I never thought very much about ethanol in gasoline until I started messing with old dirt bikes again. Two of my bikes run poorly on E10 (10 percent ethanol), and I blame the alcohol for making the rubber seals in the tank petcocks so hard they’ll barely turn. My lawn mower, my generator, my truck […]

How time flies. It was only five-and-a-half short years ago that I started writing the weekly Legislation and Law and Order pieces, first for former e-Weekly and now for the blog. In that time, I’ve written more than 250 columns on the subject; read through at least thousands, if not tens of thousands of pages […]

You probably saw the news items: Traffic deaths fall to a 59-year low! Only 33,808 people killed in 2009, compared to 33,186 in 1950*! A mere 1.13 fatalities per 100 million miles traveled! And only 2,217,000 injuries! The numbers, while staggeringly huge, are attributed in part to increased seatbelt use, and anti drunk driving campaigns. […]