As gasoline prices continue to go up and take a bigger bite out of our spendable cash, more and more drivers are becoming “hypermilers,” a method of driving that involves making skillful changes in driving that result in gas savings and a better state of mind as pump prices rise.

In today’s story, Mileage mania: Saving fuel is goal of ‘hypermilers’, Clayton resident Dan Callahan drives his 2003 Civic Hybrid slowly — as in never over the speed limit. For city driving, he keeps the air conditioner off until he can’t stand it. He takes his foot off the gas…

From the U.S. Supreme Court comes a ruling against the Bush Administration that declares this: carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases should be considered air pollution — and they should be regulated as such.

The court, in a 5-4 ruling in its first case on climate change, declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate those emissions from new cars and trucks under the landmark environment law, and the “laundry list” of reasons it has given for declining to do so are insufficient, the…