The EPA wasn’t responsible for the CAFE standards, those were championed by George W. Bush. The asinine formula should have been changed decades ago, but the lobbyists’ success combined with Congress’ chronic inability to legislate have left us and the EPA with the nearly useless standards.

Can we all just take a minute and observe that the top photo is pretty decent photoshop work? The pacifier is so-so, but the baby sun hat is a pretty convincing sell.  Just needs a little more edge blur and depth of field.  Nice!

Don’t forget reaping, if not salaries at every company, his share of what little profits are getting generated.

Wait, a company with a reactionary idiot CEO who also happens to be trying to be CEO for multiple other companies at the same time is struggling now that there are actual problems to resolve and competition from other companies?

Elon’s famous for saying that if factory workers can’t work from home, software engineers shouldn’t get to either. But that doesn’t apply to him, does it? He’s in an intense leadership role in multiple companies. If I told my management “Hey, I’ll be spending eight months of the year working at other companies, but I…

Sure seems like there are a number of people who have been fortunate enough to have their decisions go their way for long enough that it’s basically impossible for them to admit that they even have the capacity for making an incorrect call. Anything that happens is the fault of someone or something else.

I might be able to muster up some empathy if all his problems weren’t knowingly and willingly self inflicted.

My wrx on a good day can only average 27 on a best case mostly highway scenario.

This is so true. I was “nudged” by a large box truck that had been hit by another box truck at crawling speeds and it managed to do nearly $10K in damage to my vehicle.  Sure, a box truck is a good bit heavier than the Hummer EV but at nearly 5 tons, it will certainly cause significantly more damage than the average…

Maybe we also update the gas guzzler tax so it applies to trucks, too? And have it apply to anything that averages <30mpg, at a starting fine of $2,000? There’s so much low-hanging fruit in reducing U.S. vehicle emissions. American lifestyles haven’t changed so much in the past 20 years that mid-sized sedans/wagons…

This makes the most sense. My Miata and I appreciate your take

How about the federal government start with eliminating tax incentives for heavy vehicles, or at least limiting them to demonstrable work truck...regardless if they are ICE or EV.

“Colorado Law Would Charge Owners For Driving Giant, Pedestrian-Crushing Trucks And SUVs”

Registration fees should absolutely be based on weight and EPA numbers (two separate calculations, I’d argue). The UK has had annual car taxes based on engine displacement, car value, and fuel economy for decades. It led one friend to get a Lotus Elise over a Range Rover (what a champ!). Now that all vehicles seem to…

If you insist!

This is pretty cool. The best part of The Stand are the parts where it kind of goes out wide, and we get stuff like the “No Great Loss” chapter.

My 2019 Bullitt was 50k. Now a loaded EcoBoost is 49k, and a GT with the SAME options I have are 60k while making the same power and aren’t even a “limited run” package.

I don’t get it. They’ve been sold out for 3 years. But I think I can count on both hands how many I’ve seen in that time span? Are they making like a thousand a year?

all car prices are insane.

Also i can’t help but think about how my 2019 4wd STX F-150 Supercrew only cost me like $37K and that was only 4 years ago. Truck prices (in most cases) have gone insane