Comments on: DOE/EPA say Obama’s right, Limbaugh’s wrong: More oil can be found in your car than offshore

By: aionchinakina

aionchinakina — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:54:44 +0000

I think it’s obvious that your MPG will increase if you keep your car in shape- no one can argue that.

By: TwelveSky2

TwelveSky2 — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:53:30 +0000

Perhaps your comment is even more d*mning about the average Joe’s attention to efficiency

By: TwelveSky2

TwelveSky2 — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:50:54 +0000

The problem is- someone should calculate the costs of keeping your car in shape versus paying for the extra fuel if you don’t.

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:49:32 +0000

I think it’s obvious that your MPG will increase if you keep your car in shape- no one can argue that.

The problem is- someone should calculate the costs of keeping your car in shape versus paying for the extra fuel if you don’t. That is where the average person might make their decision. I’m actually hoping that the average person will soon think environmentally and then cost will not be the only factor.

By: Cyril R.

Cyril R. — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:10:59 +0000

When one is adicted to drugs, does one take more drugs to deal with pains of the adiction, or does one try to get rid of the adiction in earnest?

Obviously we’ll have to do the latter. Why can’t people see this is the same for oil? In a world with finite investment available, it is such a simple argument.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:35:52 +0000

From what I read, the Prius has a good gauge that’s easy to access and some Prius owners have stated that they have adjusted their driving because of it. I don’t heard of other vehicles with real time fuel gauges.

I’ve read that a real time, easily read, home electricity gauge works also in reducing electricity. Apparently just telling kids or any of us to make sure we turn off the lights and other avoidances of energy use isn’t always enough to change behavior, there should be a measure of success and failure. Having a gauge in the hallway that’s easily read everytime people leave the house lets people turn off everything before they leave.

Houses that have gauges such as that has had 15 percent electricity reductions. It matters if a person can compare one months use from another or one days use from another.

By: wow gold

wow gold — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:40:35 +0000

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By: mike

mike — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:36:41 +0000

Joe, do you know when the new EIA report concerning the impacts of increased access to oil and gas resources in the lower 48 comes out? Thanks.

[JR: Hopefully next week, they say.]

By: Dano

Dano — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:31:00 +0000

Thanks PaulK. I don’t drive much and only two vehicles in last two decades, both stripped pickups with no doo-dads, geegaws, fancy gauges.

Perhaps your comment is even more d*mning about the average Joe’s attention to efficiency…

Best,

By: Paul K

Paul K — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:27:18 +0000

Dano,
Don’t know what Flap49 drives when he’s not in the truck. Digital readout of real time and cumulative gas mileage is available on just about every car made today. Hit the info button. GM has, from the sixties on, offered a manifold exhaust gauge calibrated to gas mileage. It was standard equipment on the original Chevy Super Sport.