Yeah, but those lakes aren’t always calmer. :)

Waves on Lake Superior regularly reach 20-30 feet, with the record at 51(!) feet. The Tregurtha’s draft is ~30 feet.... While you can generally get away with longer boats than on the ocean, they’re pushing the limits for storms.

What about Honda?

Well, that’s nice that Honda won’t use Takata airbags again. But what will Honda do about their own malfeasance in this case?

Appropriate....

5th:

Fiat having a higher share price than Ford is completely irrelevant considering Ford has 3 times the market cap of Fiat.

Share price without consideration of the number of shares outstanding is meaningless.

How about the same song in front of 80,000 people, complete with a string breaking and the show going on as he replaces the string mid-song?

The only “more” I ever ask for is to get exactly what I was promised.

As an example, the last car I bought I ended up buying through my insurance co’s buying service. Brand new Mazda6 for $17,200 before tax, title, and license (no other fees were allowed per the buying service agreement). It was a very good price,…

Well, they did have to ship that car from the back of their lot to the front of their lot...

You really need to learn what IPCC has “backtracked” from.

Before you tell anyone to do some research, you should do some yourself.

Oil is a fungible resource. When a company pulls a barrel out of the ground, the price it sells it for is dependent upon the global price. If Iran decides to block the Straits of Hormuz, shutting off oil shipments, does it directly affect us? No,…

My point is that your claim that they aren’t paying anything is completely false. The roads you and I drive on are paid for partly through gas taxes, partly through income and/or sales taxes. At the federal level, about 20% of road spending comes through income taxes. At the state and local level about 50% comes…

To be fair, gas taxes, tolls, and license fees only cover half of all state and local spending on roads. Those Tesla owners are likely paying a fair bit in state and local income/sales taxes that are used to cover the other 50% of spending.

So a bit too much hard plastic in a GM, and CR curses it no matter how reliable it is. But a Tesla that breaks down right away? Best car they’ve ever tested!

$16k a year for a family of four is actually considered normal for decent insurance in the states, too... that’s the sad thing.

Now not all of that comes out of our paychecks - only about $4k does, the rest is paid by the employer. That gets us “high deductible” insurance. I put that in quotes because it isn’t really…

Nice technology.

Don’t expect the US to do this anytime soon, since the GOP wants to decimate NASA’s funding for any earth science or earth observation missions. Because, you know, climate change must be a hoax according to them... after all, James Inhofe has a snowball!

They’re managed by the states, but most of the funding comes from the federal government.

Taxes collected for infrastructure diverted to social welfare?

Since you CLEARLY haven’t been paying attention, we’ve been spending far more on roads and bridges each and every year than we collect in fuel taxes for quite awhile.

So? You get better roads and affordable health care. I’d pay $4.98 a gallon if the roads here weren’t absolute garbage and health insurance for the family didn’t cost $16,000 a year.

And my point stands. Look at who authorized force, who partnered with the US, how much territory we seized or tried to seize, etc. There were TWO cases post WWII where we weren’t part of a multinational force. Many of the examples above we were actually defending an ally or even operating at the behest of the…

Sorry, but we haven’t been in a state of perpetual war. Since 2001? Yes. But since WWII, we have been involved in 2 conflicts that weren’t multinational (invasion of Panama and the Bay of Pigs Invasion). Contrast that with China, which has unilaterally invaded quite a few countries, and even fought against…