• Honda will be unveiling a $19000 hybrid four door hatchback that gets 60MPG this fall- available next year. Maybe this will stop all those terrible GM ads bragging about 30MPG highway cars…they still don’t get it.
  • Beijing adds 1000 new cars a day to the roads, has over 3 million now, ten years ago they had 400 (not a typo) total. And you think gas prices are driven by speculators?
  • Sewage effluent in Santa Ana is cleaner than groundwater according to an NYTimes article…after purification. We’re gonna all be drinking it soon because “it’s too valuable a resource to waste”.
  • Lots more sailboats in Lake Ontario than powerboats. It costs a friend of mine with a 38′ cabin cruiser $300 to go from the Bay to the river for a drink and back. For you non-locals that’s maybe 15 miles if you drive around a bit. Two V8s…plus dockage, insurance and payments, all year round. Wouldn’t want to be a boat dealer…
  • Hearing obnoxious ‘Staycation’ ads from furniture dealers encouraging people to spend money making rooms in their homes look like hotels. With obnoxious Ferdinand J V/O….