Hadn’t heard about the Dallas Inland Port - I’ll have to read up on that, thanks for the reference!

Around my parts here’s the truly crazy scenario:

The local Children’s Hospital wanted to expand - doubling its inpatient capacity. They’ve grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years, going from ~5000 employees 15…

It’s a safe bet that no other automaker takes it over - Illinois was willing to practically pay Toyota/Mazda a fortune to do it, and they wouldn’t.

But the idea that there’s much money sloshing around with it now I think is a little absurd.  There aren’t enough people working for that company in total for them to be…

meant to say Trump’s cases were an abuse of eminent domain in seizing private assets for “public benefit” when in fact it was for private use.

You’re assuming that Rivian isn’t simply going to be the next Elio

Amen... Anyone who thinks Thomas/Scalia/Alito (and now maybe Gorsuch or Kavanaugh?) don’t legislate from the bench is blind.

Quite honestly, the only people on the court right now that I see occasionally *NOT* doing that are Kagan and Roberts.

Actually, he didn’t even point out that both people did it. All the things he pointed to Obama doing were reclassification of government owned land. The government didn’t seize a thing by eminent domain in those cases.

He was quite literally saying that under Obama some federally owned forest turned into a national…

Even for a highway it can be questionable.

They’ve seized hundreds of homes in my area to widen the interstate from 3 lanes minimum to 4 minimum in each direction over about a 20 mile stretch. The total cost is expected to run in the $5 billion range now. By the time they’re done, congestion is expected to be worse…

Person rebuts ignorant claim with another ignorant claim made by not understanding what eminent domain is...

FTFY.

No, it has historically been used by BOTH parties whenever they felt it suited their purpose.

Fact check:

All of the stories you link to refer entirely to the Obama administration applying additional protected status to land the federal government already was the owner of. NO land was seized. Anything privately owned in these areas remained privately owned.

That is NOT A CASE OF EMINENT DOMAIN.  It isn’t seizing…

Good lord, do you keep your cars any length of time?

Since 1998 my wife and I have bought 2 cars.... total.  One is now 13 years old and the other is 8.

So, basically, GM is taking the same business plan Ford has announced.

Either both are committing suicide, or Ford got themselves a bit ahead of the curve.

Can I introduce you to the Chevy Trax so you can experience true awfulness?

Neither is a Jaguar XJ Vanden Plas, but they don’t cost $10k+, either.

There’s a stupidity in the debt ratings argument. The $150B figure is extremely misleading - 90% of it is from Ford Motor Credit, which is a bank. That arm of Ford is, and has basically always been, extremely profitable. Relatively short term loans funded by low interest debt. That distorts all their numbers (FCA just…

Who is having financial issues?

Ford? They’re still very profitable.  Their stock is a dog, but they’re making plenty of money (yes, it would be more without idiotic tariffs in place).

Collector car isn’t the same thing as a used car.

But hey, if we want to play the old car game, you can get a Model T for less than $10k

$10,250 for a 15-16 year old used car?

Ouch.

Well, note that in that report they’re just shy of 400k in 2013, so that already isn’t that far off - and that was with some markets just starting to kick in as well as sales in general still climbing out of the recession.  Explorer sales in China alone pushed them get them over the 400k mark.

You’re correct. But those stats get distorted, too - I mean, pick a country in Europe to setup a factory and you’re going to export a large number of vehicles. You aren’t going to build 3-series plants in Germany, France, UK, Italy, Romania, etc - you’re going to build one and ship all over the place. It simply…