I remember this incident were everyone said the SUV was justified in knockiing some bikers over when trying to flee an angry mob of bikers. I see similar story here with the police trying to escape an angry mob throwing things at them and trying to break into the car.

There’s a difference between running over a bunch of people on a walking path minding their own business vs accelerating out of an angry mob that’s blocking the street and attacking you. Comparing these to ISIS is a bit of a false equivalency.

One reason why they may not worry about the Pentastar are the curves. The Pentastar has most of it’s torque come on pretty early, which is way more useful than more horsepower. A Wrangler’s not a highway cruiser and it’s not a hillclimber. It’s an off-road crawler.

Agreed. From what I have read, the dams had been condemned a long time ago because they couldn’t spill off excess water at a high enough rate. They got a lot of rain and exactly what people have been saying for something like 19 years happened.

Because people and journalists use the words “science” and “scientist” like they’re some magic wand that cures-all knows-all magically.

The bigger mystery to me is, who watches these videos? Who follows these people and wants to listen to basic people spewing basic shit for 45 minutes, which could be condensed into 2 minutes but they stretch it out foreeeeever to get more $$$$?

Fuck these people - and almost all others - for living their lives online. Yes, it generates an income, but so does a lot of other stuff that people shouldn’t do. You sit down to a video and say it’s the hardest... video you’ve ever had to make publicly? Then thanking your viewers... and their nice comments. Maybe…

“All this efficiency has made cars more expensive!” I’ve not seen proof of that.

I understand that companies wouldn’t want to do something against their financial interests without legislation. What I do not understand is that it doesn’t seem to be the case here. Consumers have expressed a desire to buy more fuel efficient vehicles, and manufactures are trying to design and build those vehicles.…

If people want fuel efficient vehicles (as they seem to) and manufacturers want to manufacture them (which they seem to) then why does there need to be an over-complicated bureaucratic mess put in place to make it happen? 

I’ve never bought a rental, but every time I’ve bought a car I’ve gone into it with the mindset that I’m going to keep it until it’s no longer mechanically sound. So by the time I’m ready to get rid of a car, I’m not expecting much for sale/trade-in. But if you’re someone who likes to switch it up every few years,…

I’m convinced that most major corporations are just a house of cards — nothing more than accounting tricks to keep their heads barely above water while the executives enrich themselves. Tap one little card at the bottom and everything comes crashing down, except for executive salaries of course. Gotta take care of…

This. I wanted a commuter electric car. But:

It happened around the time they realized that advances in extraction were actually outpacing rise in demand, and that peak oil supply was probably more than 100 years away.

I was wondering this as well.

Grrr. “Peak Oil” doesn’t mean a collapse in oil demand, it means the point where it’s no longer possible to profitably extract ever-decreasing or physically-unavailable supplies of oil. It’s meant the latter for literally the entire time the term’s existed, only recently are people trying to pervert the original…

So when did “peak oil” get flipped to mean peak demand? It started out meaning, more or less, peak supply, in the sense that discovery of new oilfields falls behind the depletion of known, economically and practically exploitable reserves. It’s a most significant distinction.

I prefer the dial dodge has been using. 

Except there is a benefit to solid axles: Articulation, ease of modification, strength and serviceability.

First gear: When comparing Telsa and Ford, you have to realize that you have two different types of investors.