Archive for July 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Etc., Green Daily
Photo by ClevelandSGS. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.
Angela Eversole thought she had it all figured out: she needed gas, and was alledgedly willing to give up a little sex to get it. Unfortunately for her, the deal she was setting up for “a $100 gasoline card and other gifts”… »

Filed under: Manufacturing/Plants, Lightweight
Since first hearing that ex-McLaren F1 supercar designer Gordon Murray had left the famous racing company to create his own design house and that its first product was to be a revolutionary city car, we’ve been anxiously awaiting more details to come to the surface. Lucky for us, they just have. Murray… »

Filed under: AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Green Daily, At Witz End
Left: “We can’t drill our way out of this!”Right: “We can’t conserve our way out of this!”Chorus: “We must innovate our way out of this!”
(Maybe, but how long will that take? What will it cost? Who will pay?)
Democrats: “Big Oil’s fault! Confiscate their profits!”Republicans: “Environmentalists’ fault! Drill… »

Filed under: On Two Wheels, China, USA

A Michigan man has found his own personal solution to high gas prices in an interesting three-wheeled enclosed scooter which leans into turns from a Chinese company known as Xingyue. Before this story, we were not at all familiar with the company, though a Google search does turn up… »

Filed under: Etc., HUMMER, Legislation and Policy, Green Daily, USA
After Pittsburgh police noticed a Hummer (yep, a Hummer… what else?) sitting conspicuously close to a five-hundred gallon tank of gas at a golf course, the vehicle suddenly took off. Considering that the top speed of a Hummer is right around one-hundred miles per hour, we… »

Filed under: Etc., On Two Wheels, Green Daily, USA
The sky-high price of gas has hit some dealerships pretty hard. A perfect example of this is Moody Chevrolet in River Falls, Wisconsin which last sold a pick up truck sometime in February. While their truck inventory sits outside and waits patiently for new homes, the Moody… »

Apparently this happened along some tollway in New York; no word on the involvement of Larry, Curly and Mo. [Loqu]

Original post by Ben Wojdyla… »

The tweak? Not putting enough gas in his Toyota Prius, according to our man Paul, who captured this hilarious spectacle in Silicon Valley’s ritzy Los Gatos neighborhood. Even better, this occurred next to a Jazz/Wine festival where Lexus was showing off some of their own hybrid vehicles. In the end, it took eight people to… »

Filed under: MPG, Chevrolet

In perhaps the most obvious move of the decade, MarketWatch is reporting that GM will in fact bring the upcoming Chevy Beat to the U.S. market. The Beat was one of a trio of mini-car concepts that appeared at the New York Auto Show in 2007. GM announced last November in Los… »

There are numerous rhetorical devices politicians use to obscure or avoid the truth. One of them is the old “vacuous truth,” wherein the true statement has no meaning. For instance, a candidate for sheriff in Texas once accused the incumbent sheriff of being derelict in his duties for not arresting a single communist, despite the… »