Which is worse, summer sweat or winter ice?

There’s no question most of us -- if not -- all, are sick of hot weather. It was reported a Los Angeles area community had blacktop streets that were scorching with the asphalt radiating 127-degree heat at noon and an hour later rising to 141.8-degrees. A food truck driver could not sell her slushies and nachos until later in the day because to keep the slushies cool her truck generator will blow.
To overcome that superhot street radiance, community workers were spraying some of their streets with an epoxy acrylic coating that reflects solar infrared radiation and lowers the temperature as much as 10 degrees in the day while speeding up normal street cooling even more during at night.
Before we overheated locals jump on this bandwagon it should be pointed out a potential dilemma. If we coat our own community’s streets with that hot weather coating remedy it could prevent, or at least slow, ice and snow from melting on our streets in the winter.
Make a choice: sweat in the summer, or slip and fall in the winter.
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The easiest way to get rid of weight is to leave it on your plate.
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We’ve only rented a car a few times in our life. Since we’ve slowed down a little the prospect of using a rental car again seems pretty slim.
In our previous experiences our only concerns were having our own insurance if ever needed  to cover a potential accident and making sure to have the auto’s tank full so to avoid the rental agency’s own high-priced gasoline charge.
Seeing a report from another rental car patron, we should have had another concern. A family’s rental car got repossessed during a trip.
After a few days’ rental they went out and couldn’t find their rental car in the hotel parking lot. They reported it stolen. A police office informed them it had been repossessed by a lien holder.
It was learned their rental car company only connects the user to hosts who have vehicles to rent out. In other words, think of it as a Airbnb for cars.
Unfortunately, the family didn’t read their contract well and the customer then suffers when things go wrong -- particularly who was libel for their possessions left in a repossessed car.
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A depression is when people do without the things their parents never had.
   RL Furse  is publisher emeritus of the News-Register