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Ford calls it EcoDriving – ECOnomical because it saves money and ECOlogical because it is better for the environment. Following are simple tips from Ford that any driver can use: Consolidate trips – Plan ahead to consolidate your trips. This will enable you to bypass congested routes, lead to less idling, fewer start-ups and less stop-and-go traffic.

AlterNet's Weekly Zeitgeist: Phony Drilling, Afghan Escalation, Never-Ending Financial Crisis and Much More From Bush's oil hoax to the New Yorker's sorry attempt at satire, our Zeitgeist list tracks the progressive issues of the week.

Here's the second edition of my personal Consumer Price Index, the list of how much I paid for common things. See how your prices compare! Today's currency conversions, according to XE.com: $1 = 0.50033 GBP (British Pounds)0.63080 Euros1.00568 Canadian Dollars1.02805 Australian Dollars5.07950 NOK

A funny thing happened on the way to Pelosi’s House the other day. A handful of Democrats and Republican House members took a detour and found themselves in a committee chamber where they formed the “House Energy Working Group.†This small, bipartisan group of congressmen, led by John Peterson (R-PA) and Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), have chosen to do an end run around Ms.

9/11 and 4/11 (Thomas Friedman column, NYT)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lu4dcxl4GY Evidently, the US slump is really a clinical depression and not truly a “recessionâ€.  It’s all in our heads.  We US Citz are evidently suffering from a psychological disease, and all we need to do is “snap out of itâ€.

NEW YORK — The price of oil recorded its biggest weekly drop ever, and a gallon of gas finally pulled back from its record high. So is it time to declare the energy bubble popped? Experts won’t go that far just yet. “It’s too early to say we’ve seen the worst of it,†said Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst of the Oil Price Information Service in Wall, N.J.

New ad from moveon.org: Maybe I should start using psychological money in the grocery store? That should work.

Jay Leno on Drilling in ANWR Posted in Alaska, Congress, Economy, Elections, Energy, Politics at 5:12 pm by Thanos Permalink Comments

Just ten days ago I reported on MyGallons.com, a service that would allow consumers to hedge against future gas price increases.  Several things, including the business model and the founder’s background just “didn’t clickâ€, so I was suspicious: I Smell Something, and it Ain’t Gasoline The story may just be coming to an end.