America’s eminently mockable Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, went on national TV on Tuesday to mock Americans who find that electric cars don’t suit their transportation needs. “Sometimes, when these debates happen,” the failed former mayor of South Bend, Ind. told Fox News, “I feel like it’s the early 2000s […]
The war on gas-powered vehicles continues. While the White House recently released new rules to phase out gas-powered vehicles by 2032, several states have gone further. Eight states plan to completely ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported. Who’s leading the charge, you might ask? Why, it’s California, […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida police are seeking the public’s help in finding a car stolen from an older couple who were found shot to death in their home. Fort Lauderdale Police on Thursday reissued an all-points bulletin for a red 2014 Ford Fusion that belonged to Major Melvin, 89, and his 87-year-old wife, Claudette, […]
Prison officials in Hawaii said an inmate was struck by a driver early Friday just minutes after the convict busted out of his cell. The Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Matthew J. Ornellas Jr., 33, was seriously injured when a driver hit him along Kuhio Highway in Kauai around 1:10 a.m. Friday. Officials […]
“Outlaw your car” sounds like such an outrageous phrase, and technically speaking, it isn’t true — but only barely. What practical difference is there between outlawing something, and regulating it out of existence? That’s exactly what the EPA intends to do this week with strict new rules going forward […]
One vehicle allowed authorities to connect the tragic deaths of two people separated by more than 1,500 miles. Otherwise — in a cosmic sense — the reason the two victims’ lives ended prematurely lay beyond human understanding. On Sunday, sheriff’s deputies in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, apprehended 33-year-old Jaremy Smith of South Carolina, wanted for […]
It has been said that Canadians are extremely polite, which, I suppose, is a good thing in the aggregate. On the other hand, one can be polite to the point that one surpasses “doormat” status, skips “victim,” and goes straight to “statistic.” The current statistics for auto theft in Toronto are not encouraging, but […]
A woman was killed in Dallas over the weekend after the car she was in was stolen at a gas station, then crashed while speeding about a mile away. The incident happened at about 12:50 a.m. Sunday, according to KXAS-TV in Fort Worth. Darion Thomas, 26, who has been charged with murder and theft in the […]
One poor, young British woman moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and became the victim of big city American crime. As reported in the New York Post, a British woman, 22-year-old Ellie Bentley, moved to St. Louis in 2023 to be with her then-boyfriend, soccer player Indiana Vassilev. She was exiting a car in front of […]
In a startling shift of direction, tech giant Apple is halting its much-discussed electric car initiative, signaling the end of a decade-long venture that has seen vast investment, according to multiple reports. Tuesday’s internal meeting revealed the change in strategy, with executives projecting potential layoffs and the redeployment of staff to burgeoning artificial intelligence projects, […]
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