http://blog.fuelclinic.com Doc Miles provide tips on fuel efficiency, gas mileage, and help improving your fuel economy to help fight high gas costs. Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:44:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's that time again... My personal New Year's resolutions are: Complete development of the current phase of FuelClinic.com by February, and have the training module framework completed by April 2009. Continue building out my other web-publishing channels Eat less carbs and more protein in an effort to manage my own blood-sugar more effectively. Take my wife ... http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/12/29/new-years-resolutions/ It was only five months ago that oil prices hit a record high of $147 a barrel. Now they're below $40 thanks to slowing global demand. At the same time, gas prices have plunged from over $4 a gallon to around $1.67 nationally. (And some analysts think they're heading to ... http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/12/23/plunging-oil-prices-act-as-350-billion-dollar-stimulus-package/ I needed to get some eye-candy out here on the blog... how about a purpose-built cop car that has a bio-diesel burning power-plant, built-in lights, machine-gun holders, and does 0-60 in 6.5 seconds? Meet the E7 - even Batman would like this car.  Unlike conventional police cruisers, which are retrofitted consumer vehicles ... http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/12/12/the-e7-purpose-built-cop-car-can-sniff-out-nukes-while-getting-30mpg/ This blog has been suffering repeated outages over the last two days, apparently related to a database problem at the hosting site. We are working to resolve the problem for good, and apologize for any confusion it may have caused you. FuelClinic.com remained online throughout, as it's hosted differently. http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/12/12/blog-outages-thursdayfriday/ OPEC wants to prop up the dive-bombing price of oil, to keep their bank accounts flush with fresh cash. Russia is also feeling the pinch, as the rest of the world decides it _can_ live on less oil than previously consumed. OPEC would like Russia to join them in cutting ... http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/12/12/has-opec-lost-control/ I use Google Alerts to help monitor the web to find new websites and blog postings for the search term "FuelClinic" in an effort to understand how marketing and other promotional efforts are going. It's a useful tool that will email you once or twice a day if Google spots any new pages ... http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/12/11/fighting-forclosure-one-womans-goal-to-avoid-forclosure/ Earlier this month FuelClinic.com members climbed past 2-million-miles of tracking and managing fuel efficiency using the tools on the website. Together we've stopped to refuel over 10,000 times - buying just under 90,000 gallons of fuel. Continued-usage statistics for the site are very strong, as a good number of our users return every few ... http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/12/09/website-update-two-million-miles-later-still-climbing/ Barak Obama was on Meet the Press this weekend, and gave some insight into his plans for the US Auto-Industry and possibility of a fuel-surcharge What do you think about $4/gallon gas mandate that Brokaw puts forth? I think Obama had the correct response, but it's clear that cheap gas literally ... http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/12/08/obama-the-future-of-the-auto-industry-green-fuel-surcharge/ OPEC is to meet again on December 17th to mandate their members turn back their production output valves, in an effort to bring the price of oil up from it's current lows. OPEC President Chakib Khelil, who is also Algeria's minister for energy and mines, told the Associated Press that a consensus has ... http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/12/08/opec-promises-significant-cuts-again/ Congress will likely consider a "bailout" for the auto-industry today, Monday, Dec. 8, 2008.  It is an opportunity for Flex-Fuel legislation (Open Fuel Standard Act) to pass as well. Congress should require that new cars run on any mix of gasoline and ethanol and methanol.  As a reminder, in the war ... http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/12/08/take-action-today-a-real-plan-for-automakers-and-america/ I've been fielding some questions lately from friends and relatives about the importance (and sensibility) of fuel conservation at a time when the price of oil is dipping below $50/bbl and a gallon of gasoline costs less than $2/gal. It was just 4 short months ago that the gasoline seemed destined for $5+/gal, and ... http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/11/20/why-conserve-when-gas-is-cheap/ By Peter Forman Published: November 14, 2008 New York--This is a Breaking News analysis as of Friday, Nov 14, 2008, 5:30 pm. The United States continues to "perpetuate" a broken auto industry. Because of pressure from Detroit, unions, and Michigan lawmakers, the "Big Three" auto makers have been insulated from the real market-place ... http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2008/11/17/us-govt-gives-automakers-25b-in-loans-drops-fuel-efficiency-mandate/