Cars We Might Be Able To Buy
There is no such thing as a free market. Not in the United States, at any rate. You are free to buy what they (the people who comprise the apparat of...
Live Agent Connectivity
Things necessarily begin somewhere.
Usually, that somewhere is a backwater of some kind; only a few people are involved and the majority either are unaware it's happening at all or they don't...
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...