The Bug Out Vehicle (BOV) is an area of survival preparedness often overlooked. High gas prices have driven the average motorist to opt for tiny pieces of rolling plastic as transportation, which is fine until you need something to power your family out of a natural disaster or emergency situation. Consider keeping an older truck [...]

It’s every traveler’s worst nightmare – a plane crash. Specifically YOUR plane crashing. Certain death, right? It turns out that between 1980 and 2000, almost 90% of airplane crash victims survived. Let’s say it again. Survived. That’s a pretty high percentage. It should get your ears perked up and paying attention to the topic now. [...]

The prevailing theory regarding world oil reserves goes something like this: millions of years ago all the dinosaurs in the world fell over dead. As years rolled past, their remains were concentrated, compressed, and magically transformed into gas and oil. Since there were, obviously, a limited number of dinosaurs, one could deduce the same limitations [...]

You might have missed recent news reports that giant new oilfields have been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico, Iran, Brazil, and Uganda. Excellent! Now the price of gas at the pump is sure to plummet. Not so fast. The numbers do not seem to bear out that rosy assessment.
Here’s a spoonful of reality.
First of [...]

Most of us, at some point in our lives, get to experience the joy of steering a car through a winter wonderland. Even if you’re a lifetime resident of the Snow Belt, you still go to visit the relatives up north for the holidays sometimes, don’t you?
Whatever the reason, whatever the season, it makes sense [...]