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Erik Bjornstad: Oct 16 2014
If you google "oil additives for motorcycles", you'll find tons of links to various products by a hundred different manufacturers. They make similar claims about the protective qualities of the oil you're putting in your motorcycle. And why...
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Erik Bjornstad: Oct 14 2014
The holy grail for ethanol has always been "can we make ethanol for gasoline out of stuff we can't eat?" More specifically, the big issue has been...
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Erik Bjornstad: Oct 7 2014
A follow-up to our previous blog entry on things to look for when shopping for a used car. Buying a used car is always a better financial decision...
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Erik Bjornstad: Sep 25 2014
The band Queen asked the rhetorical question ‘who wants to live forever’? Your wallet would probably say that your car does. As noted in a previous...
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Erik Bjornstad: Sep 22 2014
It’s well established that buying a new car does not make financial sense. You spend $25,000 on the car and then see its value drop 25% as soon as...
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Erik Bjornstad: Sep 11 2014
For many of us, cars are like a "black box" - we know that they work but we don't know how they work. That means we don't know whether to be...
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Erik Bjornstad: Sep 9 2014
Okay, you really can't make your car last forever. But more and more people are moving away from the cycle of buying or leasing new vehicles every...
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Erik Bjornstad: Sep 4 2014
It's now four or five years on from the widespread infiltration of E10 into our fuel supply across the country. Now we're at the point where we're...
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Erik Bjornstad: Aug 19 2014
Cars are so complicated that a simple rattling noise could turn out to be nothing or it could be the start of a four-figure repair job. We always say...
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Erik Bjornstad: Jul 29 2014
We're changing things up a little bit here. We like to talk about fuels and oils and engines, but we also know people like to keep their cars looking...
