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My father drove a 12 liter school bus It was the oldest in their fleet and had the most gears to shift through Owned Had a 7.3, a 6.2 and a 5.7 diesel His diesel pusher had an old black Cummins Gas we never had more than a 350

I’ve tried doing my business inside the coffee shop but they say the restroom is for employees only

And contrary to popular belief crime has mostly been falling, especially amongst younger Americans. It is expected in 10-20 years much of the prison population will be dead or aged out as the revolving door is almost all made up of a particular generation. Meaning many empty prisons . The...

Last 6 years or so the Toyota tax has gotten pretty bad though Bad situation them drop $30-$50k…

Lots of silver and copper in the UP. Canadian mining interests bought them out 40+ years ago then shut down as their domestic sources were cheaper to access and because of where the up is located and where the consumers of said minerals moved to, shipping no longer made sense. There are...

Brazil can give us raw gallium which also is of no help since the us consumes components with rare earths and minimal raw. We are a good 35 years separated from when we used primarily raw materials of any kind, and from what I can tell we have minimal ability to process and fab the raw earths...

Yep, mentioned this 3+ months ago and last year during the hoarding phase. There was lots of “activity” trying to outsource further down the hill but based on what I saw we don’t have legitimate and guaranteed sourcing for at least 4 of the rare earths. The lack of priority is being covered up...

Lots of cars with small displacement First Subaru sold the 1970 360, Honda N360 and the original Suzuki 4wd had 360cc engines Later Hondas were 600cc Saab 92/96 were small displacement 2 cycle cars Smart cars had small displacement Honda Insight Yugo Chevy Sprint, Suzuki Swift, Geo metro...

You know your the guy included in the rant about prime age men being a freeloader playing video games in their basement ? (Why I find that argument about 15 million prime age men “outside the workforce” as being considered all non-working freeloaders being laughable)

Isn’t treating the entire state as a uniform entity the same mistake made during the Great Recession? Naples was one of the first to drop rents and have vacancies increase significantly in 2008 even as values were going up in Florida the last time. There were areas that steadily inflated in...

Aren’t Florida and Texas where rent and housing costs are decreasing the fastest? (Aka properties are taking the longest to sell and loosing value the fastest) Based on the above it appears the areas with the highest losses are also the areas with the most inward migration. (From the map of the...

China is sort of like Nissan used to be long ago where they could build a car to any price no matter what the consequences are. Rust, broken handles, electrical gremlins from poor water seals, rapid sun aging are all part of for the coarse. They are better than they were but a lot of people...

Dry E10 helps remove water from the tank. In terms of cleaning it’s complicated, ethanol tends to draw in baddies as much as it cleans being a wash. Ethanol tends to foul oil faster if you have a car that dilutes oil