(Graph courtesy of remixyourhealth ) SPF, or Sun Protection Factor, seemed to come out of nowhere in the 1980s as people started to...

A Scientific American post in April (by Julia Pyper, originally posted on Climatewire ) captured a basic challenge facing people who want to...

A new paper in the Journal of Marketing by Akshay Rao of the University of Minnesota shows that people have a hard time with the following ...

A UK magazine called WhatCar? has launched a website to record driver's real MPG: http://www.whatcar.com/car-news/what-car-true-mpg-wi...

John Peterson has a grim analysis of the prospects for electric vehicles : The cost of batteries are so prohibitively high for the foreseeab...

Win $1 Billion Republicans have created a bill that will provide a $1 billion reward to the first automaker that can sell 60,000 cars that ...

Heather Peters sued Honda in small claims court because her Honda Civic Hybrid did not deliver the 50 MPG promised on the window sticker. ...

USA Today has an interesting summary of a 3-year EcoCAR competition sponsored by the Department of Energy and General Motors .  The article...

Avoiding jack rabbit starts and coasting into stop signs can greatly improve the MPG your car gets.  These are among a long list of hypermi...

Overdriveonline.com has an article summarizing fuel economy standards for heavy duty trucks.  Here are some excerpts. A key takeaway:  Ne...

Aaron Kessler of the Detroit Free Press summarizes a range of perspectives on the 56.2 MPG CAFE standard proposed for 2025 . Some interes...

The US Department of Agriculture has a new way to represent nutritional guidelines.  The pyramid is gone.  The new recommendations are parti...