POLITICAL: Voting is the problem

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/02/05/what-if-epstein-is-about-something-worse/

What if Epstein is About Something Worse?

By
Eric Peters  –
February 5, 2026

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As has been observed, if voting constituted a meaningful threat to politicians it would not be allowed. Stalin allowed people to vote. It was meaningless then. It is meaningless now – because your vote to be left alone is meaningless. It will only have meaning when your right to be left alone cannot be voted away. And that will only happen when people – most people, at least – decide they do not want to be gangsters themselves. This will take some soul searching. They will have to come face-to-face with the ugliness many – most of them – wish to pretend they’re not part of. The ugliness of violence. Of taking what is not theirs – by voting to have someone else threaten other people with violence to get what isn’t theirs.

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“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.” — Emma Goldman ― often incorrectly attributed to American humorist Mark Twain ― but very very true imho!

Walter Block’s Libertarian Voting Rule is that in close races you vote for the major party candidate that is less evil. In races that aren’t close, you cast a protest vote for the Libertarian Party candidate. https://buff.ly/2GFxxPl

I’m beginning to think that all those who refuse to vote have the correct strategy.

Not that, by ignoring it, the gang that calls itself Gooferment will just go away.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), they can never ever claim a “mandate” since half the population just stays home.

I think that the Walter Block strategy, that I’ve been following, isn’t getting me a better life.  If anything, it’s getting worse. 

Short of another Civil War, I don’t see how we are going to get back to the Dead Old White Guys’ vision of liberty.  Sound money, no taxes, and rugged individualism.  

No robbing Peter to bribe Paul to vote.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: 235 MPG diesel didn’t fit the “green” electric car narrative, so it was killed!

Saturday, July 27, 2019

2019-Jul-27

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2019/07/24/the-car-that-almost-was/

The Car That Almost Was
By eric – July 24, 20194345

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In the department of What Might Have Been, we find a car almost no one who isn’t a car industry insider has ever heard of – but which very nearly was.

You haven’t heard of it for good reason.

Well, good reason . . . from the point of view of other insiders. The ones inside the government.

It is a car VW briefly brought out to show what could be done – and just as quickly withdrew. Probably because it showed what could be done.

This car was powered by a 1 liter diesel engine and achieved a verified 170 miles-per-gallon. With its hybrid drive engaged, the mileage rose to an incredible 235 MPG. Put another way, on about two gallons of diesel, this VW could go almost 500 miles before it needed more diesel. And it would only need two more gallons to travel another almost 500 miles.

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Eric Peters goes into detail about the 22k$ “commuter car” and how it would have disrupted the “then-nascent electrification putsch”!

Clearly, anyone, of any age, remembers that Detroit, aka Big Three Auto, back in the 50’s and 60’s was accused of buying up inventions that would make higher mileage engines. That might have been an “urban legend” or a “Conspiracy Theory”, but it is another WMHB (“What Might Have Been”).  I know my long passed uncles believed it.  

And, I guess the automakers have found a cheaper way to eliminate competition, like good Crony Capitalists, they encourage more Gooferment regulation! Argh!

Now Nissan has allegedly gone broke on building “electric cars” and I see more “electric pumping stations” being built.  I wonder who is subsidizing them with tax dollars.

Last time, I looked at buying a electric car, the price was joke — even with the Gooferment subsidy —  and the range and recharge time was even more laughable.

I’ve also read that the calculation of total emissions around an electric car completely ignores the solution from mining and building one.  And, that it barely beats current gas engine cars.  That’s why the Gooferment want to consider CO2 as an “emission”.

Bottom line: Once again, “We, The Sheeple” are being screwed again by, those people Tom Woods sarcastically calla “Our Wise Overlords”, politicians and bureaucrats!

Argh!

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