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ReadyKilowatt: Got to prop up the petro-dollar relationship, right? Otherwise that “low” inflation we’re enjoying might...
Eightsouthman: Well, there was a small amount today. BTW, it’s finally below 100F.
Nunzio: Jim Morrison (Is there anything better than Riders On The Storm?!); Van Morrison…it’s all good. A few years ago, I...
Nunzio: Ooo! Forgotteded about that one, 8! I like Do You Believe In Magic even better! I could never figger it out- for some guy who was...
dread pirate anonymous: A little while ago I got to thinking the had I been born a hundred years sooner, at my age now I would still be...
Eightsouthman: Daydream was my fav. Custom made for a daydreaming boy. I recall a nice autumn day and having my way(and hers too)with my...
Eightsouthman: OH to be middle age again. Well, when I was a kid I’d make comments and ask questions about govt. bs and cops....
Eightsouthman: Nunz, each to their own. I had forgotten the song existed and no telling how long it’ll take me to...
Nunzio: Hey Jeremy! Ah, T’was 1970- well before the religion of Political-Correctness; when we still had freedom of speech, and...
Cederq: Damn Eric, the cops are on to us now, we thought we had it made being middle-aged white guys wearing white honky clothes. We need...
Jeremy: Hey Nunz, I love that song but am amazed that the wildly un-PC line, “if her daddy’s rich take her out for a meal, if...
Nunzio: Awwright, here ya go, Eric! If this somng doesn’t fix ya up and put ya on the right track: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, I lost my best friend since we were 9 years old July 26, 2019. I’ve been sorta lost since then…..and it...
dread pirate anonymous: Meanwhile, back at the Lazy S ranch … LOL
Nunzio: Heh…8, if the truth were really told everywhere…. One county over from where I lived in NY- a geographically small...
Nunzio: 8, Uncle and his 50 minions are master extorters! I learned of the state-by-state plates/taxes, and scales and all of that when I...
Nunzio: I knew this guy who was a work-a-holic; just mention work, and he’d get drunk…..
Eightsouthman: I worked so hard when I was young I wore out joints all over. Now I need both shoulders redone again and it feels like the...
Eightsouthman: My friends who became school teachers are doing better than anyone else of our group. Family vacations to Brazil and Ca....
Eightsouthman: Since the G word and turdpress won’t let me post a link I’ll just paste Gritsforbreakfast blog here and you...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, then those old nasty commercial vehicles that ruin our roads cause they’re not built worth a damn, get a big...
ReadyKilowatt: Maybe it’s just middle age. Or that I see the light at the end of the tunnel but also see that the powers that be...
eric: Thanks, Mark! I feel better today… really! And for another reason, too…
eric: Hi RK, It’s not just you and I; this is becoming par for the course… all my friends (all of them) are experiencing the...
ReadyKilowatt: Dammit, Eric! I’m constantly kicking around the idea of leaving the corporate prison and striking out on my own....
Nunzio: Buddy, this is America!- Where you get triple and quadruple-taxed for everything! Half your property taxes go to fund the...
Nunzio: Tu-Tu, Well I’ll ‘see’ you, and raise you double Eric’s money! 😉 Nah, that’s just the thing- most...
Anonymous: I used to be a subscriber too. I used to listen to their car themed podcast as well. Not anymore. On another note: the weird...
Tuanorea: Nunzio, “everyone who rode, either got killed, or seriously injured.” You sure it wasn’t just the ones who caused their death...
Nunzio: I think the same way, Mark. Ever since I was a small kid, I always noticed that literally everyone who rode, either got killed,...
Tuanorea: Hey Eric, Look at it this way, they just caught one of the guys who hijacked TWA flight 847 back in 1985. That’s some speedy...
Mark3: Like all young guys I liked motorcycles. But then I saw a cousin with this giant external metal bar stabilizer anchored in his...
mark: I’d bet many of your readers would pay extra for a vehicle owned and cared for by Eric Peters.
Allen: Eric, I well know that song and dance. Work and bills and more bills. Maintaining a house, vet trips and bills for that. I’m...
Nunzio: ***”I don’t see why these EV’s can’t be outfit with energy regeneration devices that could replenish power as you...
ken: Just got back from a 100 mile ride with my wife on the RK. Repairing an old Police KZ 1000 for my son. Been riding for 60 years now...
Jim Henshaw: Hi Eric, I agree, I wouldn’t buy one of those EV toys, either. I was just addressing the fact that a car that is...
Nunzio: Eric! What’re ya working so hard for? Time is our most precious commodity, and I know it ain’t for ‘the...
Eightsouthman: Sounds like me. I couldn’t be paid enough to do social media. Last job I had dispatched with email. I could handle...
Mark3: Probably my 1986 Mustang LX 5.0 supercharged with a methane tank in the trunk. The guys at the car shop say its the fastest car...
Anonymous: I reckon … I don’t throw rocks at grizzly bears, either. I’ve got enough trouble with the drug addict across the...
Anonymous: It’s becoming obvious that any modern car is going to have serious issues within 10 years. The over complicated...
Eightsouthman: As a young man, waiting for the next year model meant something to me. Now I wait 30 years till I know that’s a good...
Eightsouthman: chiph, I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 that quit charging. In fact, when you hooked up the charger, you could watch the battery...
Eightsouthman: eric, I got an email yesterday from Elio where they answered some FAQ’s. As for EV, they said that technology...
Eightsouthman: The insurance companies are complicit in this, refusing to sell you full coverage on an older vehicle. Monday I met a 57...
Eightsouthman: dread, you’re quite the good little soldier. If one stops me on my bike he’s not getting anything. This is a...
Eightsouthman: It will mainly be rural vs. urban from what I’ve seen. Art Acevidos, the top cop in Houston who was run out of...
eric: Hi AF, This is a capital idea! If I still have the writer’s email, I will send him a note to inquire.
Anti Federalist: Just came across this…Eric, how about a “chip in” or “go fund me” drive to purchase and...
Brandon: At least in the case of the state itself. People can leave and move to another State. It is harder when dealing with the Federal...
Marcus Aurelius Tarkus: To focus on just one or your points: Our best hope in re the BeatOff, uh, Beto-style confiscation scenario is...
Eightsouthman: As of 2010 there were 3974 people living in this county. There are many less now and would be even less if the Hispanic...
Eightsouthman: I fear we’re well beyond reviving the A of C. I also fear we’re approaching a civil war involving more than...
Mark3: the ovens / range / sinks / bathrooms in my moms house have to be 50 years old. Still work fine.
Marcus Aurelius Tarkus: “California compliant” is the real problem. When manufacturers of anything–including...
Steve: Conservation of Energy doesn’t allow that. That energy has to come from some where. Regenerative braking works because you...
chiph: Jim – I agree. I’ll be putting about $3k worth of repairs into the 15 year old Lexus this year. “Runs &...
dread pirate anonymous: Well, I dunno … I generally get along with the cops okay, even though I think they are mostly worthless and do...
ReadyKilowatt: The problem with replacing the battery pack is that it isn’t a monolithic slab like in a cell phone. The batteries...
MarkyMark: When someone says your car is only worth X dollars, that’s only if you’re trying to SELL IT! If you look at it...
Nunzio: Detectives, in trying to find the likeliest suspects for a crime, used to ask themselves “Who stood to gain from this...
Tionico: True enough. When California ratified the US Constitution and became a state in 1859, they endorsed, agreed to, and committed to...
Nunzio: C’mon, Walt…we’re talkin’ CA.! The state is on the verge of bankruptcy, despite being the world’s...
Anonymous: similar model and *chassis* condition.
Anonymous: I don’t think it matters much either way now. Modern ICE are too complicated and I would guess they will...
Spazatron5000: “The feminist-liberal tit-less androgynous blob with the bobbed hair, living amidst the cultural splendor of the...
Bostwick9: Keep that EV. I’ve got at least another 15 years of use left in my 05 ION with 72,000 miles on it. And it supports my...
Anonymous: One of my “careers” was riding along with a truck driver to help load hay bales on a flatbed semi. On the way back...
Eightsouthman: It’s the reason I want the first nukes to land in DC. If the terror attacks had been done by terrorists, the Capitol...
Eightsouthman: I’ve lost a lot of time dodging scales and state checkpoints. It’s worth it in N.M. and La. Nearly impossible...
Anonymous: Here you go, [img]https://revolution-green. com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04 /wind-powered-cars.jpg[/img]
Walt: I wonder what would happen if the auto manufactures just stopped selling cars in CA. I betca the would fall into line with every...
Nunzio: This is why I could never buy ‘voting for the [slightly] lesser of two evils”. Which tyranny is preferable: The...
Ernie: Typical 38% at the power plant x94%(6% line losses)× x75% li ion charging efficiency x85% typical electric motor efficiency. You...
eric: Hi Jim, I’d rather avoid the EV that’s going to require a $3,000 (or more) “investment” years before most...
eric: Hi JdL, You’re right, of course – and I feel bad for the people of CA; especially those opposed to all of this.
Eightsouthman: swamp, I’m afraid you’re right. It WILL get ugly if that happens.
eric: Hi Thomas, Sadly, you are probably right. This disease of control freakism is completely out of hand; it afflicts most people as...
JdL: “But CA ought to be free to burden itself.” Translation (??): California politicians should be able to dictate to...
Jeremy: Thanks Jason, I’d never seen that before. Cheers, Jeremy
richb: The irony of of losing longer lasting cars, appliances, other house parts (like windows hvac and water heaters) and consumer...
Anonymous: Nothin’ bothers me tonight. I can dodge all the scales all right.
Jim Henshaw: Re this: “But it makes no sense at all to put a $3,000 battery in a 10-year-old EV that’s worth $6,000”...
Jason Flinders: Jeremy, I always preferred the Weird Al version… https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=0WPzFnZkZmI
Jeremy: Hi Anon, To paraphrase Dire Straits, you can’t “get your current for nothing or your watts for free”. Cheers,...
Eightsouthman: It would appear the tree of liberty died under the onslaught of political Roundup.
WFJacoby: All batteries lose performance in the cold. What’s that have to do with cycle life?
WFJacoby: Where did you find 22% efficiency?
Jason Flinders: I suggest you acquaint yourself with a little ditty known as the “Second law of thermodynamics”. In brief,...
Nunzio: Unfortunately, John, they have the most powerful enforcement agencies ever known to man: Public schools and the Zionist media....
Eightsouthman: X, it’s probably middle-aged white females that eat that shit up the most, then the guys next. They’ve been...
Thomas Chase: Politicians are parasites and have no real redeeming qualities. Most are sociopaths. Trump draining the swamp is like a...
Eightsouthman: ICC is checkin on down the line. I’m a little overweight and my log book’s way behind. And now the big...
Anonymous: Hi anon, I have done NO research in this topic. And know very little, but it seems feasible to me that some form of generator...
Anonymous: “I don’t see why these EV’s can’t be outfit with energy regeneration devices that could replenish power as you...
john T Morzenti: The formerly United States is well on the path to dissolution. Think it can’t happen? It happened in the old USSR,...
Nunzio: ***”Government will never save us from government.”*** ^This!!!!!!! You just summed-up my last 200 posts in 7 words!...
Nunzio: Amen, Tom! If I may add: Trump can’t stop the corruption too, because he is just as much a part of it as anyone else (We...
Ernie: Since the total energy efficiency of the electric is LESS than that of a gas and much less than that of a diesel, there is...

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