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Many traffic safety experts say that talking – or doing anything – while driving is unsafe. Does that include your car talking to the traffic lights?? Audi is sponsoring a project called ‘Travolution’ in its home town of Ingolstadt, Germany. 46 traffic lights are ‘smart lights’ that communicate with Audis equipped with the system. They [...]
There was a lot of buzz in the Twin Cities with GOP in town for their soiree. Among the many was to push for greater development of offshore and Alaskan drilling. Most GOP’ers are behind the push for greater domestic production to offset the dependence of foreign energy sources. As noted in a TownHall.com article [...]
First, Boone Pickens came out in favor of wind. His ‘Pickens Plan‘ was to construct wind and solar farms to take the burden of natural gas powered plants off line, to some degree. Yesterday, the CNG Now group came out with this ad. It seems that compressed natural gas interests are ready to roll out [...]
Quite the contrary…I DO like Mondays. It’s the start of the week and a challenge to do great things for the week. It may be a little rainy and overcast in Northern NJ right now, but I am anticipating this week. The Boomtown Rats may have sung that Brenda Ann Spencer didn’t like Mondays – [...]
I read two articles today that made me think of a shift in the automotive industry – of sorts. In the local paper, The Record, staff writer Kevin G. DeMarrais reports that if you want to purchase a hybrid, there are no deals (read:list price) and the wait may be long. Hey, what’s an environmentally [...]
Will Doing the Double Nickel Save Drivers Some Change? Some people – probably not Sammy Hagar – are pining for the 1970′s again, saying the 55MPH speed limit will save us at the pump. I got my driver’s license in 1976. Americans had suffered with a Federally-mandated 55MPH speed limit for two years. The first [...]
Back in 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were bouncing around the Gulf of Mexico like pinballs. The ‘bumpers’ were the nearly 2,900 oil platforms in the path of both storms. Yet, with all these targets, surprisingly only 109 platforms were destroyed despite the magnitude of the storms. Considering that we only produced about a third [...]
Do you want to be a good global citizen? Buy a hybrid vehicle. Want to be a BETTER global citizen?? Buy a tricked-out Prius with solar panels on it roof!
With the national average of gas prices well over the $4 per gallon mark, the AAA reports a dip in consumption of 3.3% over last year. With the 4th of July travel weekend just passed, Americans use of gasoline dropped to a five-year low. Does this suggest that more urban city-dwellers are spending their vacations [...]
