Carl Crossman Blog

With the price of gas still going up, driving my big pickup trick everywhere is getting to be expensive. Last time I filled up it cost me $70 and that barely lasts a week when I use the truck for everything. I’m thinking I need to get a small car that gets good gas mileage for all the local errands and when I don’t really need a pickup truck.

My buddy Mason has a little Nissan Altima that he wants to sell. He needs the extra cash and doesn’t drive it much, so I told him I’d come take a look at it. If its in good shape and we can come to agreement on a fair price, I’d probably better off driving that car and he’ll get some cash out of it. Sounds like a deal – hope it proves to work out that way.

One item in the news lately has been the plans of the country of Canada to expand their gas and oil production and delivery. After a failed attempt to have a pipeline built from Alberta to Texas, they are exploring other options. Now they want to deal with China.

They are proposing a 731 mile pipeline from their oil sands to the coast in order to easily deliver their gas to China. I certainly wish that the Obama administration could have worked out a deal with Canada so that we could have their gas.

This year I was desperately trying to make some new years resolutions. I really plan to try to keep the ones I made. I want to lose some weight and so I have made a promise to myself that I will spend more time at the gym.

Another resolution I made was to change my driving habits. I know that I have using my cell phone while driving and that this is a dangerous practice. From now on, I will take my calls only when I have reached my destination or are in a safe place to talk.

One thing that really bugs me is getting a flat tire. I recently had a tire getting low and so I tried a product called fix a flat. It helped me get my tire back into working order and I was very happy. The directions are straight forward and simple. You just shake it up and squirt it into your tire.

The bad part is that I had a flat on my truck. Unfortunately, the fix a flat product did not work at all in this instance. I was very disappointed and was not satisfied at all. I still have mixed feelings about the product but will continue to update you on its value.

One thing that I could never live without is my car. I rely on it for everything. When I go out in the driveway to start it, I expect it to work. That’s why I was very disappointed when it failed to start the other day. It turns out that all I needed was a jump start as my battery had gotten low, but it got me to thinking about taking it in for some general maintenance.

The problem I had was that even though I have been living in this area for awhile, I never really found a ford repair shop that I was happy with. I naturally don’t trust repair shops and I can be quite picky about the work they do. I started looking around online to see if I could find another shop to find. I found a few new places and decided to try one.

In the end, I found a shop I liked. My car got some of the love and care it needed and I feel much about its reliability. I’ll have to tell all my friends about the new shop I found. It won’t be too long before I will have to buy a new car, but I hope this one will last for awhile longer.