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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Jenn sent me this South Park clip - y’all don’t think it’s because I’m a smug hybrid driver, do you? I promise and cross my heart and hope to die that I never speak with my eyes closed. Unless I’m really really tired and am falling asleep while talking to you.
Check out the full episode […]
Top 10-Car Owning Countries
Monday, August 11th, 2008Forbes.com had an interesting article up last week identifying the Top 10-Car Owning Countries. And guess what, America? We’re Number Two! I am a little surprised, actually, and pretty relieved.
The article draws some interesting conclusions about car ownership and country size (it turns out that all that space isn’t quite the excuse for having to […]
EcoTouch Waterless Car Wash
Monday, July 28th, 2008I have a dirty dirty car. Here is my problem: I’m lazy. and I’m great at making excuses. Like: My car has wheel skirts (or, if you’re in Australia: SPATS), and before I can go through an automatic car wash I have to get out a screw driver and remove them. So I have […]
Left Hand Turns: Yay or Nay?
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008By now everyone on the internets probably knows that I live in New Jersey. Did you know, though, that in most of New Jersey you can’t make a left-hand turn? That’s right, no left-hand turns and we can’t pump our own gas. It’s a crazy crazy state I live in.
I have gotten in a LOT […]
Picken’s Plan
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Have y’all heard of T. Boone Pickens? I hadn’t, but someone pointed out to me that there was this Texas Oil Man all over the television today making some good points about our oil reserves and how we have to stop importing so much foreign oil. The commercial is here, if you haven’t seen it. […]
NYC’s First Bikesharing Program!
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Wow, I’m so thrilled to read about the City’s first bikeshare– though it’s limited to Governors Island, and only on certain Fridays, it’s a groundbreaking initiative:
From Treehugger: “Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC), Transportation Alternatives and Bike and Roll have joined forces to create a bike share program, and every Friday between now […]
The Drive Smarter Challenge
Monday, June 16th, 2008We got a heads up from the people over at the Drive Smarter Challenge letting us know about their campaign to, well, Drive Smarter. This definately ties into my recent experimenting with driving techniques to get better gas mileage.
So I tried it out and based on the calculator, I can save about $194 annually by […]
This 4-dollar gas thing
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008American’s are well aware these days that we’ve hit 4-dollar gas recently. It’s all anyone is talking about - ever! It’s all over the news, next to the water cooler, and at the gas pumps. And as unlikely as it ever seemed to be, it seems like the SUV has finally started to croak as […]
Results! May Experiment!
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008So I’m sure you’ve all been waiting with ‘baited breath for the exciting results of my May experiment (mid-month update here) to drive the speed limit! I am so totally excited, check out these numbers:
March-April Average = 58.24 mpg
May Average = 66.36 mpg
Which is a 14% Difference.
That is […]
Bicycle Skirt Guards
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008I spent last weekend in D.C. with a friend, who rented me a bike so we could do an easy tour of the monuments. It was so much fun, and an easy breezy way to cover lots of territory without killing my feet. Since we were cycling around a swamp and swamps are, apparently, […]
Litterbugs & Hybrid Honda Civics
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008I once chased down a litterbug and handed him back the plastic bag which he had purposefully dropped, and while he tried to convince me that it was “one of those new ones that melts on the street” I was all like “REALLY? Oh my GOD no WAY, this is one of THOSE? […]
Update: May Experiment
Monday, May 19th, 2008Two weeks ago I posted that I was going to try a May Experiment to try to drive the speed limit and see what kind of mileage I got. Looking back at the previous months, when I averaged the miles per gallon I’d been getting for March and April of 2008 it was approximately 58.2 […]
Service for cars and for bikes!
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Y’all know by now that I drive to work. Also, that I drive a LOT. And that historically, you may have learned, I am used to driving junkers that break at a moments notice. And when you drive a junker, it’s important that you have a good roadside assistance policy.
For years I was a member […]
May Experiment: Driving Slower!
Monday, May 5th, 2008After this weekend’s Easy Peasy Tip, I am so curious about the effect that driving the speed limit will have on my mileage. I posted before that I am not the lead-foot that I used to be - but that’s not entirely true. I still drive pretty fast. Since I wrote that other post last […]
Easy Peasy Tip: Drive Slower!
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008We have talked about driving slower before, but this one deserves it’s own tip with statistics like this to back it up:
With gas at $4 a gallon, a driver with a long commute - 400 miles a week - and a gas-guzzling vehicle getting only 20 mpg would save $18.74 a week by slowing […]
Bikes, Bikes, and More Bikes
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Spring is in the air, and with it comes bicycles! Seems like it’s time to dust off my bike, inflate my winter-flats, and start two-wheeling it again… and that’s a lovely thing. Biking in NYC is quite literally a death-defying act, but the benefits are so darn rewarding– great exercise, fewer cars, less […]
Making Hybrids Audible
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008It’s spring, so I’m driving around town these days with the windows open. I love driving around with the windows open! I get the wind in my hair, I get to listen to the sounds of the great out-doors, and then when I’m at a stoplight and my hybrid shuts off, I get to listen […]
You win some, you lose some.
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Yesterday was an up and down Tiny Choices day for me.
Last night, I had to drive into Manhattan for a meeting. I usually try to leave work with enough time to drive to Jersey City so I can take public transit in - but yesterday the meeting was scheduled for 30 min. earlier than I […]
Market forces are all around us!
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008I read this morning in salon.com that March is not looking good for auto sales in the US - be it the economy or the higher cost of gasoline. But apparently market forces are hard at work in response to that:
March marked the best month ever for Prius sales — 20,635 sold. But Americans bought […]
Netflix “Watch Instantly”
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008I’m a big fan of Netflix– I live in a neighborhood which lacks a decent video store (let alone one which caters to my documentary proclivity), so I truly appreciate my Netflix membership. Also, as someone who simply cannot return things on time, this has been a lifechanging service– no more $30 charges for […]
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