The War on Cars… Parked and Otherwise
If you are a car person - or just want to be able to park your car in your own damned driveway - be sure you read the fine print before...
The Bio-fuels Boondoggle
If something's desirable it ought not to be necessary to force people to buy it.
Chipotle, for instance, doesn't need to spend millions in de facto bribes ("campaign contributions") to wheedle Congress...
What’s The Carbon Footprint of The PopeMobile?
The Pope, it's said, wears Prada.
And travels by Mercedes, too.
But apparently, he'd prefer you (and millions of other ordinary human beings) not.
Because "global warming."
Er... make that "climate change."
The new - more...
They’re All Government Motors Now
GM gets ribbed a lot (and rightly so) for being "government motors" ... having accepted (no, demanded) enormous sums of taxpayer money in order to avoid bankruptcy. The bailouts were the corporate equivalent of...
Hacked
Well, I told ya so.
First they hacked the Google car. Now, it appears, they - "they" being hackers - could, in principle at least, take over half-a-million Jeeps (and other Fiat-Chrysler...
Why Punish People for “Speeding”?
Why should anyone be subject to punishment merely for driving "x" speed? Is it not of a piece with punishing someone for merely consuming alcohol?
The justification usually given is that "speeding"...
Will The Bandit (And General Lee) Be Outlawed Next?
There is a very good reason why the Confederate flag is under attack. It is because it is the rebel flag. The flag of resistance, of (as columnist Fred Reed so neatly...
Our Muskian and Google-ized Future
No sane person "hates" - as I have been accused of "hating"- electric cars or self-driving cars or air bags or any other technology or device. Hating them is as irrational as...
Bad Karma
What if you build it - and they don't come?
Send the bill to the taxpayers!
Twice.
This is how you make money in the New America. Well, the green America.
Don't earn it.
Steal it.
The...
Changing of Our Guards
This weekend we celebrate the changing of our guard.
Which, when you stop to think about it, is more than a little odd. Do the inmates of Rikers Island throw a party...