Trey’s Blog

Anyone who knows me should know that I have truck fever right now. My first two vehicles were trucks and I always feel I’m lacking utility without a truck. I also have an interest in diesel engines, for their power, fuel efficiency, and alternative fuel options. Yesterday, I was talking to my friend, Travis, about my Dodge Grand Caravan, and I said, “I’d consider keeping it if I could replace the engine with a diesel.” With that said, I decided to research anyone adding this feature to their minivans. Apparently, not enough people are out there with the know-how to do this, and also have the drive to write about it online. What I did find was information about Chrysler’s plans to release a 2.8L turbo diesel option for their minivans starting with the 2008 models. Here’s the twisted part. Though they are manufacturing these in the U.S. and Canada, they are not offering them for sale in the U.S. or Canada. That’s right. These are being made for the sole purpose of exporting them to Europe, where diesel demand is high and emissions standards are lower. In my opinion, diesel is very viable, but lacks the marketing and education in the U.S. A good marketing campaign could have a great impact on the stigma left in the minds of U.S. consumers who only remember slow, stinky diesels of the 70s and 80s.

It looks like I’m still in the market for a 2001-2005 Dodge 2500 Cummins, or a 1999-2005 Ford F-250 Powerstroke.

After much research and consideration, I decided to make the switch from Mozilla Thunderbird to Apple Mail as my primary email client. Although this path seems easy enough, I ran into an issue where mail mailbox would crash Apple Mail when importing. I figured there was something corrupt, so I was almost to the point of giving up. I ran across a tool that seemed like a good option, and it was perfect. Eudora Mailbox Cleaner, designed for migrating Eudora Mailboxes to most other popular clients, also included an option for moving Thunderbird mailboxes to Apple Mail. Almost as easy as Apple Mail’s native import, this tool handled everything and I’m now using Apple Mail.