You’re an activist based on a false belief system and profoundly deep ignorance. Your arguments hold no water.

You’re wrong and you should be ashamed of your wrongness. Someone here on a visa is documented. Someone that has been here for decades has broken a long string of laws for almost the entire time they’ve been here. Chances are that they’re dodging income taxes, have committed identity theft, and/or commit fraud…

You’ve clearly never lived in a border state or city. I’m a native Angelino and lived for many years in San Diego. This is common usage in these regions and throughout the southwest.

This is correct. Octane rating is knock resistance and additives to increase the rating reduce the energy density of the fuel, along with other effects that could be good, indifferent, or even bad (warms the engine slower, which results in poorer fuel economy on shorter trips, for example) depending on the application.

Who cares? They’d just use the higher-octane fuel and run fine. Really, nothing would lose if we did this, aside from profits for petroleum companies and stations that wouldn’t be able to charge ridiculous prices for premium fuel that doesn’t cost anywhere near as much more to produce than they charge for it.

It’s not incredibly nor artificially cheap. The fact we don’t have exceptionally high taxes on it like most developed countries or low demand for it like some undeveloped/developing countries doesn’t mean it’s cheap, let alone artificially cheap. Workers in the petroleum sector are well paid in this country.

My delta isn’t that high, but it still dwarfs the tiny gains in fuel economy. I only see about 1 mpg between the two.

Not true. They gain practically nothing, but do gain a small bit of fuel economy on it if they stay out of boost (good luck).

If “premium” octane fuel sold at the same rate as regular, it would be much cheaper. Probably less than 10 cents at first, then a couple cents once production better meets demand.

Definitely not shoving that in a 1980s vehicle designed for like 65hp that was built with inset front wheels to make it more maneuverable. They’re dangerous enough at highway speeds as it is.

I absolutely do not remember these slabs of concrete when I was in a whole bunch of them when I volunteered to help with a food drive a handful of years back. I loaded and unloaded so much heavy food from them that I get back pain just thinking about it.

There are a bunch of theories on why they have problems in North America. The DCTs in the European Focuses and Fiestas are manufactured in Germany and they’re not known to have any problems. However, they also don’t run in stop-and-go creeping automatic transmission traffic as much as they do here. The US-made ones…

If you’re getting pulled over that often, you should probably be paying more because you’re tying up a ton of police time that could be far better used elsewhere.

I love this song and have since I first heard it many years ago...

Terrible for racing, they would be so squirrelly. They’re also gutless.

This is supposed to. What you’ve posted is an LLV, which is their standard mail truck. It’s ancient beyond belief, from an era when they mainly delivered bills and letters. They were all built before 1994, have an archaic iron duke engine, an ancient 3-speed auto, and have properties that make solar ovens blush.

MB is the only company I’ve seen recently that tries to use their bumper tips. In the cold you can see the exhaust coming out of these holes.

They do, and they are notorious for their lack of reliability.

I don’t know why everyone’s memory is so sticky. Kia made shit cars. They don’t really make them anymore. The second gen Soul is an excellent car that I can find no fault with, and I’m a guy that used to pick on Kias relentlessly. The most memorable was about a 2008-2009-ish Kia Sorrento (I think, maybe a Sportage?)…

I think I’d take the Mirage over a Versa S Sedan. Versa Note would win over the Mirage, but the Versa Note is far more expensive even in the very cheapest trim.