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I see PHEV as complimentary instead of overlapping. Motors connected via a planetary gearset give the engine what it needs in variable ratios and replace the traditional multi-gear transmission. Electric motors do a great job of filling in the starting torque until the engine, which has been optimized for performance, Read more

Just made my wife watch that for the first time last night.  My brother uses the theme as a ring tone.  Read more

GM: “Oh so you’re Nick’s brother?  The one nobody remembers anymore?” Read more

Wasn’t that the song that got turned into a Christmas classic by this pair?

well now hold on a minute. The Sedona has lots of great features including multi directional sliding seats. Maybe this is one of the older models with the lazy boys in the 2nd row (legit footrest popped up) Read more

I would love to see a listing for one of these.
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Be careful. I made a joke about them not using Nissan Sentras in Gitmo because of Geneva Convention. Some (presumably) Sentra owner was pissed off and was railing against me. Read more

For those that have not had the pleasure of watching this childhood nightmare-fuel

Yeah. That movie was fucking weird. Like how those wheeled things turned into sand.
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The problem for the US is our dynamic and diverse economy and 50 different states with 50 different sets of state laws and regulatory agencies. The ONLY reason the EU got things under control was via STRICT draconian enforcement, forcing people to stay inside for months with hefty fines if you didn’t. Its easier for Read more

I’m a little edgy about it only because we (used to) spend a lot of time at our place in London. Multiple households of really close friends in the UK are 100% certain it ran through their houses and places of work in March. Certain. Read more

...we just can’t go back to pretending a 10%-22% Federal tax rate is going to cut it in the long run. Read more

Oh, we’re on the same page, for sure. Myself, I’m less inclined to be stuck on the correct rate and more inclined to be stuck on how we assess capital gains and near-institutional subsidies. Read more

Well, odds are that fraud like this won’t be detectable in future taxes. We have rolling deficits and older expensive debt can be retired and reissued at lower rates. We’ve been doing a lot of that for the past 15 years or so, and rates are effectively zero right about now. Ten years ago, bonds with negative return Read more