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When the gas prices went up to five bucks a gallon, I was even thinking of driving out of my way to pay less. Since then, I simply pump my gas when I’m nearly out of gas. Period.
Yesterday, I pull into a gas station across the street from a Chevron station and notice the price per gallon is 30 cents less than Chevron. I noticed both stations had big gas tankers, the one at Chevron, of course, had the logo of Chevron. The truck at my station had no logo, probably because the station name was off brand, called Falcon.
Frankly, I’ve never stopped and thought so deeply about the quality of gas I might be buying for 30 cents a gallon less, up until that moment. Perhaps, I’d never seen such a precipitous price differential from the brand I grew up on, Chevron, across the street.
Nonetheless, I asked the truck driver what was the difference between the gas he was pumping and the Chevron truck across the street. Of course, he told me, “There is no difference. I know that truck driver,” he said, ”and we both just filled our trucks up today at the same fuel plant in Martinez, CA.”
“Wait a minute,” I said. He shot back, “And, the only difference?… Chevron pours into their fuel, one gallon of Techron additive for every 10,000 gallons of gas.”
What is Techron? It’s the only fuel additive that provides both unbeatable engine deposit control and protection against harmful sulfurs that can cause fuel gauge sensors to malfunction.
The only?
I began to ponder. Would I pay 30 cents more per gallon for a micro-ounce of that Techron in my truck? Ah…let me think about this for just a moment…. AH, NO!!!
I know some of my freinds swear by Techron for its value to their vehicle and would drive on fumes to remain a diehard Chevron fan and putter miles to locate a Chevron.
Will you buy gas at an off brand station?
Are you also a believer of the Chevron Techron Cult?
What do we consider a GREEN gas station? Has anyone figured that out?
We know how to determine if McDonald’s is green. They install car battery power stations so you eat and get your electric buzz on. Hey, we all start somewhere.
Notice when you visit a Chevron station, let your eyeballs browse and notice how many Techron stickers are EVERYWHERE!
Next time I drive off the lot of a Chevron, you’ll hear me, cause I’ll be screaming….”I LOVE MY TECHRON!!!”
You have to admit, Chevron is consistently clean, pumps almost always operable, and bathrooms that you can stand in for more than 10 seconds without your forehead caving in from the stench. Hats off!
I was heading to my first environmentally-friendly event at an infill home built in Alameda. I know, infill. What is that? infill is the use of land within a built-up area for further construction. Anyway, I run into this news story called “U.S.’s Most Over-Rated Tourist Attractions” and guess who gets top spot for least interesting? HA, WE DO!
Fisherman’s Wharf gets the “YOU BLOW AWARD” for being at the bottom for titillating places to visit.
Here’s the review by Andrew Harper (and the remainder that got dogged)
It’s very easy to have an enjoyable, fulfilling stay in San Francisco without ever touching foot in this awful place, which has all the appeal of a rundown (and yet somehow very expensive) amusement park. If you are forced to visit, however, I recommend the Musee Mecanique, a wonderfully eerie collection of vin
tage penny arcade games located at Pier 45.
As the late Chris Farley used to say…
“Oh, Son of a ….”
I grew up on Pier 39 and the Wharf, however, non-existent green awareness amongst merchants is extremely unimpressive and it is looking pretty tore up from the floor up.
I suggest the HornBlower bay dinner cruise for a modest 80 bucks or so per person. So romantic.
Last Christmas, the boat I was on went under the Golden Gate and was hit by an angry current that nearly capsized the ship. Dishes, tables, the band, we all slid from one side of the ship to the other.
Fires started, old people on the top deck were feared to have fallen overboard. No one died. One woman had a mini heart attack and I told the drunk guy who thought he was the captain to sit down and put a pickle in it. Frankly, he was such a dork thinking we wanted to hear his inebriated logic while everyone was screaming and dreaming we weren’t Titanic of San Francisco. So now that I shared, enjoy your ride! No, really, they do have a great track record. Great people, just a scary night for me under the Gate.
Hey you can always check out our vibrant sea lions? Truly. Go seem them live right now on the pier, hundreds of them.
New homes are full of questions and possibilities. What color to paint the walls? How to arrange the furniture? What to plant in the garden? The Obama family must have asked a lot of those same questions when they moved into the White House. However, the first lady’s dreams of growing an organic vegetable garden have been dragged down by a previous resident that refuses to leave: sludge.
Michelle Obama’s “organic” garden has been besieged by icky goo in the ground. As a result, the veggies aren’t quite what the first lady had in mind. According to Daily Finance, the National Park Service tested the soil in the vegetable patch and found “highly elevated levels of lead” due to sewage used as fertilizer.
So the question is: Who to blame? While dumping sewage into the ground sounds like a crime worthy of Mr. Burns 
from “The Simpsons,” the actual perpetrators were none other than the Clintons. Yep, back when Bill and Hillary were living it up in the White House, their gardening team used “sewage sludge for fertilizer.” The fiends!
Sounds gross, but it’s actually fairly common. However, it does mean that the highly touted “organic garden” will never “attain organic status.” The certification process doesn’t allow “the use of sludge as a fertilizer substitute.” And there’s another problem: If Malia and Sasha weren’t into eating their veggies before, it’s going to be that much harder to get ‘em to eat ‘em now.
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Sludge in the Garden
by Mike Krumboltz
The question Neil Armstrong asked today is the same one he’s been asking since days after he galloped in his space suit across the dimpled surface of our scarred moon.
Now what?
That’s not what the men who went to the moon had in mind.
Earlier in the day, seven Apollo astronauts, including Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin, used a news conference to talk about their desire to go to Mars and not focus on the moon as long as NASA plans.
“All of us here are pretty much convinced that Mars is a goal to shoot for,” said Tom Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, which orbited the moon and tested the lunar module.
On the 40th anniversary of man’s first moon landing, the Apollo 11 crew met with President Barack Obama, who used the opportunity to talk about inspiration and science and math education. He didn’t talk about going anywhere in space, not the moon or Mars.
Obama said he wanted to use Monday’s anniversary of the Apollo moon landing to show that “math and science are cool again.”
For his part Obama said he wanted to make sure that when another generation looks to the sky, NASA “is going to be there for them when they want to take their journey.”
But he didn’t say where or when that journey should go.
John F. Kennedy wanted to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
Five years ago, Bush said he wanted to land astronauts back on the moon by 2020.
So with Armstrong standing next to him and nodding, Obama said those magic words: “Keep the goal by 2020.”
But he wasn’t finished. “Keep the goal by 2020 of having the highest college graduation rates of any country on Earth, especially in the math and science fields.”
It was not about going somewhere old or new. It wasn’t about NASA. It was about education.
The president said he recalled watching Apollo astronauts return to Hawaii after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. He said he’d sit on his grandfather’s shoulders and “we’d pretend like they could see us as we were waving at folks coming home.” The touchstone for excellence in exploration and discovery is always going to be represented by the men of Apollo 11,” Obama said. He said their work sparked “innovation, the drive, the entrepreneurship, the creativity back here on Earth.”
Less than an hour later at the White House, another star of the 1960s wandered about. It was the actress June Lockhart, who regularly visits the White House since receiving a press pass decades ago. Her television show? “Lost In Space.”
Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing, Google (Google) has introduced a new feature in Google Earth, adding Earth’s most faithful follower to the popular geo application.
Google has been diligently adding data to Google Earth (Google Earth), expanding the geo-centric app to cover the sky, the ocean’s depths and the Red Planet. You can now explore the Moon from the same icon in the top toolbar that holds Sky, Mars and Earth. Fire it up, and you can explore lunar imagery, historical data, images and videos from the Apollo missions, panoramic images of the moon, 3D models of lunar modules and more.
Check out a brief introduction to this new feature in the video below. You can download the latest version of Google Earth 5.0 here.
