As children we are indoctrinated with various ways of doing things that become the rules for our adult lives. Punishing everyone in a fight regardless of who was on offense or defense has been part of government school operations for 35 years or more. The school mentality of punishing everyone for the acts of a few is…

It’s tiny and light weight. As a generator it will be even smaller. That’s a big deal when there’s a huge battery pack. At a constant RPM some of the rotary issues might be mitigated. The goal of these generator hybrids is to run the engine at optimum and only at optimum.

PR could be the Hong Kong of the USA in its current state if those there wanted it to be. They aren’t robed of the responsibility of their own actions it is simply easier not to accept it while living in the consequences of them.

One of Trump’s few random utterances that was valid, perhaps the only one, was that the…

The government cracked down on that some years ago. It’s not like it used to be.

That’s to protect the motor. I would assume they would still use a simple brush electric motor regardless of the controls. If they are using a brushless motor then they are forced to have software control so the lack of multiple speeds becomes even more wanton laziness.

School... where people learn that collective punishment is how to deal with the actions of individuals.

My Ford Maverick has two speed wipers on a dash mounted knob. In 1977 there was a rare intermittent wiper option.

The problem with NAFTA and the other trade agreements is simply that they are called free trade and aren’t. The frame work of crony-globalist trade or tariffs is the controlled choice that is get us to embrace the former. Anyone who’s not an idiot knows that a tariff model is not a solution. At best tariffs are a…

Don’t be so sure there’s 3000lbs of it left and someone is willing to pay to take it away. Some guys I knew ended up cutting a car up into pieces and putting it in a dumpster because nobody would take it away without charging them. 

You’re assuming the value of that 13 year old VW isn’t negative.

I mentioned that. miles and miles of monocrop of grapes means eventually being far enough away from enough fuel for that process.

Exactly $0.00 appears to have been spent on tooling. This rivals the zero they spent on parts made using additive manufacturing processes (aka 3D printing).

There has to be fuel for that. After a few miles of vineyard land there shouldn’t be enough fuel to sustain the heat.

I could see that. It’s a vine and if the water content is high enough sparks won’t catch the plants on fire. They’ll be damaged of course but won’t ignite. Since its essentially a monocrop there won’t be other plants catching fire nearby to dry them out. I think the physics works provided the grape vines have a high…

You can’t have these sort of cars. The regulators forbid it. By the time they are redesigned to pass the requirements they’ll be like everything else.

That’s what I wrote, government employees and contractors. Not the contractors’ employees.

Highjackings simply became obsolete. The entire operation counts on passengers not getting together and attacking the highjackers. The passengers had to believe that if they sat in their seats and went along with it they wouldn’t be harmed. That perception ended in 2001. Since then if a highjacking begins every…

The security is very effective at its real purposes. In roughly the order of importance:

1) salaries for government employees and contractors.
2) Equipment purchases by government from connected companies.
3) Habituating the public to queuing and being searched.
4) Habituating the public to submission to authority.
5)…

What sort of idiot destroys the structural integrity of a unibody by replacing a roof panel for hail damage? So the roof has a few dents. Remove the trim and headliner, work them out as best as possible, fill what doesn’t with very small thin areas of an appropriate body filler and repaint.

Tell the body shop to do the estimate with you paying cash first. The body shops are often networked to the insurance companies. Once they have the info your claim process may be started. Also there may be different rates for the insurance companies vs. you paying cash. Could be higher or lower.