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Tasered 11 Times Over Turn Signal

eric - February 13, 2019

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Kaw H2 Annoys AGW

eric - February 12, 2019

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Virginia Creepers

eric - February 12, 2019

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Kid-Glove Treatment for Drunk – and Armed – AGW

eric - February 12, 2019

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Reader Rant: Einstein and EVs

eric - February 12, 2019

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Diabetic Tazered, Beaten and Pepper-Sprayed by AGW

eric - February 11, 2019

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Reader Question: Historical Emissions Data?

eric - February 11, 2019

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A Cold Breeze for EVs

eric - February 11, 2019

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2019 VW Atlas

eric - February 10, 2019

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“Excessive” & “Unreasonable” AGW

eric - February 9, 2019

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Jarhead Mike-Foxtrot: The US Plantation. The Constitution is a Bankruptcy Document, that’s why it was held in secret making the...
no one of consequence: As Merle Haggard says: “somewhere in the middle of Montana” https://www.youtube.com/wat...
chiph: Chief Acevado is a liberal and anti-gun, but he’s honest. He’ll give those officers the boot.
Vonu: The only thing I have there is a friend’s address to make me legal so that DHS doesn’t consider me a terrorist. I...
chiph: The only reason to buy new is if you want the improved safety. And I’m not talking about the new driver distractions like...
X: Eric, here’s the latest outrage from our “heroes”: Cops Lie to Get Search Warrant, Storm House, Kill Two Residents...
Douglas L Self: “We know MOBSTERS do it (I.e., scope out a jury to identify them and target for intimidation or retaliation), why...
The Handler: Uncle and GM bean counters are to blame for the demise of the “company within a company” model.
dread pirate anonymous: Cody? Well, heck – you’re almost a neighbor! That’s only a couple or three hundred miles from...
Eightsouthman: Pulling my boat down the road at 90mph with 4.10 gears didn’t get nearly that but I could have slowed down and got...
Vonu: Or, given the mass of them after the Great Correction begins, to the crushers, as appropriate.
Eightsouthman: Ticky, the people doing this won’t be doing much laughing or cheering. I’ve always thought getting a couple of...
Vonu: I live about a fifteen minute drive from Heart Mountain.
richb: Yes, if you look at Buick’s Chinese website, you can see the much bigger lineup that market has.
Eightsouthman: Me, me, me, I can answer that. The first I saw were WWll camps in Germany. Tens of thousands of prisoners were kept in...
richb: The Cascada was built in Poland with lots of Opel parts. Guessing that plant was probably part of the Opel sale. You think they...
Eightsouthman: Thanks much, thanks much, thanks much, fuck you WordPress.
Tuanorea: Anarchyst, You forgot to mention they are willing to kill to achieve the goal.
Vonu: Banks don’t make money on loans they do not make. Real estate and stock brokers only make commissions on things they sell....
Vonu: Those of us who pay for things when we buy them do not have to complain about payments we do not have. Those of us who can drive...
Vonu: Living in a van is so much cheaper and maintainable.
Tionico: Because we are not merel “Maintaining” the same standard of living. Remember a few things back then.. fuel was 19...
Vonu: Silicon is even less prevalent than ferrous metal in late model cars.
The Bobster: More likely a pile of useless electronic debris.
The Bobster: Correction: candidates who will make…
The Bobster: Hell, the whole dash assembly is outsourced to China nowadays.
The Bobster: And then the Millennial idiots will turn around and support candidates who will be their pathetic existences worse.
The Bobster: “This house of cards always has a tipping point where there are more deadbeats than payin customers then the financial...
Vonu: They won’t have to pass inspection as long as they will fit into the crusher where increasing numbers of trade ins are going,...
Vonu: The number of RVs for sale by owner are sharply up in snowbird land.
Vonu: How inhabitable does a internment camp need to be?
Vonu: You simply have to wait until more of them have “For Sale” signs in their windows including “OBO.”
Vonu: Because the increase in inflation is outpacing the government’s willingness to respond with the appropriate adjustments in...
Mike in Boston: The family of this poor guy should track that criminal AGW down and give him a tazing of 240v at high current till his...
Bostwick9: Those were 225s, then called Dauntless by Kaiser/Jeep. Buick V6 started out as 198 in 62. Enlarged to 225 for 64-67 use in...
Zathras: If you go to Speed Queen’s website, they have a “where to buy” link where you can enter your zip code and...
no one to be trifled with: Only reason I maintain and extend my NRA membership is that the Progleftists hate them (therefore me!) so...
James: From an individual cash flow perspective, perhaps it would appear that getting a newer vehicle with a fixed monthly payment,...
Zane: Unless the difference between the engines is Aftermarket support vs none, I always opt for the bigger engine Remember Jack Baruth...
not left handed: Good grief! We only pay about half that annually for liability on FOUR vehicles in Montana. I’m sure glad that...
anonymous in Greenland: Jeep used to put that v6 in the CJs, right?
dread pirate anonymous: Depreciation is a means in business accounting to amortize the purchase cost of an asset over its useful life....
Sarah in TEX: Liberty, I would love to find a ranger, they are SO DARNED expensive for a good one. Cheaper to buy the full size , which I...
Eightsouthman: Yep, a friend had a red and white 73 Riviera with that ducktail rear. It was a beautiful car but she excelled in trashing...
Bryce: The Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac, or BOP, divisions of GM were their real money makers, more so than the mass-market Chevys or luxury...
Eightsouthman: My father felt he had to show a meager existence so he turned down a 64 Riviera demonstrator that cost $200 more than the...
BrentP: Buick offerings in China are much greater and not the same as the US last I heard.
BrentP: The Chinese. Buick will probably continue in China. Something to do with name and brand recognition going way back.
Cold Frog: If it makes you feel better, to insure my $1200 1995 S10, $985. That is zero coverage in the lowest rate region in BC. The...
eric: Amen, Imbroglio – My biggest expense with regard to my 2002 Frontier is insurance; then property tax. Together, it amounts to...
eric: Excellent advice, Sarah – and thanks for the kind words!
sarah in TEX: If he can’t wrench, this person should find a person who is a shade tree mechanic, who can turn a wrench. I have a...
Jason Flinders: I remember well when there was a vast difference between the various GM brands. They really operated as separate,...
MarkyMark: Anarchyst, What especially galls me are the guys who loudly and proudly proclaim that they’re LEGAL gun owners, as if...
MarkyMark: All I can say is: what an a-hole!
brazos_bend: Hell you see more new Mitsubishis on the road than Buicks. Who the hell buys a new buick these days to have a new badge on...
brazos_bend: VQ40 engines since 2005 DO have issues, but can easily be fixed and kept for 300k miles if you can turn a wrench. Should...
MarkyMark: Eric, Those Buick V6s (the 231) were GREAT engines. They were reliable and held up. They were so good that guys building their...
Argent47: Rhetorical question. (What is the minimum character length to reply to yourself without an edit button?)
Argent47: Wanted to ask this out loud — if the acquisition of raw resources for most things is getting easier, the transformation...
imbroglio: My mandatory insurance bill = 72% of the Blue Book value of my putt putt. Then add these other fees plus excise tax, and in a...
imbroglio: But this practice does make buying cars cheaper for those of us who tool around in twelve year old Civics and Corollas. On the...
Mooeing: I hope this is good for the used market. The sad part of financing is the resale value of some these cars is so high that its...
ReadyKilowatt: “It’s better to burn out than it is to rust” Neil Young – My My, Hey Hey
SojournerMoon: Supposedly, Buick’s are GM’s best sellers in China, the largest car market in the world, now. That’s what is keeping Buick...
anarchyst: Quite often, firearms owners are their own worst enemies. The duck hunters don’t like the AR-15 “black...
anarchyst: The problem is, we have allowed the anti Second Amendment crowd to define the terms. A firearm is a tool which possess no evil...
eric: Morning, Xathras – Excellent tip in re the Speed Queens; I’m sure many people are happy to have been...
eric: Hi T, Repair costs vis-a-vis depreciation is without question a big problem – one that is getting worse as vehicles become...
JACK: Another very good article by Eric ! The financial conditions in our US market are threads in a larger economic quilt. The extended...
karalan: Looking forward to the rant. This issue can’t be highlighted enough. Although MGTOW and similar movements have tried to...
SixShooter: My daily driver is a F150 with the tried and true 300 L6. Bought it for $3500 used with 117k on the ODO and have put 260,000...
Tionico: There is another driver for loan defaults, and a really sad one. Friend of mine got hmself buried. Boght a near new Nissan...
Tionico: The crazy thing is, back in 1970, one could buy a Volvo 140 series (2, 4, 5 door) with the ONLY engine optioin availble, mthe...
Shotgun Chuck: Also, I’ve heard DI gasoline engines are particulate dirty like a 1970s diesel… so now gasoline cars are...
Shotgun Chuck: That assumes you can even get 93 without going all the way to race gas or (frequently illegal) octane-in-a-bottle; here in...
Shotgun Chuck: They already tried to hose the Mustang once. In the late 1980s they wanted to rebadge a Mazda MX-6 (FWD, NA or turbo I4)...
Libertarian: The US is a police state now. Americans should be out in the streets with pitchforks and torches, but instead they would...
Eightsouthman: Zathras, where do you find them? I like old school….even crotches with hair!
Zathras: If you want a reliable, old fashioned washer and dryer, buy a Speed Queen. You might recognize the name, they make most of the...
lost in the fire swamp: The tape is the mounting bracket, but I like the way you think.
Shotgun Chuck: I recently tried to work for “a major department store”, made it through 3 days of training before I had to...
ReadyKilowatt: only if you use a 3D printer to make a mounting bracket.
ancap51: I’m in extreme danger of being tortured on the side of the road by one of these bastards any time I get pulled over. I...
Tuanorea: Unusual Size, That is literally less than 3 pennies a day. Think about the folks that put a $1600 high efficiency w/d on a...
Zane: So how do we counter these heartless and brainless brutes who enjoy torturing poor civvies when given an opportunity? More I read...
anonymous of unusual size: I bought this w/d set from a guy down the road who married a lady from out of state who had a newer w/d set...
Eightsouthman: Nun, it’s still used in Texas and I loved the replaced sections of the interstate and other roads where it is new....
Nunzio: I wouldn’t have one of these, just because they remind me of pig-mobiles. I don’t even want to drive what those...
X: I generally oppose lynching, but in some cases — Brailsford, for instance, and this creep, too — I wouldn’t shed a...
Eightsouthman: RK, they really want to stick it up our ass by doing such. I always wondered….and verily knew, that a supposedly...
Rush2Liberty: I can’t see myself ever buying a new car again. I lived in Europe the past 2 years, and while I was there, bought a...
Travis Beck: It used to be said that “Those who can, do. And those who can’t, teach.” Now we have an addition:...
Libertarian: Some Americans may have thought that tyranny would never come to the US because the rich, celebrities, media, politicians,...
Tuanorea: Mostly, Bad dogs on the old Whirlpools. One of the biggest reasons people get rid of them. If you see one on the side of the...
Tuanorea: As soon as a payment was missed.
Tuanorea: Eric (and Nasir), Self repo cars. Remember Mel Farr the Super Star? He would have the LoJack shut the thing down as soon as a...
Tuanorea: Chips, Plastic turns into Fe3+?
Tuanorea: Thanks Brent. One of my buddies squeezes the bottle until the fluid comes to the to and then uses pliers to close the cap....
mostly anonymous all day: A few years ago our old whirlpool stop agitating. I looked it up online and it was three little pieces that...

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