Carpooling to Save GasWell I am just rollin’ with the gasoline saving changes, aren’t I? Today I’ve got a great one — carpooling! A totally obvious solution to slowing our gas consumption that I’ve managed to avoid for over six months. But with crude …
Getting Even More Anal About IdlingSo I’ve been putting together my Riot Numbers this week and was a bit dismayed to see that my gasoline consumption is exactly the same as it was in February 2007. Ugh. Of course, I didn’t have two kiddos in a preschoo…
Not Warming Up the Car on Cold MorningsIt’s chilly here folks. I know I’ve turned into a giant, southern candy-ass in the past three years because this 30 degree shit is starting to feel really freakin’ COLD!Now when I lived up in New York, our house w…
One of the great problems of the US trying to comply with Kyoto is that it would require getting Americans out of their cars. Apparently this is an even more deadly rail of US politics than messing with Medicare. Why? I’ve come to believe it’s because our egos are tangled up with driving… what we […]
Last year I rented a car to get to Delaware for my academic meetings. This year I decided to go with public transportation: bus from Bethlehem to Philadelphia and then Septa train to Newark, DE. It was a piece of cake. Cost about the same as going to New York by bus. Trouble is, there […]
I returned to work on September 4. Actually, it was a week earlier, but classes didn’t start until the 4th. The campus moved to a new location over the summer — which meant a closer location, but also a higher parking cost. At the old campus parking was about $45/semester. Now it is $36/month. If […]
I have now had this conversation 3 times….
***I Pull up to Costco on my electric bike***
Curious Passerby: “What is that thing in your front wheel”
Me: “That’s a motor, this is an electric bike”
Them: “That’s cheating you know”
Me: “How did you get here?”
Them: ***Points at their Canyonero***
Me: “Who is cheating more?”
Them: *Laugh*
Three out of three Costco […]
