Results tagged “automobiles”

Last year we invoked the name of Cal Worthington as a flimsy excuse to post the amazing "Montgomery Flea Market" ad. Now, we actually have an ad from the master himself. Big ups to Cal for wearing a Mariners jacket (and also for the zebra). There is a definite lack of men on horses leading zebras around in our television advertising today.

--It may be just a Wednesday night for you, but Japan's already buzzing with anticipation about Dice-K vs. Ichiro. Via Deadspin

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Sightline's Eric de Place celebrated his own private Kyoto on Friday by congratulating the region for their collective environmental work. British Columbia, which has been slow to catch up with even the rest of Canada, has finally been pushed in the right direction by the Prime Minister's recent green initiative talk. Oregon's governor Ted Kulongoski has recently said that he wants the state to become the "clean energy capital of the nation" and released an action plan that focuses on renewable energy sources, biofuels, conservation and tax credits for investors supporting renewable energy. All great stuff.

The P-I's Joel Connelly fires a shot across the Stranger's bow this morning with a satirical column titled "Peer into future after car ban -- it isn't pretty."

In non-holiday tree related Port news, all of the Seattle-Tacoma International Taxicab Association (STITA) taxis will run on compressed natural gas by this summer (the press release says "Aug. 31, 2006" but we're guessing they meant 2007). In fact all of the sedan-style STITA cabs already burn natural gas. The Port had to hunt around for sedans that use the alternative fuel, and purchased a bunch from California fleets that were retiring the cars. Ford stopped making CNG Crown Victorias in 2004 ("Who Killed The Compressed Natural Gas Car?"), but there are companies out there that convert standard petroleum cars to CNG.

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As we promised last week, Seattlest played the quiz at Kate's Pub last night. Our team, Eclectic Boogaloo, ended up winning the pot, although it took a tiebreaker round to get there. (Sorry, Ozzy's Outcasts. Good game.)

If you've been on the waiting list for a Toyota Prius hybrid for as long as popular mythology would have us believe, you'll be pissed off to know where your car is. The state of Washington bought it out from under you and plastered livery stickers all over it. In 2006 the state's agencies bought 222 Priuses (Priuii?) and 206 Ford Escape hybrids, making this year the first in which the state has purchased more hybrids than standard-fuel automobiles.

We established yesterday that Portland wants to be Seattle by pointing out the fact that they have residents who quit the car (for a month) in much the same way Ballard resident Allen Durning has (for good). Tenuous, maybe, but good on 'em. The idea that families need automobiles like they need prime time television should be challenged. Today we suggest that San Francisco wants to be Seattle by pointing out the fact that their lap dances are being threatened in much the same way ours were (successfully, unfortunately) recently.

A new biodiesel refinery in Western Washington was announced Tuesday that would dwarf the 5 million gallons a year that local guys Seattle Biodiesel (actually it's the same guys: Imperium Renewables) can currently come up with. Supposedly the new Gray's Harbor plant will be able to produce 100 million gallons of biodiesel fuel a year which there may actually be a market for due to The Energy Freedom legislation passed in the state earlier this year which says that 2% of all diesel used in Washington will need to be biodiesel by 2008.

Wanna see Pretty Girls Make Graves for free? Our good friends at Filter Magazine, along with the Honda Fit, can make that happen.

There was a great editorial in the P-I over the weekend in which the writer Daniel Jack Chasan said (and this is Seattlest’s Paraphrase): The Sound is a mess. The Sound was a mess in the 80’s and we said we’d fix it and we never wanted to foot the bill so the Sound is mess now and we’re saying we’ll fix it and we won’t foot the bill. That was the gist of it, but it’s worth going to read for yourself if you haven’t.

It's rained for 22 straight days which seems pretty excessive to us, but we were really dry last winter so maybe our perspective is just skewed. Mud slides are happening and home owners are getting their first looks at puddles in the basement. Generally, it sucks. Anyway, other media outlets have been broadcasting the fact that we might meet or exceed the historical high for consecutive days of rainfall which is 33. Seems to Seattlest like we're only two-thirds of the way there. The 33 days of rain happened in 1953 so we're going to count down the days to the record by giving you a history tidbit from that year.

The Supersonics are hot. Prior to last nights victory against New Orleans, the Sonics beat the Houston Rockets in Houston, largely by shutting down superstar Tracy McGrady. But the Rockets' center Yao Ming scored 30 points and this highlights the Sonics biggest problem - the Sonics center-less.