Well, short answer, yes. If not a Prius, perhaps a Mirage. Or even a Renault Kwid. Because using the least resources when resources are limited is the most altruistic thing one can do.

Thanks.

But that overlooks my point. A local supplier would be affected exactly as the factory, so concurrent shutdowns have exactly the same effect on each other. But when a supplier is not nearby, and that supplier has an issue, or the factory shuts down, both are affected.

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I wish exactly what Wesley promised in The Princess Bride: To the Pain.

Well, almost 27,000 people bought a Mirage last year. Not a huge number, but almost as many people as the total sales for Jaguar - all models! Yes, there are those who will buy used rather than a new $10K car, but then again, the OEMs understand that there are a lot of folks who only want new, for whatever reason.…

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I have to disagree, strongly.

That is the best answer to all who say used is a good option.

I agree with you to a point, but do you think Thiel was worried about gay-bashing or that his comrades in the conservative circles he ran in would shun him once they learned he liked dick? He lived in that special Ivory Tower where the rich folks live, and nobody but other rich folks surround him. And he chose to hang…

OMG, this, a thousand times over. And I have 2 cars, both manuals.

But there is a theory, one that I believe to be pretty accurate, that the term Faggot comes from the fact that they used homosexual men as the “bundle of sticks” used to light the main fire when burning someone at a stake. There are a lot of theories on where the context of the word comes from, but the simple fact…

A major OEM just dissolved their PR department, and nobody seems to be alarmed?

I agree, the whole celebrity news crap is a waste of time, money, and effort, and has made a lot of people famous for no good reason. But when a person living their life in public makes that choice to enjoy their fame, they also risk all the details of their life being exposed, good and bad. There are TONS of very…

Well, a bit of context. I am a gay man, and a bit older than Thiel, but really, the idea of outing someone is not really something that I would necessarily call good or bad. I look at it like this: if you are being reported on in the media, anything you do or say is liable to be revealed, so if you are doing something…

This is not Tyra’s first rodeo, nor is she a shrinking violet, so she is ultimately responsible.

Thiel is evil, pure and simple. Seems old Pete got angry that he was outed, and has that special self-hatred that causes him to be a very conservative Republican gay man, thus he never wanted to be outed. Kind of like the Senator Larry Craig in the airport toilet kind of guy. That led him to pay for the Hulk Hogan…

Perhaps that is the issue: he tendency to want to lay blame evenly to all.

Correct. Nobody considers what it costs to keep something on the road, just what the payment is. That is why when gas prices spiked in 2008 that a lot of people offloaded fully loaded Hummers, Escalades, Navigators, or other larger inefficient vehicles and tried to buy used Geo Metros. And then repurchased another big…

Exactly!