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Last time we listed a goodly number of gas-and-money-saving ideas that could immediately be put into play before you even get behind the wheel! Today we’ll look at other solid strategies for extracting the most from every gallon that goes into your tank. Keep idling your engine to a minimum, and minimize fuel waste! Apparently you don’t need to warm up these new cars for as long as they did the automotive dinosaurs of old. Also, try not to leave the motor running while you’re off doing business. I remember once reading of D.C. lawmakers introducing a “bold, new” gas-price-relief plan on the steps of a public building in 2006---and all the while a fleet of their own drivers sat

Scroll to the middle of the article for tips!    It’s a pity that the prevailing political sensibility in Washington is such that there has been no clarion call, from on high, for more prudent everyday use of available oil resources. Among other things suggestive of government taking the lead in our development of an energy culture for the new American century, we’d get really swell slogan buttons to wear! We’d get snazzy patches to sew onto our book bags and jackets, and stickers for our cars, notebooks and guitar cases! We’d see people with preternaturally beautiful teeth doing 30-second spots after every soap opera and news hour on tv, and these people would be girding us ever more securely for the

Involve every member of the family in your new gas-consumption strategy; make it a game, if you like! Most Americans are clearly reeling from the burden of staggering gasoline prices, with no end in sight. But I like to think of our consumer-paralysis as being shock-induced, and therefore temporary. The American people are nothing if not resilient; people preferring to curse the dark are well outnumbered by those with a candle at the ready. If, at this moment, you’re feeling powerless to affect oil-production channels, oil company policy, and gas-pump prices---congratulations on your excellent instincts! You’re right! For all practical purposes, you are indeed powerless in that regard. Today. But fortunately for you, your power lies elsewhere…power to create a whole

Mother’s Day’s this coming Sunday! Here’s the wrap-up of some movie ideas that might bring a smile! Youngsters’ Mom-Flicks The Parent Trap (Brian Keith, Maureen O’Hara, Hayley Mills, 1961; Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, 1998) Old favorite about sisters being reared apart by their divorced parents---sisters who are now plotting feverishly to haul the grown-ups back before the preacher-man!

  Mother’s Day is Sunday May 11, 2008! The movies have been making a big deal of Mom for ages, since well before James Cagney’s psychopathic Cody Jarrett went stark-raving bonkers in the prison mess hall on learning his beloved, but homicidal, mother had bought it in the back (White Heat, 1949)... In the run-up to Mother’s Day weekend, I’ve put together a list of noteworthy films from yesteryear that all have one thing in common: At least one compelling mother(ing) character, or a strong motherhood theme.