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Diesel Vrs Hybrid Vrs Petrol Cars – The great deception

November 24th, 2007 No Comments

I love to hear people talking about hybrids and buying them at many thousands of extra dollars! But do these people really understand what they are doing.
a) MPG from EPA. To calculate the fuel economy of a vehicle in the US to the best of my knowledge the EPA uses a rolling road and essentially [...]

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Credit Card Credit Crisis

November 24th, 2007 No Comments

It is only a few month since I was discussing the impact of credit card and consumer debt on the economy and that everyone saying American Express etc would not be impacted by the sub prime meltdown was crazy. If you aren’t paying your mortgage and are establishing bad credit , why would you pay [...]

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Credit Card Credit Crisis

November 4th, 2007 No Comments

It is only a few month since I was discussing the impact of credit card and consumer debt on the economy and that everyone saying American Express etc would not be impacted by the sub prime meltdown was crazy. If you aren’t paying your mortgage and are establishing bad credit , why would you pay [...]

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Diesel Vrs Hybrid Vrs Petrol Cars – The great deception

September 29th, 2007 1 Comment

I love to hear people talking about hybrids and buying them at many thousands of extra dollars! But do these people really understand what they are doing.
a) MPG from EPA. To calculate the fuel economy of a vehicle in the US to the best of my knowledge the EPA uses a rolling road and essentially [...]

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