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the car to charger ratio

Fast chargers aren't expanding rapidly enough.

a tip of the hat to Greg

 

shipping costs

 

The price of shipping a 40 foot container from Shanghai to Los Angeles

 

advice from a flight attendant

Air travel is currently in bad shape in the US.

 

crack spread

A big contributor to high gasoline prices.

And every Republican voted against going after oil company profiteering.

 

 

a clueless tweet, but the comments!

The Trumpist former ambassador to Denmark said something completely clueless, but the comments are great.

 

low pressure tires

 

dealing with an upcoming oil shortage

Germany makes some dramatic fare cuts.

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Germany’s parliament has set summer train fares at 9 euros per month in a bid to slash pollution and curb imports of Russian oil by spurring drivers to take public transit.

The initiative takes effect on June 1, with 9 euros covering the cost of all buses, trams, subways, and regional trains, effectively cutting fares by more than 90 percent in some cities. Berlin commuters will save 98 euros on their monthly travel pass, while commuters in Hamburg will save more than 105 euros, Bloomberg reported. Deutsche Bahn is adding 50 additional trains to absorb the expected increase in users.

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the bicycle

Jill Lepore on the bicycle in The New Yorker.

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In the history of the bicycle, ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Lately, posh toddlers, the newest preschool jet set, roll around on modern swiftwalkers, marketed as “wooden balance bikes.” If you bike all your life, there’s a fair chance you’ll bike the whole history of bicycles. When I was three, I started riding a red metal tricycle, another hand-me-down from my brother. It had a chrome fender in the front, a red running board in the back, and, most crucial, pedals. The cranking of pedals converts downward motion into forward motion, with multiplying force. No one’s quite sure who came up with this idea—most historians place their bets on a French carriage-maker, in 1855—but putting a crank on the axle of the front wheel, with pedals on either side of the hub, changed everything about bicycles, including their name: most people called the ones with pedals “velocipedes,” which is, roughly, Latin for “fast feet.” People expected velocipedes to replace horses. “We think the bicycle an animal, which will, in a great measure, supersede the horse,” one American wrote in 1869. “It does not cost as much; it will not eat, kick, bite, get sick, or die.”

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what if an airline screws up your itinerary?

What can you do?

 

the any car

Inspiration for the Homermobile