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Why the $#@!#$! is Hawaii suing Ford, Toyota, and Nissan, but NOT Honda, who reportedly knew well before anyone else - and before some of these other makers they are suing even started using Takata airbags?

With no vacation...

Considering that they do get vacation time off, it’s actually about 48 hours per week when not on vacation.

The jobs aren’t nearly as low-skill as you make them out to be.

And at average UAW rates, you’d have to work ~2400 hours per year (including overtime) to make $75k.

Didn’t really read the story, did you?

Their 2016 rate was still well above the industry average, severity of injury was clearly significantly worse, and their 2017 rate data, while it appears to show improvement, can’t be taken at face value as they have a history of increasing their injury counts significantly after…

Maybe we’re over the top on safety at times, but these injury rates seem atrocious to me compared to what I’m used to in factories in my industry.

He tried with “Park Avenue” and then succeeded with “Citizen Koch”.

And you’re wrong.

Name another person who ever donated money to a school under the conditions that they had hiring/firing say on all faculty at the school, not just for the named position that they would be funding.

Sadly, though, he’s used his donor status to squash programs he doesn’t like. Standard MO for him, really - donate a bunch of money and then make editorial demands so he can spread his economic nonsense

I don’t consider putting a new bumper on a car to be representative of the design’s age.

And those regional airline pilots have flowthrough agreements that give  priority over many external hires when a role opens up at the major. So that Spirit pilot isn’t necessarily looking at a move to American, but rather a possible move to American Eagle.

I don’t think its unreasonable of them to want…

1) what model years needed a transmission? 80s/early 90s were a long time ago, so you’d better have something more recent. Statistically, their transmissions have been pretty darned solid (though poorly programmed) for 20+ years now.

2) A recall? You’re going to blast a brand because of a recall? Better invest in good…

The escape isnt’ that old? They barely touched it this year, which is the 5th year of production for this design...

Good lord, how hard were you driving it?

I had an Escape and managed 32 mpg in Boston traffic last fall.

Interestingly, we have cases to look at where the minimum wage was increased, prices didn’t increase, and economic growth jumped. FWIW, housing prices aren’t set based on what people making minimum wage can afford - they aren’t buying homes anyway. That’s dependent more upon upper wage earners chasing homes and…

There is truth in your claim - our 2010 Mazda6 is more efficient at 70 than at 65 because it tends to keep its torque converter locked more often - at 65, a slight hill can cause it to unlock the TC to prevent it from lugging the engine, and that hits efficiency.

However, adding more and more gears to transmissions is…

That’s grossly oversimplistic.

We live in a consumption based economy. When large groups of people can’t afford to consume, costs of goods can actually be inflated. Take your local McDonald’s. Say they serve 50 value meals an hour right now at $6 each with a staff of 5 at minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and make a 10%…

They should lower their speed limits because Michigan roads are a joke.

Georgia plates. Particularly from any county in the metro Atlanta area.

What pisses me off is that you know that $844 base fusion headlight assembly actually costs about $50 or so, tops. Aftermarket ones still run $200-220. If it actually cost them $844, they would never make any money on the vehicle.

I’m all for them making a profit, but those margins are insane.

This is true - and all the more reason why they can’t justify their share price, when any competitor could come in and buy the same batteries and package them. Last figures I saw had GM already producing at a price per kWh equal to Tesla’s initial targets for their factory.