I remember reading about the fight between polished aluminum planes and painted. The paint adds weight, and thus increases fuel consumption, but the paint lowers maintenance costs.
A dirty airplane can absolutely burn a noticeably larger amount of fuel.
A car is operating at much lower speeds, generally, so the effect is probably much less.

I'm surprised at appealing. That will likely cost more than the fine.
Still, not wanting the precedent is a thing.

NASA contracts out missions, they don't really do missions in-house. SpaceX is currently winning the launch and visit ISS missions by a mile. Competition like Boeing is more expensive and less reliable.

$500 hammer was actually a set of hammer, shovel, and pick. It had to be non-magnetic, non-sparking, yet durable enough for work. Intended use was for digging out old unstable explosives that the government had let sit around for far too long after WWII.

Pencil that could write in space - standard pencils use graphite, and shed graphite dust when used. Graphite is carbon, it is both conductive and flammable as a powder. Can one see why that might be bad in zero g constrained atmospheres?
The Fisher space pen was developed by Fisher, on his dime, and subsequently sold to both space agencies, US and Russia.

The USA is not "literally Russia". There might be the occasional commonality, but the problems Russia faces are far more severe and deeply run.

Weekend fun car would be the summer car.
Remember, the winter car is used for dirty tasks even in the summer.

You do have people doing that in the UK, but it is more people with million pound incomes.
I also lived in the midwest and never had seasonal cars. Now I have a car and a truck. I drive the car unless I need the truck.

In this case, the prime manager, the mayor, had just been replaced inthe election.

Actually, management was blamed left and right, the audit helped force the contracting companies to eat far more of the cost, etc...
Trick i failed to mention, it was the NEW incoming mayor that ordered the audit, and less than 1% of project cost to date.

I looked at a waterfall project where the mayor ended up spending $3M to have an audit done on the current state of a project that was way behind on time and way over budget, only for them to come back and say that it'd be cheaper to burn all the effort to date and start fresh.

Oh, 'MAGAts'? Nice. Really shows off that high-level, nuanced critical thinking you're known for. Keep up the great work, champ

So we will get correct reports on things like:
Hunter laptop being a russia intel job.
Reports on joe being smart and competent.
kamala being the smartest woman around.
The Alfa Bank Server
How they handled Nicholas Sandmann
Biden coming and saying federal employees were "whipping" Haitian immigrants

Or most likely under democrats they will do like they have done in the past and have the tech companies block or label things as false when it goes against what they democrats want you to think.

They arent selling the product, most likely, a reseller or importer is.
With zero presence in country, they use a 3rd party for shipping, it is basically impossible to go after them.
Think like a small time comic artist selling art getting a commission and mailing it to the country of the buyer, only to find out that the art was 'illegal'.
Thus the go after amazon thing, because they are the enabling party inside the USA.
Another issue is jailbreaking the bikes.
A bike that can do the legal limits with a 200 pound adult on it can do quite a bit more with the limiters removed and a kid only weighing 100 on it.

Five day drive? Wow, I drove from Alaska to Florida in that timeframe.
No, it wouldn't increase it to 7 days, and would only increase it to six if you also substantially decreased driving time.
As for stopping at a dog park - that's why they're installing chargers "all over". So it'd be the "same difference".
Also, why sit at a charger for 40 minutes? Just fill up for 15 minutes and head for the next one.
A 40 minute charging stop would be if you're having a sit-down meal or such outside of the car.
Charging to full with the current batteries is something you'd only really do when stopped for the night.

More expensive might not last that much longer. They were around 50% more expensive in 2021, down to 15% in 2023. Sometime in the next decade or so.
They're already hitting price parity in China.
And that's before considering that the fuel and maintenance savings, where they already win on total cost of ownership, despite the occasional talk of tire consumption.

Except that BOTH of you should be taking a few minutes, not seconds, to get up and walk around a bit. It's the sitting down that is the problem, not just the driving.
Unlike refilling with gasoline, you both can be going and doing something else.
You're looking at maybe an extra half hour of driving.

Uh, say what? Lots of people are concerned about making them work "as well as ICE". Are you after "as well as" or are you actually after "Works identically to"? Because the two are different standards.

In my time we've gone from under 30 miles of range to over 300. We've gone from mandatory overnight charging to being able to reach 80% in 15 minutes. Batteries have gone from like a 3 year life to "longer than the rest of the car". We've gone from almost zero charging stations to over 200k publicly available.

You seem to demand instant home charging, when with ICE the only way to refuel at home is to mess with fuel cans, and most of us don't bother with that, and it's a very limited ability. Empty that fuel can, and you'll need to refill it at a gas station before you can use it again.

Buy an EV, and suddenly visiting a charging station isn't an option, for some reason?