Personal transportation

Better cars are not the answer

Posted October 15, 2007 - 05:53 by Philip Brewer

Green Living, Cars and Transportation

Cars in apartment lot

Wise Bread is an optimistic place. There are some people who can't see the congruence between optimism and frugality. I'm talking about the people who point to our progress from 360 square foot houses to 2400 square foot houses and say that, if your vision of the future doesn't have us all in 16,000 square foot houses pretty soon now, it's a pessimistic one. This article, though, isn't about houses. It's about cars.

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Frugal Transport--bicycling

Posted July 13, 2007 - 16:10 by Philip Brewer

Green Living, Cars and Transportation

biking it

Three years ago I started bicycling to work. It was a gradual thing. It took extra planning to ride--there were issues with clothing, issues with carrying stuff on the bike.

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The Toyota I-Unit; would you drive it?

Posted 2 years ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: Personal Finance

iunit

We've been talking a lot about gas prices recently. That's no surprise considering we're paying almost three times more for gas than we were six years ago. The problems of oil refinery shortages, devaluation of the dollar and higher costs of extracting oil will not go away. So, what do we do?

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