People criticizing Time magazine for naming billionaire Elon Musk 2021’s person of the year need a reality check. Do we really want to discourage applause for the man who is at the forefront of global innovation? Since Time’s announcement, social…
Sacramento — My opinion of electric vehicles and other electrified machinery is — to excuse the pun — neutral. They offer advantages and disadvantages over items powered by internal-combustion engines. As consumers, we have the common-sense ability to weigh the…
Electric cars have trouble maintaining momentum for very long, but at least when they run out of range, you just stop. In an electric airplane, you drop. It seems like a really bad idea, yet it’s one United Airlines reportedly just…
Convenience stores are about … convenience. People go there chiefly in order to get out of there, and quickly. Otherwise they’d go someplace else. That’s why they’re willing to pay more for a bag of chips and a six-pack than…
Before the November election, candidate Joe Biden’s campaign let it be known that the Democratic nominee would part ways with environmental activists by supporting mining in the United States for technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Unnamed sources from Team…
Who gets the blame when the government knowingly allows the public roads to be used as a test track for dangerous technologies? That’s the question the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) should be asking itself as it “probes” the self-crashing…
President Joe Biden’s new spending plan amps up rhetoric on national competition with China, maintaining the confrontational approach established by the previous administration. But whereas the 45th president championed what he called American energy dominance as a key element of…
Ralph Nader is still peddling regulations for “safe” transportation. Does he not know what he’s talking about, or is he too ancient to care about the effects of the policies he’s promoting? The 86-year-old “consumer safety advocate” wants to force…
Huey Long promised a chicken in every pot — to be paid for by “the rich,” whose incomes would be confiscated to pay for it. Joe Biden, channeling AOC through his eyes-wide-vacant and piano-key smile — wants an electric car…
