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Ginther is essentially running unopposed on Tuesday. I haven't heard much about the opposition who is this Jef Leppard guy that is write-in only.

Going back to the sorts of things we used to talk about on UO in 2008-2012 that we kind of absorbed and added to our brain files but haven't talked about directly much lately, the demand for energy used for transportation is going to have to go down in the as time goes on anyway as the population increases at least on a per-capita basis. Renewables can certainly help, but look at how much resistance there still is to their implementation. On this site, we are aware of what needs to be done to reduce that demand and for the most part UO users are interested in those things (good urbanism, transit). Changing propulsion methods can help some, but a car is still just a car no matter what it runs on... even hamsters. As electric cars move away from being a niche product, don't be surprised to continue to see enormous resistance from governments, certain big-business sectors, dictators, OPEC, the need for profitibility and even some things we haven't even thought of yet.

All sources of energy are subject to geopolitical issues. None of them will "save" us.

Lithium isn't exactly bubbling up out of the ground either. That's why we're still in Afghanistan -- for the lithium reserves.

Do you follow automobiles? Have you been into cars for a long time? The reason I ask is that everyone who does those things has seen an enormous amount of automotive news over the years including futurism articles. The ones who have this background don't make outlandish predictions about what ANY car is going to do in the future, especially in a certain time frame. This is because historically automotive news (made by professional automotive journalists no less) that tries to predict the future has been very, very wrong. Like 90% wrong. If THE FUTURE was true, Mustangs would be front-wheel-drive and the Corvette would have gone mid-engine in 1983 rather than for 2020. That perspective also comes from being around racing where the people involved seldom, if ever, make any sort of bold prediction other than "I think this car will be strong today".

The more cars they sell the less money they make. The fewer cars they make the less they lose. That's the difference between them and other automakers in Q3.

So that is inevitable?

I don't know, maybe Shannon Green is just underfunded.

I mean, you gotta admit that's its "bad side"

Hopefully Columbus remembers to pay their Win/Win bill if there is development in those areas. Groveport had to sue to get all of their money a few years back.

And I'm not convinced that Ginther is up on his quality urbanism knowledge.

It's really, really tough to be able to match the equivalent earnings taxes of that industrial square footage with retail jobs.

I think Norwood felt like it was self-sustaining when it was building all those Z28s and Trans Ams.

^That's because larger schools in major cities are almost all very important now because of jobs.

I had no idea you could go to prison that long for that sort of thing.

^way to put it. Anyway, A record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions requirement amid growing disenchantment with standardized tests For students who fear they can’t get into college with mediocre SAT or ACT scores, the tide is turning at a record number of schools that have decided to accept all or most of their freshmen without requiring test results. Meanwhile, two Ivy League schools have decided that many of their graduate school programs do not need a test score for admissions, fresh evidence of growing disenchantment among educational institutions with using high-stakes tests as a factor in accepting and rejecting students. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/18/record-number-colleges-drop-satact-admissions-requirement-amid-growing-disenchantment-with-standardized-tests/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I'm talking about stores, MTS. And not the ones you go to where there's nothing under $500.

In Ohio you don't get to keep many of the top-of-the line items around because they turn into museum pieces. That's why a lot of products that do well in Ohio only have one or two quality levels such as dirt bikes and quads, guns, boats, pickup trucks, video games etc.

Acts that have had key members pass recently are always at an advantage in popular votes.

I don't think the Japanese auto industry lobbies politicians and the government in the way the American car companies do. In the past, though, the Big 3 have caused a lot of trouble for Ohio cities by lobbying the state and federal governments.

IG has a LOT of ads. You have to really watch what you're doing or else suffer the embarrassment of other people knowing you liked an ad for something dopey like Lucky Charms.

I feel totally violated that the evening news doesn't have commercials for the KKK.

Smaller towns sometimes have a big advantage as far as that goes because they don't have certain parts of town designated for this or that. I don't mean zoning either. In the larger city it's more along the lines of "this part of town has a lot of bars" "here's where the car dealerships are" "over here is pretty much all residential" whereas in a smaller town it's all in the same place. When you're in a part of your life where you only need 1-2 bars around rather than 14 and don't wince when you see a Ponderosa you can actually wind up with better urbanism.

When was that, 2009, that they disassembled the Santa Maria?

Rs are especially scared that there are going to be 40 AOCs in the house next time around.