"Damari Wayne reportedly got away with his first two carjackings. His third wouldโve gone the same way, if it hadnโt been for the carโs meddling three pedals and stick shift."
"Cleveland.com reports Wayne, 18, is suspected of having tried to steal three cars in the span of ten days between Feb. 11 and Feb. 21. The key word, there, is โtried.โ The third theft didnโt work out so hot when he and his buddy couldnโt figure out how to drive a manual transmission, despite forcing the carโs owner to coach them at gunpoint."
"Only an hour after the second robbery heโs accused of (itself only 10 days after the first robby heโs accused of), Wayne and his 17-year-old accomplice allegedly went after another vehicle. It was a Ford Mustang, according to ABC News 5, and the duo allegedly told the driver theyโd kill him if he didnโt get out."
"The truth is that while auto jobs used to be good jobs, we now have more in common with workers at McDonaldโs or Walmart. One-in-four of the 600 jobs at the Camaco plant are temporary positions that pay $10 an hour. Meanwhile, wages for all of the plantโs production workers are capped at just $12 an hour โ with an 18-cent raise a year for a โliving fee.โ I havenโt even received that raise this year. Temp workers are often kept in limbo for up to a year before being hired on full time. And turnover at the plant is off the charts, with a manager recently admitting that 1,500 workers have cycled through the plant in the last two years. The company has been forced to hire three temp agencies to find employees, recruiting workers from as far away as Cleveland."
The reason is simple: 2016 saw the most miles driven in a decade. A lot of motorist deaths is related to the number of miles driven. And for each extra mile driven there is a disproportionate number more of crashes and deaths.
"It's also easier to clean up, maintain and monitor one smokestack (the power plant's) than it is to do those things for a million smokestacks (all of our tailpipes). And even if you're charging your car from the dirtiest power plant, running on 100 percent coal, electric-car expert (and, to be fair, advocate) Jim Motavalli says you'd still reduce climate emissions by 30 to 40 percent over individual gasoline-powered cars."
1973 would be a very bad year to buy a car, especially these models, although you would be comfortable waiting in the gas line.