As state and local governments struggle to keep up with their reckless spending in this economic downturn, more and more cities are installing red light camera to fine motorists and help bridge the revenue gap in their budgets. It seems like these things are everywhere now, which makes me love this story of how a [...]
Sounds like easy money: go test drive a Smart Car and get a $25 Target gift card. So I decided to drop into the Smart Center in Sugarland, Texas to do a test drive and qualify for the gift card. What a waste of time that was! Turns out they only do test drives between [...]
Here in the States, we see a lot of personalised license plates. It has even gotten to the point here that states issue specialty plates for specific causes and organizations to help us express our affiliations through the license tags on our automobiles. But did you know that you can have personalised Number Plates in [...]
A few months ago I had a little incident in the parking garage at one of my clients. I was coming back from lunch in my car and came upon the gate already open. There was no other car in sight, so I assumed it was stuck open (the garage is also opened to the [...]
As Americans we are the target of a full-on assault from a yuppie caveman with a chip on his shoulder, whiny 50s-era dolls, and a cute little gecko who talks with an Australian accent. Unless you have been living in a cave, you surely have seen the numerous advertisements for Geico Auto Insurance, promising that [...]
As if we haven’t had enough stuff going on, we are in the process of buying an almost new car. My mother bought a brand new Honda Accord last year because she wanted something more fuel-efficient (she previously had a Mercury Mountaineer), however after driving SUVs for several years she just couldn’t get used to [...]
Sorry for the last of posts over the last couple of weeks. We have just had a lot going on around our house to keep me off of the computer. Anyway, yesterday as I was filling my gas tank at Sam’s Club, it occurred to me that perhaps not all stations are created equal. No, [...]
Trent over at The Simple Dollar had a post recently about the economics of speeding, in which he details how a recent speeding ticket messed up his day and makes the argument that speeding doesn’t save enough time to justify the costs when you do get caught. Interesting post, but here is my take on [...]