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mike: if you ever hear that someone punched alexandria ocasio-cortez in the nose, it was me
eric: Hi Brent, I was staggered by the original questioner’s assertion that the Tesla3 enhances mobility. I sometimes feel as...
Jeremy: Hey Brent, “Where people would come up with nutty reasons why they needed an SUV.” Hah, when I bought my Dakota I...
MikePizzo: Well, if the wagon is not going to be available, this 3 Series will be just another sedan in the entry-luxury segment....
Doug: Electronic handbrakes and lack of a standard transmission are leaving me out of the market. IF I purchase another car, it will be...
Jeremy: Hey Eric, Writing my above post hammered home to me what has been lost by focusing on electric luxury/sports indulgences for the...
BrentP: I first noticed this a long time ago with the SUV craze. Where people would come up with nutty reasons why they needed an SUV....
Jeremy: Hey Jason, What’s weird to me is why more people don’t just just list their subjective preferences and wax...
dread pirate anonymous: “change your life” More likely end your life very unpleasantly when it self ignites. The Tesla Cult...
Jason Flinders: Tesla cult members seem to live in some kind of alternate universe which has little or no resemblance to the objective...
Jeremy: Hey Mark, It’s like the ZEV (REV) con. When the entire production chain is factored in, it hasn’t been shown that...
bluegrey6124: I believe one of the reasons for the complacency is simply because the oppression that America (and perhaps other so-called...
Chris: I just saw a Jaguar wagon. It was really nice looking. And on paper, the engine choices are good. We considered a Jag for the wife...
Mark in BC: Daniel, If the Tesla 3 is “easily the best car to drive on the market”, what is the second best?
Wally Ray: Eric, You got my hopes up for another hot wagon option. From my (brief) Googling, it appears that the wagon is not bound for...
ken: Upset the God’s did you! You were there talking and then you were gone!! Betcha nothing was wrong with the equipment,,,...
eric: Morning, Eight! It’s not just both parties being the same creature. Most people are the same creature. Coercive collectivism...
eric: Hi Todd, I wholeheartedly agree… and have had disagreements over this with good friends of mine. One frequently travels to...
eric: Hi Mark, I think the previous generation GM F cars (Camaro and Firebird) were the last to offer them. I suspect the reason no one...
Mark3: Curious does any current car still have t-tops? Basically the same idea as a targa top. They were fun. If not I wonder when the...
Todd: The software world has already embraced perpetual rental models, since these folks also drive the self driving train… preview...
Todd: The only thing moving on the roads in HI that might cause damage are trucks. Cars don’t wear out roads. Freeze/thaw cycles, poor...
Eightsouthman: MM, I agree with Jesse Ventura. There is only one party in this country, the Republocrats and it makes enough laws to...
Eightsouthman: Two ways I could fly, involuntarily or privately.
Eightsouthman: As with everything in this country….and I mean everything, corporations control every aspect. Any question you ask...
trishwriter: People were smarter in 1980 and more accustomed to freedom.
trishwriter: Pippi Longstocking laws?!? But she really didn’t have many laws to follow; she seemed to live a life of freedom.
The Handler: Good kid! My neighbor inherited his grandmother’s pristine Plymouth Fury and let it ruin in the weather for about 25...
The Handler: I had a few women threaten to defame me for not responding to their messages immediately. I really miss the ’90s....
The Handler: I used the modern forms of communication for my kennel business for about 2 years and had nothing but trouble from people....
X: I saw a new loaded Ranger at the dealership today… it was very nice, but had a sticker price of almost forty thousand bucks....
Anonymous: It’s completely plausible that I will never fly again.
Jeremy: Hey Mark, He was the secretary of “homeland security” who went on to lobby for RapeScam. Funny how that always...
MarkyMark: Maybe they didn’t answer the door right away because they were doing what people NORMALLY do @ 4AM-sleeping!
MarkyMark: Wasn’t he was of Shrub’s DHS secretaries?
Anonymous: Chertoff. Thank you and goodnight.
MarkyMark: To quote the one and only John McEnroe: You CAN’T be serious!
MarkyMark: WOW-just wow…
BrentP: They attempted porno scanners not long after they put in the TSA. It didn’t go over well. Then they allowed the underpants...
MarkyMark: I think that if our cars are taken away, it’ll be by stealth; it’ll be by making it too EXPENSIVE to have one....
MarkyMark: I normally go to Aldi or Lidl, so all the cashiers don’t pack your stuff. At Aldi, they’ll put your stuff in a...
Eightsouthman: Jason, that’s fine if you can get by with that….and I applaud you if you can. OTOH, I’m expected to,...
richb: Yet another reason to not fly. https://www.iflscience.com/tec hnology/this-conversation-shou ld-terrify-you-viral-thread...
Bill Jones: January 17, 2019 at 9:30 pm GMT • 200 Words Meanwhile, for those of us who live in the real world, here’s what the global...
Eightsouthman: Anon, we’re right there at Idiocracy. We’re on the lethal edge of what you describe. When they come after me...
Jeremy: Hey Jason, Yes, it would be great to be able to fix our typos. Sowell’s book “Black Rednecks and White...
BrentP: They are slowly taking away independent motorized transportation by making it more and more expensive for the sake of making it...
BrentP: One store I go to uses paper bags. That’s also where I simply have rebagged the groceries. They don’t have self...
BrentP: On another autos website I have gotten into this very same discussion again. These people complain about the wealth...
Jason Flinders: Same here, it would be no contest! (Apologies to Sowell for the error in his name. We really need a feature here like...
Jason Flinders: That’s the best way to do it. Granted, these days most people are so lazy that actually talking into the phone is...
X: That’s what I do. I have a pay-as-you-go flip phone that I use for portable communication and absolutely NOTHING else. When I...
Jeremy: Hey Jason, I’d put two up against either Sowell or Williams and still probably win. Cheers, Jeremy.
Jason Flinders: What amazes me is that apparently most people complied with FDR’s gold grab. I guess people were sheep back then as...
X: The real reason why people can’t do something as mind-numbingly simple as “keep it between the lines” any more is...
Jason Flinders: Please show us where the Talmud states anything about relative the intelligence of different races, or for that matter,...
Nunzio: Sorry to hear about your dad, Ernie. Man! Those were the last of the REAL cars! They’re better than half of the...
Anonymous: Self checkout? Since I was never trained and not an employee, I think I can be excused for occasionally scanning a pack of gum...
Eightsouthman: Anon, I feel your pain. But my phone is always needed for work and since I’m almost always in a loud piece of...
SPQR70AD: IQ dropped at the same rate whites have declined as a % of the population. do not fall for the Talmud Bolshevik propaganda
SPQR70AD: I tell people no matter how much they spoil their kids and make like they care about them they really do not care one bit for...
SPQR70AD: but they will NEVER tax the 160 billion sent out of the country every year
bluegrey6124: UGH! Including that one! Everytime I see those things, it makes me wanna go strangle that idiot Chris Messina (the...
Mr. Gold: “In time to do ‘what??'” Thank you sir, exactly. As Caitlyn Johnstone pointed out, everything we’ve...
bluegrey6124: It kinda reminds me of when MySpace came out when I was in high school about 15-ish years ago. I’m the one who really...
Tuanorea: Marky, “Do you think businesses, especially the big ones who donate buku bucks to political campaigns, would STAND for that? I...
MarkyMark: We both know the answer to your question. That said, how many people living TODAY would remember this? How many people alive...
Brad Smith: Thanks for another great article. I was talking with a buddy of mine who lives in Hawaii the other day, he fixes commercial...
Tuanorea: Marky, “Those actions didn’t have the ECONOMIC IMPACT” What was the economic impact of this? “All persons are hereby required...
ReadyKilowatt: One thing that will probably happen once these automated speed systems are commonplace is that they’re going to...
Spazzatron5000: BrentP, that was motivation enough for me as well. Generally for the time it takes to go through the cashier’s line...
Ernie: I just inherited my 80 year old Dad’s 91 Crown Vic. Drove it home 360 miles, got 25mpg out of the 302 EFI/AOD combo running...
dread pirate anonymous: #NoMoreHashtags
ReadyKilowatt: Pretty sure the only reason dad didn’t switch plates on odd/even days was because he had a couple of jerry cans full...
Anonymous: My cell phone, I put tape over my camera lens. I turned off all notifications. Uninstalled or deactivated everything that...
dread pirate anonymous: It would make more sense to have two engines in tandem with some sort of clutch between them.
dread pirate anonymous: Given the government’s push for ever-higher fuel efficiency from new cars, Why do auto manufacturers insist on...
MarkyMark: I remember Russert, but I didn’t see the Ron Paul interview. I seldom watched Russert or other establishment TOOLS…
Jeremy: Hey Mark, Do you remember when faux confrontational, establishment gatekeeper, Tim Russert, had Ron Paul on Meet the Press? He...
MarkyMark: What gives me hope are the Yellow Vest protesters in France. They’re pushing back over similar issues. Wasn’t the...
eric: Hi Mark, I hope you’re right; I suspect you’re wrong. Consider the hysterics of the “climate change” cult....
MarkyMark: The excuse to use ethanol is that it burns cleaner. It has a hydroxide (i.e. OH) molecule, whereas normal hydrocarbons do not....
MarkyMark: It’s too bad you all didn’t win, Jack. I say that as a Yankee…
MarkyMark: Eric, Those actions didn’t have the ECONOMIC IMPACT that taking away people’s cars would have! Unless someone...
Tom M: With the gas tax, those who drive vehicles that get less mileage pay more because they have to buy more gas. I don’t believe...
eric: Agreed, Jason – But, the problem for me is that everyone else texts. And so I need to be able to receive them. I mean...
Jason Flinders: I think the addictive quality is less when you use a simple phone that does nothing but act as a portable telephone. (No...
Bill B: I remember the absurdity of fuel rationing in the 70’s, when one could only buy gas on specific days depending on...
Eightsouthman: I think these systems open the valves early to avoid compressing air with no fuel. This is where the system has early...
JdL: How handy it will be for the government once cars are under explicit control! Anyone the government doesn’t like can be...
Eightsouthman: eric, our roads are pretty good but most are crowded but not having to deal with the loafers and such I sometimes find...
JACK: This article really sets me off ! Some of us, our ancestors that is, fought this yankee tyranny. They killed over 300,000 of us for...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, I had no idea I came off as that stupid. Just remember what Forrest’s mom said.
eric: Hi D, Some of the cost of “coverage,” of course, is a function of the car you drive. Its value/replacement cost as well...
eric: I agree, T – All it will take is the right pretext, properly delivered. Just like 911. Anyone who remembers the world before...
eric: Hi Blue, I sometimes feel like an alien sent here to observe… When I first heard about Twitter, my immediate reactions was:...
eric: Hi Handler, The jury is still out for me on this question. My niece is still very young. But you’re right. I would absolutely...
eric: Morning, Handler! I read an interesting study a few weeks ago about the psychologically addictive nature of cell phones and the...
The Handler: It’s no accident that smartphones are controlling people.
The Handler: You’d be better off leaving it to a stranger that actually appreciates the car. My parents decided not to leave my...

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