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Tionico: The 126 Turbodiesle Benz get well above 30 mpg, are large, comfortable, beautoful cars wiht excellent handlng, and have been...
Tionico: this is a good start.. NOWHERE are FedGov granted authoirty to regulate any characteristic or quality of any piece of machinery....
libertyx: …”don’t the actions of California violate the Interstate Commerce Act?” Here’s the Violation: Tenth...
ReadyKilowatt: Every week we have a team meeting, and every week we’re reminded to take our lunch hour. Never mind that we get a...
X: Yeah, but when are the rest of the “middle-aged white guys wearing white guy clothes” gonna start figuring out that cops...
Eightsouthman: It’s not unique nor in one area. I see(since I’m out all day every day)countless chemtrails that take a long...
Eightsouthman: About 25 years ago, a local high school that was right off I 20 was constructed. It was nearly identical to a prison 50...
Eightsouthman: Recall that Obumer almost immediately said “White men over 40 are domestic terrorists.”. No exceptions. Oh,...
Eightsouthman: Like the story of Amazon thieves from people’s front door. I was asked about it. Lessee, seems like I mentioned...
Eightsouthman: eric, there will always be a place for it until those idiots get their asses thrashed by everyone they meet. I hear my...
Eightsouthman: Kinda like the time I offended this bitch doing DOT drug tests by saying my Eucalyptus lozenge would show me drunk. She...
Eightsouthman: They don’t want to offend the Pope. They’d rather just give him their kids for his entertainment.
Doug: Ignoring the fact Regulations violate Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution, don’t the actions of California violate the...
Ernie: Sounds like you know the trouble points. The most annoying one for me is that German sense of humor where you make an economy car...
Nunzio: Heck, Ernie, I’ve always wanted a 300D…. Now THAT’s an economy car! Trouble is, only ones people seem to part...
Ernie: Im pretty sure Le CarCass came from the land of the edible snail already disabled… But that C111-3, 200mph for 1000 miles at...
Nunzio: I’d rather have a Renault Le Car than a Tesla! At least the Le Car can be refueled in 2 minutes, and go further than the...
OppositeLock: You’d be surprised how cheap a broken car can be if you’re willing to fix it yourself!
Ernie: See my expansion below- way ahead of ye slick!
Ernie: So I just did the math and a little DuckDuckGoing. Can’t help it, Im an engineering geek and always will be. Our gasoline...
FarmerChet: Except that many of the off-road capable vehicles since 2010 are not designed for anything other than Very Light off-road...
anarchyst: Electric motors may be more efficient, but battery power is NOT. Try driving an electric car in the middle of a Michigan...
Nunzio: Oh! Oh! [-Arnold Horshak], Eric! ‘Lectric motors are clean! That is: The feminist-liberal tit-less androgynous blob with...
Ernie: Electric motors are more efficient. Which entirely misses the point after generation efficiency losses, transmission efficiency...
John G.: Douglas, on my periodic drives from San Diego to NorCal, I see lots of white haze. To me, it appears to be settled/settling...
eric: Hi Nunz, Well, they’ll say electric motors are more efficient and… well… you know the rest. It makes my teefus...
eric: Hi Nunz! Yup; reality clashes with fantasy. Socialism will work . .. this time. They did it wrong back there. We’ll do it...
dread pirate anonymous: Just get ONE approved filter and install it right before the inspection, and then swap out a generic filter and...
Tionico: Anyone ever seen pictures of the “urban manural” construction in Soviet bloc countries, particularly in Eastern...
OppositeLock: We’re not all loonies here, there are plenty of sane people, however, most of the population is in two dense areas,...
BrentP: Buy some double sided pressure sensitive adhesive and move the lotus sticker from one air filter to the next. Or scan the sticker...
Nunzio: Exactly, Jeremy! That’s just what I meant by letting them reap the consequences of their own decisions. At some point,...
Nunzio: And don’t ya love how CA. equates EV’s with vehicles that get 50MPG?! How does a 4000 lb EV get 50MPG? It...
Jeremy: Hey Nunz, “And sadly, the average Californian wouldn’t even care if they had to pay more for most cars, or were restricted...
Douglas Self: “The architects already do this. Generally the same architect will design the local schools and prisons.”. Why...
Nunzio: If the average American had more sense, this would be a perfect illustration of the absurdity of allowing other men to amass...
Douglas L Self: Yeah, you don’ t hear of garbage collectors being lauded as “heroes”, but if THEY aren’t out...
Douglas L Self: That’s just it…I have daughters of my own, all grown, all but one with kids of their own, and some of those...
Douglas L Self: There is a movement of the northern CA and southern OR counties to break away and become their own state, the State of...
Douglas L Self: Just think…not only do snobs that want that Lotus pay out the nose to purchase it, but the...
Douglas L Self: Eric: law(s) is the codified expression of POLITICAL will. Sure, those barristers and pontificating professors like to...
Jeremy: Morning Eric, Ironically, as others have noted, there is at least some plausible constitutional justification to be made, unlike...
Nunzio: I feel; sorry for anyone who still lives in these filthy cities, suburbs, and other densely-populated areas, ’cause cars...
AljerHyss: “I then told this bozo to leave, immediately, else I’d complain to the city…” No, you allow him to stand...
Hans Gruber: Eric, in general I agree; let the moonbat liberals live with their own rules for a while. I think another approach which is...
ReadyKilowatt: No one dares question the authorities, or does 5 minutes of research. For sure no one bothers to learn about weather, at...
ReadyKilowatt: Don’t want to trigger anyone with bright, bold, or brash color. Better to stick to pastels, Earth tones and...
Eightsouthman: Going to the Wally pharmacy for the last time yesterday I drove past that part of the parking lot people now avoid, the...
Eightsouthman: Those are the same people who can’t even let their children grow up ‘unfettered” or just reasonably...
Eightsouthman: RK, Co. is too cold for most of them but they like the loaded regs for everything there. Some feel the need to move to...
joeallen: The sooner that big earthquake hits commiefornia the better off the whole world will be. A state full of loonies needs to sink...
Eightsouthman: I check out Goodwill when I think about it. Lots of good old cast stuff(it’s not edgy)but no toaster ovens. Since...
Eightsouthman: I did have a popcorn popper, circa 1970 and it worked damn good. I have cast iron all the way to 14 and some round...
Eightsouthman: The wife got a “great deal” from Direct TV yesterday. Things are tough when they come back to old enemies.
Eightsouthman: I rarely see anything I’d call a car. There’s those little tall round turds and the big tall long things but...
Tionico: My state mulcts us each year for a “gross weight tax”. For my car, a big one tonne Ford van, they whack me aobut six...
Jeremy: Hey Nunz, It’s kind of half digital. It still has knobs for selection, time an temperature. I hope it’s still...
Nunzio: Oooo! Thanks for the link, Jeremy! That oven is just the right size, and mine is pretty old and getting pretty funky, and all of...
Ernie: Correct, sir. The main justification for the US Constitution was allegedly “states taxing commerce with other states”...
Jeremy: Hey Nunz, I’m a cast iron fanatic. I cook almost everything in it. I have a #3, #5, #6, #8, #10, #12 and a beautiful, very...
Nunzio: What kills me too, RK, I know a few old(er) farts who are worth a lot of money- and they just love getting freebies and...
Nunzio: Heh, Jeremy, I rarely fry anything- but I DO have a few well-seasoned cast-iron frying pans….(The 2% I mentioned)- my...
The Bobster: D. Scientific American
The Bobster: The turnpike tolls have been going up every year for the past decade. Now I’ve come to find that the money...
ReadyKilowatt: And all the people fleeing California are stopping at the continental divide (well, just past it in Denver), and bringing...
ReadyKilowatt: I’ve been getting the “invitations” from AARP for a few years now. I mentioned it to a few people and...
Eightsouthman: Depends on the physical size. Rarely do rechargeable’s fit the device made for throwaways. But I can take the ends...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, I’ll use a pot and oil for popcorn but my favorite way is to buy the ears of popsorn. Stnad them up in a paper...
MikePizzo: “And haven’t the people of California got just as much right to govern themselves as the rest of us have to not be...
Jeremy: Hey Nunzio, I cosnider a few nicely seasoned cast iron pans to be essential! Cheers, Jeremy
Eightsouthman: Nunz, being there and living it, I’m not sure how much you can scam the govt. Everything I’ve seen it’s...
Nunzio: I miss the “tha-thump, tha-thump,tha-thump,”- By the time I was old enough to drive, most of those roads were gone!...
Nunzio: 8, they got 9V rechargeable lithium-ion batteries on Amazon….. Should work for ya, no?
Nunzio: 8, ya need a popcorn popper!!!! (For some reason, a pot with a lid and a pinch of erl no longer works…or so they’d...
Nunzio: It’s really sad that there is pretty much no mainstream publication that isn’t PC; pushing the gov’t/liberal...
Eightsouthman: And Texas finally got the gumption to build one without expansion joints. It’s been smooth as a baby’s butt...
Eightsouthman: It was a road covered in 2 feet of silt that had to be removed. I probably only hauled 20% of it and graded the rest into...
Nunzio: Yeah, Bill- I still remember when I was a kid, and virtually all of the highways were white concrete. They lasted forever! No...
Nunzio: Dooglas, Sounds like what people in New Jork City used to get for a ‘free parking’ car- when there were still lots of...
OppositeLock: Huge +1 on that. For those of you not aware of how bad it is here; every single part that’s emissions related,...
dread ...: Spreading sand and then piling it? Must be a govt job! I haven’t got that bad hurt yet. Busted a rib one time, and...
Thomas Frey: I live in CA and can speak from first hand experience how out of control the Air Resources Board (ARB) and Bureau of...
Eightsouthman: I was always a cowboy till I got bucked off and had broken bones in my pelvis. 15 years later I’d have back surgery...
Jim Henshaw: meant to say, elsewhere in the US …
Jim Henshaw: Rescinding a state level fatwa that would have infringed upon the liberty of everyone in CA, and possibly most people...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, proof bureaucrats can fuck up anything…..and live to do so…..and live BY doing so.
dread pirate anonymous: Yeah, like I kept going back to logging // wink Only thing I really wish I’d done different was gone out to...
Douglas L Self: Likewise California’s Central Valley, especially in the vicinity of Fresno and/or Bakersfield, gets the rap as the...
anarchyst: The only reason for California’s stricter emission rules was a misguided and erroneous assumption about the Southern...
Eightsouthman: Well, they do that. Buy a big rig and wait till the end of the year when you get a bill for the Road Use Tax even though...
Patrick McWilliams: Don’t plants take in CO2 and emit oxygen? That’s what I remember from grade school. While the feds are...
Anonymous: California should simply enact legislation allowing only cars manufactured in California to be sold there, and only there. We...
Douglas Self: What you need when traisping about in “West Bum-Fuck, Egypt” is what we once termed a “Fish...
Douglas Self: Eric – CA and its constituent municipalities all have their heads up their collective asses. Just recently, while...
Eightsouthman: It would be a lot easier for the govt. not to mandate collecting taxes to give to the carmakers for building these useless...
Douglas Self: I’d say TIME or NEWSWEEK. Doesn’t matter…who the hell BUYS print media anymore?
Douglas Self: I keep scratching my head as to how even in “Sin” Francisco a $1.99 bag of apples goes out the door for $4.50...
Douglas Self: Don’t freaking’ encourage them! The technology is ALREADY available to meter automobile...
Eightsouthman: dread, we have another thing in common. Quit trucking for a bit, doing electrical work. went back to trucking. The only...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, I been using it on my fucked up heel. I often have to walk on large uneven rock and that kills me. In fact,...

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