The Volt & Alternative Fuel Cars

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As the price of automobile fuel increases and attention to alternative method of powering our cars is on the “front burner” that brings up some interesting questions.

Chevrolet is heavily publicizing the new “Volt”, its all-electric vehicle. It appears simple enough – just plug it in to a special electrical outlet at your house and it recharges its trunk-load of heavy and costly “deep-cycle”, specially-made-in-Japan, batteries. However, there ARE a few drawbacks; the range is limited before you need a recharge of the batteries. They perform well; quietly and at good speeds, but normal highway speed consumes energy at a rather high rate. As with high speed driving in gas-powered cars, efficiency and economy drops rapidly.

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Unions – Part Two

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Following up my recent article about unions and my personal “contact” with them, we need to look more closely at the “public” unions – that is, unions that are formed to benefit government workers. This includes ALL forms of tax-payer-funded jobs,including teachers, first responders and some utility workers (city water & sewer, municipal power companies – even publicly-owned hospitals).

“Look for the Union Label” – late 1800′s label.

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Drill, Baby, Drill!

Is there oil to be found (quickly) in the USA? You need to view this regarding a new bill before Congress to drill in ANWR (in Alaska). Very interesting – worth your five minutes. Wonder if our Congresspersons will approve this???

Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Einstein

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A collection of data by Brian Heater , writer for PC Magazine

 

Born With a Giant Head

Einstein was born with an abnormally large and generally misshapen head. In fact, the thing was so big that doctors were concerned he might be mentally challenged. This concern was apparently present for much of his childhood, as the future physicist spoke slowly until about age nine (those rumors that Einstein didn’t speak at all until age four are apparently just that, however).

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