Inside EV Baseball
Most people have no direct experience with electric cars - and neither do I.
Well, not officially.
The difference is, I should have it - because unlike 99.9 percent of the population, I...
Turbine Cars and Electric Cars
The failure of Chrysler’s turbine cars - back in the ‘60s - gives us a parallel, historical case study about why electric cars have failed today.
And yes, they have failed.
Else it would...
The Inscrutable God
I get periodic emails from Goo-guhl, the deity who lords over the online universe. He is - apparently - angered by something I've posted on my web site. He threatens repercussions,...
Tele-Prompter Boy and Obamacare
Listen to this lead-in by a CNN Tele-Prompter reader about a federal judge in Texas ruling that the Affordable Care Act's mandate to buy health insurance is unconstitutional:
"The law that brought...
Bankrupt Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts of America is - apparently - about to file for bankruptcy. This makes me happy, as a former Scout and an Eagle Scout.
Because it's not the Boy Scouts...
Guillotines and Red Octobers
The French would be in the streets.
Of course, they are in the streets - but that’s in France. What about here? General Motors just announced it will be closing five plants...
The Motor Law
It’s strange to find myself an uncle, with a country place - and an Orange Barchetta out in the garage.
My 1976 Trans-Am.
It is a relic from the ”better, vanished time” Rush...
The Speeding Exemption
In Orwell’s other book - Animal Farm - we read about a mutiny against the farmer by the livestock, who draw up a kind of Declaration of Rights premised on the...
EVs, the Internet and Missed Possibilities
Electric cars are kind of like the Internet. Both had tremendous possibilities - especially to free people from the shackles that restrained them for decades.
In the case of the Internet, the...
Teslian eFleas
When corporations get into bed with government, it’s us who get the fleas. Obamacare, for instance.
Big Med plus Big Government.
Sometimes, you can't actually see the fleas. But they're there, just the...