listen: I could not all-caps every insane term. I didn’t even include California Formal. 

I would have put the all-caps on “wedding casual.” What the actual hell. The term negates itself. 

If more people had actually driven it instead of the Explorer they might have found they liked them, they drove very car like, no tippy feeling in corners, had a decent ride even on the 20" wheels, and it was about the most practical vehicle outside a true minivan there was.

No, you still need to show your ID at security with Precheck.

I did the math a while back and IIRC if I were to charge something like a Nissan Leaf in my garage using standard rates, electricity to go X miles per year would cost about 50% what gasoline would. If you charge at home only at night, your utility company might offer a discounted rate per kWh. If you charge “on the…

“A lot of them pull up and get upset,” Doley tells the outlet.

Yeah, but you gotta figure that the folks who are attending a World Series game are reasonably affluent, especially in the suite sections where Trump was. And as they announced the death of the ISIS leader that morning (with Trump personally performing the five finger exploding heart technique on the guy), maybe he…

If it’s not one thing it’s another

I was on a 17 hour flight to South Africa and it was surprisingly OK.  I think people behave better because they all know, at some level, that we’re all in it together.  If people act well the rest falls into place.

god fucking damnit

Anyone who takes a baby on that flight should expect child protection services waiting for them on the other end.

There’s a “Don’t recline your seat” crowd? What’s that all about?

We could start launching airliners with a catapult.

Electrification of airliners is probably going to work in the opposite direction: burn dinosaurs for take-off and climb, then use batteries and/or internal generator for cruise power since the power demands are so much less.

Weight of the batteries is a very big concern. That is the reason why we haven’t done it on a larger plane yet. To get the power and capacity needed you have to add too much weight with batteries. Also with current lithium-ion batteries you have the risk of fires especially when the cells are pushed at high loads for…

I have a problem with this statement from the article. On approach and landing, the engines are at much lower power settings as the pilot is trying to bleed airspeed off. So I’m not sure how this phase of flight is contributing much to total energy usage and emissions.

Even if you did this, how are you going to charge these batteries? Coal or gas fired power plants? You are just burning the same amount of fossil fuel in a different location. Also most commercial jets are on the ground for about an hour after they land for refueling and boarding. When is the battery charging going to…

Nuclear airports with steam catapults.  What could go wrong?

Or better yet- that part of air travel should be powered by ground-based devices. I had proposed (half in jest) that we use a humongous Acme brand rubber brand, to shoot airplanes into the sky. And when airplanes land, they fly right into these giant rubber bands, and stretch them back , ready for the next plane!

Short answer: The amount of electrical power needed to move a commercial airliner into the sky outstrips said batteries power capacity and output. Also, an electrically powered jet engine will be designed very differently from an fuel burning one.