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Which state’s drivers are the worst? Buckle up for a real surprise. (It’s not New Jersey!)
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
In the New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania region, nothing sparks more heated controversy than the debate about which states drivers are the worst.
There are dedicated Twitter accounts chronicling the worst driving in particular states. Others span the globe to document video lunacy behind the wheel.
Facebook groups such as the Rant on I-80 commute in New Jersey group have running debates about the abilities of drivers from different states, with as much vitriol about Jersey drivers and those from Pennsylvania or New York.
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MID THE dust and sagebrush of New Mexico there are 61 rigs at work. The south-eastern part of the state, which sits over the shales of the Permian basin that spans the border with Texas, has over the past decade attracted shale-oil specialists, oil majors like ExxonMobil and innumerable camp followers fixing pumps, selling pipe and hauling the sand used to fracture the underground strata. About 40,000 people in the state now work in the sector; the taxes it generates pay for a third of the state’s budget; and it accounts for about 1% of America’s greenhouse-gas emissions.
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his three colleagues for flipping, oh, we didn t realize this was anti-gay, people stood up on the floor and made these arguments ad nauseam it would be bad for gays and flowed out of this new mexico case. much hay was made of that. it s a little bit i m torn. on the one hand i d say it s great you re acknowledging this. on the other hand, all these arguments were put before you. it s disingenuous to say, i m shocked that this is going to hurt gay people. ted, how do you think around this conscience of questions? there s some idea in which we say we don t want the state to coerce people into doing something that violates some sacred inner part of them yet at the same time, we all meet each other in the marketplace and doesn t seem like we should allow the first amendment to sort of act as a kind of carveout for folks to willy-nilly impose, you know, confessional grudges against people they think are skizmatic or personal prejudice. first let me say i did not watch the arizona leg
i mean, federal law will trump state law. when the federal law doesn t have existing laws, the state laws will put in place certain regulations, but they re all over the place. and what partly what s happened here and what we also discuss is that in 35 states now in this country, the organizations that are involved with the gun industry, the national shooting sports foundation and the nra, have successfully been able to roll back the laws in many of these states that make it permissible for young kids to access guns. not to buy but to be able to use them with very little training. so, for instance, you know, if you were taking driver s ed, right, you d go and take a full slate of driver s ed courses, go out, get on the road. in many of the gun safety courses you go in, in a day s time, six, seven hours you take a gun safety course, you don t operate a live gun and the same day you walk out with a certificate that says i m now certified to operate a gun. you can do it in illinois at t