And you’re complaining about people not being able to do basic math?
That’s rich.
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Ah, yes, you’re correct. So Bob mislabeled the vehicle, and DrZ ran with the mislabel... and my suspicions that he meant TC were correct, and you were correct based on what he meant... :)
By trucks, I’m referring to pickups. In terms of commercial trucks, there is very little overlap between Ford and VW, too. And while VW is introducing “crossovery type things”, they don’t sell particularly well outside germany.
Not exactly - VW has a tiny market share in the US, but Ford’s market share in Germany isn’t far off what Honda’s is in the US. They’re just shy of BMW for share there - short of VW group, Mercedes, BMW, and Renault Group, but ahead of everyone else. But the Euro market is highly fragmented - Italian cars sell…
Yep. I live in the 1st. Half my neighborhood is in the 2nd. I have to drive through the 2nd to get to my kids’ school.
There’s a spot about 4 miles from me where if you walked along the major thoroughfare for about 500 feet, you change congressional districts FOUR TIMES.
You have about 730k people per district in Ohio.…
Oh, you’re going to have to come back and let us know how he reacts when he finds out he’s no better off come next tax season.
You seriously don’t understand this, do you?
“ if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in—you made explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed,”
That describes the ENTIRE f%@$#!g point of insurance. Healthy people pay in, sick people get money. It…
Your cousin is delusional. A tax refund of $30k? No way in hell he’s getting that much if he’s marginally employed. In fact, if he’s marginally employed, its likely he’s not seeing an extra dime.
2) The US was actually in a much better place than you were led to believe.
Why? Statutory tax rates aren’t effective tax rates, and different behaviors were taxed differently. Say you wanted to establish a factory for a product and needed to borrow $1 billion to do it. Do you know which country had the lowest…
A structural deficit of 2-3% of GDP is no big deal. Why? Because with 2% inflation and 2% real GDP growth, and a deficit of 3% of GDP, the debt would actually settle long term to a stable 77.3% of the economy. However, that requires running smaller deficits during economic expansions to allow for larger ones during…
Clearly you know nothing about it other than what Fox told them, because you’re buying the ridiculous claim that Pelosi and co didn’t know what was in it. In fact, what she clearly said was that the rhetoric around it was so over the top that the *american people* wouldn’t know what it really was until they passed it…
Sadly, you’re considering it a scandal that Gruber understood the entire concept of health insurance and knew the general public did not?
Sorry, but this isn’t a high-tech factory from your description.
It may build a high-tech car and do so very nicely, but what you’re describing is actually nowhere near as high tech as the much more automated assembly plants that churn out your average corolla or Cruze. This just looks much nicer.
Good grief. The GT has 28% more power per pound net weight than the NSX does. Hell, F1 uses 1.6L V6s. Are they “whimpy *ss” cars?
I’ve never seen someone so happy about spending $500 on a pile of crap.
Actually, it’s entirely possible. You don’t get sulfur emissions without sulfur in the fuel.
Average worldwide sulfur levels were 2.67% in 2004. The restrictions came into effect in 2005 at 1.5% for coastal areas of the US, and are now down to 0.1% max.
All you have to do to achieve that is remove sulfur from the fuel.…
A) it wasn’t... but thanks to regulations, it is rapidly becoming one.
We actually did dramatically increase emissions requirements on shipping vessels recently. Those limits started taking effect in 2010. Compared to before that limit, sulfur emissions (the major pollutant you’re talking about when talking about ships being dirty) have dropped about 97% around Northern Europe and North…
A 1970 Cadillac Eldorado ran ~$7,500 - or about $50k today. You can get a pretty decent CTS or XTS for under $50k. You don’t have to go to $80k like you claim.
But, yes, you get a MUCH, MUCH better car for that money. Expected lifespan is more on the order of 15 years instead of 8-9.