Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED 06/29/2023
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels Up! segment with my friend Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, OR. We discussed the latest effronteries being foisted upon us by...
Elon Questions the Cult
The Gesundheitsfuhrer of Virginia has just decreed - no law having been passed - that the Holy Rag must be worn in all indoor spaces beginning Sunday and also that the...
What They Aren’t Telling People About EeeeeeeVeeeeeees
Everyone knows - well, everyone has heard - that EeeeeeeeeeeVeeeeeeeeeee are the vehicles for solving what is said to be the "climate crisis" - which is an interesting thing to say,...
It Won’t Be Like The Jetsons
What does it mean when people talk about self-driving cars? We really ought to be talking about programmed cars.
And about who does the programming.
The “self-driving” car doesn’t decide for itself how...
It Is “Just a Piece of **** Paper”
We're supposed to revere - and follow - the Constitution. But if they don't, why should we?
By they, I mean the people who lord it over us. Our rulers. I choose...
Insuring You’ll Stop Driving . . .
Forcing people to buy insurance they can't afford as a condition of being allowed to own (or use) something is a very effective way of discouraging people from owning or using...
They’re Still Doing It . . .
It's not enough, apparently, to sell you just the car. There is also the hard sell, once you've bought the car. The trying to get you to buy what you don't...
The Rump State of America
Florida may turn out to be the last United State - the Rump Republic of America. The rest of the states having become something un-American (or insufferably cold, such as otherwise...
The Price You’ll Pay for a $34k EV
When Sergio Marchionne was running Fiat, he advised people to not buy the electric version of the 500, Fiat's "Italian Job" micro-car. Why? Because each "sale" would cost Fiat a lot...
A Lesson From The Past . . . About the Rip-Off Of Today
By 2016, per federal mandate, all new cars will be required to average 35.5 miles per gallon. This sounds like a big deal. It isn't - except in terms of how...