By Stewart Price, NMA Program Officer This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #707 from July 2022. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, a weekly one-topic look at a motorist issue, click here. All of us are gradually going deaf. The world is getting louder save for the isolationists that have gone off […]
Railway Strike Will Cripple US Economy, Odds of a Strike Increases
By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach You may have heard about the rail strike, and that the offer was so huge that the unions initially agreed to accept it. Now we have a new wrinkle, the rail strike that could cripple the US economy is back on the table because the USs third largest railroad union […]
Semantics: 4WD is not AWD
When language is misused, people tend to get confused and misled. One example of this is the way “4WD” is now being regularly used to describe that which isn’t. Or rather, wasn’t historically speaking. Before the rise of the Universal Transportation Appliance or UTA, the car-based crossover “SUV” (in air fingers quotes because that’s another example […]
Funding for Road Infrastructure–Never Seems to be Enough: NMA E-Newsletter #721
November 7, 2022 • 0 Comments • Congestion Pricing, Electric Vehicle, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, Highway Trust Fund, Infrastructure, infrastructure funding, LEGISLATION, mileage-based user fee, NMA, Road User Charge, VMT, VMT Tax, WHEEL TAX
Out of the many transportation problems America currently faces, funding infrastructure remains at the top of the pile. Currently, we pay at the pump both a national and state gas tax and in many local counties and cities around the country, we also pay special sales taxes and wheel taxes for infrastructure. It never seems […]
Motorcycle Review: 2023 BMW K1600 GTL
Spend $50K on a new BMW car and you get a four-cylinder engine. Spend half as much on a BMW bike and get a six-cylinder engine and a power-to-weight ratio that’s a lot more favorable. So why does BMW’s K1600 GTL come standard with a six while every BMW car shy of a 7 Series […]
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