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Reader Question: 1965 vs. Now?

News/Other Stuff eric - November 22, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Dave asks: I've been looking online at new Explorers. Engines range from 2.3 liters - the same one in my Topaz - to...

Reader Question: Automated EVs on I-80?

News/Other Stuff eric - November 22, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Ray asks: I recently traveled from Sacramento to Iowa. On my trip east, I-80 was closed for most of one day starting at...

Reader Question: “Alcohol-Related”?

News/Other Stuff eric - November 21, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! John asks: I have heard the statement, "almost half of traffic deaths involve alcohol." A state AGW once told me that the term...

Reader Question: Bennies of Using Synthetic?

News/Other Stuff eric - November 21, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Rob asks: My wife took my car in for an oil change and they put Valvoline advanced full synthetic 0W20 in my 2012...

Reader Question: EV Battery Corrosion?

News/Other Stuff eric - November 20, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Brazos asks: What stops or prevents the array of batteries in EVs from getting covered in typical battery corrosion (CuSO4) like our combustion...

Reader Question: Smooth Patriot?

News/Other Stuff eric - November 20, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Oskar asks: I have a jeep Patriot with the 2.4 liter Tiger Shark 4 cylinder engine. These engines regularly run over 200,000 miles...

Reader Question: Loose Lugs?

News/Other Stuff eric - November 19, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Fran asks: The other day, I noticed that two (out of five) of the lug nuts on my car had fallen off. One...

Stickers, Buttons, Coasters or Magnets?

News/Other Stuff eric - November 19, 2019

Just a quick note to advise everyone that you can now request any of the above when you support the site with a donation of $20 or more (or a $10...

Reader Question: Untrackable Car?

News/Other Stuff eric - November 19, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! John asks: What's the best modern car that's untrackable and cannot be manipulated via an onboard Onstar or equivalent system? Is there a...

Reader Question: Seatbelts, Part II?

News/Other Stuff eric - November 18, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! David asks: Can you do a part two on your piece about seta belts? It should explain how the parasitical industry, also know...

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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...
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...
Eightsouthman: Handler, the great wall lie is one I’ll go to bat for him over. Why? Because Obomya had already, with the support of...
Eightsouthman: eric, once again, cue the Fugs. That single like”Was George Washington the lesser of two evils? Sometimes I...
Eightsouthman: I moved 3 cats out of my chair, turned around and sat down….on one I had just ejected. I have one staring at me from...
Eightsouthman: Well Nunz, it makes me glad the federal govt. forced Texas to take all those Asians right after Vietnam. They figured...
Oskar: I have a family member that lives in Manhattan, NYC. The individual lives a what I would consider to be a broom closet. Micro...
JWK: Life without risk is death of the male spirit. Without risk we would still be living in caves or huts farming with wooden tools....
eric: Hi Handler, I look at Trump much as I’d look at an extra pump that came to hand if I were stuck on a sinking ship. He’s...
eric: Hi Jet, My pleasure; thanks for the kind words!
Jason Flinders: Say what you will about the muzzies, but they do know how to treat the ladies. 🙂
Jason Flinders: Yes, and it’s about time! https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=af_qzKfWHAU
Shotgun Chuck: I don’t know. Looking around the internet I see a lot of love for the freedom of cycling, but no other form of...
Jetcal1: Thank you. Excellent read.
LW: This whole thing got way out of hand. All I wanted to say was that if you find yourself going into a turn that maybe you entered too...
The Handler: He’s like a cult leader. Trump people go completely nuts when you point out the facts on his immigration...
ken: Hey Jeremy “means that Federal law reigns supreme. It doesn’t mean that all laws, State and Federal, are limited by the...
MarkyMark: Cats don’t have owners; cats have staff… 🙂
ken: Probably not going to believe this but sometimes I rode a horse to elementary school,,, NO, I’m not that old!,,, but we lived...
Nunzio: Exactly, 8! In like manner, I think in a lot of places (Like small towns in upstate NY) that already have 25-50% of the town now...
LW: It’s guys like you two that do the worst in advanced rider courses, and therefore on the street too. The one guy in the first...
Eightsouthman: Yeah Jeremy, I find myself passing on at least one article every day. The first time, a guy was sorta weirded about it all...
Eightsouthman: The solenoid may have been iced up, probably was. We used to start fires under our trucks and pile stuff around it. Just...
Eightsouthman: Also, when I think back(I wasn’t driving it), it wouldn’t untrack but it probably had some motive power but...
Eightsouthman: What was amazing Nunz is it was a brand new truck with Firestone street tires but it had power to all 4 wheels, not a 2...
Eightsouthman: I have entertained thoughts of how things might go if Hitlery won. Would it speed up the reaction to the Maxists and...
Tuanorea: I have a slogan as well. WOMEN HAVE SUFFERED LONG ENOUGH. END WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE NOW!
Eightsouthman: I knew a guy in college who used a fork in a receptacle to wake himself. He must have had one hell of a resistance to...
Eightsouthman: Not a great deal of diesel produced is used to heat the plastic. I’ve seen several examples and was going to try it...
swamprat: Good plug for the National Motorists Association. I was kind of amazed that he kind of brushed that off.
Nunzio: Pretty damn scary, when at his Hershey, PA. “rally” he says that “law enforcement should have been...
Nunzio: Scary thing is 8, that so many people actually vote for them! Criminal communist crackpots…and 60 million people will vote...
Nunzio: Hey Jason, I do mostly agree with you- but how is Trump going to delay anything when he is doing his part to establish Agenda...
Nunzio: 8, you sure that Jack Lalanne wasn’t behind that cotton truck, pushing?
Nunzio: LW, anyone who has ever ridden a bicycle has already instinctively learned counter steering. Many people have ridden bicycles and...
passport: I went to grammar school in the ’50s. Dad took the train to work, mom took the car to her job. Brothers and I walked five...
Crusty Old TV Tech: I also lay the rise of the Mob in the USA at their feet. The same screeching harpies that brought us Suffrage brought...
Eightsouthman: I said he tried to power out of it and turned hard into the slide and if had continued to be dirt and gravel he’d...
swamprat: The pussyhat contingent’s representatives in the 2017 congress all wore white during presidential addresses. They are...
swamprat: They are a vile lot. They are taking what remains of our society and throwing it in the trash. Looking at them, back in the...
swamprat: I was hoping you would say otherwise, but I fear that I am right. The only thing that can turn them out is Sharia law.
The Handler: The establishment only hates him because he’s extremely erratic. I don’t think meglomaniacs can be converted....
Erewhon Man: True, but irrelevant. They don’t count. They count on calling us names and scolding us for not being nice, and on...
dirtybobbastard: “When was the last time you saw a bunch of kids riding their bikes around the neighborhood – by themselves?”...
Ernie: There is also a great short SF calle Occam’s Scalpel along similar lines.
Erewhon Man: There is a lot of anti religious folks here, but this is my favorite prayer… Lord, make me fast and accurate. Let my...
The Handler: “And until we all reclaim our lost manhood- and stand up and say no and kill and die to make it stick- until that day...
maga: We have about 8 miles of paved road and about 50 miles of dirt roads. There are several roads that go over various mountain passes...
magadorm: Housing is crazy expensive due to most land being owned by the local native corporation that refuses to sell any land. I have...
Anonymous: It’s an island. You can probably only drive about five miles and back 🙂 We don’t mess with any of that stuff...
Anonymous: Because I am the nasty kind that will sit and watch a kid stick a fork in a wall plug, and not prevent it. Watching the...
Anonymous: Doubt it. She will be dead or institutionalized in less than 10. Either she will get so unhinged that they lock her up or she...

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