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eric - September 23, 2017

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Anonymous: It’s hard to believe an “Alaskan” gets so aggravated about pedalphiles when moose are a much greater road...
WFJacoby: >Angry that some people figured out a way to pay less taxes. >Doesn’t pay vehicle registration fee because taxes...
Mike in Boston: Hi Nunz – I really don’t get the obsession with mpg’s, it’s just one of many points to consider in purchasing a...
HHuuuuuugggssss: Prius get’s 40-50mpg. VW diesels git >50mpg. EVs are rated above 90mpge in general. So paying at the same rate...
Nunzio: I remember years ago when I used to see CR (Was it in the liberry..or maybe an ad for the rag?), and one of the headlines on the...
Nunzio: Jer, that seems to be the modus-operandi of that rag/org. Appliance repairmen will laugh at what CR says about appliances....
richb: Their electronics and appliance reviews suck too. They always downplay all the problems that the government regulations are...
richb: Least my electric company finally ditched the discount rate for electric for those electric cars at the end of 2018. Yup, us other...
Jeremy: Hey Nunz, I realized CR was bullshit when I read their bicycle reviews. It was clear that the reviewers were extremely ignorant...
Shotgun Chuck: If you mean in a literal sense, most of the tourists go home by the time it’s dark and you can avoid most of them by...
Nunzio: Chuck, It is an oxymoron to suggest that there are tourists, and yet that wide loads are not an issue! (Unless of course, those...
Shotgun Chuck: Not usually a problem where I live. Of all the “good driving roads” in this part of Alaska, the...
Shotgun Chuck: This is correct.
Anonymous: I think chuck was replying to bob 😉
ReadyKilowatt: Europeans complaining about US sales tax: https://travel.stackexchange.c om/questions/21469/why-are-...
Nunzio: Be faster to list the publications that DON’T buy into the current PC BS. Hmmm…that list would be empty.
Nunzio: Yeah, Ken- CR became so obsessed with MPGs in the late 70’s/early 80’s, that they’d trash all of the good big...
Nunzio: Damn no edit! “…to find the Three LittlePot-Bellied Pigs…..”
Nunzio: Hey Eric! Man, if only there were enough people who’d do that all at the same time…. [Notice I didn’t say...
Eightsouthman: Not much to say. I’m just steering and hope nothing breaks. Non-driver, 4 million miles in a lifetime of trucking...
Shotgun Chuck: Can’t believe y’all forgot Motor Trend. You know, the “car magazine” that actually lists CO2...
Eightsouthman: I take it you take exception to see me coming with a 20′ wide load weighing 50 tons. But there’s a bright side...
Shotgun Chuck: Ladies & gentlemen, I couldn’t possibly provide a better exhibit than this of the non-driver mentality. I...
Bin: Wonder how “Swedish” these cars are now with the foreign ownership? Do we have Swedish engineers and design still?
Shotgun Chuck: Thank you! You have no idea how much this comment lifted my spirits when I found it.
Eightsouthman: You’re gonna shit when you see a D7 pulling my tri-axle rig hauling tower equipment up that trail. You’ll be...
Eightsouthman: dread, I specify 94 and earlier. Got a local Ford used car dealership bugging me but I have replied time after time I want...
ken: I used to really like Popular Mechanics until they come out with that September 11 “Pancake Theory BS”. Stopped buying...
MikePizzo: Yeah, there are so many worthy contenders for this title. Personally, I’m going with Popular Mechanics due to their...
The Bobster: Sorry, but I don’t want your bloated behemoths on my hiking trails.
Chris: FWD based. No speed limiter. double NO doubt it will do well in the US. I feel bad for the buyers who take it on test drive, like...
Anonymous: They will spot it.. they’re trained to have the eyes of shit hawks. I took the same stand. Got by with it for almost...
Jonny: Might want to throw “The Economist” in there for shits and giggles..
eric: Hi Nunz! Yup; I just recently stopped paying one – the annual “registration” fee… just another tax....
Lance Ripplinger: EV’s are a scam. I’m not surprised to see CR shilling for EV’s. The morons there are a bunch of...
Nunzio: Wow…this just made me realize all of the taxes I’m paying when I fill the 44 gallon tank of my Excursion…....
Nunzio: C: All of the above?
Oskar: Hey Eric, check out your tax chart. Good old Pennsylvania, highest fuel taxes in the country. Oh, and the highest turnpike toll in...
MikePizzo: Here’s a quick quiz just for fun. Which magazine is the more whored out, globalist propaganda tool? A. “Consumer...
eric: Ditto, LJ! An EV would have to cost less up front than an otherwise similar non-EV, to make up for the EV’s shorter useful...
LJ: When they put an EV on the market that the “average” person can actually afford, then I’ll consider one. They also...
Jim Henshaw: The crash in EV sales in Denmark was 75% after two years without subsidies. One-fourth the sales volume was left.
Nunzio: Paul, Ya’d think I would have remembered the Expedition….considering that I drive an Excursion! Completely forgot...
Donnie Downer: I’m right there with you Chuck!
Johnnydoh: For this helmet stuff, you can blame the lawyers. Trust me, Mahindra is more scared of some jackass that puts a stick through...
dread pirate anonymous: Yeah, there’s still lots of old 4x4s for not too much money though there is a finite supply so I suppose...
Tom M: It’s the hunt for taxes, in this case fines (the same thing to any government) and the failure of courts to support the...
PaulTheCabDriver: Cost prohibitive? Bull. One can easily get into a Ford Expedition first generation for under $2000. And invariably the...
Eightsouthman: “one perfectly running Tahoe”
Eightsouthman: A friend had a really nice Tahoe. He was in Mexico and hit one of their “dog” deer, tiny little things. No...
dread pirate anonymous: We can get through okay with 4wd but you just bring a bunch of the county “road” home with you. That...
dread pirate anonymous: I had a pretty good system worked out. I hooked a come-along winch to the track and around the blade arm to some...
Eightsouthman: I never enjoyed mud bogging, just had to do it to work. I’ve had one pickup with two sets of wheels and tires, one...
Eightsouthman: Yeah, about 30 years ago I nearly bought a dozer and really needed it. I got a friend who knew more than I did and he...
dread pirate anonymous: I guess I’m just not enough of a redneck to enjoy mud bogging. A little bit of rain here and driving a mile...
eric: Hi Roland, I wrestled with this issue for a bit; then realized: Only the individuals actually responsible for wrong actions can be...
Roland: Thanks, Nunzio. As nearly as I’ve been able to determine, we are “99 percenters.” Other parts of the state were...
dread pirate anonymous: When I bought a Cat, I thought “hey great, no flats!” Then the tracks started flipping off the idler...
Nunzio: Don’t forget, Kent, that population has grown exponentially. Even just a few hundred years ago, it was MUCH less than it is...
Nunzio: ***”I’m well aware that if we don’t cough up the dough every year to fund schools for other people’s...
Roland: No, it’s not a “simple matter of history.” You are engaging in fanciful speculation; you don’t even know...
Shotgun Chuck: Well it would be a Porsche, when you think about it. They can all but double the base price of a car with overpriced...
Kent McManigal: Most (if not all) the habitable surface of the Earth has been stolen from one tribe/band after another tribe/band by the...
Vonu: The only kind of title which can be unencumbered is an allodial one, which you cannot buy or sell like the one you have. Very few...
Roland: Hi Vonu, No, my ancestors didn’t conquer anybody to get this land; they bought it. Perhaps my use of the verb...
Shotgun Chuck: It’s not just about me or “using the public way as a track”. It’s about the constant need to drive...
Eightsouthman: Oh those damn love bugs. Used to hit those about 60 miles from Houston. By Hempstead I’d be stopping to wash the...
eric: Amen, Roland… same here. As Nunz already pointed out, areas such as ours are largely free of government (vs. say NYC) in...
Vonu: His sole post indicates a rather poor comprehension “about anything else.” Apparently our bodies are not property to...
Ron: Great to encourage people to wash their car. As noted in earlier post, some areas do not allow car washing from a hose. Try Youtube...
Nasir: Here is an interesting one – shows what people really want: “The most profitable car launched in the past year was not...
Nunzio: Darn, 8, No wonder they’re always trying to use ‘zoning” to get rid of all them “compound” parks...
Eightsouthman: I was reading a couple days ago about psychedelics and the origins of over 6000 years ago. There was a long document with...
Nunzio: Amen, Roland! And what a beautiful thing, at that! I’m originally from the NYC area, where there is no lack [understatement...
Jason Flinders: Context is everything. The quotes in this case indicate use of Howard’s terminology and definition.
Craig Aldinger: I remember living out in the mountain west 30-some years ago, had a ’74 Chev 3/4 ton longbed 4×4 with a...
Shotgun Chuck: This reminds of me back in 2015 when I got a nasty speeding ticket and went to court to try to whine my way out of it. Two...
Eightsouthman: Nunz, you’re right. I wouldn’t do the gummint land thing for any price. State police and esp. Federal(game...
Vonu: Ownership requires conquest and I’m quite sure that your ancestors engaged in conquest to settle a farm that was without...
Vonu: Why would anyone intelligent enough to choose libertarianism expect something that does not exist (society) to leave them alone?
Roland: It appears Howard has left the building, but I can’t emphasize strongly enough how stupid the idea is that without a...
Vonu: Libertarianism requires statism to succeed in a statist environment.
Vonu: How can one accomplish anything for which one has no plan? Is a recipe not required to make something edible upon completion? Not...
Roland: Moreover, if the population is full of such savages, why aren’t they attacking me right now? Certainly not because the...
Vonu: Expecting others to do anything is too authoritarian to be libertarian.
Eightsouthman: My Bridgestone class E tires have tread/thin lugs on the sidewall. When you get into the really slick mud better have some...
Kent McManigal: Between chaos and order (both of which can be deadly) is balance: anarchy. But cowardly statists fear self-responsibility...
Eightsouthman: I’ve noticed that tractor tires have gone the same way of car tires and have an ever diminishing sidewall. I...
dread pirate anonymous: I was hearing something about ag equipment tires on our local radio station. With the on board...
dread pirate anonymous: I like my gas very dry, and shaken not stirred.
Nunzio: I was waiting for that, Eric! I needed it! Their coercive government must always control everyone, and extort everyone- no...
Zane: It’s what I’m telling my friends and family lately; there’s no point to speeding unless you got an out of state...
Nunzio: So you act like cyclists should be relegated to a velodrome, so you can use the public way like a track?
MikePizzo: Thanks Eric. That’s good to know in a “hypothetical” way. 🙂
Anonymous: I hear all too often, “People are not responsible or disciplined enough to rule themselves.” So I ask, “Who...
Jeremy: Morning Eric, Howard seems like many Statists who spout off on libertarianism while knowing nothing of it but the ridiculous...
eric: Howard, Libertarians don’t expect “society” – that is, other people – to pay their bills … for...
eric: Howard, Most of us manage to interact with one another peacefully – and voluntarily. Your premise is that most people are...
eric: Hi Howard, You make an number of unsupported assertions – and presume to speak for others, who may not agree with you. What...
Eightsouthman: The cop mindset with all the gadgets is indicative of what they value most. If they were interested in public safety...

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