By JamesW on Aug 19, 2008 in Environment, The Mud Pit, World | 0 Comments
A recent article by CNN suggests that Big OIl is at it again, spending huge amounts of money to make sure their record breaking profits stay in tact. In what may be surprising to some, the most recent figures from the Center for Responsive Politics show that the oil industry gives a relatively small sum to [...]
By JamesW on Aug 18, 2008 in The Mud Pit, World | 0 Comments
In Washington, President Bush chided Russia on Friday for Cold War-style behavior, saying, “bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century.”
Bush said the United States stands “with the people of Georgia and their democratically elected government.” He said the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity “must be respected.”
“We will [...]
By JamesW on Aug 15, 2008 in The Mud Pit, World | 0 Comments
I knew that Corporations were encroaching more and more on our so called ‘democracy’ (closer to ”corporate-fascism” me thinks), what with the Bush Administration throwing them a bone at every opportunity. But this is nuts: now the primary burdon of keeping our country fiscally operationally is on us, the “litte guy”. Are you ready to shoulder that [...]
By JamesW on Aug 14, 2008 in Auto, Environment | 0 Comments
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) Larry Horsley and David Kennington are fed up. They’re among a growing number of Americans who are refusing to wait for big-car manufacturers to deliver mainstream electric vehicles, called EVs. Not only have they rebelled against the status quo by ripping out their gas-guzzling engines and replacing them with zero-emission electric motors, [...]
By JamesW on Aug 13, 2008 in Auto | 0 Comments
A Kansas man drives a 1983 Lincoln Towncar - forever! The odometer just turned over 1,300,000 miles. He loves his car, and who can blame him; it gets about 22 mpg on the highway, and it has never broken down. That car doesn’t owe him a dime, thats for sure.
Now, lets talk about “planned obsolecence“. [...]
By JamesW on Aug 12, 2008 in Auto, Environment | 1 Comment
How much gasoline could US citizens save by driving around in light-weight hybrid vehicles? Up to half what they currently use, say scientists at MIT.
The US consumes about 140 billion gallons of gasoline each year. A team of researchers led by John Heywood has completed a five-year assessment of what can be done to slash [...]
By JamesW on Aug 9, 2008 in Hardware, Software | 0 Comments
Need a computer that will match your new outfit? Help is on the way. Researchers are working on a low-tech computer that would cost as little as $12.
You can get these already in India. They look something like the original Nintendo console that many of us played video games on as [...]
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 [...]