I like the adjust-ability of modern electric seats, however after the initial “settle-in” period I never touch the seats again. Personally, I would be fine with the weight savings of manual seats, so long as they gave me all the minutia of adjustments. My biggest beef is with the plethora of pleather seats on…

The Hyundai taking the top spot in least recalls doesn’t surprise me as I rent a lot Accents and Sonatas and I’m always amazed at how well they withstand rental abuse compared to other brands.

Are we excluding the possibility of auto-correct? I don’t like the guy or the updates to the iPhone’s autocorrect, which seem worse than it was 5 years ago.

So a German royal married an American commoner and drove off in a British electric replica... seems fitting.

I was looking through Subaru’s optional accessory list and they give Porsche a run for the money on being insanely overpriced. Just quickly googling some of them, I didn’t find one (other than the roof rack) that couldn’t be purchased for 50% less on Amazon (often Subaru OEM to boot). For instance $204 for option…

The lack of champagne flute holders, make this a no go for me. If my driver is a little too generous with his application of gas or brake, my champagne might splash all over my vintage Sega Saturn. Replacing that Saturn is almost as difficult as disposing former driver’s bodies and I’m done with the hassle of having…

{This is a drastic oversimplification sans tech babble} Not all oil is the same. The US oil market is dominated by a type of oil that is very pure and contains far fewer impurities than many other country’s oil. Due to this, the US oil sells on the open market at premium versus other oil, with a lot of sold…

Either way works, my laughter is tinged with both manic and mania.

Not to mention the World’s lack of action regarding Russia taking over pipelines and encroaching on neighboring country’s sovereignty so they can control the flow. There is a lot more going on in the world than what gets reported in the general news. This was going on long before Trump and I’m not sure Putin would…

There is a big issue in financing drill, baby drill right now. For the companies that underwrite those loans and to justify the cost of that investment, $90+ is needed for them to touch those investments again.

The easiest way is start looking at the investment trend in oil exploration and extraction, compared to historical production levels and rates. This gives a baseline to start creating a model for what is needed to keep up with the demand trendline. You also need to have some information on types of oil that is in…

Yes the Internet is full of us nutter butters. My favorite people are the ones who just go off on something you posted because they didn’t read/understand your post, so they think you are representing something you are not. My second favorite are the highly opinionated, but with no technical knowledge. I’m not one of…

On one hand this is horrible. On the other hand, I made a calculation earlier this year that oil might peak over $100/barrel this year and $150 in two years based on a wide variety of factors relating to global supply, demand for sweet crude, cost of shale (too long to bother going into), on an investing forum. To…

Considering how TSA reacted the last time I wore a sweater hoody through the scanner, you would have thought it was made out of lead. It wasn’t... it was cashmere, but those philistines made me pull off my sweater and go through in a spanx t-shirt... I was mortified. I can only imagine if I rolled up Joey style.

The “unpainted” wheel well arches on Crossover/SUVs

In cycling Coke (the drink) has long been the mythical cure all. To the point, I was watching the Giro and after a really nasty crash that resulted in broken bones, the team race director jumped out of the car asked the rider if he could go on, to which the rider was like ‘hell no’... so the race director went back to…

That’s kind of depressing to think about, I mean know it’s for the best... the little ones are kinda cute, even if the big ones hiss and bite.

Possum max velocity: 4mph
Groundhog max velocity: 1.86mph
Need calculations for the amount of fluid in each, but I think Possum’s might be more viscous.

I’m guessing he assumed rabies, but if you’re going to shoot an animal, shoot it dead. You don’t holster your weapon after one shot if you assume rabies.

That’s probably true, I wasn’t really contemplating their place in the food chain at the time. I just saw a freaked out animal and her young. I advocate the hunting of wild pigs (another invasive animal with an out of control population due humans killing off predators)... plus they are tasty.