Lets Go E-85!!!!!

Henry Ford’s Model “A” was designed to run on either alcohol or gasoline... because Gasoline wasn't readily available.
This photo, taken in April 1933, shows a Lincoln Nebraska gas station of the Earl Coryell Co. selling "Corn Alcohol Gasoline." The test marketing of ethanol blends was common in the Midwest at this time, but it did not succeed due to the market dominance of the major oil companies.

Many countries around the world have millions of vehicle running on alcohol today. The idea of using alcohol for fuel is not new but becoming more attractive to the public as our dependence on gasoline becomes increasingly more expensive.

Most gasoline cars can be converted to alternative fuels with no need for a new or replacement engine. Other benefits include total elimination of smoke. It also contributes to a quieter and smoother running engine. Besides the environmental benefits, Flexfuel combines high performance with economy, making it the best current alternative to gasoline fuels.

Best of all ... Grain alcohol (ethanol) is a renewable fuel, and it is pretty much pollution free, since the by-products of combustion are only water and CO2. Furthermore, it is economical to make, and your car will run cooler, faster, and better on ethanol. It is a home grown fuel and we don't have to import it from the Middle East.

Ethanol (ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, EtOH) is an alcohol-based alternative fuel produced by fermenting and distilling starch crops that have been converted into simple sugars.

Ethanol (CH3CH2OH) is a group of chemical compounds whose molecules contain a hydroxyl group, -OH, bonded to a carbon atom. Feedstocks for this fuel include corn, barley and wheat with corn being the most commonly used. Ethanol can also be produced from "cellulosic biomass" such as trees and grasses and is called bioethanol. Ethanol is most commonly used to increase octane and improve the emissions quality of gasoline.

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 mandated the sale of oxygenated fuels in areas with unhealthy levels of carbon monoxide. Since that time, there has been strong demand for ethanol as an oxygenate blended with gasoline. In the United States each year, more than 1.5 billion gallons are added to gasoline to increase octane and improve the emissions quality of gasoline. In some areas, ethanol is blended with gasoline to form an E10 blend (10% ethanol and 90% gasoline), but it can be used in higher concentrations such as E85 or in its pure form. All automobile manufacturers that do business in the United States approve the use of certain ethanol/gasoline blends. Fuel ethanol blends are successfully used in all types of vehicles and engines that require gasoline. Approval of ethanol blends is found in the owners' manuals under references to refueling or gasoline.

To learn more visit : http://www.ethanolstill.com/ and get educated on all the positives of this and hopefully we get on this fast so we can save money at the pump. If you make you own it brakes down to 65 CENTS PER GALLON vs $3.03 per gallon!!!!!

For us it would mean $11.05 to fill up instead of $51.00!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TINA (Mommy)!!!!

Just letting you now we love you & think you're a wonderful Woman of God, Mom, Wife, Daughter, Partner, Friend, and Person. You are a great example for our kids and I love how we are about to work through our challenges in a positive way. You're there for us when we need it the most and words can not express enough of how much we love you!!!! I hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy your gifts that you got!!!!!

Disgusting Public Acts

When it come to politics I don't have a loud voice, but I will address this. I am not against people coming to America LEGALLY. We have a great country and we came from all over the world to this new land and created this great country for all to share. The only way we will stay great is by putting our foot down and standing on the laws set forth by generations of previous leaders! This Act disgusts me because it shows a lack of appreciation for the USA!!! If you don't like us or our country then GET OUT!!!!!!! Otherwise get legal and stay legal so our country can get back the respect it deserves!!!!

Subject: American flag v. Mexican flag at CA. high school--disgusting public acts

THE AMERICAN FLAG COMES SECOND?
By Michelle Malkin · March 29, 2006 01:15 AM

You will not see this heart-stopping photo on the front page of the NY Times or on the lead story of the major news networks.
You should.


03/28 : Student protest in Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High.
(Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo)

More:

Meanwhile: Mexico Cheers Passage of Immigration Bill
Like I said: Welcome to reconquista.

I predict this stunt will be the nail in the coffin of any guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table in Washington. The image of the American flag subsumed to another and turned upside down on American soil is already spreading on Internet forums and via e-mail. Pass this along to every American citizen in your address books and to every representative in the state and federal government. If you choose to remain uninvolved do not be amazed when you no longer have a nation to call your own nor anything you have worked for left since it will be "redistributed" to the activists while you are so peacefully staying out of the "fray". Check history, it is full of nations/empires that disappeared when its citizens no longer held their core beliefs and values. One person CAN make a difference. One plus one plus one plus one plus one plus one.........


The battle for our secure borders and immigration laws that actually mean something, however, hasn't even begun.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Yard Project!!!

Well you've heard we have had a lot of rain in CA over the first 3 months of the year. And here is and example of what happens when it rains so much and so often! The grass never got a chance to dry off enough for us to cut it and we didn't get a chance to cut it like we should have! So, over the past few days it has been nice and sunny for us to be able to cut it! We started at 10am on Sat. and got finished around 8pm. Pretty much none stop, except to unclog machines and a sandwich that the kids made us!!!!

Enjoy the other picks of the past month on the flickr site, just click on the photo!!!

Time to Move to Ohio!!!

The winning ticket from the $265 million Mega Millions drawing Tuesday night was sold at a local Kroger supermarket, an Ohio Lottery spokeswoman said.

It was the 5th winning Mega Millions ticket purchased in Ohio since June and the first grand prize winner sold in Cincinnati, lottery spokeswoman Mardele Cohen said.

The winning numbers in the 12-state game were 13, 14, 25, 34 and 50. The Mega Ball was 6.
In addition to the grand prize winner, 21 tickets, including two purchased in Ohio, matched all five numbers but not the Mega Ball for prizes of $250,000 each.

Another 109 tickets, including four from Ohio, matched four numbers plus the Mega Ball for third prizes of $10,000 each.

The last Mega Millions winner from Ohio claimed the $270 million prize — the biggest lottery jackpot won in the state — anonymously by forming a trust.

The winning ticket from the Feb. 28 drawing was sold in Lyons, a farming village of about 600 people 30 miles west of Toledo.

The Greatest Game Ever Played

This movie is great! We got this for ourselves for Easter and watched it last night. A great story about never giving up on your dreams and simply playing a sport because you love it! We didn't know how much of an important movie this was until the end! We check out some of the bonus features and found out that Francis Ouimet basically single handedly changed the sport to where the amateur player could play and be respected, instead of just the upper class! Also learned about Harry Vardon, a international golf celebrity, and easily one of the game's most influential players. His record of 6 British Open Championships still stand today!!!
If you like true, positive stories and if you like golf, this movie is for you. We are glad we added it to our collection and will bring it out if anyone in PA would like to see it with us while we are visiting!!!!

Ice Age 2

We saw this movie on Sunday and thought it was pretty good. The kids stayed into it the whole time which means they liked it and it was good for the parents as well. Scat was a bigger part of the movie this time adding in a large part of the comic relief. Sid, Diego, and Manny were just as funny as the first movie and there were a few additions to the cast of this movie. Ellie played by Queen Latifah, Crash played by Seann William Scott, Eddie played by Josh Peck, and Fast Tony played by Jay Leno!!!! It's worth checking out in the theater especially if you save like us. We had two of the free kids tickets that come in the DVD's (Anastasia had one and the first Ice Age movie had the other one), so it saved us about $10. Some real funny parts to it and a good message as always! This one will be added to our collection when it hits the stores!!!! Also a great preview of a Tim McGraw film coming out soon called Flicka, where he plays a lead father of a family that owns a ranch and his daughter tries to catch a wild mustang on her own and then train it after her Dad (Tim) catches it and tells her to leave it alone!!! He is becoming quite the actor, for those of you that don't know he had a smaller role in Friday Night Lights, with Billy Bob Thorton. Enjoy the movie for those of you who check it out, and for those who want to wait, it would be worth buying in a few months!!!

Ghost Rider is coming along

This doesn't come to the movies until Feb. of 2007, but they give you enough to get you thinking about the movie!!! Mike this is for you, because I know how much of a fan you are or were of Ghost Rider. You were also a huge Punisher fan and they did that character proud with the most recent movie that came out about him!!! This movie has built the darkness surrounding Ghost Rider already with this photo, but you can see with the preview if you follow the links that they look to be staying turn to him as well!!!! Be patient though it could take some time to load, just click on the above photo!!!