I’ve driven in Germany and the UAE.

I’m not a big fan of any subsidies. The argument for factories is that the workers get taxed and the local property values go up leading to more tax as well. I’m going to put that in the “plausible” but I don’t know if it’s been confirmed in the real world.

It’s what happens when your wife says yes to everyone who wants to board dogs at your house and you end up with two roughhousing under foot.

That was my dad’s term as well.

I have an older Sienna (2007). Nothing like rolling up to Home Depot and getting 120 pickets and 3 6x8 sheets of plywood and fitting it ALL inside the van (middle seats gone, back flipped down) to make guys in F-150s question their manliness.

I’m torn.

This is excellent and her voice is haunting.

I’m ok for subsides, although I see a ton of abuse. Company X wants to build a new factory, the local governments give them waivers on property tax, run utilities, or just plan give them money to help do so. Once the factory is made, these incentives go away (eventually).

“Wicked bad luck at work today.  Joey was trying to bang a U-ey and this fricking guy just pulls right out in front of him.”

I never understood the cap either. Company X has figured out how to make a car that is more efficient. Let’s punish them by forcing them to raise their prices. Why?

Which are all personal reasons for this.

I would assume that Borst would have a similar effect on me.

The big difference is to know that in Florida they have Restricted Deed communities. These are HOAs on steroids that have legal power beyond that of a normal HOA because they are on some sort of protected area like a wetland or a habitat for an endangered animal.

1st gear:

By the way, there is a difference between a HOA and a Restricted Deed community.

I grew up NOT in a HOA. My dad bought a “spec house” from a builder that went bankrupt. It was close to where he worked and on a dirt road. A big developer bought the other 3 hours and built up a big community that even had a private marina.

I wish I could remember it.  It was an investigative journalist (memory sort of hints of an Aussie) and it was a LOT more interesting than my quick summary.   Organized crime, international terrorist groups, fights over water rights that involved actual gun play, drug smuggling, murder and a lot of other twists that I…

Or become a Korean/Mexican/microbiotic fusion restaurant chain.

Absolutely.  And they are the ones that lose their licenses and sometimes go to jail for this stuff.   The people doing the actual stealing and making all the money don’t.

The Pacifica PHEV is got a horrible reputation for reliability. The Pacifica isn’t bad. I’ve driven Voyagers and Pacificas as rentals and they are ok, but nothing special.