You’ll generally find the cheapest gas before noon. Gas retailers at large corporate stores sets their prices at about 10 a.m. or 11 a.m. when the first management shift begins, according to Brad Proctor, the founder of gaspricewatch.com.
According to Proctor, gas prices were raised before noon about 93% of the time. You have about an hour or two until all the smaller gas stations begin to follow suit and raise their prices.
From The Wall Street Journal:
Currently, scientists seeking to study human embryonic stem cells have two options: Accept federal funds and focus only on a handful of cell lines created prior to Aug. 9, 2001, or decline federal dollars and gain access to the much larger, and constantly increasing, number of cell lines created since then — assuming they can find an alternative funding source.
Many of the newer lines grow better in culture, and because they encompass a far broader range of genetic diversity, they provide a greater basis for comparison and mechanistic understanding. The legislation vetoed by the president would have made the new cell lines eligible for federal support.
MYTH 1 - It’s all about your MPG rating
How you drive can be more important than your car’s miles per gallon rating given by the Environmental Protection Agency. In fact, those MPG ratings are way outdated. In fact, EPA ratings were off about 14 percent on average, according to Phillip Reed of Edmunds.com.
MYTH 2 - Gas saving products help fuel efficiency
The Environmental Protection Agency concluded that no product significantly improves gas mileage. And in fact, these products may even damage your engine.
This is an eight page report I put together as a guest speaker to enrichment night. The audience was single girls in their early twenties but the information that I dug up included a lot of good stuff for everyone. In fact if anybody has a car with over 100K miles on it, I would definitely recommend joining AAA. There is a strong return on investment with free tows, free help if you get locked out, etc.
So named because of it being the 529th section of the Internal Revenue Code, 529 plans are state college savings programs. The Department of Education defines them as follows:
The folks over at WeirdTechNewsHub have compiled a list of some of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever seen that people have tried online and actually been successful at. Everything from SantaMail to a dating service for people who are HIV positive. Some of the strangest ideas actually become successful after reaching their tipping point.
Check out the full list at weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com.
[Continuation of the discussion from the it's time to get rid of the penny article]
Fueled, perhaps, by recent reports that the penny (and nickel) now cost more to produce than they are worth, the press has been giving a lot of coverage to an otherwise neglected part of life: the penny. Just this past week, Time magazine ran an article describing the efforts by two rival organizations Citizens For Retiring the Penny (Jeff Weller - a Berkely PhD in biophysics), and Americans For Common Cents, (Mark Weller - a pro-penny lobbying group funding by the zinc industry and penny distributors) in their respective efforts to get rid of, or keep, the penny. Just today, the WallStreet Journal ran an editorial on the subject as well.
Said he:
It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it
You can read the full article at Reuters.com, but my question is this: Is embryonic stem cell research an issue deserving of the President’s first veto in six years in office?
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From the EPA:
Since 1975, the fuel economy of the combined car and light truck fleet has moved through several phases: (1) a rapid increase from 1975 to the mid-1980s, (2) a slow increase extending into the late 1980s, (3) a decline from the peak in the l
