Off Topic Archives - EPautos - Libertarian Car Talk

Reader Question: Bewildered?

Off Topic eric - December 12, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! JE asks: "Transportation Oriented Development" is where I first picked up on the attempt at structural changes for the social changes that are...

Reader Question: A Gas-Steam Engine?

Off Topic eric - December 12, 2019

Here's the latest reader question along with my reply! Ron asks: I have a question. If you take a V8 engine and only provide fuel to every other cylinder, will it run? I...

Reader Question: Guns in the Car?

Off Topic eric - December 11, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Stan asks: I have a conundrum. It's legal to "open carry" in my state but I'm very afraid of doing so in my...

Reader Question: Is it Crazy to Buy a Non-Electric Car?

Off Topic eric - December 10, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Mary asks: I've read several of your articles about electric cars and specifically, about the way they're being forced onto the market. I...

Reader Question: Red Diesel?

Off Topic eric - December 10, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Mike asks: Is it ok to run "red" diesel in my pickup? It's a lot cheaper than the regular pump diesel but I'm...

Reader Question: Imbalanced Tire Pressure?

Off Topic eric - December 9, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Jeremy asks: My 2002 Dakota calls for 35 psi up front and 41 psi in the rear. Intuitively this seems backwards. Why the...

Reader Question: Is it That Bad?

Off Topic eric - December 8, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! John writes: Christ, Eric, it ain't that bad. Where I live (PA) nobody pays attention to speed limits anywhere, whether on urban streets or...

Reader Question: GM’s New Battery Plant?

Off Topic eric - December 7, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Oskar writes: Have you heard about GM's new $2.3 billion "investment" in an electric battery plant? (New story here). My reply: Yes, I have....

Reader Question: On EV “Fast” Charging?

Off Topic eric - December 7, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Ed asks: Not really a question, just a note of appreciation for your contribution to the discussion about EV charging. You did a...

Reader Question: Interview Request?

Off Topic eric - December 6, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along withy my reply! Adam asks: Have you considered sitting down with Rich Benoit, aka Rich Rebuilds, aka "The Doctor Frankenstein of Teslas"? Benoit is doing some...

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Jack Bunny: When I was 6, my dad showed me how to steer his dump truck so I could help out on our farm. My legs were too short to reach...
eric: Hi RK, Adults do them – as you say, for the showboating. “Extreme” this and “extreme” that. The...
eric: Hi Vic! Yup. Every generation looks back fondly, but it’s clear things are objectively worse now in practically every...
eric: Clover, “It seems people can make choices.” People’s choices are being systematically reduced, even eliminated....
pat b: ” which is precisely that people will be (are being) forced into cities and stack-a-prole living by policies that are making...
Larry: One of my fonder memories of childhood was when I was twelve years old, riding in the back seat of my friend Dale’s...
Nunzio: I’d say that the Babylon Bee is a lot more realistic than the Sacremento Bee!
Jason Flinders: Eric did a review of the 2019 Mirage back in January: https://www.ericpetersautos.co m/2019/01/29/2019-mitsubishi-m irage/
Mugwump: Good point, Eric. When are you going to do a review of the Mirage? I searched your archive and no can do. Maybe I’m...
Vic: Yo Eric, So much for the existential “free and easy” life style of our youth eh? Carry on! Love you Bro.
Vic: Hey freakNH, We had a ’14 Sonata Sport, which was a very good car. Direct injection was a bit tac tac tac. Traded it for a...
ReadyKilowatt: And those “death marches” weren’t a big deal, just the normal way to do things. It’s hard for me...
The Handler: Agreed. Republicans have always been two-faced pricks, whereas Democrats are somewhat straightforward. And yes, Republicans...
freakNH: I’ve had a 2009 and currently a 2011 Sonata. I’ve liked them both. I certainly got way more for my money than the...
eric: Clover, How many barges does the Volga Canal carry each day? How many suites are there in PyongYang’s pyramidal hotel? The...
eric: Clover writes: “What is the cost to deploy a gas pump?” Low enough to make it profitable (without subsidies or...
Eightsouthman: I hope you don’t live in Virgin….ia, the govt. of homos and Bloomberg money. I suspect the 90 some odd...
Eightsouthman: There has always been a solution, driveways and garages. At least a driveway. I detest driving old, narrow streets jammed...
Shotgun Chuck: So you defend bicycling on every non-freeway in existence, up to and including the Nurburgring because it’s...
ozymandias: Resendez (The Other Slavery) pointed out that when the “pedestrian injuns”* took up the “spanish”* horse, became men called...
Chris: It’s still being done today like ‘the old bastard’, just a lot less. And the busybodies don’t stand a...
pat b: “Even if the electric service to an individual house can do that can the lines on the poles carry enough for nearly every...
ozymandias: Post CarRera & I ain’t even had my 1st one, yet. Damn. Climate is crisis, the reason for the season’s – &...
pat b: “Even if the electric service to an individual house can do that can the lines on the poles carry enough for nearly every...
Vic: Hyundai’s tend to be under powered now. I dumped an ’17 Elantra for an ’18 Mazda 3 for my wife for that reason....
Nunzio: Wait! I stand corrected: If a lefty had done the things Trump has done so far, the people waving flags at the Trump rallies and...
Nunzio: Holy mothereffing shit! Now this orange ballsack has issued an EXECUTIVE ORDER which will outlaw criticism of Israel on...
eric: Morning, Ancap! You made my day, describing the way you let your kids experience life – and grow. I will do the same if I...
Vonu: The first step would be for all the bereaved to learn why it is not a tragedy of the commons. If you want all parking to be on...
eric: Hi Chris, Amen to all you’ve written! One of the best – most valuable – experiences of my life was going on...
eric: Hi Wikoli, I experienced the same – in Va, in the ’80s. Routinized/normalized busybody-ism wasn’t an attribute of...
Vonu: You need to read and watch up on the late United States Navy rear admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper.
eric: Morning, Eight! I have already placed Clover Pat in the moderation queue. The stereotypical shifting-of-the-debate, arguing points...
Vonu: sieg heil, comrade
Nunzio: As much as I have always despised the leftism and “democracy” that the Democrats have always stood for, I have to...
Nunzio: Mornin’ Eric! Yeah, I’ll happily take those little perks too- but the thing is, you could make the same argument for...
Eightsouthman: But you have known it a while now(and I’m sick of you). So why don’t you just shut the fuck up about it and...
Eightsouthman: A few months ago I fueled up my pickup and a fuel truck pulled away having just filled, most likely, the regular unleaded...
Bob Smith: They go after alcohol but don’t address a perhaps larger issue: Drivers impaired by prescription drugs. One of my...
Eightsouthman: It’s been 40 years since a friend decided after he’d left a part he’d be better off to pull over and...
Anonymous: Stop letting this bitch fuck with you.
eric: Hi Nunz, His boorishness is of far less importance to me than his policies – the majority of which have been better for...
eric: Clover, No oe can be this thick… can they? I’ve replied at least twice now to reiterate the point of the article...
eric: Clover, I merely dissect your insipid virtue signaling. You referred to Bruce as “she” – and took umbrage when I...
Wikoli: Growing up in Hawaii in the 50s and 60s, no seat belts, Pops driving with a beer in his hand, Jr standing up on the front seat....
BrentP: Those are the traits of a successful politician. However with the ones that serve the 0.01% have two advantages. The first is...
Nunzio: Scary thing is, that even before ascending the throne, that someone of so much wealth and power could be so impulsive, ignorant,...
Chris: right on JWK! While raising my kids I fought the crap every chance I could. Sometimes just for spite. The cops left me alone....
Eightsouthman: I couldn’t agree more.
Eightsouthman: You’re right and lots of things like that happen and nobody ever tells. I don’t know his specifics but...
BrentP: They complain but refuse to do what is necessary to resolve the condition. In fact they are doubling down in order not to. Of...
BrentP: The servants of the ruling class often don’t read either. They just do what they are supposed to. GWB is no scholar. Trump...
Bin: I’ve seen the bad that can happen, back in the late 80’s I was 13 and we rode our bikes everywhere. A highway patrol...
gtc: That’s OK. They are already starting to whine and complain that “there are no more good men out there”, lol! Truth...
Eightsouthman: I was watching one of those SJW/anti-gun/anti/men rallies. The reporter asked a women if she could think of anything a man...
Anonymous: Like the women who say they can get along just fine without a man, except men built and take care of all the stuff that lets...
Tuanorea: If the title says motor home the 4h amendment applies. Otherwise the 4th amendment exceptions apply. The car can be up on...
pat b: “it’s a matter of indifference to me whether Bruce or anyone else wants to wear a dress and pretend he’s a she” Yet...
pat b: “The whole point of the article is that the choice is to be denied people. “ Nobody makes them live there. There are...
ancap51: I have 5 kids. A set of twins that are 1. By the time they hit 2, they won’t see a car seat unless they want to sit in it...
BrentP: The people in the rental economy think they are free because they don’t have to take care of anything. It’s taken...
BrentP: Yes, the SUVs and crossovers make things feel closed in. I also find that using the commons for regular car storage to be a...
Eightsouthman: Why would you be melting and refining plastic and not use the product being produced on site? They are making diesel,...
Jeremy: Hi Anon, Delusional beliefs, if advantageous to the PTB, are handsomely rewarded, never recognized as “crazy” and...
Vonu: Is the misspelling of her name a covert pejorative comment?
Vonu: If she returns to Sweden, she will be recognized by a wandering band of horny immigrants who will gang rape and murder her.
Jeremy: Hi Vonu, I don’t know how that appeared. I wrote: Everyday socialists and libertarians see “climate change” the...
Jeremy: Hi Ken, How did you miss the sarcasm? Jeremy
Vonu: Mark Twain’s “The War Prayer” is my favorite. It has its own URL at warprayer.org
Vonu: I recently drove down a side street in the city where I’d learned to drive and found it uncomfortably narrow, even though I...
Zane: Uncle can suck a dick, I’ll have the seats until they’re like 3-4, then I’ll have my future spawn sit wherever...
Vonu: The next bible will probably tell us that we are not to suffer a useless eater to live.
Vonu: Why would anyone burn diesel to drive a refinery? Refineries don’t even recover the gases given to flaring.
Vonu: I can remember well my first encounter with AC. I was old enough to crawl around but not walk. My parents were socializing with the...
Vonu: I don’t see anything there that everyday socialists across the left-right spectrum would see differently than libertarians...
Anonymous: Even cats have standards 🙂
Vonu: There have been generations of people in large cities all around the world who have never had drivers licenses, nor needed or...
Anonymous: I was self employed so the “boss” always made me fix my own tires 🙂 I had to fix everything, my own stuff and the...
Vonu: You wouldn’t have to evict them during the warm part of the year if they got out the door. I’ve been trying to seduce...
Vonu: I have pity for those who can’t figure out how to live comfortably on half of that because they are addicted to consumerism....
Anonymous: Remember when Eric was saying that if they can regulate ‘X’ for your health and safety, why can’t they...
Anonymous: Check out this Cloverific action. https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/03 /chippy-calls-cops-teachers-ac t-like-bouncers-stopping-ki...
Nunzio: Heck, even I supported, and would have voted for Ron Paul!
Eightsouthman: We have 7 in the barn we claim and one of the neighbors. I wasn’t trying to one-up you. In fact, I wish I...
Eightsouthman: In my twenties I’d get home on a week-end and fix truck flats. Two years ago, working for a cheap ass company, I...
Nunzio: Ya know 8, back in the late 70’s when we first moved to Queens, the foreigner situation was actually nice. You’d have...
Jeremy: Hi Ken, How did you miss the sarcasm? Jeremy
Anonymous: I’m just going to go away and quit posting. We only have five cats and one lives at the barn. 🙂
Anonymous: I had a buddy with a early seventies Ford half ton 2wd. Back then odd used 15″ tires were common and cheap/free, so he...
Eightsouthman: I’m familiar with a fur return. I was uncomfortable the other night so I got up and peed and stepped on a cat in...
Anonymous: Yeah, we get a fur return also. It’s a purrfect arrangement.
Allen: Their rallying cry today similar to The Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland; “Off with their wieners”!
Eightsouthman: I recall the days when I had 4 different brands of tires on the pickup when I was a kid. Don’t think I’d do...
eric: Hi Oskar, I have sympathy for these kids; how else do you live in a city where it costs $2,000 (or more) to rent a crappy...
eric: Hi Anon, Ditto – same! I maintain the house for the sake of my cats; but I get a fair return on my investment!
Anonymous: The cats let us live in Their House, as long as we keep their food and water bowls full and keep the wood stove burning in the...
Anonymous: So you can’t even drink when you’re camped out in your RV or a tent next to you car ???
Eightsouthman: Hell, Jason, we were Democrats, esp. as far as the state went. Every damned bill the Republicans passed came right out of...
Eightsouthman: “Back seats” d’oh! Fuck you Word Press
Eightsouthman: It was different in the 50’s and people drove sanely, they looked where they were going, didn’t take the ROW...

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