Environment
Myth of the Electric Car Coming True in San Francisco, CA?
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In a recent Wired Magazine article, S.F Mayor Wants to Make E-Cars More Common Than Cable Cars, Chuck Squatriglia cites that San Francisco Mayor, Mayor Gavin Newsom is in talks with Project Better Place to build an infrastructure that [...]
Myth of the Compact Florescent Light Bulb: Another Bandwagon Disaster Awaits
Like many of you, I am very concerned about climate change. I am proactively doing whatever I can to make changes to lesson my impact on my carbon footprint in my life, my home and my means of transportation. Since I live in California, where we have a constant level of possible rolling blackouts, [...]
Food Waste. Why Order the Food in the First Place?
People who waste food are mind-blowing to me. It is particularly bizarre when I see people at a restaurant order massive lunches or dinners and barely touch their plate. Listen to this sound bite from the Jared & Dean Words Cause Radio Show on BlogTalkRadio.com about my recent visit to one of my favorite restaurants.
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Wasteful Eaters at the Cheesecake Factory [0:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Environmentalists Have Caused Some of our Greatest Environmental Problems Today [1:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadEnvironmentalists and the Problems They Cause
Environmentalists are filled with good intentions. Reducing human waste and minimizing our impact on the ecosystem is something I am a strong proponent of. What I am not a proponent of is jumping on whatever the latest environmental bandwagon might be. Subjects like the Myth of the Electric Car have been hot topics as of [...]
Who Killed the Electric Bus?
Today marks the 126th anniversary of the very first trolley bus in the world. In a suburb of Berlin, Dr. Ernst Werner von Siemens presented what has now become one of the most efficient methods of mass inner city transit. Cities like San Francisco are known for their incredible trolley systems that enable daily citizens [...]
No Single Alternative Fuel will Solve Global Warming
Jared’s blog article, Myth of the Electric Car, got me thinking about our cultural predisposition to become singularly focused on a good thing when we find it. True, electric cars are not the sole solution to greenhouse gas emission or to the fuel shortage we are currently experiencing. I agree that it’s highly probable that [...]
The Myth of the Electric Car
Earth Day has passed. I spent a fair amount of time making sure that people knew it was Earth Day. Honoring the planet on which all of our lives are dependent is a good practice to get into, in my opinion. So, I chose to finally sit down a do a little research on the [...]
WTF! No way is it alright for one dude to wizz between another two dudes! That's in the Man Law ...
What I have observed is that gas stations seem to watch one another to see how high they can price ...
Gas/service stations are independently franchised and prices are not set by the corporations that own them, but by the franchisee. ...
Chevron is setting a bar for other stations to charge more. Chevron is choosing to do this. I understand ...
Chevron price gouging? No way :-P
The crack down should be on our education system, not Chevron. 
Yeah, I agree with the other post. This so-called university obviously is not a institution of Higher Education.
Is gouging ...
Mindblowing, but sadly very common, and in more contexts than just restaurants. A lot of it, IMO, is simple ...
