(A friend emailed me this information that I found to be pretty interesting,So I thought I should pass it along)
"Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground, the more dense the gasoline. When it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening means your gallon is not really a gallon of gas. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role.
"A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations consumers go to do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
"When you're filling up your vehicle, do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three stages: low, middle, and high. In slow mode you will be pumping on low speed, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some liquid that goes into your tank becomes vaporized. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less for your money.
"Another important tip is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL or HALF EMPTY. The reason for this is that the more gas you have in your tank the less air is occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine! Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof which serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work every truck we load is temperature-compensated so that every gallon is the exact amount.
"Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up--most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom.
"WHERE TO BUY USA GAS: THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW!
"Gas rationing in the 1980s worked well even though we grumbled about it. It might even be good for us! The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor. An interesting thought is to boycott their gas.
"Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy your gasoline from companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis. Nothing is more frustrating to me than realizing that every time I fill up the tank, I am sending my money to people who would like to do harm to me, my family, and my friends.
"I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil.
"These companies import Middle Eastern oil:
Shell........205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco.......144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil..................130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway.... 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco........62,231,000 barrels
"Citgo gas is from South America, which is run by a dictator who hates the United States of America. If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! Regrettably, oil has now gone to around $106 a barrel.
"Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
Sunoco...............0 barrels
Conoco...............0 barrels
Sinclair.............0 barrels
B P/Phillips.......0 barrels
Hess...........0 barrels
ARC0.......0 barrels
"If you go to Sunoco.com, you can obtain a list of the gas station locations near you.
"All of this information is available from the Department of Energy, and each company is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.
A science professor begins his school year with a lecture to the students, "Let me explain the problem science has with religion." The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand.
"You're a Christian, aren't you, son?"
"Yes sir," the student says.
"So you believe in God?"
"Absolutely."
"Is God good?"
"Sure! God's good."
"Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?"
"Yes."
"Are you good or evil?"
"The Bible says I'm evil."
The professor grins knowingly. "Aha! The Bible!" He considers for a moment. "Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?"
"Yes sir, I would."
"So you're good...!"
"I wouldn't say that."
"But why not say that? You'd help a sick and maimed person if you could. Most of us would if we could. But God doesn't."
The student does not answer, so the professor continues. "He doesn't, does he? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?"
The student remains silent.
"No, you can't, can you?" the professor says. He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax.
"Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?"
"Er...yes," the student says.
"Is Satan good?"
The student doesn't hesitate on this one. "No."
"Then where does Satan come from?"
The student falters. "From God"
"That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?"
"Yes, sir."
"Evil's everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything, correct?"
"Yes."
"So who created evil?" The professor continued, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil."
Again, the student has no answer. "Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?"
The student squirms on his feet. "Yes."
"So who created them?"
The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question. "Who created them?" There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized. "Tell me," he continues onto another student. "Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?"
The student's voice betrays him and cracks. "Yes, professor, I do."
The old man stops pacing. "Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?"
"No sir. I've never seen Him."
"Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?"
"No, sir, I have not."
"Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?"
"No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't."
"Yet you still believe in him?"
"Yes."
"According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?"
"Nothing," the student replies. "I only have my faith."
"Yes, faith," the professor repeats. "And that is the problem science has with God. There is no evidence, only faith."
The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of His own. "Professor, is there such thing as heat?"
"Yes," the professor replies. "There's heat."
"And is there such a thing as cold?"
"Yes, son, there's cold too."
"No sir, there isn't."
The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain. "You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We can hit up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees."
"Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it."
Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding like a hammer.
"What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?"
"Yes," the professor replies without hesitation. "What is night if it isn't darkness?"
"You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? That's the meaning we use to define the word."
"In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?"
The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a good semester. "So what point are you making, young man?"
"Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed."
The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this time. "Flawed? Can you explain how?"
"You are working on the premise of duality," the student explains. "You argue that there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought."
"It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it."
"Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?"
"If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of course I do."
"Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?"
The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.
"Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?"
The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has subsided.
"To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you an example of what I mean."
The student looks around the room. "Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor's brain?" The class breaks out into laughter.
"Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain, felt the professor's brain, touched or smelt the professor's brain? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir."
"So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?"
Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face unreadable.
Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. "I guess you'll have to take them on faith."
"Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life," the student continues. "Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?"
Now uncertain, the professor responds, "Of course, there is. We see it everyday. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
The professor sat down.
There's been a great deal of talk and excitement about this year could possibly produce the first Black or First Female to ever be President of the United States.We've come along way,but have we really? I started to get a little curious and wondered just how far we really have come. Would you vote for a Gay or Lesbian Commander in Chief? is America ready for something like that? Would you be willing ? Does it matter?
A cute play on words,Well maybe,you decide. I ran across this story and I thought I just had to share it.(I'll reserve my comments until after you read it)------->
UNION CITY, Ga. - A McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer's burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick
Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail.
Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who "tried to thump the salt off."
On her break, she ate a burger made with the salty meat. "It didn't make me sick," Bull told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
But then Police Officer Wendell Adams got a burger made with the oversalted meat, and he returned a short time later and told the manager it made him sick.
Bull admitted spilling salt on the meat, and Adams took her outside and questioned her, she said.
"If it was too salty, why did (Adams) not take one bite and throw it away?" said Bull, who has worked at the restaurant for five months. She said she didn't know a police officer got one of the salty burgers because she couldn't see the drive-through window from her work area.
Police said samples of the burger were sent to the state crime lab for tests.
City public information officer George Louth said Bull was charged because she served the burger "without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it."
So now you tell me ,Is this going too far? Maybe its me.But our we becoming a society of the overly senstive?We file Law suits at the drop of a dime.We stretch,bend,curve the truth and somethings withhold how we really feel to try and remain inside a politically correct box.
I could go on and on about the many times we as a society may have gone way overboard .Or somethimes turning a minor issue into a colosal one. I welcome any and all comments.(Keep in mind )-->,The person filing the law suit in the story is a Police Officer.
I didn't answer alot of my phone calls today,as i don't like to be disturbed while in the middle of doing something.Well maybe I should have,After finishing up,I head over to my computer ,to check emails.I see an email titled emergency .One of my close friends writes to tell me that someone that we both know has just been arrested for making "Va Tech like threats" at his job.,and is now in custody.Im floored at this point,in a daze.Apparently its all over the local and national news.Now I've known this guy for almost nine years and he would'nt hurt a fly,I dont even think he has a gun. well I did a google search and read what happened and he mentioned his words were taking out of context,and that it was a joke. Now im not condoning or trying to make excuses for what he said. What he did was inappropriate and stuuuuuuuuuuupid,But you have to know the guy, He's alittle obscure and has a twisted sense of humor,Thats just the way he is. Im sure we all have friends that make off color remarks and that have a dark twisted sense of humor,that if spoken at the wrong place at the wrong time the result could be disastrous.You have to really know the person and the context in which it was spoken. Right now Im just praying for him ,while awaiting further information. Im sure you might want to know the who and the what of this story.All Im going to say is, its from ST.Louis
How many of us have eaten Ramon Noodle? I was talking with one of my best friends and he told me Ramon noodle had MSG. WHAT????? Checked the package and he was right. And we wonder why everytime we turn around somebody is diagnosed with cancer.Now im not blamming it all on Ramon noodle,but I firmly believe that cancer or some forms of cancer have a direct link to what we eat. I've tried Ramon without the season packet and it didnt work,ended up using half the packet. After I finished the rest of my supply ,I decided I would not go back to eating that again. Its not worth it. /// People read packages before you buy. btw (season packet has the MSG in Ramon noddle)
