Posts Tagged ‘gasoline’
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
This man, recently seen on Franklin Street, has sworn he will never drive his Mazda 626 LX-V6 more than 60 MPH. Why? Cause he’s a part of the Pledge 60 Movement. Check out the sign that he printed at home (or at work, let’s hope, considering the cost of replacement printer ink, “starter cartridge” don’t get me started):
“I pledge 60 MPH max to save U.S. gas $“
Fair enough. Not sure how this would work on the nascent Trans-Texas Corridor where they’ll have an 85mph limit, or for that matter Montana where teen-aged girls on narrow highways will pass you in their tiny three-cylinder cars going 90+, but oh well.
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The Sierra Club has/had a similar campaign – “I Can Drive 55 (or whatever the limit is).”
Pledgers should keep to the right (avoiding those carpool lane-stickered Toyota Priuseses going 80+ on the I-80) and they’ll be fine.
Pledge on.
(These kinds of pledges probably will have a higher success rate than those chastity pledges that don’t seem to work.)
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
No, not you. You’re a peach, you average-or-better Toyota Prius driver in San Francisco. The problem is all the thousands of other drivers of Priuseses in town. You know, the left 40% of the bell curve.
What’s the deal with you all? You drive as if you’re the only people on Earth. So, if there are a lot of streetlamps on at night, don’t bother turning on your headlights cause how does it benefit you, right? And if you want to cross town, just drive through the Sunset Tunnel – no hills and no red lights! And if you want to park, just do it the way you feel, you dig? You’re entitled.
As here, where a hastily parked Prius turns busy Stockton Street into a slolom course. I mean, its rear is more in the traffic lane than not. But for a bad San Francisco Prius driver, that’s a parking job well done, now let’s find that Starbucks:
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Now don’t be talking about confirmation bias. Oh no. Just check it out for yourself, on the streets.
So, Volvo drivers are the ones who don’t know that you’re thereand Prius drivers are the ones who know that you’re there, but they just don’t care.
(And someday somebody will explain to me how the EPA mileage estimates are lower for the 2010 model than they were for the 2004 model, even though the roomier 2010 model is better in many ways and, in real life, gets better fuel economy. Did somebody mislead us about fuel economy, back in the day?)
All right Prius driver, enjoy your rolling triggerfish, but try remember that you’re not the only person in the world.
Glub glub.
Tags: bad, electric, gas, gasoline, grand hyatt, hotel, hybrid, parking, prius, San Francisco, stockton, street, strike, sutter, toyota, tunnel
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
This fellow had a tough time making it up Nob Hill, but that’s a small price to pay when you consider all that he saves on licensing, insurance, tickets, ‘n stuff like that.
Hurray!
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Tags: area, bush, gas, gasoline, hills, mini, Polk, San Francisco, scooter, tenderloin, unlicensed, van ness
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Here’s a sneak peak of what you’ll soon be able to see over at WhatImSeeing.com - it’s a tanker truck explosion for the taping of the possible NBC series “Trauma.”
What a great photo! Click to expand:
from Plug1
Here’s another view and here’s the reverse angle from ExxonValdez.
And with all the choppers flying around above hospital curve, you think, wouldn’t it be nice to have two or three real medical chopper flights a day coming into and out of our Level One Trauma Center at San Francisco General Hospital? Yes, yes it would.
via ToastyKen
Tags: 2009, 280, chopper, drama, er, explosion, filming, fire, fireball, flim, gas, gasoline, helcopter, helipad, i., i280, interstate, kaboom, king, lazgrove, life flight, march, medical, nbc, nimby, off-ramp, offramp, oil, pilot, San Francisco, sfgh, soma, tanker, taping, television, trauma, truck, TV
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
Remember back in the day, when the “rage-inducing” ARCO gas station at 1175 Fell was making the news for blocking traffic, particularly bikes on Fell Street? Take a gander all the way back to 2007:
The 76 you can see on the right became a Spirit gas station and that basically solved the bulk of the traffic problem because Spirit, unlike pricey 76, had copycat pricing and would generally match the ARCO within a penny or so. The salutary effect was no more lines of idling cars on the dedicated bike lane.
But the Spirit stopped selling gas a few days ago so we’re back to “normal.” See?
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Such are the travails of the purveyors of the cheapest gas in San Francisco – too many customers. This will all get solved if and when the Spirit starts selling gas again.
Tags: 1175, arco, bicycles, bike, blocking, cars, cyclists, divisidero, fell, gas, gasoline, idling, lane, scott, spirit, Station, street, traffic
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
O.K., here’s the South Park Shell on 551 3rd Street from the other day. Regular is $3.62 and Premium is, wait a second, only suckers get premium so forget about that. Anyway, nothing unusual.
But the problem is that Bryant Shell at 598 4th Street charges $3.98, ten percent more, despite the fact that these stations are just one block apart.
What’s up with that?
Tags: cost, gallon, gas, gasoline, per, price, San Francisco, shell, stations
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Here’s what you’ll see tooling around San Francisco’s Mission District these days - an aging Mercedes Benz 300 SD sedan that’s been converted by Oakland’s Veg Rev to run on vegetable oil in a process called “vehicle fuel reassignment.”
So instead of inky diesel soot covering the back of this OM617 W126, we see vegetable oil. See the conversion process courtesy of this nifty video. (But just ignore a laughable MTV-style intro from the abysmal Current TV network.) The car shown can’t accelerate quickly, but in many ways is superior to (and costs about $115,000 less than) the quick, all-electric Tesla Roadster.
Of course the best way to spread the word about veggie power is to fashion a bumper sticker to make Toyota Prius owners feel bad:
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“YOUR NEW HYBRID USES GAS – HA!”
From Teh Mission with love…
Tags: 2CHJ531, 300, 300sd, benz, california, conversion, diesel, gas, gasoline, ha, hybrid, Mercedes, Oakland, oil, San Francisco, sd, veg rev, vegetable, Your New Hybrid Uses Gas, Your New Hybrid Uses Gas - Ha
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Click here to see the latest version of the proposed Chevy Volt “series hybrid” gas-electric car from General Motors. Yes, that’s a fake grill on the nose of the car – apparently, all Chevies gots to have a grille whether they need it or not.
But that’s the way this “boring, boring, boring” vehicle will look once it gets to production.
But look below to see what the Chevy Volt looked like less than a year ago when it visited San Francisco.
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Nobody expected these 22-inch wheels (complete with ”not for road use” Michelin Green-X tires”) to make it into production, but the folks at Chevy could have tried a little harder to drag the show car dream into existence.
Comes now Toyota with the third-generation Prius that might get a plug-in option at the end of next year. GM better hurry if it wants to get the Volt on the road before then.
But at least Hollywood’s Michael Bay is doing all he can to help. Having honed his skillz directing Scarlett Johansen (as Jordan Two Delta) in The Island, he’s now working on fitting the Chevy Volt into Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
But sadly, this little Chevy will just drive around and not transform into a robot or have any lines with Optimus Prime (known as Convoy in Japan).
Oh well…
Tags: 2009, Chevrolet, chevy, electric, gas, gasoline, general motors, gm, hybrid, mpg, plug-in, series, volt
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Oh, it’s on. And it will remain on until midnight tonight. That’s correct, Two Free Tacos Day is upon us. You see, Jack feels your (gas) pain, so alls you need is a receipt from a gas station and free food is yours. Forget about El Tonayense just for a day and get over to your nearest J in the B.
Now it might seem odd to San Franciscans, who are used to getting discounts on purchases for simply riding a bike, but people across the America are being rewarded for using gasoline.
Note author’s bicycle through window – you don’t need a gas receipt from today, any old receipt appears to work
And unlike Plumpjack, where “uneven food” unsettles the finicky, Jack served up two tacos that were almost identical to that which was served up prior this year.
Best of all? No bogus Healthy San Francisco surcharge.
Get thee to a Jackery. See you there!
Tags: california, free, gas, gasoline, jack in the box, prices, receipt, San Francisco, tacos, two
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
This was the scene last night at the Atlantic Richfield on Fell and Divisadero last night. “No Gas.” Why’s that? Who knows. Maybe it’s a temporary shutdown at this particular station for an innocuous reason. Maybe.
Or, maybe it’s a signal to go out and buy all that you can lay your hands on. That was such a good strategy a few months back when we had that “rice shortage“. Wasn’t it?
These days, it’s not just Peak Oil or Peak Rice, it’s Peak Everything. Oh noes! Panic, panic panic!
Oh well. The upside to all this is that the Fell Street bike lane, formerly crowded with cars sitting in line for ARCO gas (check the photo from MapJack at “1160 Fell St, San Francisco, CA 94117“), is now free for bikes to use 24/7. So the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition can count another victory. Plus the owner of the Spirit station across the street must be happy.
Hurray!
The Ice Age is coming, the sun zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear…
Tags: arco, california, divisadero, empty, fell, gas, gasoline, no gas, oil, out of gas, peak, prices, rice, San Francisco, sfbc, shortage, spirit, Station
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