The Russian Invasion of Ukraine will Impact the Auto Industry, Electric Vehicles, and Gasoline Prices
By The Car Coach Lauren Fix President Joe Biden announced the US will ban Russian oil imports due to Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine. The impact of this will impact you at the pump, your ability to get vehicles and parts. Americans will start to feel some of its effects in more than just higher gas prices. […]
Ethanol Is Bad For the Environment
By Lauren Fix, Car Coach Reports We are all feeling the pain at the pump. As gasoline prices rose in the 15 years (or so) ago, some suggested that converting our corn supply to ethanol was the answer—and both the automotive industry and “environmentalists” quickly embraced the theory. Now, with hindsight always better than foresight, […]
Gas Guzzlers–Then and Now
I took my ’76 Trans Am out yesterday. I needed a reboot, and it needed exercise. Drove the orange-painted, screaming, chickened “gas guzzler” around for about an hour, taking my usual route out and back. Full tank when I left. When I got done, I refilled at my local Marathon. I used about 4 gallons […]
Savings That Cost You
No one ever saved money by spending it. The job of a salesman isn’t to save you money. It is to make money by convincing you to buy something. People who have money understand this principle often, having made a lot of it as salesmen, convincing other people of the opposite. Like a hybrid or an electric car, for […]
Bigger Electric
It’s interesting to me that the same people who seem to be outraged by the supposed chokehold applied by “Big Oil” to the prostrate American consumer are silent about its replacement: Bigger Electricity. Their silence about this is proof to me that their outrage over Big Oil was feigned. It’s difficult to conceive anything more centralized and […]
Why Are Gas Prices Going Higher? An Expert Explains
By The Car Coach Lauren Fix The Biden White House recently released a three-day supply of crude oil for America from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Biden has also terminated the Keystone XL pipeline coming from Canada, which would have provided our country with up to 900,000 barrels of crude oil per day. The President […]