OT - Saving Gasoline

[SouthwestRanger]

Admit it....

Gasoline is F**king Expensive thanks to Dubta and his Hare Brained Antics...

So to save your sanity....



This site has some good driving tips on using less gas while driving. I am sure that most people on this list are aware of these, but if you have others involved in your life, especially teenagers, they may pay more attention to your lectures if you show them your right.


http://www.hypermiling.com/index.html

[Tard]

To be honest, have actually been contemplating getting a 5-gallon plastic gas jug & footpump siphon to make nightly "visits" around town to various parked cars.

[home girl]

That's a good way to get shot!

[SouthwestRanger]

I know I'm dating myself but ...

I used to remember when Dad & Mom used to go to Sinclair, Mobil, and Merit and get a Glass or other trinket when they filled up....

One thing I miss is the nice cars VW made like the Classic Beetle or Hippie Vans...



My Dad and Cousin Gary from San Pedro, Ca used to drive one of these and I'm sure Cherie and her Surfer Pals drove to the Wild Shores in these

Now those were Cars !

[tim52160]

Wait till you see the $ run up over $800.oo filling up a semi. lol Glad companies paying for it instead of me. lol

[SouthwestRanger]

Here's an FYI Cherie, Joan, and the rest of THE RUNAWAYS could've found helpful !

Skip the pretzels: starving may fend off jet lag
By Julie Steenhuysen - Thu May 22, 12:57 PM


CHICAGO (Reuters) - Starving yourself before a long flight may help prevent jet lag, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

Normally, the body's natural circadian clock in the brain dictates when to wake, eat and sleep, all in response to light. But it seems a second clock takes over when food is scarce, and manipulating this clock might help travelers adjust to new time zones, they said.

"A period of fasting with no food at all for about 16 hours is enough to engage this new clock," said Dr. Clifford Saper of Harvard Medical School, whose study appears in the journal Science.

He said a person from the United States traveling to Japan must adjust to a 11-hour time change.

"Because the body's clock can only shift a small amount each day, it takes the average person about a week to adjust to the new time zone. And, by then, it's often time to come home," Saper said in a statement.

Saper and colleagues knew that when food is scarce, animals are able to override their normal biological clock to improve their chances of finding food.

Studies have shown that mice fed only during the time when they normally sleep shift their body clocks to this new schedule. "They would be awake and alert and ready to go an hour or two before a meal was due to appear to have maximal chance of getting the food," Saper said in a telephone interview.

"This is built into the brain. The problem is, nobody knew how it worked," he said.

He and colleagues set out to find this mechanism. They used a group of mice that had been genetically engineered to lack a master gene called BMAL1 that regulates the body's clock. They put this gene into the shell of a hollowed-out virus that acted as a vector to deliver the gene only to brain cells they were interested in studying.

When they put it into a small region of the hypothalamus known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which serves as the body's primary clock, the mice adjusted to a light-based schedule for waking and sleeping, but not eating.

"If you don't wake them up they will starve to death," Saper said.

However, when they restored the gene only in a section of the hypothalamus called the dorsomedial nucleus, which helps organize waking and feeding schedules, the mice adjusted to the eating schedule, but not daylight.

Saper said when food is scarce, this second clock can override the body's primary clock. He said these same clock genes are known to be in all mammals, including humans.

While skipping meals ahead of a long flight or night shift has not been proven to work in humans, it may be worth a try.

"I'm certainly going to do it the next time I go to Japan," he said.

http://health.yahoo.com/news/reuters..._clock_dc.html

[tim52160]

Hmmmmmm maybe i could lose some of this 350#s . lol

[SouthwestRanger]

Making Your Own Fuel

http://www.jrwhipple.com/sr/fuel_making.html

Has anyone seen these start to pop up on the roads yet ?

[SouthwestRanger]

Three simple ways to reduce your costs and reduce oil demand so prices go down.




1 ) If its only 1 or two miles away walk to it or bicycle to it.

2) if its up to 5 miles away bicycle to it.

3) if its further than 5 miles and or requires a heavy load. DON'T DRIVE OVER 55MPH. almost all vehicle's optimum fast mileage is at 55mph that was one of the original reasons for that speed limit during the 1970s fuel shortage besides safety.

Take Public Transportation if you can

Take your vacation at home and really REST UP !

Buy a Nice back pack at your local Army/Navy Store an Hitchike if you can !

[Tard]

Well, it appears some monkies aren't half as smart as I gave human beings credit for. So, Homegirl thought my prediction of siphoning a lil gas out of car tanks is dangerous?

How about this...

http://www.cbs8.com/story.php?id=129337

We're almost about Mad-Max-Level now. Not quite, but almost.