By JamesW on Aug 8, 2008 in World | 0 Comments
I love it when someone with celeb status (meaning they get media attention more than anything), does something beneficial for our country. Right on Paris. But lets look a little deeper into this phenomena. What Paris gave as an “energy policy” seems intuitively obvious. In fact, it’s probably nothing that [...]
By JamesW on Aug 8, 2008 in Environment, Featured, World | 1 Comment
Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to sell its company-owned gas stations, saying they aren’t profitable enough even with gasoline selling at $4 per gallon.
The 2,220 stations make up about 1/5 of the Exxon and Mobil stations in the United States. The nation’s largest oil company, which earned nearly $41 billion last year, says [...]
By JamesW on Aug 7, 2008 in Environment, Featured, Is it Real? | 0 Comments
Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) expects to produce the world’s first air-powered car for
the United States by late 2009 or early 2010, and better yet, it is expected to be for sale for less than $18k. One of the planned Air Car models, reaches 68 mph, and goes for a range of [...]
By JamesW on Aug 1, 2008 in Blog, Featured, The Mud Pit | 0 Comments
My father was 94 when he passed away a few years ago. No sadness here; he was active and alert until his final days. In fact, he discovered the internet at age 79, and loved the ability to do research on various topics, and really loved email through which he kept our far-flung [...]
By JamesW on Jul 29, 2008 in Blog, Featured, The Mud Pit | 0 Comments
It should be obvious by now, that the majority of our congress-persons are on the take. We sit on the sidelines, knowing what is right and reasonable when a legislative issue is in process. Then, all of a sudden, just the opposite happens. I can’t think of any reason for this, other than their are [...]
By JamesW on Jul 27, 2008 in Blog, Featured, The Mud Pit | 0 Comments
I love the irony. John McCain has spent the last few months slinging mud at Obama for never having been in Iraq, yet discussing the topic publicly. So, Obama evidently on some level having agreed that this was a “weakness”, booked a weeks tour of the middle east as well as Europe.
As I’m [...]
By JamesW on Jun 5, 2008 in Environment, Featured | 8 Comments
Forget corn! There’s fuel, there’s renewable fuel, and then there’s user-renewable fuel! What can be better than air?
The Compressed Air Car developed by Motor Development International (MDI) Founder Guy Negre might be the best thing to have happened to the motor engine in years.
The $12,700 CityCAT, one of the planned Air Car [...]
By JamesW on Jun 3, 2008 in Environment, Featured | 0 Comments
Wired Magazine featured a recent article suggesting that a “cure” for global warming, because of the seriousness of the situation (i.e., a complete change of life as we know it, or possibly eradication of the human species along with a few others), that we might need to reexamine a few approaches that are, well, less [...]
By JamesW on May 29, 2008 in Featured, World | 0 Comments
Meet the good ship “Emma Maers”, registered to the country of China.
So this is how Wal-Mart gets most of it’s stuff from China ; 15,000 containers and a 207′ beam, and 13 people for a ship longer than a US aircraft carrier which has a crew of 5,000 men and officers. Check out [...]
By JamesW on May 29, 2008 in Travel, Travel Blog | 0 Comments
After touring Holland, MI, we pressed hard north as we had a reservation at a RV Park, on Lake Leelanau, named, logically enough, Lake Leelanau RV Park, located about 15 miles West of Traverse City. We got a little lost, which ended up being OK, since we were privy to blossoming cherry trees, and [...]