Pretty much the root cause was local lawmakers all wanting the train to stop in their towns, like Palmdale, and would oppose plans to run the line should they not concede. So what was going to be a high speed line that ran along already state owned land that had few stops and would be faster had to be changed to…

The feds say the proceeds of the auction will stay in Antigua and Barbuda, but it reserves the right to acquire the funds at a later date.

Use these.

Since February 27.

Thatcher’s push at privatisation certainly didn’t help but that was more stabbing what already had been shot. Really was already on the way out well before Thatcher.

What a load of bollocks.

What a load of bollocks.

Seems pretty much standard operating practice. Didn’t Tesla get something like $3 billion in subsidies from California, Ford $500 million incentives to build electric trucks in Tennessee, GM $1 billion from Michigan.

A fresh coat of lipstick on the pig that is Kinja.

When I saw the listing the first thought was someone has to buy that just for the Merlin and scrap the ugly.

No side is coming off looking good in any regard from this game.

Shock discovery, if you have rare currency someone may pay you more than it’s face value.

Well done for missing the point that there really isn’t much practical difference in size between the two yet Aussies somehow still mage to drive cross country in cars. 

Not really that much larger

Full size trucks and SUVs make perfect sense in much of the country.

Go forth and kill.

Rugged individualism

So its like a country house restaurant with a menu that hasn’t been updated in years

Not pictured the Solar Collectors to be mounted to the sides of the pod.

Touch screens. Especially the Tesla style 1 huge screen to rule them all. Give me buttons and knobs and switches I can use without taking my eyes off the road.

Woof, that’s an ugly car. Looks like the designers were told to make a sedan but halfway through were told to change it to an SUV so just stuck 6 inches of plastic bollocks on to the bottom of the model and called it a day.