Auto Ramblings

by Lloyd Frazier

I found and interesting article about recycling CO2 waste to make biodiesel. New Belgium Brewery will be pumping 5000 metric tons of waste CO2 to Solix Biofuels on an annual basis. The waste will be pumped into a bioreactor to make algae. The algae will be processed into biodiesel. See the article here > Autoblog Green.

Now it would make sense to me that if this really works, we should create a new national campaign – National Beer Drinking Month. July would be a good month. We could kick it off by combining it with our annual Fourth of July celebrations all over the country. Heck, we are all drinking beer at picnics that day anyway. What is a few more six packs to save our environment. Cheers!

Lloyd…signing out

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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…