The registry is to identify people who need extra help with transport or child care so we can target additional resources to help them get hired, right? Right? RIGHT?

Someone from the US will always chime in about how we’re different, bigger, more spread out, but that’s BS.

• We also have 80% of our population in urban or suburban areas that could be designed for effective transit use.
• Most of our travel is between near-ish cities that could be effectively served by intercity rail.
• Many of our worst traffic jams are beyond the possibility of fixing by adding more lanes.
• Most of our air congestion is thousands of regional flights that could be served by rail

We have a fantastic interstate highway system, amazing air travel facilities, but we’ve not spent enough time or money on other possibilities. We emphasized people’s privacy on their own lot at the expense of being unable to walk anywhere

I know the feeling: what a horrible summer this has been here too. I switched from heat to air conditioning in only a week. It’s just hitting me that summer is almost over yet I haven’t been outside. It’s been 90° or raining just about every day

It’s what happens when it’s all quota driven. Even if there are some who want to actually find criminals, you’ll never hit your quota that way. You have to pick off the easy ones such as stalking immigration court, going where they work, or school

NYC?

So many times watching a car crash video, someone hydroplanes through a puddle …. my first reaction is I bet they live somewhere without safety inspections and those tires are bald

You’re talking about the vice president? But instead of trafficking teen girls, we’ll see endless articles on sofas

DOE gives salvation to “beloved” oil companies

Hertz was always bad at this anyway. For me the final straw was turning a car in and the guy recorded damage. I stayed there for several minutes making him point and describe, shining flashlights at angles, and was never able to see the damage.

It was one of the few times I got the damage waiver so I didn’t actually appeal it. If you get Hertz, definitely get that coverage: you’d be a fool not to. And factor that in when comparing prices with other rental companies

Party on!

Even that’s not fair since efficiency isn’t the same thing as road usage. And one of the reasons gas taxes cover so little of the cost of roads is efficiency improvements over the last few decades.

Even before you take EVs into account, taxing by weight and mileage is more fair.

Then when you do take EVs into account, how do you adjust for usage, for road damage, and for your choice of vehicles? Is it fair to charge the same for a monstrous Hummer EV as for a Peugeot city car? Is it fair to pay the same for your Tesla driving 10k/year as for an ICE BMW of the same weight driving 30k/year? Taxing by weight and mileage is more fair for everyone

That’s insane. Either Chevy is really shitty at building EVs or those are two very different vehicles with the same name

Still don’t think that’s representative

I’ve done pretty well with this: stainless and cast iron pans, wood cutting boards, stainless or silicone utensils, glass food storage, stainless water bottles …… and I’m watching my rice cooker closely in anticipation for when I can rationalize replacing it with one having a stainless pan

Yeah I gave up on free swag for exactly this reason. If I have to hand wash it, it’s not free. If I only get one use out of it, it’s worse for the environment than a disposable water bottle. Sometimes “free” is just too expensive

The difference is usually (but not in all states) which party’s primary you can vote in.

I’m registered Democrat which means I can vote to select which candidates the Democratic Party is sponsoring

Doesn’t that cover healthcare for the millions of people losing Medicaid and ACA plans?

Trying to find actual twins with actual data ….

First result is Hyundai Kona, with listed curb weight EV is 550 pounds heavier

I doubt it. I see the same thing in ai search results but on reading it, it actually says EV weight not posted and it estimates 1,500 pounds.

I tried looking up the vehicle and sure enough, weight not listed.

But the reason I doubt that estimate is a Tesla battery weighs about 1,200 pounds depending on model, and EVs typically save some of that weight from the engine and transmission.

I know an Equinox EV isn’t very efficient but I have a hard time believing that it adds more weight than an entire Tesla battery pack, saving nothing by removing engine and transmission …. Unless it’s not at all the same vehicle

No, this is BS. Type of vehicle matters much more than whether it’s an EV or not. My EV is lighter than the thousands of pickups I see every day so it’s unreasonable to make the argument that EVs are heavier.

Plus it’s specious to argue how much more damage an EV does to the road at something like +20% weight when trucks cause thousands of times the damage. Unless that EV is adding 40 tons, it’s effectively the same as any other car: orders of magnitude more than bicycles and orders of magnitude less than trucks

Just go by weight. It doesn’t matter where that weight is from or what technology makes up that weight

While I understand they’re paranoid about losing the gas tax when we transition to EVs, it really grinds my gears that I’ve never once seen one of these proposals to fairly tax all vehicles by means other than gas tax. EVs should not be treated as special and certainly shouldn’t be discouraged with higher taxes