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Computers already handle much of traffic law enforcement. Now IBM is developing a system to remotely turn off your car while idling at traffic lights, to save gas. In our future as envisioned by IBM in a new patent application, you pull up to a red light with several cars in front of you. A...

Fall is the perfect time to do a survey of your house insulation, ferreting out and fixing leaks that could drive your winter heating bills even higher. With the climbing cost of electricity, gas and fuel oil, it is easier than ever to recoup the investment made in tightening up your cocoon. Begin...

Some upscale cars already are equipped with a feature I find most illuminating, a gauge that show how fuel-efficiently you are driving at any given moment. Stomp on the gas and watch the meter dip to 12 mpg. Bop along on cruise control at a thrifty 55 and watch it bounce up to 28. Make sure to look...

The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) recently ran an article about the decision of some local government's to switch their employees to a four-day work week to save them some of the cost of driving back and forth to work. An official from Oakland County, Michigan estimates such a move...