Monthly Archives: April 2010
How Can Tires Save You Money?
How can your tires save you money? Low rolling resistance tires, or LRR tires, find out what they are and how it helps your wallet. Find out from Yokohama Tire.
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Spring Car Care Tips For Drivers
Spring Car Care Tips for Drivers who are looking to get the most from their vehicles. As the economy begins to recover travel is on the rise. Driving vacations, or road trips, are one way to save money and go on a vacation.
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Cell Phones And Driving
A Cell Phone And Driving don’t equal Car Safety. Driving while talking, texting or e-mailing with a cell phone or PDA can pose a serious distraction. Put your cell phones away and keep your hands on the wheel. Cell phones are like the new drinking and driving. Americans are addicted to [...]
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White House U-turn on further offshore drilling after oil spill
Guardian: The Obama administration has banned new oil drilling off the US coast as the first streaks of the huge and growing spill from a BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico lapped the Louisiana shore today. A decision taken last month to ease a moratorium on new offshore oil and gas drilling was [...]
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Gulf oil slick is a disaster for world climate deal
Telegraph: Could the greatest casualty of the giant oil slick surging through the Gulf of Mexico turn out to be not Louisiana’s magnificent wildlife, or the biggest US fishery outside Alaska, but the last remaining chance of an international agreement to combat climate change? It seems counter-intuitive. Surely an economic and ecological disaster, caused by [...]
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CEOs: Gulf oil spill ‘a real setback’ for industry
Associated Press: The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will significantly set back industry efforts to increase offshore drilling, the CEOs of two Oklahoma City-based independent energy companies said Friday. Devon Energy Corp. CEO Larry Nichols and Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon spoke during an annual Oklahoma State University energy conference, [...]
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Miss. center preparing to handle oily mammals
Associated Press: A marine wildlife rehabilitation center in Mississippi is gearing up to take in possibly hundreds of oily sea mammals from Texas to Florida. The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport has surgery, necropsy and exam rooms, walk-in freezers full of frozen fish for food, X-ray and ultrasound machines and plenty of [...]
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Spain: Climate change aids invasive mosquitofish
United Press International: The warmer temperatures associated with climate change could speed the spread of the invasive mosquitofish in northern Europe, scientists in Spain said. The mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki, is native to the United States and was introduced in Spain in 1921. Since then, it has spread to more than 50 countries on every [...]
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United States: Jerry Brown Defends Embattled State Climate Law but Is Open to ‘Adjustments’
ClimateWire: California Attorney General Jerry Brown defended the state’s climate change law yesterday, explaining that he sees room for "adjustments" but would not support an outright suspension of greenhouse gas reductions until the economy improves. Brown, the leading Democratic candidate for governor in the state, said his likely GOP opponent in the November general [...]
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Shares of drilling cos down as spill spreads
Associated Press: Shares of several major oil companies and those that provide related services fell Friday as a massive oil spill cast a pall over the drilling business in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil spewing from a deepwater well operated by BP PLC has reached Louisiana’s wetlands. The White House put a hold on [...]
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China, EU set up dialogue on climate change
Xinhua: China and the European Union have established a ministerial-level mechanism of dialogue and cooperation on climate change, China’s top economic planner announced Thursday. The establishment of the mechanism came as a ministerial-level talk on climate change between top climate officials of China and EU was held in Beijing, said the National Development and [...]
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Do-it-yourselfers leading charge as electric vehicles gain traction
Wenatchee W: Look for "Lil’ Zippy," the all-electric "Comuta-Car," rolling along silently in this year’s Apple Blossom Parade. It’s cute. A relic of long ago. An impish, rolling "doorstop," with bulging headlights and wedge-shaped aerodynamics — a response to the 1970s fuel shortage that had motorists lined up for blocks, even miles, for a [...]
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: No End in Sight for Eco-Disaster
Time Magazine: It may be time to stop referring to the Deepwater Horizon rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico as an oil spill. A spill sounds like something temporary, a glass of milk overturned, which empties and then can be cleaned up. But what is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, not far from [...]
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Car Care Advice From A Woman