In our last episode of Car Shopping we introduced our contestants:
the Ford Escape 4×4,
Ford Fusion AWD, and
Ford Taurus AWD;
the Jeep Patriot 4×4, and
Jeep Liberty 4×4;
the Honda CR-V AWD,
the Subaru Forester, and
the Toyota RAV4 AWD, with
the Chevy Equinox AWD rounding out the group.
So how did we come up with this cast of characters. Also from last time, here [...]
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Posted in Automobiles, Business, Government, Life, News, News and Politics, Politics, Science, Science and Technology, Technology, Uncategorized on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two weeks ago I was critical of Senator John McCain’s proposal for a national “gas tax holiday.”
Now Senator Hillary Clinton is backing a similar idea. Though she has added a twist to the proposal with a windfall-profits tax on oil companies, the idea of a gas tax holiday is still a bad one, regardless of [...]
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So, on our recent tour of colleges in the Baltimore-Virginia-Washington, DC-New York-New Jersey areas we rented a car from Budget. One of the options was the Where2 GPS for another $48 for the week.
What a bargain.
On our trip, rather than struggling with paper maps, we used the Garmin StreetPilot C550-based Where2 GPS. An absolute God-send. [...]
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Posted in Computers, Computers and Internet, Health, Health and Wellness, Internet, Life, News, News and Politics, Science and Technology, Technology, Wellness on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
As you’ve no doubt been able to tell, I’m not killing myself writing new posts on my blog. Seems there are others who have been, however.
Pity.
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Posted in Computers, Computers and Internet, Entertainment, Hobbies, Internet, Life, Music, News, News and Politics, Science and Technology, Technology on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wireless. It’s hip, it’s modern, it’s what’s new. It’s also retro, quaint, and old fashioned. Radio has been around for more than a hundred years, had its “Golden Age” before television “killed” it years ago. Not so much killed it, I suppose, as severely wounded it.
And yet, radio endures. Commercial radio, however, is now as [...]
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Chalk one up for common sense. When it comes to improving fuel efficiency in the face of rising oil prices, increasing global demand, and (likely) decreasing supply the emphasis has been on technology, particularly in the form of hybrids. With all the major automakers are getting into the hybrid game, too much of the focus [...]
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Would it be too cliché to say I hate car shopping? Yes. Not only that, it wouldn’t be entirely true.
Doing the research is interesting, but I don’t mess around with a lot of the typical negotiating, let-me-go-talk-to-my-manager BS. The last three times we’ve bought a ‘new’ car it’s been a used car. One advantage to buying [...]
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In a recent editorial, the editor of our local weekly (weakly?) paper said that people who drive SUVs and then complain about gas prices are hypocrites. Aside from trying to trying to provoke a reaction - which he has obviously accomplished - he is just plain wrong.
Let’s start with what a hypocrite is:
a person who [...]
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