So you have a cell phone plan and you go over minutes every month for years but the phone company never charges you…sounds like a dream come true, right?

Well, that will never happen and that kind of monitoring has a reason! It costs them (mostly man hours) to maintain their systems. The way the government is monitoring the environment is kind of the same way.

Car manufacturing… [[Continue reading]]

There were some pretty nice car sales to benefit charity in this year’s Pebble Beach auctions but unlike with the least expensive car donated selling for over $50,000, they are not the run of the mill type of auction. For the rest of us who have cars that we no longer use, need or want, changes in charitable donations have been tightened up quite a bit in the last couple… [[Continue reading]]

It is always fascinating to exit the world of the regular “Joe” and “Jill” car consumer who I am most often speaking to and speaking with about their car options, choices, dreams and lessons learned. This last week I ventured into the world of the real car collectors~ the people who can and do spend millions of dollars restoring and buying great examples of design. These are the people you… [[Continue reading]]

As of last Friday, August 8th, fuel prices at the pump had dropped for the 22nd consecutive day. They have continued to drop but on that day, I decided to ask my busy father of 5 friend, Robert Gonzalez, from Twitter a few questions about how the price drop is affecting his family this summer.

Robert and his wife have 5 kids ranging from 3 to 12… [[Continue reading]]

Steve says:

Sadly, after likely having waited for over a year to get his new electric supercar, this unlucky San Francisco Tesla owner reportedly crashed only hours after taking delivery. While there were no reports of injuries, that carbon fiber bodywork won’t be cheap to fix.

This crash actually happened right outside of my friend’s apartment building in San Francisco, though he is… [[Continue reading]]

Be patient with me for minute here and I am going to explain how Subaru’s Travis Pastrana winning the 2008 X-Games Rally Race helps Subaru be a legit environmentally friendly auto manufacturer without having a single alternative energy car in the marketplace.

A bit ago I wrote about Travis Pastrana’s film, 199 Lives in Subaru’s Love Letter to Travis Pastrana and directly on the heels of his… [[Continue reading]]