One of the most unconscionable things the government did during the pandemic was to impose “lock downs” — i.e., extended closures — on small, independently owned businesses while allowing large, corporate chain stores to remain open. Thousands of small, independently…
Traffic is the great equalizer in America. Whether you’re a Wall Street executive in a Cybertruck or a broke college kid in a fading hand-me-down, you’re stuck watching the same sea of brake lights flicker like cruel Morse code spelling…
President Trump says he wants to “go back, probably, to a 2020 standard” as regards federal mandatory miles-per-gallon edicts — the latter being the right word because it’s the honest word. A “standard” is an objective value of some kind, used…
An interesting story broke the other day about Hino Motors — a subsidiary of Toyota that makes commercial vehicles such as heavy trucks and diesel engines — “defrauding” the United States because its diesel engines “emitted” more than the regulatory…
Donald Trump wants to bring manufacturing jobs back to America, which he has said he’ll do if elected by imposing tariffs on goods such as vehicles made outside the United States. This, Trump believes, will negate the cost-of-labor savings of…
People old enough to remember the Before Time — i.e., the time when in most everyday matters, people who weren’t causing harm were generally free to do as they liked — know what it was like to be a parent…
The Biden administration proposed a ban Monday on Chinese software in vehicles, citing national security reasons. Despite the fact that Chinese technology is already in everyday use through smartphones and other technology, the administration hopes to use the ban to prevent…
The push to “electrify” everything that rolls is turning out to be a lot like the push to “vaccinate” everyone; both have turned out to have adverse effects. Volkswagen hasn’t died suddenly — but it is dying. Chief Financial Officer…
I don’t know why we take the car to be fixed if it’s always broken anyway. It obviously doesn’t work: It doesn’t fly, it doesn’t float, and rolling is a simple thing that troglodyte cars did many centuries ago. There…
