Full Service is Back . . . If Uncle Allows it
Maybe you remember full-service gas stations.
Not like in New Jersey today. Where - by law - you ‘re forced to wait for a lout...
Why I Like The Donald and May Even Vote for Him
Voting amounts to answering that question about whether you’ve stopped beating your wife.
There’s no winning. Best to keep your mouth shut.
But - god help...
Uncle’s Roads…
When you’re a Libertarian, you get challenged a lot to conjure what things would be like absent Uncle’s interventions.
For example, roads.
The contra argument -...
The Crony Capitalist King
If Elon Musk’s various projects are so Iron Man fabulous, why do they all need so much government “help”? Shouldn’t Tesla - and Solar...
The Crush
Hidden in VW’s announcement yesterday that it was “setting aside” nearly $9 billion to buy back - and destroy - about half a million...
Tax-by-Mile and the End of Civilized Society
Most people don’t go gray overnight; it is a gradual process. But one day, you wake up, look in the mirror and… you’re hair...
Agencies and Apparatchiks
Why is the government even involved in dictating “safety” standards for new cars?
Did the EPA ever get put to a vote?
These are legitimate questions....
Why The Hard-Sell For the “Self-Driving” Car?
Why the hard-sell for self-driving cars?
Yesterday, Ford and Volvo announced they are forming a “coaliton” - along with Google - to push not only...
Five Months In…
It is almost halfway through 2016 and - still - no (new) diesels for you.
Not from VW, at any rate.
Uncle has still not given...
People as Poultry
We live in a lunatic asylum ... the lunatics being us.
For believing we ever lived in a "free" country. As long ago as the...