Engineer-Poet's Journal: Things are changing

My car MP3 player died halfway through the California trip. This left me with radio for my entertainment.

Passing through a radio market roughly once an hour means you cover a LOT of different milieus. One station I heard in the heartland somewhere was doing one of the things radio stations do: running a contest to try to drum up listenership.

The prize in this contest was a car. Time was when such a car would be a Corvette or Camaro or Mustang, but not any more.

These gas-guzzlers have apparently become passé. This giveaway sported a hybrid Toyota Camry.

Why not a Prius? Perhaps because Toyota can get list price for every Prius they can build!

If this is what's going on in the band across southern Illinois through Kentucky, it's a very encouraging trend.