@ Mike R.: I hope everything is okay, and here's to a speedy recovery if you're enduring another round of the chemo. Looking forward to seeing you posting again soon!
I hope that some of you took the time to check out the interview, too (access by clicking on the scrollbar on the vid pic). This guy has much more cooking than just a comedy/juggling act. His efforts on the part of the Bill of Rights (see his website) impress me even more than his extraordinary entertainment ability.
Chipper Q,
Thank you very kindly for expressing your concern for me. I continue to get chemo every week, but they are giving me a reprieve for the first week of June, so I get to go to Colorado to spend 10 days with my brother in and around Denver :-)
GOOD NEWS to All - As of last week's examination, we are gaining the upper hand over the cancer! The tumors (at least those in the liver, we haven't been able to assess those on the pancreas yet) have shrunken/died to the extent that the liver protrudes much less into the abdominal cavity. I'm not pretending that the war is won - the (bad) indicators in the bloodwork are still way above normal, but the new development has surely done nothing to lower my already-high hopes :-) this thing is WAY beatable, though, so it's good to see that all our positive thoughts, prayers, and wishes are bearing fruit and giving energy for further, renewed optimism.
Bless All,
Michael R.
This is very good news...This is a war and you are winning...You've got to remember that!...You'll be one of the people i'll be thinking of this year at the American Cancer Society Relay For Life...Which will be happening in my area in early June.
Gas in Italy costs 1.340 euro/liter. How many liters are in a US gallon?
Tullio
I just checked and a Liter is .26 of a US gallon...At this point i'm not worried so much about the price of Gas...But about the availability of it...If just a few things go wrong the supply could take a big hit.
Gas in Italy costs 1.340 euro/liter. How many liters are in a US gallon?
Tullio
1 US gallon = 3.7854118 liters.
1 Euro = 1.2709 U.S. dollars.
$2.69/gal. where I'm at. Yeah, I know... I'm still wringing my hands though.
I remember gas being under a dollar 10 or so years ago.
1 US gallon = 3.7854118 liters.
1 Euro = 1.2709 U.S. dollars.
$2.69/gal. where I'm at. Yeah, I know... I'm still wringing my hands though.
I remember gas being under a dollar 10 or so years ago.
Thanks. So I am paying about 6.5 $/gal. Most of it (about 70%) is tax (called "accise").
Tullio
Thanks. So I am paying about 6.5 $/gal. Most of it (about 70%) is tax (called "accise").
Tullio
Taken from Wikipedia: 'The U.S. federal gasoline tax as of 2005 was 18.4¢/gal (4.86¢/L), and the gasoline taxes in the various states range from 10 cents to 33 cents, with an average about 22 cents per U.S. gallon (5.8¢/L). Unlike most goods in the U.S., the price displayed includes all taxes, rather than being calculated at the point of purchase.'
Here I don't believe it's so much the taxes but Big Oil that raises prices whenever someone sneezes over at the crude producing nations. It's funny too that Big Oil have been getting some record breaking profit margins. Hmmmmmmm.
GOOD NEWS to All - As of last week's examination, we are gaining the upper hand over the cancer! The tumors (at least those in the liver, we haven't been able to assess those on the pancreas yet) have shrunken/died to the extent that the liver protrudes much less into the abdominal cavity. I'm not pretending that the war is won - the (bad) indicators in the bloodwork are still way above normal, but the new development has surely done nothing to lower my already-high hopes :-) this thing is WAY beatable, though, so it's good to see that all our positive thoughts, prayers, and wishes are bearing fruit and giving energy for further, renewed optimism.
Ah!! Warm inner glow there, my man! Kick that A and take those N's! You're in my thoughts everyday actually .... Linda and my young Lizzie ask after you too. :-)
THE cat is indifferent though ...... but don't take that to heart. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Here I don't believe it's so much the taxes but Big Oil that raises prices whenever someone sneezes over at the crude producing nations. It's funny too that Big Oil have been getting some record breaking profit margins. Hmmmmmmm.
Go to www.msnbc.com and read the inteview with Vinod Khosla ( a founding father of SUN Microsystems) about the use of ethanol aa a fuel, on the example of Brazil. Raul Gardini, a sponsor of the "Azzurra" sailing team, had the same idea in Italy but was derided as "Il contadino" (the peasant) by the Italian state oilmen and ended killing himself.
Tullio
Go to www.msnbc.com and read the inteview with Vinod Khosla (a founding father of SUN Microsystems) about the use of ethanol aa a fuel, on the example of Brazil.
Thank you, that is a very interesting interview. Hopefully the research will be accelerated toward new sources and processing of ethanol.
Right now, there are very few gas stations that supply ethanol added gasoline. Here in the midwest U.S. availablility is limited to mostly Casey's stations with 10% ethanol. I had used it for awhile a few years ago but discontinued. Though it was slightly cheaper or the same price as 87 octane gasoline, I didn't get the fuel mileage to justify to me to continue. (BTW I think the octane for 10% is 88)
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Raul Gardini, a sponsor of the "Azzurra" sailing team, had the same idea in Italy but was derided as "Il contadino" (the peasant) by the Italian state oilmen and ended killing himself.
Tullio
Somehow I'm not surprised. When big profits are at stake scruples seem to get tossed. And also concerning big oil profits here is a thoughtful quote from the article you cited: 'But Khosla, who’s invested millions of his own money in companies working on ethanol technology, says government must play a role as well, by requiring that gas stations everywhere offer ethanol, that all new cars be flex-fuel, and that oil companies play fair.
Khosla: We need to make sure that the major oil companies don’t manipulate the price of oil enough to drive ethanol out of business.
Phillips: Do you believe oil companies would deliberately drop the price of oil?
Khosla: Absolutely. A senior executive of a major oil company came up to me and said, “Be careful.� In a very warning tone he said, “Be careful, we can drop the price of gasoline.�'
Ironic is it with us peasants; we build the infrastructure, and when the mines cave in, the company only worries about the mules, knowing that there's basically a new peasant born every minute. So us peasants get smarter and band together, but then the company calls out the local militia to slaughter us. The rest of the peasants hear about it and get the law of the land changed, so the next time we band together, the company instead gets to call the national militia to come slaughter us. And when we finally all band together into unions, the company turns its back on its own country, and is somehow free to run foreign peasants straight into the ground. The company seems exempt from civilized law, having perhaps purchased a waiver, and only adheres to those barbaric laws of the jungle: survival of the fittest, and supply and demand. If there's such a thing as deliverance from peasantry, it certainly won't come from alternative forms of energy if the company has anything to say about it. My faith is in the good nature of the peasants, and I think they could, in their capacity as consumers, turn night into day if things ever got really bad. And on the subject of music, peasants, and ultimate melodies, didn't Arron Copland come quite close with Fanfare for the Common Man?
And on when the oil will run out, there's a good lecture at Caltech's Streaming Theater page. It's the one entitled “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil�, given on 10/13/04, by David Goodstein (Caltech vice provost, professor of physics and applied physics, and Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor). Less than an hour long, well worth the time...
RE: Gas in Italy costs
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Gas in Italy costs 1.340 euro/liter. How many liters are in a US gallon?
Tullio
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This is very good news...This is a war and you are winning...You've got to remember that!...You'll be one of the people i'll be thinking of this year at the American Cancer Society Relay For Life...Which will be happening in my area in early June.
RE: RE: Gas in Italy
)
I just checked and a Liter is .26 of a US gallon...At this point i'm not worried so much about the price of Gas...But about the availability of it...If just a few things go wrong the supply could take a big hit.
RE: Gas in Italy costs
)
1 US gallon = 3.7854118 liters.
1 Euro = 1.2709 U.S. dollars.
$2.69/gal. where I'm at. Yeah, I know... I'm still wringing my hands though.
I remember gas being under a dollar 10 or so years ago.
RE: 1 US gallon =
)
Thanks. So I am paying about 6.5 $/gal. Most of it (about 70%) is tax (called "accise").
Tullio
RE: Thanks. So I am paying
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Taken from Wikipedia: 'The U.S. federal gasoline tax as of 2005 was 18.4¢/gal (4.86¢/L), and the gasoline taxes in the various states range from 10 cents to 33 cents, with an average about 22 cents per U.S. gallon (5.8¢/L). Unlike most goods in the U.S., the price displayed includes all taxes, rather than being calculated at the point of purchase.'
Here I don't believe it's so much the taxes but Big Oil that raises prices whenever someone sneezes over at the crude producing nations. It's funny too that Big Oil have been getting some record breaking profit margins. Hmmmmmmm.
RE: GOOD NEWS to All - As
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Ah!! Warm inner glow there, my man! Kick that A and take those N's! You're in my thoughts everyday actually .... Linda and my young Lizzie ask after you too. :-)
THE cat is indifferent though ...... but don't take that to heart. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Here I don't believe
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Go to www.msnbc.com and read the inteview with Vinod Khosla ( a founding father of SUN Microsystems) about the use of ethanol aa a fuel, on the example of Brazil. Raul Gardini, a sponsor of the "Azzurra" sailing team, had the same idea in Italy but was derided as "Il contadino" (the peasant) by the Italian state oilmen and ended killing himself.
Tullio
RE: Go to www.msnbc.com and
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Thank you, that is a very interesting interview. Hopefully the research will be accelerated toward new sources and processing of ethanol.
Right now, there are very few gas stations that supply ethanol added gasoline. Here in the midwest U.S. availablility is limited to mostly Casey's stations with 10% ethanol. I had used it for awhile a few years ago but discontinued. Though it was slightly cheaper or the same price as 87 octane gasoline, I didn't get the fuel mileage to justify to me to continue. (BTW I think the octane for 10% is 88)
Somehow I'm not surprised. When big profits are at stake scruples seem to get tossed. And also concerning big oil profits here is a thoughtful quote from the article you cited: 'But Khosla, who’s invested millions of his own money in companies working on ethanol technology, says government must play a role as well, by requiring that gas stations everywhere offer ethanol, that all new cars be flex-fuel, and that oil companies play fair.
Khosla: We need to make sure that the major oil companies don’t manipulate the price of oil enough to drive ethanol out of business.
Phillips: Do you believe oil companies would deliberately drop the price of oil?
Khosla: Absolutely. A senior executive of a major oil company came up to me and said, “Be careful.� In a very warning tone he said, “Be careful, we can drop the price of gasoline.�'
Ironic is it with us
)
Ironic is it with us peasants; we build the infrastructure, and when the mines cave in, the company only worries about the mules, knowing that there's basically a new peasant born every minute. So us peasants get smarter and band together, but then the company calls out the local militia to slaughter us. The rest of the peasants hear about it and get the law of the land changed, so the next time we band together, the company instead gets to call the national militia to come slaughter us. And when we finally all band together into unions, the company turns its back on its own country, and is somehow free to run foreign peasants straight into the ground. The company seems exempt from civilized law, having perhaps purchased a waiver, and only adheres to those barbaric laws of the jungle: survival of the fittest, and supply and demand. If there's such a thing as deliverance from peasantry, it certainly won't come from alternative forms of energy if the company has anything to say about it. My faith is in the good nature of the peasants, and I think they could, in their capacity as consumers, turn night into day if things ever got really bad. And on the subject of music, peasants, and ultimate melodies, didn't Arron Copland come quite close with Fanfare for the Common Man?
And on when the oil will run out, there's a good lecture at Caltech's Streaming Theater page. It's the one entitled “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil�, given on 10/13/04, by David Goodstein (Caltech vice provost, professor of physics and applied physics, and Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor). Less than an hour long, well worth the time...