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I am not sure what is wrong with my 2000 Buick and I am hesitant to take it to the dealer or mechanic as I do not want to get ripped off. In the last week when backing out of the garage, my car makes a squealing noise. It will also do this when I accelerate but does not do it when I apply the brakes. Does anyone have an idea of what this is?

Germany slams brakes on emissions targets 06 July 2006 From New Scientist Print Edition. EUROPE'S efforts to meet its Kyoto protocol targets for greenhouse gas emissions are heading for trouble after Germany, the driving force behind the continent's emissions reductions for the past 15 years, slammed on the brakes. Since 1990, Germany has cut its emissions by 17.5 per cent, more than any other country in the European Union. Its Kyoto target is a 21 per cent cut, but on 28 June the environment ministry revealed that it would only require a further 0.6 per cent cut from its major...

(CBS/AP) Charges are being filed against the driver of a bus that caught fire near Dallas while carrying people fleeing Hurricane Rita. The driver is being charged with criminally negligent homicide in the deaths of 23 passengers.

WACO, Texas, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A jury in Waco has found an Indiana-based trucking company at fault for a March 2002 accident that killed a U.S. Army lieutenant, and awarded his family $17.5 million. 23-year-old 2nd Lt. Matthew Giuliano had just graduated from officers training school, and was driving from Ft. Knox, Kentucky to his first assignment at Ft. Hood, Texas, when his car slammed into the rear of a tractor trailer owned by Celadon Trucking Services, Inc. Nasdaq: CLDN - News. The truck had been traveling in the high speed lane of Interstate 30 near Texarkana, when it...

Someone needs to pull the new director of the Department of Motor Vehicles over and stop her from speeding heedlessly into the future. Joan Borucki wants to put global positioning devices in cars to track the mileage they travel. The idea is to more closely tie gas taxes to where cars go, the routes they take and the mileage they rack up, rather than the fuel they use. The problem inspiring this potentially Orwellian notion is that as more new and fuel-efficient cars take to the state's highways, the less the state gets in gas taxes to maintain highways. As...