I never lost my doctor, nor do I know anyone who has.

“In other words, the plant itself wasn’t in danger of leaving. And neither were those jobs. Everything would have “balanced out” in the end, with the Escape being built by Americans in Kentucky and the MKC in Mexico.”

Wait - no one has said MKC production would move to Mexico. In fact, I’d be willing to wager it is…

Except decibels are a horrid measure for noise levels.

Decibels measure the level of the sound pressure, but it doesn’t account for the sensitivity of the human ear to various frequencies. While reviews love to quote dB, what really matters is actually dBa or sones - those measures weight based on the frequency being…

That was exactly my point - and I don’t know many shops buying brake fluid from O’Reilly.

God I hope not. If you need that much, your brakes are pretty useless.

Out of curiosity, but who buys a gallon of brake fluid at a time? I’m trying to think of any car or light truck that could possibly use anywhere near that much.

+1.

I want safety and efficiency. Screw all the bells and whistles. A few years back when I was shopping for a car, Honda took themselves out of the running because in order to get stability control, they wanted to force me to buy leather, power everything, and a moonroof.

And I sure as hell don’t want to pay $1200 for…

Same with the “local control” argument. The GOP makes damned sure that they lord over local governments and schools in Ohio from the state level.

The real problem with the fear over nuclear is that most of the fear is outdated or misinformed.

There have been a few accidents over the years:

Windscale (UK) : relatively small release in 1957 - the reactor design here is nothing like what is used today - this plant was more about building bombs than making energy.

Ferm…

“Somebody remind Lincoln that it’s OK to be different. Being normal isn’t really working for them right now.”

Lincoln sales are up 8.6% so far this year. They were up 7.1% last year. They were up 15.6% the year before that.

Not sure it isn’t working for them. They’re not leading the pack in sales, but they’re doing very…

Well, what does it compete against in the US?

The Chevy Trax? Ford would have to try to make a vehicle that bad.

No, what is BS is assuming an upfront fee never hurts anyone else, because you’re refusing to consider what it does to the used car market.

So do you - you just don’t want to admit it.

I’m proposing a method that allows people to CHOOSE if it is worth paying a penalty or not.

That doesn’t solve their problem at all.

They can’t repeal the requirement to cover preexisting conditions. They can’t repeal the requirement to have no lifetime or annual caps.

What they would do through defunding is that they would kick millions off insurance, but insurance prices wouldn’t drop one bit - so there…

Keep in mind that the Chinese government requires that foreign automakers partner with a chinese company as part of a JV where the chinese company holds a majority of the ownership.

There’s nothing that really would prevent them from seizing the remaining portion. It would be long term suicide for foreign investment,…

Of course, dismantling the whole thing ends up taking insurance from 25 million people.

And they can’t remove the pre-existing condition mandate without a filibuster-proof majority, which they don’t have.

Turns out governing is a hell of a lot harder than sending pithy racist/sexist tweets.

You assume that China’s government actually cares about its citizens, though.

There are easy-peasy ways to eliminate every concern you have?

Worried about a hit and people unable to change vehicles? Phase it in. Problem gone. Worried about a monthly refund check? Change the withholding tables as I said before. Problem solved. Hell, you could even send a first payment BEFORE you imposed the tax.

We…

Without an “underpay” there is no incentive to move to fuel efficient vehicles. The entire point is that you reward people for voluntarily choosing efficiency. And yes, you do have a choice in how much fuel you use.

On your side, you seem to believe that the used car market operates in a vacuum. It doesn’t. If you push…

No, my plan is not getting more and more complex - you’ve just never understood it.

It is very simple in concept and execution - actually significantly easier and fairer than tacking on a hefty fee at purchase and sucker punching low income individuals with additional finance charges.

Here’s the concept, again, since…