If governing agencies start caring more about this and hold companies honest, you can kiss the golden age of horsepower goodbye kiddies.

Jim Cooke please tell me you had the same feeling a Catholic artist would when being commissioned to paint the Pope engaging in any number of sins.

I’ve turned down job opportunities and relocation opportunities due to heat. I refuse to live in the southern US primarily due to heat.

I feel the exact opposite and could not disagree with this more. I want to fight you.

You definitely need to keep your heard on a swivel in there. But basketball and football have similar dangers, so I think among the big three it's a wash.

I respectfully disagree. Football is better at home. Basketball (for the casual fan) is better at home. Baseball is boring as crap (outside of October) but in person it’s a pretty neat, relaxed experience.

This is good advice. Also good advice is for axes, and tools in general: go to garage/estate sales and auctions. Tools can be had for dollars per crate, cheaper than Harbor Freight with much higher quality and innate charm and character that new tools cannot possess.

Chopped down a small tree in my front yard this summer, and I got a masterclass in how to sharpen an axe by failing to do it correctly more times than you think a modern adult with access to the internet would.

Live baseball, when you don’t have any pressing activities that day, is probably the only sport I’d attend in person with my family. Football is laughably out of the question (see: every one of Drew's WYTS from the past 5 years), basketball is too tied to rabid fanaticism for me (in that if you’re there, you really…

Regardless of the truth, I like to think my gasoline is growling out the screams of old dinosaurs as I accelerate. Knowing that it's plant material kills that visual.

Yeah, but can the paint handle this Brown Bear?

How many?

I'm not so sure, but you make a good argument.

I think my "or remotely as much" covers this possibility, though what quality those fuels would be at and how accessible they are is purely speculation (as opposed to this VERY serious and likely scenario we're discussing). I stand by my point.

Life finds a way...to power your new 4k monitor.

In HS football, one game a year there was a tournament mid-season held at the local major college dome (seats about 20K). The whole experience is pretty amazing for a HS player, especially one who knows he won't be playing beyond that level. You drive your bus into the friggen dome, disembark in a giant underground…

I sorta hate you now for making me pine for an experience I never knew existed.

In regards to the dino question, you’re forgetting one thing about modern technology: much of our energy stores are derived from petroleum or coal...which is just ground up old dinosaur and trees over long periods of time under intense pressure.

I’d feel confident saying that at every level of sport, baseball has the best player area. Even in Little League (or Rookies/Peewee’s if you’re from extreme flyover country) where it’s possibly just a chain link fence with no roof, it’s the best option among the alternatives.

Man, I was REALLY looking forward to your VW take. Now my Tuesday is a little less cheery (this was a good article though). Hopefully Drew's Funbag delivers.