Traffic for you mind
This is my first post on the new autoramblings.com website. For my old posts go to usautoindustry.blogspot.com. This a Word Press based blog. Word Press is all new to me. I am going to need a little time to tidy things up a bit. Please be patient. Thanks for stopping by. Please come back soon.
by Lloyd Frazier
The new 2007 Cadillac Escalade is right up there with the best SUV’s on the world stage. But, it is uniquely all-American. General Motors has hit a home run with this baby!
Cadillac has become an icon that will stand the test of time. Cadillac has historically created vehicles that will be forever etched into the fabric of the American society – even the world.
For an historical timeline click here > Cadillacforums.com.
Lloyd…signing out.
by Lloyd Frazier
My posts are probably going to be a little slim on content for a couple of weeks. I am currently in Michigan for some technical training for my full-time gig. Then my family and I are loading up the moving van and heading to Colorado. Seems like a really crazy thing to do since all the heavy snow fall there.
Man, here I am in auto americana heaven and I don’t even have time to visit some good auto museums. I just heard the news that Michigan is really fighting for their survival. The state has been trying to build a new industrial presence by luring high-tech industries. Hopefully, it will offset all the jobs lost due to massive layoffs by the Big Three over the last several years. Just when there was promise in the bio-medical industry, Pfizer, a large employer here in the state, just announced it will be laying off 10,000 people. Three research sites in Michigan will be shutting down putting hundreds out of work. I pray that Michigan will be able to start the steady climb out the hole very soon.
Michigan will make a comeback, you just wait and see. If folks like you and I start buying more American made products like automobiles, we can really make a difference. God bless America and the institutions that make it great.
Lloyd signing out…
by Lloyd Frazier
Taken directly from a Wikpedia.org entry:
David E. Davis, Jr. is an automobile journalist and magazine publisher. His career in the automotive industry spanned from race car driver, factory worker and car salesman to ad salesman with Road & Track and copywriter for Corvette advertisements before becoming a writer for Car and Driver magazine in 1962. He wrote for that publication until 1967 and later became its editor and publisher from 1976 to 1985 before leaving to found Automobile magazine. During this time, his “Driver’s Seat” columns for Car and Driver, and “American Driver” columns for Automobile, became wildly popular and influential in the industry. Time magazine called Davis the “dean of automotive journalists.” He is also the editorial director of Motor Trend magazine. He has been semi-retired from day-to-day operations on Automobile since 2000, and continues to serve as editorial director of Motor Trend. In 1985, during a 60 Minutes special report on the Lamborghini Countach, he said “I believe that anyone who is worth their salt should drive a V12 once before they die.” A statement that mirrored his earnest appreciation, at times even for the ridiculous, for great automobiles.
Mr. Davis is now Editor-in-Chief of Winding Road an e-zine for high-performance vehicles. It is published by Absolute Multimedia, Inc. of Austin, Texas, publishers of ‘The Absolute Sound’ and ‘The Perfect Vision.’
That being the segue into what this blog entry is about…the Winding Road Magazine. An online subscription to Winding Road Magazine
is available for free. You just need to sign up with an email address. Go to www.windingroad.com to get your free, three year subscription. I just read some fantastic articles in it this morning. You can download it into pdf form or read it online. I read it online and it was very enjoyable. They use a nice online reader format that I have not seen used on any other site. There is embedded multi-media in it as well. I first learned of David E. Davis while viewing an episode of Autoline Detroit with John McElroy. He seems to be a very interesting character since I share his passion for automobiles. I would like to think that I would have been in a similar position as him had I chosen to take the same career path. Actually, I wish I had taken a different career path. I’m closing on the mid-century mark. Maybe it isn’t too late to do something I really love in the fall/winter seasons of life. Go check out the site. I highly recommend it.
Lloyd signing out…
by Lloyd Frazier
Have you read about bio-diesel and the impact it could have on lessening the dependence on foreign oil? Willie Nelson is doing something about it. He and Morgan Freeman joined forces with Earth Biofuels. They joined the company as both spokesmen and members of the board of directors. Earth Biofuels acquired exclusive license to sell and distribute Biowilly branded fuels. I stumbled upon this story that apparently has been ongoing for a couple of years. Truckers can fill ‘er up on bio-diesel in several states. Biodiesel refers to a diesel-equivalent, processed fuel derived from biological sources such as vegetable oils, which can be used in unmodified diesel-engined vehicles. It is thus distinguished from the straight vegetable oils (SVO) waste vegetable oils (WVO) used as fuels in some modified diesel vehicles. BioWillie is a high-quality biodiesel exclusively branded under the legendary performer Willie Nelson’s name that is made in America and grown by family farmers. BioWillie is blended with regular diesel fuel at a 20 percent ratio of bio-diesel to petroleum diesel, creating a B20 blend. Some of you may think that this hullabaloo over bio-diesel is a tree-hugger subject. I am here to tell you that is not the case. We, as Americans, need to start doing our part and taking steps to wean ourselves from foreign sources of oil. This is a first major undertaking to do just that. In fact, it has the attention of state and federal governments. The National Biodiesel Board is a great place to start to “read more about it.”
Finally, did you know our country has the largest oil reserve in the world. It is in the form of oil shale and is located in Colorado. Check this video out…
Upwards of a million barrels an acre, a billion barrels a square mile. And the oil shale formation in the Green River Basin, most of which is in Colorado, covers more than a thousand square miles – the largest fossil fuel deposits in the world. Makes you wonder why we keep screaming the “sky is falling!” Political power maybe? Hmmmmm.
Lloyd signing out…
