I read an article this month in Car & Driver that Finland has passed a law in which traffic fines are now based on your annual income.  So a person going 5 over may be fined $10 or $100,000 depending on whom they are. This bit the CEO of Nokia recently when he received a $12 MILLION fine for going 15 over. Such a thing is, hopefully, unconstitutional in the United States.  In the US, we're supposed to be equal under the law.  Imagine the abuse a law like that could cause.&n...

My new car only averages around 17 miles per gallon. A few people I know have given me a hard time about that.  Here I am, polluting the environment. Making the US more reliant on foreign oil. Using up valuable resources. And so on.  What seems to get lost in those discussions is that it's not your mileage that should matter, it's how many gallons of gas you consume. I put around 6,000 to 8,000 miles on my car each year.  I don't drive very much.  Longer trips involve the ...

If America is serious about getting off foreign oil why don't we get tough and start restricting sales of these gigantic SUVS that guzzle gas? They have become so popular even as gas has become higher and higher some only get like 12 miles to the gallon. The less fuel efficient they are the higher tax they should be hit with each year until it hurts to own one of these things. I'd go so far to say that if it is a new car and get less than 15 miles to the gallon as a non-commercial vehi...