And the funny thing is that even the established car companies have rarely been a good investment either. Long term, the domestics have hardly seen much growth relative to inflation. 

That’s fine! Nobody is saying you can’t have that. The problem is that post-WWII zoning and development law has made it illegal to build literally anything else than what you described, save for medium and high-rise apartment complexes.

It’s both harder and easier for me because I work in construction, an industry that will always be around in society regardless of how utopian or dystopian it is, and driving for it is an absolute necessity. Furthermore, working in and seeing what waste looks like in the industrial sector makes consumer-level…

Indeed. I can sort of understand the people who want all the property for a low price and are willing to commute 2 hours each way to do so. But like I said, most zoning ordinances prohibit the building of literally anything else, save for high-rise multi-unit complexes. 

lol. Lake Geneva WI has a one lane each direction ring-road around the lake. Just this past summer they started paving curbs onto it, and both the locals AND the Illinois vacationers are up in arms because not having a 2 foot drop-off straight into the woods “detracts from the town’s character.”

lmao. Like I said, coastal bias is real, but pointing it out makes you feel like an idiot yourself just yelling into the void. It goes in that same file with “Trump Derangement Syndrome”.

this video rules

my lord, this is cursed

All of this question of weight and consumption brings up the generally larger question of how environmentally friendly electric cars are as a concept.

For people of sound mind an health, yes. Everyone who’s left supporting them is absolutely deranged like this.

It depends greatly on both the Costco and the time of day. I’ve never used the one closest to where I live because I’ve never seen the lines less than six deep. On the flip side, the one closest to my office seems like a well kept secret as it’s never more than one car waiting, even at lunchtime.

Indeed. All I’ve ever asked is we entertain the possibility that it doesn’t happen. Most of societies biggest advancements were not pointing out something theoretical and saying “we want that thing so let’s make it!”, it’s been taking something we just sort of figured out and applied somewhere else. All the confidence…

“Tell me how a nuclear reactor works, or I will have one of these soldiers throw you out of the helicopter.”

Indeed, but most all of this is a function of when/how everything was built. European cities were built around foot traffic, so if you build a train station in the middle of the city, everything is a reasonable distance from there. American cities, even pre-WWII, aren’t centralized enough to make the rail network…

Whenever I’m near a Costco. I bought a membership *just* so I don’t pay full price for premium gas. Paid for itself 3 months in. If I’m ever in a pinch and the light comes on, I’ll put in a few gallons from a normal station so I can make it to the next Costco that’s along my travels (with a little bit of insurance).

There are a lot of hilarious stories out there of an IT person leaving to take a better job, then the company they left calling them a few days later and offering them double their old salary to come back because literally no one has the slightest clue how to do what they do.

Is Florida really that much better then the southwest like AZ, NM, and NV? Being completely devoid of weather makes the roads and the cars last forever too. 

Yeah, kinda wish there was a way to invoke “coastal bias” that doesn’t make you sound like a rube. Thinking Cali has the worst roads is flat out delusional.

Indeed, and the powertrains will be outsourced anyway. The chassis and shell are the important bits here, all they need to do is leave space for batteries (if they go hard, motors in the wheel wells) once the USPS has the charging infrastructure for it.

Bingo. Living in a pre-war metro area will makes everything post-war seem insane. Detroit got ruined by Big 3 lobbying.