Compressed natural gas is one way of breaking Big Oil's stranglehold on our lives. Compressed air is another. Both are in fluent use in different parts of the world.
http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=153140
Converting trucks, etc to natural gas
.........Woo hoo, how about this sleeper?
http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/2/10/what-do-they-know-that-we-dont.html
What Do They Know That We Don’t?
Friday evening when no one was supposed to pay attention, Google announced that Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt would sell 3.2 million of his Google shares in 2013, 42% of the 7.6 million shares he owned at the end of last year—after having already sold 1.8 million shares in 2012. But why would he sell 5 million shares, about 53% of his holdings, with Google stock trading near its all-time high?
“Part of his long-term strategy for individual asset diversification and liquidity,” Google mollified us, according to the Wall Street Journal. Soothing words. Nothing but “a routine diversification of assets.”
Routine? He didn’t sell any in 2008 as the market was crashing. He didn’t sell at the bottom in early 2009. And he didn’t sell during the rest of 2009 as Google shares were soaring, nor in 2010, as they continued to soar. In 2011, he eased out of about 300,000 shares, a mere rounding error in his holdings. But in 2012, he opened the valves, and in 2013, he’d open the floodgates. So it’s not “routine”........
The site's name wasclearly chosen by some crotch-o-centric yankee, but it does have a measure of thoughtful writing in it.......Now, a lurid window on California's ongoing hara-kiri using tax madness:
http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/2/11/are-higher-taxes-killing-california-tax-collection.html
Are Higher Taxes Killing California Tax Collection?
Hah! "Are Higher Taxes Killing California Tax Collection"! With such jaundiced wit, this link barely escaped my stowing it in a thread I'm building elsewhere titled "Irony extravaganza: ironies piled on ironies". But the title is perfectly true -- and how great to see its mention of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers' Association.
This was one of the earliest manifestations of the post-1960 freedom movement. Its founder, then 76 years old, was often seen on TV sounding off against the very same kinds of tax vampirism plaguing the Golden State today. He was a highly vocal, verbal old fighter who gave further mileage to the "mad as hell" motto and helped build good, healthy disgust with the System nationwide..... or as Wikipedia summarizes him, the nascent politician "spearheaded Proposition 13, the California property tax-cutting initiative passed in 1978 which slashed property taxes by 57% and initiated a national tax revolt."
If California's act was together it would have a balanced budget, low or no property taxes and a statue of him in the capitol rotunda. As you see, the organization he founded is still on the job over three decades later -- from Prop 13 to Prop 30.
California wanted Governor Moonbeam back, but its population is radically changed from when he was in the job before and squiring Lind Ronstadt to Europe, etc. Wouldn't you love to strap him into a lie detector and find out what he really thinks of the situation?
"Replacement demographics" -- add it to your verbal arsenal, right up there with "abandonment theology."
Pardon my cynicism..... and please plan to join us Saturday in Columbia:
http://southernaction.blogspot.com/
CALLING
ALL SOUTHERN PATRIOTS
Come
to the S.C. Capitol Feb. 16!
Help
send a message to the politicians, media & citizens that
WE
REMEMBER -- and they need to.
WHAT:
a Rally in remembrance of the Union’s savage burning of Columbia
WHERE:
north side of the South Carolina State House
Gervais
and Main Streets, Columbia, S.C.
WHEN: 1:00
noon, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
All
interested will meet for 10:30 AM dutch treat breakfast at the IHOP
just west of the State House (1031 Assembly St.)
/\/.\/\/. torpenhow@charter.net
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