Recent content by Mr. Coffee

Aren't you effectively supporting the ayatollahs if you are driving a gas car? And if higher gas prices are "worth it" to keep Iran from having a nuclear weapon, one would think driving EVs and not buying gas at all would in theory be even better. But I guess I don't understand the "logic" here.

I am seeing several things right now: 1. EVs don't stay on the lot. They are sold as soon as they show up and often someone has already put a deposit on them sight unseen. 2. In early 2026 (pre-war) most dealers offered rebates of as much as $7500. Not anymore. 3. Used EVs, especially at...

No, it is all about perceived supply chain and infrastructure risk. There are four places in the world where most crude oil is refined into things we can use. China, the Untied States, Russia, and around the Persian Gulf. Two of those are currently war zones. The remaining two are, for the...

But the reality is that it will take years and billions and billions of capital investment before the additional Venezuelan product is available here.

I find comfort in the fact that so many of those oversized and noisy pickup trucks will be driveway queens in the coming months. Monster truxx are e-motos for people with more money.

If the Rushka drone would have hit a different train at the Polish border last week, NATO would already be at war with Russia. And by "different train" I mean the one right beside the one they hit.

Also back on topic. The Canadians know how to build trucks. And this truck is a hybrid: https://edisonmotors.ca/trucks/semi/

GMC sure is winning lately: "what happens to new cars nobody buys?"

The problem with that, as I see it, is that the best recent historical examples you can give (Russia and Turkey) the federal government started out with a lot more power and force available to it (in proportion to the size of the country) than the United States has even today. And then there...

If you look at it from ten kilometers up you might perceive that. But when you look at most local government situations around the Untied States they are seriously messed up and often corrupt as well. The overall problem is that a government that appeared to be enlightened by 18th and 19th...

I am doubtful that such an outcome would be at all stable. The federal government does not have sufficient forces available to it to control the population unless that population wants to be controlled. And you might notice that some of those forces are a bit busy in the moment and that...