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Moving Too Fast To Drive 55

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

There's talk of bringing back the 55 mph maximum highway speed to reduce fuel consumption, but a drive around rural New York suggests the world's tempo has progressed too much for traffic to ever go that slow again.

Why Didn’t Automakers See This Coming?

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Peter Mooney, at the LA Times blog, has a short posts remembering the last gas crisis in the early 1970s. He writes "I saw the end-of-the-world style lines of cars waiting to get their transfusion of life giving fossil fuel. What’s so interesting to me about every gas crisis is ...

“It Is Truly Cinch To Be A Girly Girl And Still Be Acquainted Plenteous About Vehicles”

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

There's a funny post at Articles About Women's Interests, it starts: "The rationalism I stated "a surprising representation of men" is whereas we dispose to feature men fathom about vehicles true based on gender. And congratulations, you are now safer and discern more about vehicles than lousy with men and ...

Fight For Equal Pay

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Jo Revill looks at the on-going fight for equal pay in UK. It is the fortieth anniversary of a bunch of women sewing machinists at Ford who walked out of the plant and demanded equal pay for equal work and forced the British government to introduce the Equal Pay Act.

It’s Not Just Gas Prices Increasing

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Not only are motorists facing record high prices for gasoline but they are now having to deal with crooks stealing gas from vehicles and prices are increasing for routine maintenance of their vehicles. Not only are thieves siphoning off gas but they have become even more brazen and drill directly ...

Hybrids vs Used Cars

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

There has been many articles this past few weeks looking at the boom in sales of old used cars. They are in demand because " A 1993 Geo Metro XFI, a subcompact imported by General Motors, is EPA-rated at a 46 miles per gallon average. That's the same as a ...

Road Trips

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Now that Spring is here, and summer is on its way, a number of articles about road trips have been published. CNN-Money has an article about the best cars for a road trip, the Toronto Star has a story about road trips in general and Wall St Journal has a ...

Sex And The City

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

The new Sex And The City film is due out in North America in a couple of weeks and Mercedes has two vehicles within the movie. The S-Class makes an appearance as well as the new GLK, a compact SUV. For more information and photos about the vehicles in the ...