Well, I meant to do a formal introduction post for my new Auto blog. But it's been a crazy day and it'll have to wait until tomorrow. But this item shouldn't Heh!
Well, I never thought The New York Times would be telling readers to forget about gas prices, hop in that SUV and drive, baby! But that’s the gist of one of the better items I’ve seen in the Times in quite a while. They should promote this guy to the front page.
Spiraling gas prices were causing me to anguish over my family’s planned summer vacation trip to Utah. Bite the bullet and go anyway? Or should we cancel?
I finally decided to turn off the gas-price hysteria on the local TV news and turn on my own brain. I got out my calculator.
As I said, more on The Fast Report later. You can also see the About page here.
I also do plan to continue to update Riehlworldview regularly, hopefully even more than I have been recently due to other demands.
Will there be an analysis of how yellow ribbon magnets impact fuel economy?
Seriously though, best wishes.
Posted by: bobInStamford | Monday, July 28, 2008 at 06:52 PM
Interesting thing about those old big SUVs is that they become rather fuel efficient when filled up with passengers.
But rare are the days when they are used this way, aside from the occasional haul of the soccer team to practice. Most of the time, they are single passenger transports/oversized shopping carts.
Posted by: seekeronos | Monday, July 28, 2008 at 07:52 PM
Congrats on the new site Dan. It looks like a car junkies fix to me!
If Algore can cruise around in idiling Limos and private jets I suppose I can splurge and take the occasional family trip if so inclined. Of course I may have to give up the Argula though and get me some of those carbon credits he sells!
Posted by: SacTownMan | Monday, July 28, 2008 at 08:43 PM
Thanks, Bob and STM. Should be an interesting ride. : )
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Monday, July 28, 2008 at 09:27 PM
Related to the new site I have a car question.
If the economy is in the tank and we have the onslaught of the next recession how can the local Dodge dealer mark up the new 2008 Challenger $20,000 over MSRP?
Do you go to those same guys that gave people the risky home loans and say " I need to borrow $65,000 for a $42,000 car. The problem is there are plenty of folks dumb enough to make that kind of purchase. My concern is the same lenders that would still loan some of these folks the extra 20k in a heartbeat.
Do we live in the greatest country on earth or what?
Posted by: SacTownMan | Monday, July 28, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Well, STM - supply and demand if you're in business. Wouldn't you mark something up x, y or z if you could get it? Apparently, they think that can.
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 12:08 AM
Congrats on the new site !!
Posted by: jolari | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 05:00 AM
I'd much rather see Detroit come up with something truly new, or at least competitive with Toyota's Prius.
I don't think that the Big Three will manage another 10 years in their present forms unless they can innovate: one of them should get behind the folks who are building the Tesla car and start mass producing affordable and efficient (and reasonably powerful) electric cars.
Oh, and stop producing crap cars that are designed to have major component failure in 4.9 years of average driving.
Posted by: seekeronos | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 08:44 AM