I’m coming out of blog hiatus to post about this important bill recently passed in Virginia. It relates to my biggest pet peeve about driving. People who don’t use their signal.
Didn’t use your turn signal? That’ll be $1,050, please!
Now, if only every state decided to use this. The world would be a better place.
PLEASE USE YOUR SIGNAL!!!!
Cathy and I watched “An Inconvenient Truth” last weekend and it was really inspiring. Sure, it’s a glorified PowerPoint presentation but, with all apologies to Marshall McLuhan, in this instance the medium is not the message. So, I’ve tried to step up my looking for ways to help reduce my impact on our environment. My small steps may not make a HUGE difference but they’ll help and I can also help spread the word on my tiny little blog here. One thing that helps not just the environment but your pocketbook as well?
Stop idling the car!!
Studies have shown that idling the car for longer than 10 seconds is very wasteful. 10 SECONDS PEOPLE! That’s many stoplights out where I live, if I hit it right… wrong… umm, just as it changes to red. So, I’ve started to turn my car off when I think I can get away with it. The following link has more information and there’s a quaint, though low-budget (I love the squirrel), video that makes a good point as well.
(inspiration for this post) Homemade Hybrids - with the 10-Second Rule
Using this 10 second rule can even save you gas. The person quoted in the story I linked to above said he got an extra 30 miles in one month. That’s an extra gallon in my car. $3.45 saved. Per tank. I go through a coupla tanks a month. That’s big bucks.
What else am I doing?
Little things, but things that help. You can too. So, if you find yourself idling your car, anywhere you’re going to be longer than 10 seconds?… A long stoplight… Waiting for the kids to come out of school… Tailgating… etc… Turn it off.
PS - What’s the deal with the title? If we save our world? We’ll be saving the lives of countless cheerleaders too. I, for one, am all for that! 
Hastily shot picture of what I saw as I left work today. The license plate said it is a 1937 Rolls Royce. Sure was pretty.
I uploaded this through 
Just saw the MFer that took my license plate. ‘MST3000′ Drove right by him and couldn’t stop so I couldn’t take a picture and I never saw him pass me when I slowed down in the right lane.
Jerk.
Though I have already found it’s replacement. Haven’t ordered it yet though so I don’t wanna jinx it. It’s kinda obscure so I’m not afraid someone will take it but still.
… well… not a tin roof. This is the local cat that lives at the renovated apartment complex that got turned into office space where I work.
Heh. Farthest down i’ve ever gone toward empty on my gas tank. Not the farthest in miles though. I’ve gone over 440 miles. Not bad for my little baby.
Next time I buy a car, I’m getting the one that comes with a dog. 
… is Central Expressway in the Bay Area. My favorite is the Edens Expressway in Chicago. No relation that I know of.
Central sneaks inbetween 101 and 280 and if you need to avoid either, say during rush hour, then it is dang near perfect. There ARE some stoplights at cross streets which can slow your average speed but they’re certainly nicer to deal with than stop-n-go traffic.
If I were a skunk though, I’d be avoiding it like the plague. I saw two plastered on the road within a coupla miles of each other.
