I have a car. Millions of citizens do. I don’t use it to kill little old ladies, nor do I drive into IRS buildings or run over squirrels. Not even cats. Because of this noise pollution thing, I don’t even…
It just keeps getting worse around the subject of oil and gas and hydrocarbons and inflation and taxes and money. The current painful rate of inflation started not with Comrade Putin’s inexcusable invasion of Ukraine. It started on January 21,…
President Biden took a victory lap in his war on fossil fuels during his recent trip to Tokyo. He told a Japanese audience that the high U.S. gas prices largely created by his administration are a tremendous shift away from…
The DeLorean isn’t coming back. And Mr. Fusion was never here. The car that was the star of the Back to the Future movies was a stainless-steel-bodied gull-wing coupe designed by John DeLorean, a former GM engineer and executive who was among those responsible…
A long time ago, Hot Rod magazine — paper and all — published an article called “Caddy Hack.” It was not about web hackers. It was about taking panels off. They did that to see how quickly an otherwise completely stock…
Never mind the plethora of sound, objective reasons for not wanting an electric car. These have been elaborated at length many times previously. I just don’t want an electric car. For purely emotional, entirely subjective reasons. I cannot understand why anyone would want…
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that all new cars that aren’t electric must average 55 miles per gallon by 2026. This amounts to a Great Leap Forward of almost 20 miles per gallon from the currently ordered 36 miles…
Expansive definitions of infrastructure have become a running gag on the internet, but credulity-straining inclusions in the $1 trillion bill like an Amtrak vaping ban shouldn’t blind us to the imprudence of federal spending on some of the things that fit the definition of infrastructure well….