1775 . . . Again?
When people desperately trying to avoid a fight are left no choice but to fight, they are often the fiercest fighters imaginable.
The reason being an explosion of righteous anger - of...
Part-Time vs. Full Time Electric Cars
Hybrids are really part-time electric cars.
They have battery packs and electric motors, like full-time electric cars - but they don't rely on them exclusively for propulsion, as a full-time electric car...
NC AGW Makes Taxpayers Pay $400k for Hut! Hut! Hutting!
The citizens of Hickory, NC are on the hook for $400k - compensation for the brutal Hut! Hut! Hutting! of a handcuffed woman by an armed government worker, who yanked her...
Diminished Combustion
It didn’t work last time - but this time is different.
Last time, the method deployed to get rid of cars - or at least, cars for us - was emissions standards....
Money Better Spent
If it’s true that most buyers want “fuel efficient” cars why aren’t they buying them?
It’s a question that’s almost never asked whenever the subject of federal fuel economy standards - which...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED 12/18/19
Here's the audio of yesterday's chat with Bill Meyer over at KMED radio in Oregon!
The Cost of Virtue Signaling
People used to talk around the water cooler about being sent to the salt mines as punishment. It was a joke. Tesla sends kids to cobalt mines - so that virtue...
Latest Radio: Bryan Hyde Show 12/17/19
Here's the audio of my chat earlier today with Bryan Hyde, who hosts the Loving Liberty show in Utah!
On Fixing It
I agree with Mencken, fundamentally.
Voting (as he put it) is basically an advance auction of stolen goods. Ideally – and I concede it may be impracticable given human nature – there...
The New Performance
If electric cars are so great, why does Porsche call its first electric car a "turbo"?
Turbos are mechanical things that compress air using exhaust gas pressure and stuff it into an...