This is the effect anywhere that strip mining is used to extract minerals. Coal strip mining has gone on for over a century in our part of the country (Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas), but legislation forces the mining companies to fix the damage before moving on. But in remote areas, such as Alaska, mining operators…

I used to work at a job shop here in Tulsa OK that made the weldments for the suspension damper and for the wheel motor dis-assembly dollies for Unit Rig.

Most of the super cars have become too non-driver oriented machines in keeping with who their customer base is, normal folks who can afford to own a super car and merely want to look cool toodling around in it and ocassionally revving it up at a red light. They rarely ever really drive the things unless its to an…

So basically, you are looking to pay an extra $7k to $10k for a hatch back with longer shocks, larger tires and more creature comforts that you may or may not ever use or need. Why?

It does make one wonder if a sponsor might have asked for this change and Ambrose is being allowed to save face here. He is a good racer and acquitted himself well on the ovals here against guys with years more experience in the series. Hopefully he can pull it all back together.

This is not uncommon for AWS certified TIG Welders. I have seen guys who can run any material with any weld process upside down, and uphill while squeezing the foot pedal between their knees.

Its one thing to be the unruly curmudgeon and have the talent to overcome it, but eventually when you've repeatedly gone over the top and seen what is on the other side, the other side is... we don't need your bullshit any more. Either he or his writers cannot seem to find the point of no return. In some ways the BBC…

It really has less to do with competition and technology and more to do with a few making so much money they can afford to pay off both sides of the political fence. Same business model the major energy companies do.

These types of race cars teach you how to race. When you learn to drive one of these cars fast and efficiently, those things you learn can translate to faster and more race oriented cars. That's why Formula Ford has always been such a great training ground over the years. These cars lack power to make up time. If you…

This would be a good design concept for the Ford Transit Connect. Except you'd need Ford on board with it and that's not going to happen any time soon.

Excellent. Get laid off from your job and punish the chickens. Destroying 300,000 chickens does not really make a dent in Pilgrim's Pride other be annoying and a very short term loss.

The Jelopnic.com and Ford built Lamborhini just confirms to me that it is a requirement that you not be educated in any way shape or form to write or be the copy editor for anything put on television.

And my third choice for Pat: a Porsche Panamera. Yes, it's big, and it's ugly, and it's unwieldy. But I had a Panamera GTS until I smashed it into a 1990s Ford Explorer with roughly the velocity of a bowling ball hitting a prairie dog, and let me tell you this: the Panamera is tons of fun to drive. (Literally tons;…

Know me, I am the Lord of Torque, feel my acceleration.

Pretty much common knowledge to most who grew up outside the confines of the city. Animals will do whatever hey need to do to get by.

Your premise may be accurate, but the number one reason she was struck by a train is that she stopped inside the gate too close to the tracks. Had she stopped where you would normally stop if the gate was down, even if it was up, then she would have been struck at all. Trains always have right of way, because they…

Its a shame that our big 3 automakers had to be threatened and cajoled into making their own product better by the government.

I never said that safety devices are bad nor did I say that they should not be included in automobiles. You made an erroneous leap of logic here. What I said is that there may be a knock on effect to these safety devices, that effect being that human beings by their nature are lazy and most times are willing to pass…

In many ways, extra safety precautions are a great thing. But the less capable people are at driving and the more they rely on the systems to pay attention for them the more likely their incompetence is to overcome the safety systems. Safety systems can only deal with a certain amount of variables at once. Its still…

While I applaud systems that help collision mitigation as well as simply making cars safer. I cannot help but wonder if some of these systems encourage a lack of vigilance when driving. I believe its a Ford commercial where the driver is so distracted that every system constantly keeps saving his ass while he tries to…