How much does charging a batttery powered car cost?

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Korey

My Mum wants to know how the price of charging a battery for an electric or a hybrid stacks up to the price of fuel for a gas-powered car.

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This depends on the hybrid or electric car and the prices of electricity in your area. Most of the hybrid cars on the market today aren't actually charged by plugging into the wall, they recharge while you are driving and braking only plug in hybrids recharge from an outlet. For charging the battery it is just a calculation of the energy used, and I will use the tesla roadster as an example. Their battery takes 3.5 hours to charge at 240V and 70Amps. Power (Watts)= I*V so P=70*240 or 16800W. It takes 3.5 hours at this power to charge the battery so you use 58800 Whrs or 58.8 kWhrs. Electric companies charge by the kWhr, so if you pay 15cents per Kwhr that would cost $8.82 to charge the car. Since this is completely electric and can go an estimated 245 miles per charge that is about 3.6 cents per mile to drive. This is of course an estimation, the price will vary depending on what your electric company charges per kWhr. But just for comparison a gas powered or non-plug in hybrid car (plug in hybrids are gas and electric) that gets 40 mpg with a 15 gallon tank and with gas at $3.30 would cost about 8.25 cents per mile to drive. Electric and hybrid cars are obviously cheaper to operate but they are usually more expensive to purchase and you also have to factor in the fact that batteries only last around 5 years and are very expensive to replace. At the moment the total cost of buying and operating a hybrid car is around equal to or more than the cost of a non-hybrid car. They are better for the environment, and you pay less for gas, but if you plan on keeping them for more than 5 years than you will probably have to pay to replace the batteries. Warranties for hybrids and electric cars expire when the expected productive life of the batteries ends, so if you plan on keeping the car longer than that you will probably have to pay for new batteries.

Is there a website that I can go to, that has relatively unbiased opinions on the different hybrid cars?

Megs

Also, if you have had experience with them what do you think about them versus a regular car that get about 32 mpg?

Thanks in advance!

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I bought a hybrid Toyota Camry last year when my old Camry finally bit the dust. I did a lot of research on the choices, including Consumer Reports, which was a GREAT resource.

I chose a Toyota over a Honda hybrid for several reasons. I am not a car expert, so if I phrase things like a non-expert, please forgive me, people! First, the Toyota is on its 3rd generation with hybrids and that strikes me as a company that has experience with these engines. Second, I learned that with the Honda, the gas engine is the one that starts you up and is essentially the engine that you are using until you need extra power, which is then supplied by the electric engine. With the Toyota, it is the opposite, in that the electric engine is the first source of power and the gas kicks in when needed. This strikes me as a better way to go.

Also, the Toyota had better numbers with gas mileage. From my personal experience, having driven my Camry hybrid for almost a year now, I can tell you that I get slightly more than double the mileage with the hybrid. Where with my old car, I would fill the tank once a week, now I go about 16-18 days on a tank

The hybrid does start a little slow, so it isn't for jack rabbits, but then, that is the point, right? The quick accelerating cars are murder on gas mileage. Once you are up and running in a few seconds, it goes just as just as you want.

Let me know what you get, new cars are so exciting!! Mine is red, with a sun roof, and she is so much fun to drive!! And I get tons of compliments from people who are interested in driving them.

Blessings,
Lady Morgana

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Besides for using a scraper are there any other methods to remove ice from your windshield?

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Chelsea

I find I waste so much time in the morning scraping ice off of my car windows. Does anyone have home remedies or methods to prevent or speed up the process of removing ice??

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1. Park in a garage, carport, etc.
2. Cover the windshield with a snow/frost shield.
3. Use warm water.
4. Put a small electric heater in the car and run an extension cord out to the car.
5. Wait for warmer weather.
6. Get some kids to do it for you.
7. Buy a remote start, and start the car 5 minutes before you're ready to leave.
8. Buy a car with an electric heater, so the heat is produced quicker.
9. Park in a spot where the sun will heat the car when you leave (For example, if you are parked next to a building, but could move to a sunny area.)
10. Carpool and let someone else do the work.

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For all those people who claim that warm water will crack the windshield, I suggest you go to a car wash during cold weather. Watch all those cars come out without damaged windshields.

Why are people so against being a little more environmentally friendly?

Q. I'm not a hippy, or a full on Environmentalist but I do understand that at our rate we're going to drain this Earth dry. Yeah Oil may last another 100 - 200 years, but that alone is well into our Kid's generation or our grand kids and the fact we're just wasting and polluting this Earth like there are no consequences.

Then when you even mention that people should be a little kinder to this Earth they all automatically go into what I call redneck mode and start screaming about "Find something that works and I'll do it, but until then I'll stick with my 4x4 Chevy with a 383 stroker super charged" and getting mad when cars like Tesla Model S reach car of the year. I believe their new supercharger (Charging station) is solar powered. and that car has gotten 430+ miles on a charge and cost 79,000 dollars. That is not bad for an Electric car that good and as they go on they'll get cheaper and cheaper. That IS a good alternative.

Don't get me wrong, I am NOT one of those people that preach going green. But I do see that in the long run we're going to end up f**king ourselves big time so I am wondering, why are people so against just being a little more conscious about this Earth?
It's funny you say that.

I actually live in the home of Rednecks, where rednecks flourish.

I live a Country life style. Non like you. and sorry, but around here we hate Rednecks that come in and ruin the place.

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redneck mode huh? you pretty much take yourself out any possibility of being taken seriously.... so any dissent to your point of view makes anyone else a redneck? yeah..you are a cliched wannabe hippy liberal.

when you mention how people "should" be doing anything....you are imposing your views.

are you willing to never turn on the ac again? do you really need a pc, ipod, ipad, cellphone etc. how about you stop using toilet paper? do we have to keep killing trees because youre to good to wash and reuse cloth rags?

on and on it goes... why does your particular level of comfort become what other people "should" do?

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How can a poor developing country encourage foreign FDI?

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Q. So far here is what I got, let's keep this real.

- Cheap labor
- Poor regulations
- Strong intellectual property rights
- Low taxes (<10%)
- off shore banking

What else?

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Investors are interested in locations where:
1. They can feel that the bar of entry to a given industry isn't ridiculously high (e.g. you need to hire 25 lawyers in your company before you can attempt to build and sell an electric car)
-> LOW REGULATIONS
2. They can feel that what they build will be theirs to enjoy (e.g. no government or mafia there saying - we'll take half of what ever you build because we need it the cash to go attend the next G20 photo shoot really it's extremely important I go there with my wife and kids)
-> LOW TAXES
3. The social structure set into place ensures that what has your name on it - remains yours to keep. I.e. the legal infrastructure is set such that nobody can come and easily steal "material stuff" from you.
-> PROPERTY RIGHTS
4. The rules that are set are there to stay and no-one can show up suddenly and decide otherwise or go retroactive and say ooops, know what, effective 5 years ago, every factory built on land XYZ is not allowed to engage in solar panel production
-> THE RULE OF LAW
Besides (if I may):
* The US paid the greatest salaries in the world for two centuries and attracted loads of FDI and the guys invented everything (the guys could say let's go for electricity and boom, there it was, in all houses, sure right now, what next, water, same thing, over night, want a car, sure, what, want to fly, there you go, airplanes, what else, walk on the moon, my of course why not - etc etc)
-> CHEAP LABOR is not a factor usually. Actually the cheaper the labor the lower the skills of the people you higher and the more mistakes and troubles you are likely to have with your problems so it may be counterintuitive but CHEAP LABOR is not in the list.
* Strong intellectual property rights are ALSO not on the list, and are not to be confused with "Property Rights". To this effect I can recommend a very recent video found on YouTube by Kinsella called "How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism"
-> STRONG IP RIGHTS are not a factor either
and you just need to look at how the world works today, every penny is running towards China today where the guys are allowed to just build and invent and try and test and here's bread, and here's bread with raisins, and here's bread with raisins and chocolate, etc etc - whereas the countries with Microsoft complaining every other day about no this "idea" is mine and no this was my "idea" etc tend to usually trap capital and impose delays on the speed at which a society moves into the future so people need to be quite careful with IP rights. More URLs I can recommend in the below lines.
Hoping this helps & good luck. Read everything you can find on www.mises.org.

How do you think we can prevent the scarcity of fossil fuels?

For peace

The price of petrol and diesel are rising day by day and our hydrocarbon reserves are diminishing...Although researches are still going on..to find a substitute,what else can we do to prevent "lack of fuel" condition??

Any ideas?Any sugestions??
Johnnie, as you said,the earth recycles....but,it takes a huge amount of time for that...Also...the organic matter(such as plants,animals etc..) are also getting used up..

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First thing we could do would be to talk about it, spread awareness, let people know that there is an issue which needs to be tackled before it turns into a crisis. You posing this question depicts that we (at least you) have got the first step right.

Let me first state that in my opinion, there is no out-of-the-box easy solution for this. The only answers are search for newer and non-traditional sources of energy like geothermal energy, tidal energy, solar energy, liquid hydrogen, garbage energy etc and exercise controlled and minimized use of non-replenishable sources of energy.

Here are a few suggestions-

1- Save oil!
Seen as a caption in many of the children's painting competitions- "Save Oil!" should be the motto of everyone around the planet. Personal automobiles should be used less. Public transport facilities should be ameliorated.

2- Go CFL!
Compact fluorescent light bulbs should replace the energy consuming electric bulbs. Likewise, age-old machines should make way for the modern energy efficient appliances.

3- Check vehicles!
What was the last time you neglected your bike/ car's poor average and mileage? Over-consumption should be kept under check by keeping your ride in good condition.

4- Search!
Search for new oil reserves might just buy us more time to think over and solve the impending crisis.

5- Fire and oil make a deadly combo...
Keep the oil refineries and reserves well protected from fire. Not only these accidental fires cause a loss of money and lives, they result in huge loss of the natural resources.

6- Encourage the solar cooker.
Don't mock the nuclear plant. It is a shy but bright kid. Kidding! Ok bad joke... I mean to say- we should slowly work towards establishing non-traditional sources of energy in our lifestyles. Nuclear energy still has a wide scope of application. Same with hydroelectric, solar, wind and other alternatives.

7- Turn off the lights, switch off the fans....
You're probably yawning reading this. This had been repeated so many times but still... you have to save energy in day-to-day affairs.

8- Spread awareness.
Yes, we need more campaigns. The chapters in our social-studies books have already told and retold us all these things but, there is a certain crowd that needs to be told about this in a more effective manner.

9- Smokeless and fuel efficient chulhas.
Here, in India, villages still rely on fuel wood and coal for their basic energy needs. The smokeless chulhas (stoves) go a long way in conserving wood from blind consumption.

10- Use Biogas.
We need more biogas plants. They, in my view, are the best and simplest alternatives in terms of energy cycling. Go biogas! So what if it doesn't smell like roses?

11- Population!
All these measures are of no or little use if the consumption still keeps growing. How about we put a check on population growth? We have been listening to this since the beginning! Do something! Take lessons from China!

12- Plant trees....
Again a well-known and over-discussed solution. We need more mass campaigns. More fuel wood trees and shrubs should be grown.

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Is Hybrid Car and Electric Cars are really going to be Future as Success Story?

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Electric cars and hybrid cars are need by us, but can they compete today's cars like in Speed, Power, Comfort, Looks?

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That's the whole point of hybrids and electrics. It's easy to make an electric vehicles fast and powerful, just difficult for it to have range. The first cars to reach 60mph were electric cars. You could easily put in a thousand horsepower electric motor into a car but the batteries would be depleted very quickly. We've been able to make gas cars with 50mpg plus back in 1982 which is still better than what the modern hybrids get but they lacked speed and power, the addition of an electric motor making the efficient cars hybrids is what gives the power and performance that the consumer wants.

We really don't need hybrids and electric cars. We don't even need so many cars. If we were willing to accept the lackluster performance of the 1982 econoboxes then why enhance the performance with an electric motor? If we want the flexibility to change the fuel source from fossil to something clean like solar by using electric vehicles then why don't we just synthesize gasoline from CO2 and H2O with solar power? Synthesized fuels could even be carbon negative whilst an electric vehicle with solar generated electricity is at best carbon neutral

Ultimately, Hybrid and electric will be seen for what they are, marketing to create an additional market niche for new cars just like model years, tail fins, station wagons, minivans, SUV's and Flex Fuel cars. Measures that would actually make a difference such as changing how we make the gasoline just doesn't make the auto manufacturers any money.

How do electric cars save fossil fuel, when most electricity is produced by burning fossil fuel?

FiFi la Be

I know some areas of the country have nuclear power or hydroelectric power, but most of the electricity in the US comes from burning coal. So how is an electric car doing any good? Isn't it just kicking the can down the road a little bit?

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Your question takes the unusual perspective that is not about pollution but conserving fossil fuel resources.

While a major percentage of grid electricity comes from fossil fuels, 100% of the fuel for a petrochemical burning vehicle comes from fossil fuels. Therefore just by switching from a petrochemical to electricity based fuel we reduce the total "fossil fuels" that are being used. Some electric cars use renewable energy while all internal combustion vehicles are going to burn something.

Then if we consider that the petrochemical burning internal combustion engine vehicle is approximately 15 % efficient at the wheels while an electric vehicle can be over 90% efficient we can have up to an additional 6 x energy savings further reducing the energy and fuel consumption required.

But if the ultimate issue is pollution not all fossil fuels are created equal. Coal is the most polluting, petrochemicals are next and natural gas is the best of the worst so to speak. Production of electricity is shifting from being coal dependent (about 42% last year to approx 37% this year) to natural gas. In that time petrochemical burning ICE vehicles have essentially not changed from the same polluting source of fuel.

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Im a 13 year old boy and can't find a hobbies I enjoy please help.?

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Jack L

As you know I'm 13 and I need a hobby. I like the outdoors but we live in a subdivision. I thought of doing woodcarving but its a little high in price. Can any of you please help me find something I like and is not too exspensive.
I don't want to do any school clubs or sports though.

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When I was 13, I tried a variety of things. You could try sketching/drawing still life, painting miniatures, check in the trash or your local goodwill store for anything electric/electronic, and see if you can get them working again, or just to see how things work. Building model cars, or you could even check in your local hobby store and ask around as to what other kids of your age enjoy. I myself got into radio control off road racing, but that can get into the thousands of dollars, depending on the type of equipment you buy into. I tried woodcarving too, didn't think it was too expensive, but it wasn't my thing. I never got good at it. I used to carve duck figurines from scrap wood. need a dremel tool, and a couple carving blades, I believe Xacto makes a set. Hope some of these suggestions help. Good Luck to you.

can you take toys and such on a Airplane?

Hismomma

Okay just wondering what you can take on a airplane? My son and i will be flying for the first time, and i have no clue what i can take on board for him to play with? also he is four can i bring his booster seat on as a carry on, for the rental car?

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You're welcome to bring any kind of toy as long as it doesn't look like or could be used as a weapon. Some gel-filled toys are allowed but I think your child is too old for teething rings!

The booster can be brought on but is not allowed to be used on board. Since airline seats don't have shoulder belts, the booster is basically useless for safety and airline seats collapse for emergencies so the only approved seats have hard backs. You can though, bring it and stow it onboard if you don't want to risk it being lost and/or broken in the luggage hold by checking it.

Bring toys on board which
1. Don't make ANY noise. Even a quiet song can drive fellow passengers batty
2. Can be lost without too much grief (replaceable, not expensive, etc.)
3. Can be packed easily (not too heavy, wont break, etc.)

A new toy is a good idea. My son was kept occupied for ages with just a bag of small cars or plastic animals.

Make sure anything electric is fully charged or you have extra batteries with you (yes, they're allowed). Again, no noise. If you take a portable DVD player (and I think he's a bit too young but do what works for you) or electronic game, make sure he is willing to wear the headphones or use it without sound.

At this age, I did better with stickers, coloring items and while my play dough experience was a bit messy, some parents swear by it. Pipe cleaners and pinwheels have also been cited as good toys for flying.

Have him prepare and pack his own backpack and you bring some of the new toys to surprise him.

No one will mind if you read a book to him.

Talk to him about security. This can be a bit intimidating for a child, even more so than the flight itself, which kids usually think is fun.

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/children/index.shtm

Explain to him ahead of time about putting his things on the belt, including possibly his shoes.

Here are some other random tips;

-Bring a change of clothes for him.
-Bring an empty sippy cup to fill during the services. This will prevent spills in the air.
-Get up and move around with him but keep an eye out. Those carts the F/A's use are the perfect height for hiding kids
-Bring snacks. Don't fret security. I've never had anything taken away (yes, water but not snacks) and that's the only risk. If you have something not allowed, they simply remove the item. No scenes, no speeches, no arrests!
-Try to sit in a bulkhead seat so that there's no one in front of you
-Bring slippers, especially if you're not in the bulkhead!

Check out a book at the library on flying and read it together. Buy one if you want but I've found plenty in our library and it's a one-time deal. If you live near an airport, even if it's not the one you'll use, perhaps visit it if possible.

At this age, children find flying fun. In my 13 years flying, I never saw an overly anxious child at this age.

Have a good flight!

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Do you think the government should force manufacture of fuel effciant cars?

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Nate H

They have electric roadsters that do 0-60 in 3 seconds and have a 100 mile plus range lineing up for production. Just add a small desile generator and some solar panels and it will get 100 to infinity miles per gallon. Why don't they mandate hybred and solor car manufacturing! Think they should make a limit on how much fuel a vehical can consume? Like 1 gallon per hour private and 3 commercial?

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You can't mandate something like that.

The consumer dictates what will be built. The companies respond to that.

When gas got to $3.00 a gallon, SUV and pickup sales went down to its lowest levels since 1995. People were looking into more efficient cars. Toyota and Honda had already thought ahead and been producting them. The government encourages it by giving tax breaks and allowing them into HOV lanes. The US car makers were still churning out SUV's and fell behind yet again. Now Toyota is poised to become the number one car maker because they're able to think ahead, innovate, and respond quicker to the market.

Now that gas is back to $2.06 a gallon, people are going *whew* and are driving SUV's again. But there is a percentage that are thinking ahead and are selling their SUV's and buying the Toyota's and Honda's.

You can blame the SUV and Minivan market in part on the increased safety levels required by the government. Since they require car seats for each kid, a family with three kids needs a larger vehicle so Minivan's were born. Guys were harassed about driving a "minivan" so the car manufacturers created SUV's to satisfy a guy's ego.

Then you have the Hummer type ads. You've seen them. Where they harass the moms now, calling them wimps and pressuring them to buy Hummers. What a bunch of crap.

What are some advantages of getting a Hybrid car?

Q. ..and which one is better? Is there any difference in hydrid cars? I'm thinking about the Toyota hybrid...

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Snob appeal. Just kidding. My sister has owned a Prius for the last 2 years. She bought it "new" and I've heard not one complaint. Go with Toyota because they are one of the first to have perfected a Hybrid priced for the masses (more or less..I'll have to buy 2nd hand) This old world is suffering from pollution, so any little thing can be a positive. I've seen some really innovative electric cars on-line, but have never seen any for sale and one the road. Then electricity rates will climb! Mark my words.

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When the Democrats controlled both houses and the White House did they?

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Barney the

just show up and vote "present"?

Or did they use their historic opportunity to balance the budget?

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They decided the best thing they could do, was to jump start the economy, by shooting it in the foot with Obama Care, and then they broke out the national credit card, and decided to go on a spending spree. They spent, or borrowed and spent (almost make you miss the tax and spend dems), money on such high priority projects such as....

$25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties
$60 billion annually wasted in health care fraud
$9 billion annually Earned Income Tax Credit overpayments
$2 billion annually by Conservation Reserve program pays farmers not to farm
$600 million annually in food stamp overpayments.
$120 million annually in school lunch program abuse costs .
$800 million annually in veterans' program overpayments cost
$50 million annually for U.S. Postal Service selects an average of 1,125 employees daily, to sit in empty âstandby rooms", and do nothing, due to over staffing
$146 million annually in flight upgrades due to federal employees refusing to fly coach
$15 million annually by the National Institutes of Health to rent a labs it cannot use
$20 million annually for prisoners getting SSI relating to their alleged disabilities
$1.4 billion in overpayments to disability beneficiaries
$112 million paid out by the IRS to fraudulent returns filed by prisoners
$423,500 stimulus funds to find out why men don't like to wear condoms
$2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.
$1 million in stimulus funds for a genitalia-washing program in Africa
$1 million stimulus grant to researching gay males penis size
$400,000 stimulus grant research in Buenos Aires bars on gay men's risky sexual behavior
$1.44 million stimulus grant to study male prostitutes in Vietnam
$239,100 stimulus grant to study of how Americans use the Internet to find love
$168,766 stimulus grant study sexual behavior of monkeys by analyzing monkey feces in Africa
$3 billion re-sanding beaches (even as this new sand washes back into the ocean).
$50 million in erroneous refunds to 230,000 Medicare recipients
$3.9 million by Securities Exchange Commission, rearranging desks & offices at its headquarters
$2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased
$10 million to renovate an abandoned train station that has not been used in 30 years
$100 million on unused flight tickets, Defense Department bought, never bothered to collect refunds even though the tickets were refundable
$2.8 million stimulus sent to a Wisconsin nursing home that didnât need or request it
$ 50,000 a piece for paintings of high-ranking government officials.
$356,000 stimulus grant to study how kids perceive foreign accents.
$900,000 in federal stimulus funds on a new bike signs in Oregon, even though the city already has similar bike signs, which it plans to leave up.
$200,000 stimulus grant to study why political candidates make vague statements
$615,000 so the University of California at Santa Cruz could digitize Grateful Dead photographs, tickets, backstage passes, fliers, shirts and other memorabilia
$1.2 million spent trying to find out if a mother rat on cocaine will abandon her babies
$535 million stimulus loan to Solyndra to create green jobs making solar panels. The company is now bankrupt, laying off over 1,000 employees. Sending those jobs overseas to China
$2 million stimulus funds to send researchers to the Southwest Indian Ocean Islands and Africa, to capture, photograph, and analyze thousands of exotic ants
$296,385 in stimulus funds to study âdog domestication"
$2.4 billion spent by Congress on 10 new jets the Pentagon insists it does not need and will not use.
$450,000 by the State Department on a art shows in Venice, Italy.
$529 million stimulus loan Energy Department's to the start-up electric car company, in Finland

Basically by most estimates, they spent $533,000 per job, saved or created, by the stimulus plan. By using Washington DC math and way of calculating, unemployment is running around 9%. In reality, it is more like 16%.

How can a poor developing country encourage foreign FDI?

Q. So far here is what I got, let's keep this real.

- Cheap labor
- Poor regulations
- Strong intellectual property rights
- Low taxes (<10%)
- off shore banking

What else?

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Investors are interested in locations where:
1. They can feel that the bar of entry to a given industry isn't ridiculously high (e.g. you need to hire 25 lawyers in your company before you can attempt to build and sell an electric car)
-> LOW REGULATIONS
2. They can feel that what they build will be theirs to enjoy (e.g. no government or mafia there saying - we'll take half of what ever you build because we need it the cash to go attend the next G20 photo shoot really it's extremely important I go there with my wife and kids)
-> LOW TAXES
3. The social structure set into place ensures that what has your name on it - remains yours to keep. I.e. the legal infrastructure is set such that nobody can come and easily steal "material stuff" from you.
-> PROPERTY RIGHTS
4. The rules that are set are there to stay and no-one can show up suddenly and decide otherwise or go retroactive and say ooops, know what, effective 5 years ago, every factory built on land XYZ is not allowed to engage in solar panel production
-> THE RULE OF LAW
Besides (if I may):
* The US paid the greatest salaries in the world for two centuries and attracted loads of FDI and the guys invented everything (the guys could say let's go for electricity and boom, there it was, in all houses, sure right now, what next, water, same thing, over night, want a car, sure, what, want to fly, there you go, airplanes, what else, walk on the moon, my of course why not - etc etc)
-> CHEAP LABOR is not a factor usually. Actually the cheaper the labor the lower the skills of the people you higher and the more mistakes and troubles you are likely to have with your problems so it may be counterintuitive but CHEAP LABOR is not in the list.
* Strong intellectual property rights are ALSO not on the list, and are not to be confused with "Property Rights". To this effect I can recommend a very recent video found on YouTube by Kinsella called "How Intellectual Property Hampers Capitalism"
-> STRONG IP RIGHTS are not a factor either
and you just need to look at how the world works today, every penny is running towards China today where the guys are allowed to just build and invent and try and test and here's bread, and here's bread with raisins, and here's bread with raisins and chocolate, etc etc - whereas the countries with Microsoft complaining every other day about no this "idea" is mine and no this was my "idea" etc tend to usually trap capital and impose delays on the speed at which a society moves into the future so people need to be quite careful with IP rights. More URLs I can recommend in the below lines.
Hoping this helps & good luck. Read everything you can find on www.mises.org.

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Where could I get a really cool electric car?

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Eliza

Ok, went to friends house today and she has the coolest small electric car for kids! I really want one but don't know where to buy for someone who is 12 ( you see it's actually for my sister!) Could you guys help me? By the way I live in England.
Just to really outline it.. a 12 year old has to fit in it!

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If you have a Radio Shack store in your area. They have a new line that you can start with and make upgrades called XMODS.
http://www.radioshack.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=2032407

or

for about $200 go with HPI micro rs4 belt driven 4 wheel drive - tons of upgrades. These are 1/18 scale, not sure what size you are looking for.
www.hpi-europe.com

or

for about $200 you can get kyosho mini z. Highly detailed metal bodies - ready to run (rtr).

Stay away from toys-r-us and stores like that you can't buy parts for.

Where do you get mini electric cars for like kids that can carry weight up to 180lbs?

Q. on rob's dyredks fantasy factory episonde 12 with the dusty monkey they give away a mini motor car thing where do you get those??

Answer
Toys R Us

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What car do you drive and what is your dream car?

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Michael

With dream car I mean a realistic practical car that you get for free, but maintenance, gas etc is all on you.

My current car is a 2007 Lexus IS250, my dream car is the new BMW M5 in Monte Carlo blue.

I'm considering buying the older 2006 M5.
You still get a V10 instead of V8 with that one, so that's a big plus.


What about you?

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I drive a 2013 Honda Civic and my dream car was the Acura NSX but now I want a Tesla electric car. With several solar charging stations nearby, I would "refuel" free for life!!!!!!

What are some reliable 2009-2013 great gas milage vehicles?

Crysis

Buying a new car soon, would really like some referrals and advice, thank you!

Answer
Well these new hybrids are all the best in that regard but I don't know if you'd want them...

Toyota Prius 42-45+ MPG, Honda Insight 45 MPG, 4 cyl Jetta Sedan 41 MPG, Toyota Corrolla 40+ MPG, etc

But here I'll break it down by car types:

Mini cars: Smart fortwo, Scion IQ, Mitsubishi i-miev

compact: Ford Focus (electric)

Midsize: Toyota Prius hybrid or prius V

Station wagon: Honda Fit

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What is the one biggest cultural thing in Germany?

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Female Dr.

I am trying to learn about Germany and am wondering what is the biggest hidden thing about the culture that no one knows, and what would I do to fit into the German culture, act like aa German etc.
I am trying to learn how to act like a native German, what are the norms that are known by only the natives?

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Well, there are the cultural stereotypes and the cultural customs -- and of course, just like in the USA or UK, customs may have some radical differences depending on which region you're in. You're more likely to encounter these broad generalizations in Germany than wherever you are now, but they are not blanket truths.

If you want to pass for a German, you should:

-- Be conscious of your energy usage, and care about Efficiency. Turn off lights and keep doors closed in rooms when you are not using them. Pull the metal shade down over your windows when it's cold or cloudy or nighttime to keep the heat from escaping. Use the train or rideshare (carpool with paying passengers) instead of driving your car alone. Install solar panels on your roof, like your neighbors. Hang dry your clothes instead of tossing them in a (wasteful!) electric dryer.

-- Be timely, and expect others to be timely too. Fashionably late is not fashionable. Trains run on time. Tap your foot and get grumpy when the train pulls into the station 4 minutes after its scheduled/posted time.

-- In social situations, greet every person individually. For those you have not yet been introduced to, you are responsible for politely introducing yourself by saying your name and giving them a handshake. A general wave hello or goodbye to the group/room is impolite. When you leave, you should say individual goodbyes to each person. Even the people you didn't really talk to or spend much time with.

-- Be cynical when talking about politics and politicians. Be comfortable taking plainly, openly, and knowledgeably about your own personal finances and money. Be rather ignorant about religious customs outside your own or your own community, assume that the White people you interact with are all either Lutheran, Catholic, Atheist, or lapsed, but that they are all familiar with Christian holidays and traditions.

-- Don't get squeamish when you go to the spa/sauna or beach and all the men and women and children are walking around naked together, and not having any problems or displaying embarrassment/shame. Relax. See that your bodies are just as similar or different as your faces. Be comfortable with your body and nudity. And note that Speedo-style swimsuits (for men) is the typical alternative.

-- Don't wear baggy clothes or sweats unless you're actually going for a jog or to the gym or laying about in your own home. Germans may not generally wear flashy clothes like Italians or French, but they do take care with what they wear. White sneakers? No. Baggy pants than hang over their asses? No. Capris with socks and nice sandals? Yes. Hmm...

-- Prefer foreign movies and tv dubbed into German instead of subtitled.

-- Be hyper vigilant about sorting your trash and recycling. Return your bottles to the store. Keep your yard and garden tidy. Address people formally unless they have given you permission to use their first name and address them in the familiar. Don't be shy about demanding and expecting quality, returning things to the store, or approaching clerks and customer service folks about getting something your way -- it's not perceived as rude, but rather sensible.

-- Be comfortable eating bread and coldcuts, cheeses, and various spreads for breakfast and/or dinner. If you prefer cereal for breakfast, expect it to be chocolaty. Get used to eating pig, potatoes, cabbage, pasta, and mixing your beer with soda-pop (Radler, Diesel, etc.) Get excited about white asparagus coming into season, milky lattes in tall glasses, spicy Turkish fast food, and snail-shaped pastries. Feel comfortable drinking alcohol in public, at parks, with friends, on the subway, on the street, at the bar/pub/restaurant with your kids.

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What would you change if you were President of the United States?

Mrs. Spock

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1. Change the work week to only 4 hours per day.
2. Give school teachers pay increases.
3. Dismantle our military bases all over the world and focus on protecting our soil here. Keep our noses out of every other Countries business.
4. Bring home all of our military men & women immediately.
5. Let the car companies go bankrupt for selling us crappy cars and not giving us any REAL alternatives like TOTALLY electric cars.
6. Make chocolate the official food of the USA.
7. Put Ron Paul on my board of advisers.
8. Make them bring back the tv show Frasier.
9. HBO would be FREE to all citizens.
10. FREE health care for everyone.
11. I'd take some money from all of the richest billionaires and share it with everyone else. Nobody should have THAT much money while others have very little.
12. School would be K-7th grade and then College would start in 8th grade. We baby our kids WAY too much.

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How Much Does It Cost Annually to live in Rincon, Puerto Rico?

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jtmasters

We have fallen in love with Rincon. Could some adults give me an idea of the total annual cost of living for 2 adults who want to live NEAR but not necessarily On the beach, have one car, and a relaxed lifestyle that would include air-conditioning if over 85 degrees? Please, no commercial posters respond to this posting.

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Well...price will vary on te beach or near the beach. If your planning to stay all year long, look outside the places posted on the internet for guesthouses, vacation rentals.. It also depends what season your coming down since a fixed price per month will change. Example, there are a couple places going for $400-500 month away from beach, not incl cable water elect.. If you want to be closer to the beach expect to pay 2-3x more per month, if long term and renting from homeowner, not a rental property for vacation. *BUT the best search is to come down here, and drive around since most of these places do not advertise on the net.

Electric is very..very expensive, almost double, maybe even triple is some cases compared to some of the states in USA. Cars, another one, very expensive, since we have to import them down here, there is a tax on them that makes them expensive, and almost stays with the car. New or used your choice, but expensive. There is no such thing as a train station car down here that is $500, they almost all start in $1k+ mark, and they will all tell you low miles, down here that means, anywhere from 80-150 thousand miles.. I dont get it also, I seen a car that is a 2001, and has 132k miles and they still want $5ooo dollors for it.. and was beat up..It looked like heck.. kid ya not. The only thing that is good is that a used car the insurance in just under $200 year.. but that only covers up to $3k of damages, but there are places for extra coverage.

AC, I lived here for 9 years, and only used the AC a couple times, but I do live with fans, and a couple cold showers a day..

Now, your relaxed life style, either eating out, or stay at home and cook.. Food at the Econo or Selectos, Pueblo, prices are high, also.. its another import thing, expensive, but you have to do your shopping wisely, places offer different things at diff prices, like in the states. Local pinchos, bars, are always the cheapest with very tasty food.Restaurants, are expensive, especially in touristy places, and well from my experience, food is not worth the price.

AND to close this article, didnt know if your going to be buying a house, condo etc.. but, everything is negotiable,didntt be fooled and walk away, if the deal is too good, on buying a house make sure there is a title, and a clean one at that.

What are the solutions to our mounting energy crisis?

Diggy

We all know gas prices are high. I think they will only get higher, save some dips in the off-season. The issue is all the energy we use, not just our cars. Some say alternative fuels. Is it possible to simply switch over to ethenol? No. Should we be thinking about the way we live, our infrastructure, public transportation, how far and often we drive?

The cost of heating and cooling our homes will also continue to rise. Is there significant wind and solar technologies as an alternative? Nuclear, coal, hydro? What do you think?

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The problem isn't our ability to produce energy--the technology is there. Nor is switching our cars to alternative energy a problem--although ethanol is not the solution--electric cars are.

The usual immediate answer is that electric cars aren't practical. In point of fact they are--and we could have been producing them for decades; the first workable electric cars were around 100 years ago (NO, I'M NOT KIDDING)

So where are they? That brings us to the real problem: special interests. We do not have alternative enrgies--we are dependant on foreign oil--for the simple reason that special intersests--mostly the fossil fuel industry--have actively blocked changes in policy and access to markets for alternative technologies.

As to the rest of your question: we have a growing solar and wind power industry--both are commercially competitive. Nuclear is an option that merits careful study. Coal is not a viable long term option--it is not carbon-neutral (its worse than oil, in fact). Ethanol is viable--but the problem is scale: how much farmland can we shift to this, along with all the fertilizer, etc, before the ecological impact outweighs the value. Besides, ethanol is not cheap.

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What are some not well known electric/hybrid cars available for sale in the US?

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Issac Rang

I keep seeing all these stories with various models of hybrids and electric cars. Of course we all know about cars like the Prius, but where are all the other cars at? The ones we see and say 'oh cool' but we never see for sale?

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The Lexus LS 600h L is a real beaut, but is priced over $100,000. I wouldn't go Japanese though, just admired that one car!

How would I be categorized politically?

anonymous

I support unborn rights and would support a pro-life amendment to the constitution, with the only acceptation for the mother's life.

I would abolish the department of education because it's a local and state level responsibility.

I support the right to bear arms, concealed weapons licenses, hunting, stand your ground laws, etc.

I support a 2 strikes and your out drunk driving law.

I support a his body his choice law banning infant circumcision unless it is to treat a legitimate medical condition.

I support the decriminalizing of marijuana because it is less harmful than alcohol.

I think the drinking age should be 18 to match the age of adulthood.

I think it is of the highest urgency to become and stay energy independent.

I support nuclear power and increasing the number of nuclear power plants across America.

I would push the auto makers to make electric cars available for drivers who want them.

I would set and push for goals of energy independence, curing cancer, and paying down the nation debt.

I oppose the endangered species act because it has failed to protect one species and has only given government control of people's land.

I would raise the levels of fines on employers hiring illegal aliens.

Homeland security should only be used as an anti-terror agency and criminal law enforcement should be handled by other agencies.

I don't believe there is such thing as a gay marriage and think we should give them the same privileges that comes with marriage but call it something else.

I think capitalism is the greatest antipoverty tool the world has ever seen and encourage the economy, not put outrageous taxes on it.

I don't believe humans are warming up the Earth but I think we need to clean up some of the messes we are making such as air quality.

I believe in a small federal government. I don't think the general public should even notice the federal government unless they visit their local military recruiter or post office.

No more ethanol, it causes higher grocery bills and less MPG.

I support Boone's plan.

I support the rights of nudists to live their lifestyle on their privately owned property without the government telling them they must put clothes on.

I am a Christian but don't think it's the government's job to push morality, I think morality must come from the people up. Not the government down.

I support net neutrality, and oppose bandwidth caps.

I would revert our copyright laws back to that of the Webster and Benjamin Franklin years: An item can be copyrighted for 14 years, renewable once, then falls into public domain.

We allow men to go out in public shirtless. I support amending the law allowing both genders to do the same. One gender shirtless is discrimination. I support women's rights to breast feed in public. That is the function of the breast. I don't think anyone has ever been harmed for seeing a breast.

I think smokers should be required to pay their own way when they get cancer and heart disease. Not get public money to fight a self imposed condition.

I would allow people to own their social security accounts and allow them to invest in a Roth IRA within their social security account so the people may build a nest egg to retire on. Each person will own their account and congress may never dip into it.

I would make it illegal for credit card companies to raise interest rates, at will, with no delinquent activity: banning universal default.

Absolutely, no more national debt. No more borrowing.

I believe terminally ill patients should be allowed to take experimental drugs that have yet to receive FDA approval.

Lets get rid of the IRS, replace tax system with flat tax or national sales tax. The IRS and current tax code only exists to control people.

I oppose taxes on broadband internet access, sales tax on in items bought online, and regulation of online content.

I don't believe our government is up to the task of providing national heath care and it's much better off left in the hands of the private sector.

I think adults should legally be able to take steroids for body building if he is not competing in competitive sports.

I think daylight savings time should be expanded to a year round project.

I oppose the government regulating the content of literature, films, video games, etc.

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well im not sure what to call it, but
I agree with 80% of that.

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Am i allowed to ride a moped in the UK with my German drivers license which includes class M?

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john5879

class M of the german drivers license includes according to wikipedia, Two-wheel vehicles or three-wheel vehicles with a maximum design speed of not more than 45 km/h and with a cylinder capacity not exceeding 50 cubic centimetres.

thank you!

also

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Yes, you'll be fine. You can ride a super-ped if you like. The Piaggio MP3 variants.
The only 250cc 400cc or 500 cc bikes you can ride in the UK with only a normal car driving license, no bike license needed.
They are petrol/electric hybrid 3-wheel bikes with very good fuel economy, excellent road grip, tilting suspension on the two front wheels and a decent performance including a quoted 0 - 60mph in 5 seconds for the 500cc but some people have had reliability problems with them, and they are not cheap.
http://www.bmgscooters.com/shop/product/piaggio_mp3_500_lt_sport_2012
Scroll down for the driving/riding requirements
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PIAGGIO-MP3-400-LT-Moped-Scooter-Bike-Trike-Motorbike-/160767040414?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item256e765b9e
En Francais but the video is of better quality than the others and mostly very sharp. Some good scenery and good views of the bike in actiion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=859ufa2ZSSs
Bitte bitte and enjoy sunny England. Sunshine is timed for 1430 - 1630 on Sunday this week at today's guesscast.
Hope you can make it. Gute Reise!





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Is the nissan micra C+C available in the USA?

dancegirld

I can't find it anywhere. When i search it on google I only find it available in places like Japan and the UK.

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The smallest Nissan we get over here is the Versa. Micra is sold in Mexico. USA may get a total electric version of Micra in 2012. Cube is due out in spring. Nissan has exciting cars only if we can excite car buyers.

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What's the advantage of electric car over the former car which add oil?

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Will electric car supercede the car which add oil?

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Nissan leaf gets 100 miles per charge...
Brammo empulse motorcycle 100 miles per charge...
Electricity is cheap, buy cheap TABBED SOLAR CELLS make a panel and you could ride forever for free.
You wont give a damn how high gas prices are.
No global warming Co2 coming out your tailpipe.
Save the world and money...
come on son..
Combustions history...

When everyone is driving electric cars like liberals want what is the government going to do without gas taxes?

Obviously

The fewer cars using gasoline the less money the government gets in gas taxes.

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As many electric vehicles remain rather expensive the government will continue its policy of taxing the poor and giving a free ride to those who can afford the loopholes.

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how to teach a toddler to press a gas pedal?

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for her mini electric jeep. lol she got it as a christmas gift, but doesnt know how to step on the gas pedal, she thinks its like a different toy car that you just press on the side to make it run, shes 19 months is she to young for it?

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She might be too young for it. Though if you keep putting her in it and showing her the pedal she will eventually get it.

What is the one thing you couldn't live without when your baby was born?

VillageGir

I'd love to hear what one (or more) thing (or things) you parents absolutely loved during your child's newborn weeks and the first year. I'm thinking about my baby list and registry. Thanks!
@Andrew: what exactly do you mean? Like, earplugs for dad? Yeah, um, that's not gonna work in our family. We're taking turns getting the baby.

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My twins nursing pillow. I only use it for them one at a time, but if I was stuck on a desert island with them and could only bring one thing... that would be it.

Although without diapers it would get pretty stinky.

You can't take them home without a car seat of course.

For toys the doorway jumper KILLS SLAUGHTERS DESTROYS and ANNIHALATES all other toys. My guys are 5 months and been rocking out on them for 2 months.

ONLY the Graco is worth getting. I got the Evenflo - SUCKS. Worthless in comparison.

Graco doorway jumper cost $30, but worth $300 for fun.

I have all the stuff, all the toys, everything. For toys, Graco doorway jumper. I feel sorry for babies who don't have them.

I got the slings, I got the baby bjorns, I have the infant swings, bumbos, boppys, activity mat (okay, that one is IMPORTANT), I have 3 strollers, I have lots of bottles, pacifiers etc. gotta go with nursing pillow for feeding and for toys that doorway jumper.

I use prefolds and thirsties cloth diapers to. Much Much cheaper than disposables. For cloth get those, but if not using cloth that's fine to.

I change my guys on a waterproof mat on the floor. It is 1000 times better than a changing table. Because we do naked tummy time, play with them before and after changing... we do tons of floor time, and just change a diaper while we are down there.

I didn't have much help with the cleaning. Would have been great, but everyone who came to help me wanted to give them a bottle instead of helping me clean but I was breastfeeding so had to constantly tell them (my mom mostly) no. *sigh* Yes, help cleaning would have been nice.

Oh wait, an infant scale. I found that reduced my worries when breastfeeding. If you start to doubt your supply etc. you just weigh the baby and make sure they are gaining properly. Well worth the money. Pillow trumps it, but it is still a great thing to have for $30 from amazon.com. It also is a standing toddler scale for when they get bigger. Regular scales don't weight things less than 50 pounds very accurately, and infants not at all!

The best gift I got was my double electric breast pump... and the Kiddopotamus swaddlers! That is a tie actually. No, swaddlers win. Those velcro swaddlers will give you an extra couple hours of sleep or so a night. You want those very very much. Just 1 is fine. Costs about $12.

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Is it ok to keep old nannies furniture?

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whoha

My mom hired a full time nannie for her newborn twins. She was supposed to live in our guests house behind our house, free rent, electric, water, cable, everything on top of $600/month. She had moved in some of her furniture but never actually stayed there for some reason. My mom paid her two weeks in advance and after only three days of working she said she broke her tooth during her night job and couldn't come in that day. After that she kept making up excuses and never showed up again claiming she returned to her old job. My mom keeps texting her asking if she is going to get her things and she said she will but yet hasn't and hasn't been in contact with my mom for awhile. This was over a month ago and she hasn't given my mom back the money she was paid. She claims that she has so many medical bills to pay and she has to fix her car, my mom isn't sure if she should keep the furniture since it has been so long. She left a nice black leather couch, pots and pans, a pretty nice bed frame and headboard, expensive clothes, etc. I don't know if she is embarassed to come back or what, what do you think my moms should do?
There was no contract for anything
She is 31 years old

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If it were me I'd haul the stuff to a rental place, pay for one months rent and send her the key. Then tell her never to come back and best luck but goodbye. Your mom needs to cut her losses and sever ties with this lady (but she can't keep her stuff either). This lady isn't a bad person but so undependable that I sure wouldn't want them looking after my kids.

If our country had universal health care would our businesses be more profitable?

Kasey pink

Not only would we be able to actually buy locally produced goods, but goods and services would be cheaper. A lot of the reason for outsourcing has to do with the high cost of labor. If we took some of the burden off the private sector by having health insurance provided for like it is in other industrialized nations, perhaps our businesses would be more competitive in a global market?
Not to mention that it is incredibly inhumane to deny poor people health care...people are dying in this country of preventative illnesses for the sake of saving tax dollars while greedy insurance executives own several mansions. It makes me sick.

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Mansions? Greedy Capitalists? Hello? OK ... I'm awake!
Wuh?

Obama has been saying that the nation should be on the health insurance that is used by the govt, by Congress.

This would save business about $1,000/year depending on how many employees they have.

Outsourcing is GREAT for business profits but they neglect to figure in the fact that if fewer people are employed this means fewer people can afford to purchase goods and services. Business declines nationally ... less biz = less profits = shoulda kept the jobs here.

The govt is still covering my health care through MediCare ... but they are threatening to cut it severely. California is now begging the Federal govt to give it a bailout but the govt claims they have no more money available, and yet it would only take a "quick print" of $26 billion for California to go back to normal and keep my medical coverage in tact. The govt pays about $20,000 year for my coverage. I could pay that myself IF I could get a job. But it seems that the Mexicans get hired first if they are willing to work for minimum wage or less ... next it's the kids who will work for school wages ... then the rest of the 18-30 work force who will work for minimum wage ... and right now that's about all the jobs they have. No jobs for older people who require higher wages. Business no longer wants to deliver a quality product. So they hire newbies who need to be trained and the whole nation suffers b/c our businesses cannot afford to hire descent labor. What they forget is that with my experience I could do the work of two people, or more, thus saving them quite a bit of money but they don't look at that anymore.

You want to know the solution? GE needs to make more wind generators in THIS country. Companies like Exxon who are fat with cash need to buy one or two of GM's closed plants and turn the lights back on and change the molds to produce the new bodies for the new electric vehicles. Do you know that Aptera makes a car that gets 300 mpg? And an electric model that uses no gas at all?They're only $25,000 and up. Cheap! But think of it ... you could go from California to New York (4,000 miles?) and back (8,000 miles total) for $80. How much do YOU spend on gas to go to work? What if you got TEN TIMES better gas mileage? YOU would spend less ... the manufacturers would save on shipping ... UPS could lower their prices if gas were cheaper for them ... EVERYONE would pay less if we could get fuel prices DOWN!
So, Exxon could supplement their income by producing electric and fuel efficient vehicles. Why hasn't anyone mentioned a nuclear car? I would think by now they would have a little pellet they could put in an engine and have it run for 5 years or more. Is there such a thing as recycling the nuclear waste? Can it be reused in commercial vehicles?
GE could also go in partners with Exxon to make solar cells for ALL the homes in America. Since the govt likes giving money away they could cover the roof tops of America with solar panels that are made by the energy companies and charge people the SAME monthly power fees but instead of losing that forever, the families would be paying off their solar panels. Make them payable over 20 years. Monthly power bills should remain about the same and after 20 years, when they are paid off, the panels will still have 5-10 years of life left and then there would be another business boom when people replace the old units.
GE would cover all the areas with wind, but few residents. Who wants to live on a windy mtn? Why not put windmills everywhere there is wind. Put solar panels everywhere else. Sell off the excess power to Canada and Mexico.
AND THEN, the govt needs to legalize marijuana and produce as much hemp as possible. The BEST oil for cars is HEMP OIL! Do you know your car will run with NO major maintenance for 500,000 miles if you used Hemp Oil instead of petro oil. If they can make oil out of it, couldn't they make fuel out of it. Instead of using corn for fuel, FEED corn to the people and grow WEEDS to produce fuel. This country could be covered in weed plants, like back in 1920, and the govt could make rope and fuel and oil products for the country by hiring some defunct company to come back to life and produce this stuff that is so vital to the country and at the same time they could employ more people. Win Win Situation!
If businesses had solar cells on their rooftops and could save $3-5,000 per month on utility costs wouldn't this offset a LOT of their costs? Next to labor I would venture to say that utility costs come in a close second to rent/lease fees. IF business wanted to have the solar cells installed immediately by the govt and then pay a monthly fee to repay the govt it would still save them a lot. OR they could use the tax credits to buy solar and install it themselves.
Nuclear fuel cells are now available that will power entire neighborhoods. You put the

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Does anyone believe that life as we know it will change in 2012?

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Eddie Blac

There has been many startling predictions about the year 2012. Death, destruction, overthrowing of governments, even worst to come. Will the events leading up to 2012 only get worse. If so, will the end ultimately as we know it cease by December 21, 2012?

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The people making up the wild and crazy claims about "doomsday" in 2012 are grifters and liars. Some want your money (BUY MY BOOK!) and some just want notoriety. The claims themselves are nonsense. It is INSULTING to anyone with even a High School education in science that these people are allowed to espouse and print such ridiculous lies.

If I claimed that tomorrow the Sun would turn pink and bunnies would take over the world, you might suggest that I seek psychological help, yet when someone like Patrick Geryl says that "streams of positive ions will push the South Pole over making the Earth flip" like a pancake... or a crepe (he IS Belgian), you hardly EVER hear anyone say "Is he forgetting to take his meds?" It is just silly!

So often in Y!A we hear people say "scientists say..." or "look at the evidence that civilizations collapse every 3600 years" when NOT ONE of these people have ever even taken a science class. That much is obvious. Please disregard any such statements and only treat claims with some citations as at all likely. For example there is a nice NASA site in astrobiology which debunks nearly ALL the 2012 claims very neatly... and don't forget Penn & Teller! They show, with a healthy dollop of humor, just how laughable all the hoaxers are.... I LOVED the guy with the styrofoam balls on the strings!

Don't worry about 2012. Worry about your kids growing up to be sociopaths or not growing up at all simply because you forget to buckle them in your car. Worry about the government selling mining rights to big oil companies that want to drill for Natural Gas within a mile of old atomic bomb tests. (If you live in Colorado... switch to electric stoves)

There is plenty of real things to scare you in this world, you don't have to make anything scary up.

http://www.2012hoax.org

What are some good hip hop songs to make a dance to?

jay girl

My friend and i both go to the same dance school and we wanna pick a song to do for next year, any suggestions?

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HERE ARE SOME NEW ONES:
Memories - David Guetta ft. Kid Cudi
Building Minds Faster (BMF Freestyle) - Lupe Fiasco
Free Mason - Rick Ross ft Jay-Z & John Legend
Be Worried - Nas ft. Swizz Beatz
Level Above (Tags) - Yung L.A. ft Wale & Pill
Like The White Boys - Lil Wayne ft. Yung LA & Wiz Khalifa & Eminem
Sunglasses At Night - Skepta
Tears Of Joy - Rick Ross
Fearless - Emenim
Who Dat - J Cole
Vibrator - Gucci Mane ft The Cataracs
Kid Cudi ft. Kayne West - Erase Me
Say It Like It Really Is - Public Enemy
Boosted Up My Ego - Trai'D ft OJ Da Juiceman
Paper Scissors Rock - Timbaland ft James Fauntleroy
Miss Me - Drake ft Lil Wayne
Heavenly Father - Fat Joe ft Lil Wayne
Maybe (Remix) - Rocco ft. Gucci Mane & Rick Ross & Soulja Boy
My Heart - Meaku
Wait - Chris Brown
Live Fast, Die Young - Rick Ross ft. Kanye West
SDF (Sippin Drank Fast) (Remix) - Ya Boy ft Gudda Gudda & Short Dawg
When Love Takes Over - David Guetta ft Kelly Rowland
Next Black President - Los (Shooter)
2012 - Jay Sean
Paris Morton Music (Lost Verse) - Drake
Reprecussions - Lauryn Hill
I Like It - Enrique Inglesias
Never Too Much - Three 6 - Mafia ft Gucci Mane & Project Pat
She Can Get It - B.O.B
Don't Be Scared - Manio ft. Chris Brown
Surprise Me - B.O.B.
Mr. Rager - Kid Cudi
Short Summer - Joe Budden ft. Emanny
All White Everything (Remix) - Young Jeezy ft Yo Gotti
Come On Over - Brisco
Electric - Shawn Desman
Hollywood - Chrishan
Club Can't Handle Me - Flo Rida
Erase Me - Kid Cudi Ft. Kanye West
M.I.A. - Game
Showin Out - Clipse
Throw Ya Sets Up - Yo Gotti ft Gucci Mane & Zedzilla
Tight - All Night ft. Shawty Lo
Airwolf - Deen
If We Ever - David Guetta & Afrojack ft Makeba
Loose My Mind - Jeezy
Loyalty - Birdman ft. Lil Wayne & Tyga
My Own Steps - Roscoe Dash ft. T-Pain & Fabo
All Summer - Kid Cudi
Early - Young Buck
First 48 - J-Dawy ft. Slim Thug
Billionare - Travis McCoy
Premeditated Murder - J. Cole
Dutty Dutty - Sean Kingston
Swagger Right - Rich Girl ft Fabolous & Rick Ross
Upside Down - Jin
Chillin - Wale
She Got It Made -Plies
Spotlight - Gucci Mane
Chewy - Wiz Khalifa
I Like - Jerimiah ft Ludacris
Opposite of Adults - Chiddy Bang
Survival Of The Fittest - Maino
Paint It Black - Quincy Jagher
Mirrors - Wale
Bottoms Up - Trey Songz ft. Nicki Manaj
Day Dreamer - Gorilla Zoe
Am Single - Lil Wayne
Rap Song - T.I.
It's Me B*tches - Swizz Beats ft Lil Wayne & R. Kelly
Hello, Good Morning - P. Diddy ft. Dirty Money & Rick Ross
Bunz - New Boyz
This Girl - YG
Crickets - New Boyz & Tyga
Fed Up - DJ Khaled ft Usher, & Young Jeezy, &Rick Ross & Drake & Lil Wayne
Grizzly - Ludacris
Massive Attack - Nicki Minaj ft. Sean Garret
Lean - Lupe Fiasco
Get In My Car - Usher ft Bun B
This Instant - Sophia Fresh ft. T-Pain
All the Way Turnt Up - Roscoe Dash
Power - Kanye West
Gettin' Paid - Nicki Minaj
Leggo - Plies
Dumb It Down - Lupe Fiasco
House Of Flying Daggers - Raekwon
Bricks - Raekwon
Dairy - Wale
Shut It Down - Drake ft. The Dream
Shine Blockers - Big Boi
California Gurls - Katy Perry
Girls on the dance floor - FM
Drop it low remix -Ester Dean ft Chris Brown & Lil Wayne & Trey Songz
Out the Bottle - Juelz Santana
Gotta Get My Paper Up - Cassidy
Mixing Up the Medicine - Juelz Santana
Arabian Dance - Twista
Starry Eyed - Ellie Goulding
Goku - Soulja Boy
Get like me - David Banner ft Yung Joc & Chris Brown
Say Something - Jin
Women Lie Men Lie - Yo Gotti
Any Girl - Lloyd Banks
I'm Beamin - Lupe Fiasco
Waka Waka - Shakira
Trillionaire - Bun B. ft. T-Pain
I Gotta Feeling The Black Eyed Peas
Summer Nights - Lil Rob
G Shift - Chris Brown ft. Tyga
Superstar - Lady (ft. Young Cash) T-Pain
Waffle House - Travis McCoy
Stop The Party (Remix) Busta Rhymes feat. T.I. &Cam'ron & Ghostface Killah, & DMX
Chris Brown - Dueces
Pass Out - Tinie Tempah
Breathe, Stretch, Shake - Mase
Poltergeist Gucci Mane ft Talib Kweli
I Am The Hood Killa Kyleon ft DJ Khaled & Rick Ross & Yung Chill
Grown & Sexy Trai'D ft. KD
Rock That Body - BEP
Seen My Man (NO DJ) Jacki-O ft. Trick Daddy & Pretty Ricky
Flossin - Mike Jones
Go Hard - Power Rangers
Look Like This - Arlis Michaels ft Mistah FAB
Beautiful Monster - Neyo
They Say - LA Da Boomman ft Roscoe Dash
Gin & Dreams - Pill
Ghost - Jay Sean
Lock It Down - (CDQ) Slum Village
More Rare **** - Raekwon
Teach Me The Dougie Remix - Sean Kingston ft. B.o.B.
Drunk In the Club (Logan de Guelle Remix) - Bei Maejor ft Clinton Sparks
Neon - Jackie Boyz
No Strings Attached - D Brown
Money In The Bank - Swizz Beatz
J.E.T.S. - Trademark & Curren$y
Make Ya Sweat - Dominic
Mockingbird - Eminem
Real ***** For Life - Lou Armstrong ft. Max B, French Montana & Heavy Skooda Chose ft Twista
It Ain't Me - (ft Akon & T.I.) T-Pain
Can't Help But Wait - Trey Songz Feat. Plies
Nothing On You - B.o.B. Ft. Bruno Man
Dirty Picture - Taio Cruz
Best I Ever Had - Drake
Move - Jason Derulo
Kickstarts - Example
Tick Tock -- Ke$ha ft. P. Diddy
Killah - Cherrish
Get Your Girl - T.I.
Cooler Than Me - Mike Posner ft. Big Sean
Shots - LMFAO ft Lil Jon
Usher - Hey Daddy
On To The Next One - Jay -Z
Money To Blow - Young Money
Ludacris- My Bad Chick
Forever Young - Jay-Z
Crazy Night - R. Kelly
Tie Me Down - New Boyz
OMG - Usher ft. Will i Am
Aloha - Fat Joe
Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz
Pyramid - Ijaz/Charice
Cooler Than Me - Mike Posner
Boy Back Up - DMX ft. Mob Deep
Miranda - Raekwon, Ghostface Killah & Method Man
Hollow Points - Jedi Mind Trick
Watch How You Talk To Me - Raekwon ft. Busta Rhymes & The Game
Lemonade - Joell Ortiz (remix)
Freinds - Nas & Damian Marley
Strangers - Talib Kweli & Hi-Tex ft. Bun B
We Do it For Fun pt. 2 - The Jokers
Marry Me- Murs
Light Up -Drake ft Jay-Z
BedRock -Young Money ft. Lloyd
Beamer, Benz, or Bentley - Lloyd Banks ft. Juelz Santana
Fireworks -Drake ft. Alicia Keys
Supernova - Jason Derluo
Good Times - Roll Deep
Sex Room -Ludacris ft. Trey Songz
I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) -Pitbull
Empire State of Mind -J-ay-Z ft Alica Keys
How Low -Ludacris
9AM In Dallas -Drake
Steady Mobbin -Young Money & Gucci Mane
Shutterbugg -Big Boi & Cutty Shutterbugg
Hard In Da Paint -Waka Flocka Flame
Roger That -Young Money
Run This Town -Jay-Z Run This Town feat. Rihanna & Kanye West
SingleCan't Tell Me Nothing -Drake
Wavin' Flag - K'naan, will.i.am & David Guetta
I'm Goin In -ft Lil Wayne & Young Jeezy
Hotel Room Service -Pitbull
Let's Get It Started (Spike Mix) -Black Eyed Peas

HERE ARE SOME OLD SKOOL:
The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Fight The Power - Public Enemy
Nuthin But A "G" Thang - Dr. Dre
It's Like That - Run-D.M.C.
Rappers Delight - Sugarhill Gang
Juicy - Notorious B.I.G.
Children's Story - Slick Rick
I Used To Love H.E.R. - Common
Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa
Paid in Full - Eric B. & Rakim
Rock the Bells - LL Cool J
Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C. & Aerosmith
The Breaks - Kurtis Blow
**** Tha Police - N.W.A.
Rosa Parks - Outkast
Check the Rhime - A Tribe Called Quest
Keep Ya Head Up - 2 Pac
They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) - C.L. Smooth & Pete Rock
It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ EZ Roc
One Mic - Nas
Me Myself and I - De La Soul
The Show - Doug E. Fresh w/Slick Rick
The Bridge Is Over - Boogie Down Productions
Bring The Noise - Public Enemy
Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest
Shed So Many Tears - 2 Pac
Eric B. is President - Eric B. & Rakim
Push It - Salt-n-Pepa
It Was A Good Day - Ice Cube
Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Big Poppa - Notorious B.I.G.
Cha Cha Cha - MC Lyte
C.R.E.A.M. - Wu Tang Clan
Hard Knock Life - Jay Z
My Philosophy - Boogie Down Productions
You Gots to Chill - EPMD
Mind Playing Tricks on Me - Geto Boys
Dear Mama - 2pac
I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need - Method Man w/ Mary J. Blige
Set It Off - Big Daddy Kane
Rock Box - Run-D.M.C.
Scenario - A Tribe Called Quest
I Need Love - LL Cool J
O.P.P. - Naughty By Nature
Sucker M.C.s - Run-D.M.C.
Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
Ridin' - Chamillionaire w/ Krayzie Bone
U.N.I.T.Y. - Queen Latifah
Passin' Me By - The Pharcyde
Murder Was the Case - Snoop Doggy Dogg
Parents Just Don't Understand - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Ain't No Half-Steppin' - Big Daddy Kane
La Di Da Di - Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh
Bonita Applebum - A Tribe Called Quest
The Definition - Mos Def & Talib Kweli (Black Star)
Just A Friend - Biz Markie
All About the Benjamins - Puff Daddy w/Lil Kim, The LOX & The Notorious B.I.G.
Wild Thing - Tone-Loc
Get At Me Dog - DMX
Triumph - Wu-Tang Clan
Regulate - Warren G. w/ Nate Dogg
The Choice Is Yours - Black Sheep
Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
Ladies First - Queen Latifah w/ Monie Love
Ain't No Joke - Eric B. & Rakim
Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) - Digable Planets
I'm Bad - LL Cool J
Top Billin' - Audio Two
Lyte As A Rock - MC Lyte
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
I Got 5 On It - The Luniz
Elevators (Me & You) - Outkast
You Got Me - The Roots
Paul Revere - The Beastie Boys
Colors - Ice T
P.S.K. (What Does It Mean) - Schoolly D
Boyz-N-The-Hood - Eazy E
Roxanne, Roxanne - U.T.F.O.
Shook Ones, Pt II - Mobb Deep
Dirty South - Goodie MOB
Freaks Come Out At Night - Whodini
Big Pimpin' - Jay Z
Tennessee - Arrested Development
Deep Cover - Dr. Dre w/ Snoop Doggy Dogg
t's the Joint - The Funky Four + 1
Crush On You - Lil Kim
Life Is...Too $hort - Too $hort
Let Me Blow Ya Mind - Eve
6 In the Mornin' - Ice T
Bust A Move - Young MC
Peace, Love & Happiness

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Advantages and disadvantages of lithium-ion batteries for energy storage?

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Bill23

Anyone know what the advantages/disadvantages are for lithium-ion batteries other than their costs? I heard they are probably the best option for electric cars, why is that? Why aren't they viable for off-grid storage? Just the costs?

Thanks!!
Also need information on flow batteries. Other than low-energy density and the inability to scale-up what are the disadvantages of flow batteries? Advantages?

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"Just the costs" ???? Obviously, you have never learned about the time value of money. Try researching Internal Rate of Return and Net Present Value. The costs are a big deal. Lithium Ion may be the best battery technology that we have but there are many problems. They are tricky and dangerous to charge and discharge. Their capacity degrades almost immediately, they degrade the fastest when completely charged or completely discharged hence they are stored at 50% for shipping. Their volumetric energy may be the best for batteries but is still very low. They can only discharge at certain rates. Charging batteries is a little like warming up a frozen steak to room temperature, at first the changes occur quickly but as you approach your target, the rate slows down even though you may be putting the same amount of energy into it.

Ultimately, a battery is just a way of chemically storing energy. Well, so are gasoline and diesel, indeed these are stored solar energy. Unlike batteries, gasoline and diesel are energy dense, and do not self drain over time ( though gasoline will separate into varnishes ). We also know how to efficiently synthesize hydrocarbons from a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen gases in exothermic Fischer Tropsch reactions and have done so on national scales. WWII Germany fueled their planes and Embargoed South Africa fueled their trucks this way. The US currently dilutes it's high sulfur diesel with synthetic diesel to meet federal ultra low sulfur diesel requirements, yes this doubled the price of diesel overnight when the legislation passed in the 90's. Canada's tarsands are gasified into syngas and the synthesized into a synthetic crude. We can get the syngas from gasification of coal, natural gas, tarsands, biomass such as trash and dried sewage or even directly from CO2 and H2O if we use an energy source. We basically know how to "charge" CO2 and H2O back into gasoline and diesel and we can and have done so efficiently. It's just that storing energy ourselves doesn't compete with the energy that nature has stored for us. However, it does mean we can do better than lithium-ion batteries just by synthesizing our fuel and using existing vehicles and fuel delivery infrastructure. EV's with lithium-ion batteries are just green washing to sell new cars.

Synthetic fuels from the gasification of biomass can also produce charcoal which when used as biochar sequesters carbon from the environment. Our existing gasoline vehicles can remove CO2 from the atmosphere with carbon negative synthetic fuels. An electric car can not do that.

Would you spend more for an electric car, and how much more?

greg w

If there was a nearly perfect electric car, with all the comforts you're used to, unlimited range through fast charging (comparable to gas filling), acceleration as good or better as your current car, the whole works.

Would you pay 5% more for the car, or would you buy a car where the savings in fuel has a 5 year payoff?

What's your money stance on this issue, given perfectly equal performance.

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To calculate what would be the % premium to pay for an electric car over a gas car, I'd take 1 - [PV([total cost of ownership of electric car over 5 years]-[est. residual value at the end of the 5 years])]/[PV([total cost of ownership of gas car over 5 years]-[est. residual value at the end of the 5 years])]. This would be assuming you pay for the car in cash up front.

A 5 year payoff is way too long since people don't keep cars for very long anymore. Also, it would be hard to convince a lot of people to opt for that considering the emotional reaction to the sticker price and factoring in opportunity cost and the time-value of money.

The problem right now is that there is such a wide gap in performance/convenience for an electric car vs. a gas car, and its hard to justify even paying the same price, much less a premium.

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