Why Is Toyota Floundering in Electric Transportation?
Here’s a fabulous article, in which senior transportation analyst Paul Gipe speculates as to what is going so incredibly wrong inside Toyota.
I’ve often wondered about many of the points Gipe brings up here. A decade ago, I theorized that Toyota was resting on its laurels following its introduction of the Prius decades ago, while it profited far more greatly from its hot-selling trucks that get, on a good day, one-third of the gas mileage of the breakthrough hybrid.
But now, this is getting truly strange. Toyota is making noise about a hydrogen-fueled vehicle that it may launch a few years down the road, a concept that has as much chance for success as a line of covered wagons.
I would be surprised to learn that there is no malicious collaboration with the auto giant and big oil. If Toyota cared a whit for the environment, they would be in a far different place right now.
U.S. Representative Ken Buck (R-CO) was elected to his congressional seat in one of the deepest red regions of the country on the basis that he is as extreme in his conservative positions as anyone could possibly be.
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: Republicans, if you care as deeply about this nation as you claim you do, you’ll dismount the dead horse myth of Trump’s patriotism and Hillary’s treason—and you’ll stand on your own two feet.
When I talk to people about “investment” opportunities like this, I caution them about three things:
It became clear that Donald Trump was in legal jeopardy when he was 
When Fox News lost its defamation lawsuit to Dominion Voting Systems and was ordered to pony up close to $1 billion in damages, it appeared that perhaps the ultra-right-wing “news” sources might be reshaping itself so as to a) stay out of legal jeopardy, and b) promote itself to people who place at least some value on truth and honesty.
Australian Malcolm Roxburgh writes: 
Give me a break, Mitt. The country is in tumult, and it is because of Trump, but these documents just happen to be the subject of the most recent in a string of criminal indictments.
Let’s suppose that you follow the American right-wing media, and you think that Trump is being hounded out of office by the Deep State, or the liberal elites, or the radical socialists.
No, the situation with Trump is not normal, but the meme here reminds us of what therapists implore their patients who are suffering from trauma to do: Find and accept the “new normal.”
