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Crusty Old TV Tech: Be glad Elon at least listened to some of the old timers advice, and did not do his initial tank pressurization test...
Crusty Old TV Tech: My father showed us boys how to torque the lugs on a Dodge Dart long, long ago…lubricate, cross-tighten, use a...
Todd: I know we don’t need more laws, but perhaps we need one more: it is illegal for cities who are sued and either lose or settle the...
Crusty Old TV Tech: Check the owner’s manual for the manufacturer’s recommendation for that engine, in that model year car....
Crusty Old TV Tech: At least in the Charger 2.2’s case, it eventually became the Omni GLHS, and started blowing V8 Mustangs and...
Michael Price: Remember that the only reason atom bombs are a problem is because the State believed someone else was developing them....
Clover George: “Why call another car Mustang if you’re not planning on retiring the Mustang?” They are trying to launch a...
ReadyKilowatt: LOL. How about a “tarted up nation?”
FoolAndMoney404: Eric, I was looking forward to your take on this damn abomination, and I was not disappointed. Keep up the good work.
Nunzio: 8, it would be interesting to see how people might again embrace and love freedom if they ever got a taste of it. I think of...
Nunzio: Vonu, I love Wyoming- if it weren’t for the cold/snow, I may’ve gone there instead of KY- but I think we actually...
Amy: I’m planning to get a new Mustang this year, a real one with the biiiiig engine. I figure it will be my last one. I’ll...
Crusty Old TV Tech: Not the “E-Vic”, rather the “Vic-E”…femi nized like the name. Oh yeah, that is a good...
thoughtcriminal2084: How germane: https://twitter.com/GarbyJooma n/status/1197228952047124480/p hoto/1 Opinion: Ford v Ferrari depicts a...
Eightsouthman: Anon, in a libertarian world they would get nowhere. You can’t create an overnight authoritarian tyranny and as...
Vonu: I’m not sure where “gun country” is, but the customer would be told “Welcome to (either) Wyoming (or)...
Nunzio: Ah! Thanks for the clarification Jeremy! I would tend to disagree though. Have you ever dealt with private security guards? :)...
ken: $50,000 for this POS. In 5-6 years the battery will be at half power making your 7 year investment a money pit. How many moron...
Nunzio: Hehe, yes, ironically, Jeremy, this is one of the few threads where even I actually seem to be “on topic” for a...
Nunzio: AARRGGGHhhh! “Imagine if the .357 in MY pocket….”
Nunzio: So true, Robert! Imagine if the .357 in pocket “prints” in the presence of one of those ‘tards?! And...
The Handler: Apparently, this was Jim Farley’s idea and the Steelcase guy embraced it. Bill Ford and the car guys (engineers) were...
swamprat: Well, we will see what the car enthusiasts and the public at large do about this. I am not entirely sure that people are going...
Nunzio: Mirrors my reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=R4FfNYjw6qU 😀
Jeremy: Hi Muggles, “Eric’s column isn’t the right place to debate the finer points of libertarian self defense theory.” Why...
MikeC: I have done many 0-to-60 runs in my friend’s Tesla Model S P95D and while it is impressive, it’s never what I would...
Jeremy: Hi Jason, Yes, and absent the State, which either criminalizes or regulates them to death, many more would likely form. But, they...
Prof Walter Block: this isn’t spam: https://www.lewrockwell.com/lr c-blog/speeding-atom-bombs-and -the-nap/
Jeremy: Hey Nunz, I know that you’re not advocating for the State, God forbid! Just that your claim, “there would be just as much...
Robert: Agreed, Nunzio and Vonu. In a crazy society like ours, where “hate” is a crime and feelings matter more than actions...
Eric: Another angle to this is “when car guys don’t make cars”. One of the things that made Detroit products great in...
Anonymous: “How about the 66 Starlink….” A good day? WYP?
Vonu: It doesn’t matter if you believe that the planes were hijacked if you believe NIST’s completely fallacious story about...
bluegrey6124: “You can’t get this without that, but you can’t get that that with this”, would be such a turn-off, I’d just give up!...
Robert: I’d have been amazed if that thing *had* made it off the ground. It looked like a section of galvanized ventilation pipe...
Jason Flinders: Jeremy, a real-life example re private defense organizations is the Guardian Angels, in New York and other major cities.
Douglas Self: It was far less “ghetto” for goddamned sure!
Eightsouthman: Tx, the land of cheap land prices, no state taxes and the best place for commie fools from yankeeland and Ca. move to live...
Eightsouthman: SP, the federal govt. started shoving immigrants down our throats long ago, right after Vietnam. I had seen the same thing...
Nunzio: Hi Jeremy, Oh, I don’t think you read my post to which you are replying carefully enough. I wasn’t advocating for the...
Nunzio: Mugsy, Vonu just said most of what I wanted to say- for which I am thankful, as he did so likely much more efficiently than I...
Anonymous: Most all accidents are “alcohol related” these days because there is alcohol in the gas tank – LOL (yeah, I...
Jeremy: Hi Nunz, You’re applying Statist thinking to address a theoretical possibility. State enforcers are largely immune from...
Nunzio: “Technical specification of zero” Now I know why my 7th-grade math teacher- one Martin Fartin’ Hart- used to...
brazos_bend: You have to believe the State’s story that any planes were hijacked on 9/11 to begin with.
Bin: I remember when I was 9 years old or so and my favorite car was the Dukes of Hazzard Charger, then I started seeing these little...
brazos_bend: Regulatory capture is also part of that notion. Mega Corp and its lobbyists write a law and pass it to Loser Congressman B....
Nunzio: “And dat’s the name of dat tune”. -Robert Blake 😀
brazos_bend: Funny story, I had an accident at work in my personal vehicle going 0 mph. I was exiting a gate and the gate arm came down...
Spazatron5000: ReadyKilowatt, I’m glad to see others think the same about Hong Kong. I’m certain there is concern amongst...
Jeremy: Hi Vonu, Nothing, except many people don’t understand that the economy encompasses more than mere trade. Thus, I find free...
brazos_bend: No big innovation or change takes place by these people unless it is agreed to by uncle scam. They have shareholders to...
Spazatron5000: My stepfather lived in Las Vegas when the mob ran it in the early ’80s, and again in the early ’00s after the...
Vonu: While I’m curious where you could possibly have come up with such a specious understanding of menacing, I’ll just leave...
MikePizzo: Groovy! When Ford decides to introduce a sporty, two-seater electro cart, they can call it The “Thunderbird.” And...
richb: There is so much rampant dishonesty when it comes to so many “facts” now a days. Another car related one is...
Muggles: Eric’s column isn’t the right place to debate the finer points of libertarian self defense theory. He can choose to...
Chris: Eric, if you are right, then I am absolutely convinced that the these car Corporations absolutely have gotten in bed with the...
Vonu: Jeremy, What is the difference between a free market economy and a free market society?
Vonu: The distance between good enough and good enough might be a good technical specification of zero.
Jeremy: Hi Vonu, Yes, there are glimpses of how a truly free market society would function. The not so wild West is a good example of a...
Jazzy-Jasmine: Sorry I didn’t mean to send that twice .
Vonu: Uncle didn’t run the plant. That was done by Dow and then Rockwell. DOE’s biggest mistake was giving away their...
Jazzy-Jasmine: ” Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s ” William Blake
Jasmine: ” Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s ” William Blake
Vonu: Is a rouge nation just a well-made up rogue nation?
Douglas Self: Ah, nostalgia of the “olden days” (1960s to the late 1970s), when almost every driveway in Suburbia had at...
Vonu: If our system of law limits liability, why do insurance companies still refuse to insure nuclear power plants?
Vonu: I doubt he was anywhere near the event. How about the 66 Starlink satellites that were placed in orbit about the same time?
Douglas Self: The Rocky Flats fisaco was one of the biggest DOE fuckups, ever, if not their worst. Because of it, the Navy had to make do...
Vonu: Why would anyone bother with plutonium with tons of depleted uranium just laying around the middle east? Of course, there is the...
Douglas Self: Eric, this entire “well, should Joe Six-Pack have his own NUKE” is a complete red herring argument if one ever...
Vonu: I guess we will have to assume from your last paragraph that you believe that a “9/11 style hijacking” would be...
Vonu: It wouldn’t take that long.
Vonu: I don’t suppose anyone has bothered to visit the website voluntaryist.com
Vonu: Dictionaries are not written by statists. They are written by lexicographers. The purpose of a dictionary is to explain what the...
Anonymous: My only problem with anarchy is that if we had complete anarchy tonight, by ten o’clock tomorrow morning some folks...
Nunzio: Preaching to the choir, 8. I don’t even know what to call myself anymore, ’cause the media has so perverted any and...
Anonymous: OOOOPPPSS! BOOM! https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=3nTSubYzQOM Elon not having a good day.
dirtybobbastard: 2001 chevy (what) car? some of the gm pass. cars from that era had too much rear brake bias but they used the abs to...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, the “statists” that write dictionaries have tried to turn anarchy into a thing it never was, i.e., chaos...
Eightsouthman: From the frying pan, into the fire. I’ve run many company Ram trucks that had horrible electrical problems. A few of...
Vonu: Jeremy, It is quite possible to know what things would be like in a truly free market economy. Simply look to the first decade of...
MarkyMark: TX, land of the FORCED blood draws…
Eightsouthman: eric, the FedEx plane that went down with a load of Samsung batteries disappeared down the memory hole nearly instantly....
Nunzio: Well-said, Ross! In order for a true Libertarian society to exist, the emphasis must be on the individual, family, and community-...
Ernie: There are some ABS systems ( late 80’s early 90’s Cadillacs, and some early 90’s GM pickups that I know of)...
swamprat: I have often thought about what cars would be like if there was no CAFE, no NHTSA and no EPA. They would likely be dirtier,...
Eightsouthman: Rik, LeMay should know. I’m sure he included himself in the fray. You won’t see it in “official”...
swamprat: The ABS light is akin to the tire pressure monitoring light except it is easier to turn off. Both systems are superfluous. Both...
Tom M: Government psychopaths. Is that the same government that says you owe taxes on money that in the same breath they say you do not...
brazos_bend: WIX and Mobil1 filters are supposedly the best you can get. As eric said, don’t go cheap on those. You might check...
ken: Paying for other peoples crimes (and this was a crime),,, the new American Justus system. This will continue until those responsible...
Jeremy: Ross, The Mafia is not a PDO, Blackwater is not a private company in any meaningful sense, society is a meaningless abstraction;...
Jason Flinders: The Mafia is less violent, less corrupt, and has considerably less blood on its hands than the State.
ReadyKilowatt: Ok, now instead of it being your neighbor, how about a “rouge nation?” Venezuela comes to mind. They go off...
ReadyKilowatt: I’m pretty sure flight crews are trained to capitulate to the hijacker demands, keep the passengers sedate and let...
Bluesman: As for laws…Good people don’t need them and bad people don’t obey them. -Plato (maybe)
Ross: We’ve already seen PDOs in action: they’re called gangs or Mafia families. The notion that private enterprises that are...
The Handler: That’s exciting news, Eric! You speak well for yourself. Not to mention you think in practical terms. Easy demolition!...

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