Seriously, I worked on a construction project in Charleston close to the Boeing plant that used some of the same contractors. More than one told me they won’t fly after what they saw (and this was pre-scandal).

Reality has become indistinguishable from satire.

I’m sorry you haven’t experienced good Thanksgiving food.

You forgot the soda bottle.

I remember seeing $5/gal under Bush. His last year had an average of $3.30 and peaked over $4… https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gasoline-prices-fared-under-last-190000869.html

Synthetic fuels would be great for all the existing stuff, but not sure where you’re getting EV sales are down in Europe.

New plug-in car registrations:

BEVs: *212,000 (up 57% year-over-year) and 17% share
PHEVs: *100,000 (up 17% year-over-year) and 8% share
Total: 311,897 (up 42% year-over-year) and 25% share

From https://insideevs.com/news/680428/europe-plugin-car-sales-june2023/