Great article, once again. Don’t know if you saw it over the long weekend, but Nancy Pelosi finally published an article in WAPO highlighting the contents of the H.R.1 bill that they plan to introduce.

Timely and informative. Automobile repairs seem to inspire your political journalism....maybe it's all that waiting around with literally no place to go.

At a certain point in a vehicle's life cycle you need to consider not just fixing broken critical systems, but adding redundant ones at the same time: another fuel pump, another water pump, spare hydraulics etc. Aviation style. A variant of this approach (popular in the Northeast USA) is a "beater car." Drive it in the winter, repair it as needed after the snow melts.