell…

Oh, bullshit.

I care about “climate whatever”. I don’t live in the woods and farm by hand. I drive my old internal-combustion powered car to work every day. According to the EPA’s carbon footprint calculator, my family has just 30% the carbon footprint of the average American family, and we don’t want for anything.…

Except that CUVs are still categorized as light trucks and subject to lower mpg requirements than the sedan that they’re based off of, since the footprint vs. mpg curve is still more generous for light trucks than for cars.

Case in point - the Honda CR-V is based off the Civic. The Civic actually has a slightly larger…

3rd:

So you pay more, and that’s supposed to be a killer for sales?

If all else was equal, sure - but these requirements would call for a vehicle like the CR-V to boost its mpg to 35 mpg, roughly a 6 mpg improvement. That would translate to 76 gallons a year saved if you drove 12k miles per year. At $2 a gallon, that’s…

“And less regulations for fuel efficiency standards gives automakers the clear to focus solely on producing vehicles that consumers want. And right now, that’s not small, compact cars.”

Will you all ever realize that the tighter efficiency standards NEVER would have forced people to buy vehicles they didn’t want.…

It’s a bit of a tangent, but when it comes to the ordinary car models (Corollas, Civics, Focii, Cavaliers, Escorts, etc), *PERCEPTION* can even be part of the survival curve for a car.

Case in point - the Escort was actually a pretty freakin’ reliable car for its time. Crude, but reliable. However, it tended to live a…