With a shortage of parts from Japan ongoing, and production already reduced by half in the home country, and decreased here on Mondays and Fridays, Toyota is still struggling to build vehicles. Yesterday, the automaker announced that it will be halting production on Mondays and Fridays until June 3, instead of only through next week [...]
They say everything is bigger in Texas. Apparently that extends to speed limits as well, because the Texas House of Representatives just approved a bill allowing speed limits on some highways to soar to 85 mph, giving the lone star state the highest speed limits in the country (well, if the Senate goes along with [...]
Gas prices in the United States reached an average of $3.14/gallon this week, according to numbers from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). What that means to most of us is that the average price of gas is 53 cents higher per gallon than it was a year ago, and that prices are now the [...]
If you’re considering a new car before the year’s out, a hybrid might be your best bet, or at the very least you should be looking at cars that rate highly in terms of fuel efficiency. Why? Because experts are predicting that the price of gasoline might hit $3.00 by January. Just this past Monday [...]
Yesterday morning, General Motors, the company that had picked up the uncomfortable moniker “Government Motors” due to the high levels of government bailout money it received, returned to the New York Stock Exchange for the first time since last year’s emergence from bankruptcy protection. As a result, the stake that American taxpayers have in the [...]