And, as always, everything else will continue to focus on keeping your local Alfa mechanic’s children in the very best private schools.

No. No, I’m sorry but I can’t believe this. no serious political entity would ever allow this type of intellectual inconsistency to exist in any serious manner or at any significant level.

Can you imagine if any other public official / public worker, with an ownership stake in (at least) two luxury car dealerships, went around talking about how much they loves their Ferraris while taking tours of the Ferrari factory? The GOP would blow their fucking gasket, demand an accounting of how this person could…

Victoria, Canada. I have noticed however that a lot of dealers have them ‘on their inventory’ online, but when you show up in person, they tell you about the wait, and introduce you to the non-EV options kicking around. Kind of a dirty business practice in my opinion, but seems fairly uniform too.

This is it. Exactly. It’s about cars, yes, and our absurd need for them. But it’s also about consumption generally. It’s easy to advocate for EVs because they allow us to scratch two itches - driving cars a lot and buying something new - while thinking we’re doing some great thing for the environment.

Yep - we heard the same thing (also in Canada).  And for both the Kia and the Hyundai.

Not sure about anywhere else - but the Ioniq 5 is most definitely not available.  Hyundai was giving us wait times that were about the same as the Toyota Prime.  The Kia was similarly unavailable.  

Ah yes - advising someone to commit suicide on the internet.  Very normal behavior.  You do know, of course, that you can actually be criminally charged, in most jurisdictions, for doing that.  And yes - they can figure out  your identity on here.  

I don’t understand.  Are you saying that they couldn’t have protested in a way that didn’t result in spray paint draining into the ocean?  Maybe it’s a small thing - but it’s the first thing I noticed about their protest, and it absolutely took away from whatever point they were trying to make.

The e-bike thing is super popular now, but even with all that you have to think that the market is becoming saturated. There are SO many different models and makers out there - all offering something that’s fundamentally fairly similar. Now that the big players are waking up and producing more e-bikes and cargo bikes,…

That’s a pretty insane thing to say!

So, aside from giving the vague impression that a shark is trying to swim out of your rear hatch, and the obvious benefits associated with obscuring your rear 3/4 views - what is the purpose of the ‘reverse fin’ at the ass-end of the truck?

I get it. A lot of people put considerable value on being different and being an early adopter (and being seen to be an early adopter!). And there’s nothing wrong with that. I can see a ton of people who would have been interested in the Cyber Truck because it was so unique and so interesting - completely unlike…

OK - but it’s not an irrelevant point.  You can protest billionaires while not actually putting spray paint right into the ocean.  Maybe it was environmentally friendly - I don’t know.  But they should have put thought into it, if they didn’t.  

It wouldn’t be difficult to get one up here. At least in Victoria - which is almost tailor made for both EVs and crossovers.

Maybe. But it’s still pretty tough to get any PHEV. The Ford dealer we went to last week had a half dozen Mach-Es available, but there was a wait list for Escape PHEVs. Similar situation with Hyundai.

That’s not what I had heard, but either way - it doesn’t change my overall point: shitting all over the innocent people who died because they trusted a very persuasive man with a (limited) record of success is needlessly meanspirited.

Yep.  There’s a reason why a RAV4 Prime is something like a 2 year+ wait in Canada, while Mach Es are gathering dust.

You know - they really missed an opportunity by not modifying Taxis. Imagine calling a Callaway Cab.

I suspect it was probably a bit more complicated than saying any one entity was responsible for driving commercial / recreational air travel. And I have a hard time with the premise that exceptionally rich people, looking for a way to do something different and exciting weren’t a driving force behind private air travel…