'Road Idiots' and '69 Subaru'

May 30, 2008 06:41 PM PDT

From the infamous 'Straight Talk' column at Newsvine/MSNBC, host Robert Blevins presents two articles dealing with skyrocketing fuel prices.

'Road Idiots' takes a no-prisoners look at those Ricky Racer commuters you love to hate, and why they are helping to drive up gas prices.

'1969 Subaru' compares Subaru of America's early imports and their extreme gas mileage (up to 66 miles a gallon) and asks why Detroit still can't come up with something similar almost forty years later. Host Robert Blevins also reveals his personal adventures in this strange little car.

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The 'Straight Talk' podcast is the audio version of the column at MSNBC/Newsvine by Seattle's Robert M Blevins.

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Robert Blevins is the author of the infamous 'Straight Talk' [http://adventurebooks.newsvine.com/] column at Newsvine/MSNBC. 'Straight Talk' features illustrated articles on all manner of subjects, presented in a concise and entertaining format. This podcast is an extension of that column, providing audio versions of some of the more popular articles. Mr Blevins is the author of the sci-fi novels 'Say Goodbye to the Sun', 'The 13th Day of Christmas', 'The Corona Incident', and 'Dimensions' (with British author Geoff Nelder). Currently, he works as an editor with the Escape Velocity Magazine [http://www.escapevelocitymagazine.com/] and is the founder of Adventure Books of Seattle [http://www.adventurebooksofseattle.com/].

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