I did have one NJ cop pull me over for the crime of “you were not in nice enough car for this town and you looked like you went through that yellow to get away from me”. He was half my age. Then told me my Ohio plate looked like it was a doctored diplomatic plate (newsflash: both were red white and blue, the only…

Honestly, my worst experiences were never with cops (although traffic cams suck at times). My worst experiences were with parking.

Trump attracts voters as he has so far been so good at his grift. (Though tbh, that is debatable.) Santos though is a real threat to the GOP vote, as polls have clearly shown. That’s the difference...and it’s the only difference.

What the ATC guy is referring to is the fact that Austin did not and I believe STILL does not have ground tracking radar—that is, it cannot track the planes on the ground. Many airports do in fact have this equipment. Couple this with the fact that the control tower was understaffed and that this particular person was…

Um, I’ll give it to you that you noted one of his earliest lies, but no you had nothing to do with him getting expelled.  In truth, a complacent media failed to get stories out there before he was elected in the first place. 

EV nav systems will pop up nearest charging stations regardless of location. On one hand, you are correct, if you can charge at your destination, you’ll do that. But when you are on the road/on longer trips, you’ll take whatever you can get and what comes up close to you on that nav page, and that’s going to be the…

This is especially true when you factor in that buying new, often with dealer financing and good credit, can get you below market interest rates on the loan, which is basically a form of free or discounted money.  That said, Jalop doesn’t always recommend buying used.  They’ve clarified that over the last few years as…

Bummer.   I can see walking away from the pump, but sitting in the car seems not so bad esp for biting cold and someone who is older, etc. 

Everything I found points back to the one link you just sent, which points to zero actual case data. Show me a peer reviewed paper and I’ll take it seriously. Even their own next bullet point is “in the unlikely event of a static discharge”... yeah, that’s because it’s never happened. Truly if it were that easy, we’d…

Where did you see a Power Wagon on tv? Also. glad you omitted a certain vehicle from Hazard county. Despite it being a fine vehicle, it had its “issues” and I generally hate how many people worshiped that particular show.

But you know, for a time, I wish I had the semi from BJ and the Bear!

I’d seen a lot of cool cars but when I was in college I lived overseas for a bit and met a guy who had a 1959 Austin Healey 100-6 that he had lovingly restored over years and upfitted the engine with a few components including the bigger tri-carbs found in the 3000. It was the first time I was mesmerized by a car and…

I think about 70% of drivers don’t know what that little triangle next to the gas pump symbol on their dash is for.  Honestly, I didn’t until I was in my 20s. 

Personally, I vote for those 70s cars that had the gas cap behind the rear license plate!   I’m sure some safety reg ruined everything for us.  

I did not know this.   I wonder if this is true in any other states.  I don’t live near CA but if I’m ever there I’ll try to keep it in mind. 

When I see the truck boys at the pump I sometimes lean over to see when they hit triple digits filling it up, or when they are counting off a specific amount because they can’t afford to fill it up.
NYTimes had an article several years ago about how an F-150 or 250 as a daily driver could easily, with regular fill-ups…

Oh, but now many stations give you the option of non-recyclable plastic gloves that you can use and then have blow around in the wind all over the place when you’re done!

I tried this once, I didn’t like that the hose which was pretty dirty, was dragging across my car’s paint. So unless I’m in a car where I can get the hose around without going over the car, I generally avoid this. In my minivan this is impossible.   Costco stations have a diagram where the hose magically “flies” over…

I should point out that in a few states, like New Jersey, Costco allowed you to buy gas without a membership because of some weird rules there. Then they blocked it, but there’s legislation discussed to force it.  So sometimes you get someone from places like that and they show up in say, Ohio, and they are surprised…

That is a problem when you are filling up a gas can.   But you are not carrying a gas hose into your car when you are getting in and out to wait.   Until you can show me specific circumstances where this scenario has been proven to be a hazard, I’m calling BS on this scenario.   Otherwise there’d be a sign that said…

Do you want to know what happened? What I’m saying is absolutely true... during the Great Recession a senator in a congressional hearing made a comment about how no matter how much gas prices rise, premium is always just a fixed number of cents higher than regular. They were trying to prove that gas pricing made no…