From LifeHacker: "Back in the good ol' days of $2.50-per-gallon gasoline, you could ignore simple car maintenance. After all, what was it costing you? A buck here and a buck there?

From AutoblogGreen: "This is what the State of California says. Or more exactly what the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) says.

I'm not sure it would be legally prudent for me to recommend any of our readers do this to their car it's definitely worth a read over at AutoblogGreen.

Over on the TerraPass blog there's a post about how commuting by bike (or public transit presumably) saves not only on gas but also on insurance.

In the fourth installment in this series from AutoBlogGreen our hero completes the sign up process and is ready to book his first car from car-sharing company AvanCar.