Bingo! I always went to the gate with my family to see relatives off, spend some extra time talking, etc. before they left. This was normal before all of that 9-11 “security theater” started. Of course the security wasn’t anywhere as intrusive as now. I used to bring while 2-liter bottles of vodka on board.

Imagine not remembering that this was the way it used to be.  No one went shopping at the airport then, they wont do it now.  It just means that people who are stuck at the airport have to suffer less.  If means you can meet people during layovers for lunch or shopping.

Am I just getting old that this seems shocking to someone?

I remember when your family could basically walk you to the gate. I’m not sure if that was a better time or just a naive time.

The owner of his repair shop doesn’t need investors. They’re currently lighting Cubans with $100 bills from the steering wheel of their yacht. 

Hold on! Hold on!

This is the easiest Miata is the right answer in a while.  

I’m on board with this guy getting a Miata, but he really needs to go as far as he can from Land Rover / Range Rover — sometimes opposites go well together, and help you appreciate the two extremes. So, I propose a Smart fortwo electic:

The degree to which society has normalized the “well, the cops obviously lied about the shooting, but it’s not that big a deal, let’s focus on what happened here” attitude is really amazing.

Cheap used EVs are so tempting. I’m almost at the point where I can get my midlife crisis car, a Toyobaru but the logical not fun side of me is like “get solar panels and a cheap used EV! The sun is throwing away free money!”

Where are you getting this number? “An RV is built for 40 trips” doesn’t seem right and I’ve never heard thar figure before.

Our world is so fucked up by garbage humans.

Not to be that guy, but I’m gonna be that guy.

Texas gas tax is only 20 cents/gallon, or $135 in your example. 

$200 doesn’t strike me as punitive. High but not punitive. Quick calculation shows that if I lived in TX instead of AZ I’d be paying around $130 in state gas taxes a year. (plus the sales tax that is built into the gas price.) Add in another 120 in Fed gas taxes. 

Oh, you mean drivers will have to help pay for the roads their overweight EV is destroying?
Seems perfectly reasonable as everyone driving ICEs pays for roads via gas tax.

Let’s be real here, if $200/year breaks you from driving an EV, you couldn’t afford it anyway.

Think your math is a little off.

There’s 2 million new cars sitting on dealer lots. 92,000 of those are EVs. That means less that 1/2 of 1% are EVs... I wouldn’t call that “leading the way”. That’s literally how you make a mountain out of an ant hill with statistics. Don’t believe me? Re-read the stats in the articles released last week that…

I would love to buy an EV, but the price is my wall so to speak. I don’t want to buy one, and then have to wait till tax time to get my credit, which if I understand correctly only effects me if I own money and isn’t a rebate. Please correct me if I am wrong. Even if I am wrong, I do not want to wait almost a year or…

This is completely fabricated troll food and it’s far from the truth, the EVs people actually want are still in very short supply. They could post specific numbers but they don’t, I will for you. EVs make up less than 5% of the said inventory.....