If They Want Your Money . . .
There is always a catch.
You may have heard about Attorney General Eric Holder's recent announcement that states would no longer be able to cite federal asset forfeiture laws to snatch people's...
Tax Per Mile Cometh!
Oregon - home of things uber trendy - has become the first state to begin dunning motorists by the mile rather than by the gallon.
The "pilot" program begins July 1 —...
Back Door For “Real” ID
You may have thought - hoped - you could dodge the creepy "real" ID driver's license the feds have been pushing since the terrorists who hate us for our freedoms gave...
Why Are Today’s Diesels Only So-So Economical . . . and So Expensive?
There's something weird and cruel about the fact that diesel engines are - for the most part - for the affluent-only. You'd think it'd be the reverse.
And it is ... in...
Equal Time For Tesla?
Will I, as an online car colonoscopist, be forced by the FCC to give "equal time" to people outraged by my doubleplusungood articles about Tesla and electric cars generally? Will men...
Blame Nixon
The American automobile industry has loved Uncle long time now. But it was not always so - at least, not to the extent we've come to accept as normal. There was a...
The Fumes of the Founding
Most people are not liberty-inclined.
Not anymore.
America has become a nation of, by and for control freaks - populated by the people I style Clovers. If they don't like something, if they want something,...
Machine Gunning a Tesla
There is an episode of the TV show Top Gear involving a Prius hybrid and automatic weapons. God, I wish I could afford to do the same to a Tesla.
Unfortunately, I...
How Much Power Do You Need?
Not much, it turns out.
60 horsepower - about what a circa 1984 Aries K car's engine produced - is sufficient for A to B getting there and back. More is certainly nice -...
“No Idle” Zones… and Auto Stop/Start
Have you heard about "no idling" zones? Places where it is verboten (and punishable) to leave your car's engine running?
Sounds silly, I know. And it is silly - because it's not 1970. The...