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HHO Redux - The Internet Has Arrived

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

I have been getting a huge spike in traffic for my blog lately and 90% of it has been for an article I wrote back in March about HHO Boost systems for your car. If you haven’t read the article, it’s basically a mini fuel cell that purportedly turns tap water into “brown’s gas” which, [...]

Fuel Efficiency - the VW 1L, 110 MPG Mustang and the Impact of Biofuel on Food Prices

Monday, July 7th, 2008

A trio of articles caught my attention this weekend - all of them related to our obsession with high fuel efficiency vehicles that lower our impact on the environment. We’ll start with a follow up on the VW 1L, then a story about a suspicious highly efficient Mustang and finally an interesting statistic about biofuels.
1. [...]

BC Gas Tax to Start Tomorrow - So What?

Monday, June 30th, 2008

My wife got me panicked this morning because she said there was a “24 cent” per litre gas tax starting tomorrow. I said “WHAT?” and promptly got online to confirm. It’s actually 2.4 cents per litre. When I usually fill up, I put $50 in. A 2.4 cent per litre gas tax means I’m paying [...]

Dispatch from Prince George - The Oil Economy

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I’m sitting in hotel room in Prince George, BC and I’m bone tired from having driven 8 hours to get here. I was planning on writing about an interesting article I saw in the New York times on the wide-ranging impacts of oil price increases on consumer goods. However, my fatique levels will only allow [...]

Crooky Testdrives Six Cars - VW City Golf Wins

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

This is a short update for those of you who have been following my quest for a suitable car for my consulting business. Around 9pm this evening, after a second drive of the Golf and the Fit, I decided on the Golf.
A few of things cinched it for me:
1. The Golf isn’t just a little [...]

Crooky Testdrives Six Compact Cars In Three Days - Part 2

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

It’s Saturday evening and I’ve had about all the new car smell I can handle. I’m saturated. I wrote yesterday about my goal to find a new car for my consulting business - something that is good on gas, fits my needs, is affordable and that I don’t look retarded in. Now that I’ve driven [...]

Crooky Testdrives Six Compact Cars In Three Days

Friday, May 16th, 2008

There comes a time in a self-employed persons’ life when the family car is no longer cutting it for a business vehicle. As much as I love my car (see pic below), the following things have changed in my life recently:
1. I am on the road more and more because my business is growing.
2. My [...]

The Complicated Biofuels Proposition

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Back in February, I wrote about a New York Times story that basically heralded the death of biofuels as an alternative to gasoline. I want to follow up that post with new information that comes from another newspaper - but one from the West Coast this time. On May 3, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran this [...]

Would You Drive the New Volkswagen 1L?

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I know that I normally write about research methodologies on Wednesdays but to be frank, I’m running out of ideas for that category and most of my readers seem to be more interested in the technology and business topics I write about. This week, I want to talk about something that captured my attention: the [...]

Could A Ban On Cell Phones On Transit Increase GHG Emissions?

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Unless you’re new to this blog, you already know I’m a consultant. You might also have guessed that I work with folks in the high tech industry. That being the case, you might understand why I am opposed to legislation like that recently introduced in Austria which makes it illegal to talk on a cell [...]

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