Let’s face it. If you live in Southern California, the only way you’re going to make it, survive, do anything is drive your car. The thing is, I hate driving. When I’m sitting in traffic, I can’t do anything. I just have to sit there and rot. I’ve been running my car off veggie oil for sometime now, and I wanted to ride the bus to work one day and give it a shot.
Here’s my experience:
Pulled from SavvyWallet.com
Cedar Rapids, Iowa based Eco Lips Organic Lip Balm is located at the heart of the flood that hid the Midwest recently. Water rushed through company headquarters, which contained its sales, production and fulfillment divisions. Thankfully, employees had already moved most of the production and manufacturing equipment to dry land but unfortunately Eco Lips lost the remaining items in the building. Despite their losses, however, the company is up and running in a new space and trying hard to make up its losses.
In hopes of rebuilding their company and city, Eco Lips has launched a modest promotion on www.ecolips.com.
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Everyone needs some more lip balm…if you can spare the change, how about helping out a company trying to get back on its feet.
1. Ask before you collect. Some stores are cracking down on people stealing oil. They usually have a contract with a collection agency, and there is a certain amount they need to collect. If the amount is off by a lot, this is a red flag for restaurants illegally dumping waste oil. So, if you’re going to secretly take it, don’t take more than 4 gallons.
2. Avoid Mondays. Most collection companies, collect on Mondays. The best time is on the weekends, when more oil is used. Go in late saturday night, or early sunday morning.
3. Bring extra heavy duty gloves. Sometimes gloves rip or they melt in the sun
4. Bring a headlamp and extra batteries. Collecting oil in the dark is dangerous.
5. Towel to wipe down. Keep it clean, and your source will be kept clean
6. Avoid large chains. I.E. Burger King, KFC., etc
7. Go to Japanese and Italian places
8. Don’t take more than you need and don’t get greedy
I was sitting at my friends kitchen in San Francisco and this painting caught my eye.
I was born in 1983. Reagan’s term lasted from 1981-1989. During his term as president he was adamant about finding oil to sustain our nations’ energy demand. In a 1986 NY Times article he ordered to continue the purchase of crude oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. He wanted to purchase the oil, when the prices were low.
Some would argue, he pushed our nation to search for oil and not depend on foreign sources. Some would blame him for the mess he has created. I read an article: What would Reagan Do About Energy? and it speculated what Reagan would have done if he was president today.
As for me? I’m not too certain about the facts, but I know one thing for certain. Domestic oil and/or Foreign oil people are still fighting wars and destroying societies, disrupting the peace, and killing our environment.
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For sushi lovers the extreme price is a bad sign—it could mean that our favorite sushi fish is on the brink of extinction from over-fishing. It could also mean that fisheries are becoming more regulated, as we find out that we are depleting fish populations.
According to the AP:
I love eating at sushi bars, but I catch myself worrying about the fisheries and how humans are destroying one of our important renewable resources. At this rate, pretty soon all the sushi bars will be just bars.