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That will put Obama in the double risk category. He smokes cigarettes and rides a bike.
Stanley Wang, 67, of the 500 block of Sentinel Road, was traveling east on Main Street around 12:20 p.m. when the driver of a parked Dodge Dakota pick-up truck opened his door. Wang struck the door and was knocked him from his bike into the street.
Wang was then struck by a passing Chevrolet Cavalier driven by Kellie Gifford, 19, of the 100 block of Winthrop Avenue.
Wang, the former general counsel of Comcast, was taken to Kennedy Memorial Hospital - Cherry Hill, where he was pronounced dead at 1:08 p.m.
Did you see this article?
Sears tower algae microbus
If some inner city kids can make enough biodiesel to drive into downtown Chicago and back in their classroom I think the technology is a GO.
In defense of dead bicyclist, he was in the "right" according to the "Rules of the Road" in my state. It says: "After parking and before opening vehicle doors, a motorist should first check for bicyclists".
Wonder if the former general counsel was riding to work in his current job to save on gasoline or was just out pleasure riding.
Seems like bicyclists have extra difficulty these days in anticipating driver's doors suddenly opening on them, given the amount of vehicles with tinted/shaded glass. Bikers can't see if a driver inside or not.
Not to blame anyone - it was his time to go. But as a bike rider, you need to be concerned with every possible danger and take precautions against it.
Personally, I would never ride at speed on a shared roadway alongside a row of cars in which any door could open at any time and whack me out into the vehicle traffic flow.
That's why they are called ACCIDENTS however - no one sees them coming and usually the knowledge to prevent them comes in afterthought.
I am sure we will read a lot more about bike & motor scooter accidents as people scramble for ways to beat the high price of gas. For someone that has ridden many years it is less of a hazard than the guy that out of desperation starts riding a bike to work.
Not to blame anyone - it was his time to go. But as a bike rider, you need to be concerned with every possible danger and take precautions against it.
The driver of pickup truck was careless and maybe will be found at fault depending upon Rules of Road of state involved.
This incident an example of why bike riders using regular roads, not bike paths, to go to work or for pleasure should pay surcharge on their health care premium
If the 67-year old was going to work trying to save gasoline money, was that not penny-wise, pound foolish.
Would have been entirely different outcome if 67-year old were in a car and properly belted up. Fortunes might have been reversed with pickup driver having some type of injury and 67-year old maybe shaken and perhaps bruised from air-bags.
If this biker got flung out into traffic though, I'd tend to believe that the second scenario is what happened. Seems to me that if you open the door and the biker hits you, most likely they're going to hit the inside part of the door and just crumple, right then and there. Unless they try to swerve, out into traffic.
Like most accidents though, usually there's enough fault to go around. Even if someone does get held accountable, usually everybody had some part in causing that accident. The guy on the bike should have been more aware of his surroundings, the guy in the pickup should have looked before opening his door, and the girl in the Cavalier, upon overtaking a biker, should have been more cautious.
That's just true for careless drivers. When I'm in my car, I personally look for anything I might run into. As all smart people should do.
On my bike, I usually get a dirty look from car drivers who see me "too late" at an intersection, as if they think it's MY FAULT that they did not see me in time !!!
Safety is EVERYONE'S responsibility. Car drivers who cause accidents with bikers and bikers who cause the accidents with cars ought to both be punished equally.
I almost took a peloton out one day when I first moved to Boise but I checked my rear view mirror just before popping the door open. Biking is big here.
Counter the occasional accident and death against the souls getting healthier by bike riding, and the health insurance premiums are more likely to fall.
No one noticed that Exxon/Mobile is getting out of the retail gas selling business?
1) First and foremost they can be used as weapons as anything that emits energy could. They would be viewed as potential space-weapons by the international communty. And it would be tempting to anyone who had these, to make their target on Earth adjustable. You don't think the Pentagon would want to embed software in there to adjust their aim in a few seconds?
2) If there is an error, or a minor collision with space junk, the aim of the solar satellite might be knocked off. Maybe you set a city on fire, in a few seconds before it is shutdown?
So no I don't see large solar satellites beaming energy back to earth. It looks good from a theoretical standpoint in an innocent world, but not in reality.
Haven't seen it in the news, and I just checked my news RSS feeds. I also find it a bit hard to believe, as a full 50% of the gas stations in my area, if not more, are Mobil.
Exxon to exit retail gas business: reports (Reuters)
Exxon dumping retail stations; says no money in selling gas (USA Today)
There are 12,000 independent Exxon stations - Exxon owns another 2,200 stations. You'll still get to buy their gas since the brands aren't going anywhere.
Of the 2,200 company owned stations, you know a lot of them in marginal locations or highly competitive markets won't get sold, at least not for gas stations.
One gas station that closed last year near town now is a storefront for scooter sales.
Most like scenario is that they will be abandoned or converted over to "no-name" outlets that sell subpar fuel that consists of a 50/50 mixture of kerosene and water with rocks, sticks, and bugs in it.
Then I took a look on craigslist, in my region of 7 million people there was not ONE Insight for sale.
Saw a really nice one in a parking lot the other day though, all tricked out in red with these really nice (and not too big, in fact they may have been the same size as stock) black and red rims.
I would make the trade if I could find one with a stick and A/C, with around 60K miles. Problem is, so few were sold.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
The only one I would even consider because it is a 2006 with low miles has a high bid of 24,000 dollars. :surprise: That is about 5,000 dollars more then the MSRP of a manual Insight when new.
They are not selling any SLOWER. In fact, 17 hours on the lot is the latest info on how long Priuses last at dealerships. One dealer had 5 arrive and they were all sold almost immediately.
I'm not sure Saturn is laughing all the way to the bank on their hybrids:
The Saturn VUE Greenline Hybrid sold 340 units, representing 4.1% of total VUE sales. The Saturn Aura sold 36 units, representing 0.7% of total Aura sales. For the calendar year through the end of May, GM has sold 3,227 hybrid vehicles.
So Honda sold 1,400 more HCHs in May than GM has sold in all their hybrids ALL YEAR.
Are you saying that Toyota not keeping up with demand is a good thing?
I would go along with the shortage of batteries. You know they probably had to replace a lot :P and did not have enough to keep up with building new hybrids. Whatever the issue sounds like Toyota is not doing very well at planning. Too many PU trucks not enough hybrids. Are they getting managers from GM since losing their US talent?
Nice joke on the "had to replace a lot" thing - that almost got by me......you are a FUNNY MAN Gary !!!
Remember: Toyota wanted to be in the truck market for a lot of years. As well as their hybrid planning turned out to be, their Tundra planning seems to have been a little bit lacking !!!
And how many "good managers" have they lost now? One?
Perhaps health insurance premiums should be increased for those who do NOT ride bikes to work and thus have to deal with higher rates of obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and all the other health consequences that plague our lethargic society.
No its what is earned by everyone under one roof. there are many one income households and many one person households.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Every year in each of the 4 quarters there is a 'thrust' month towards which all the sales in that quarter are directed.
First Qtr it's March
2nd Qtr it's May
3rd Qtr it's August
4th Qtr it's December
The peak advertising, inventorying, selling and buying are done in these 4 months.
The Prius in 2007 had sales of about 181,000 units ( 76,000 units through May 07 ).
Everything was going normally this year until April when fuel spiked to $3.50 and then $4.00 and beyond. They buying public didn't wait until the 'thrust month' of May to go out and buy their Prius'....they went early....in April.
........... April ...... May ......YTD
2007 .. 13100 ... 24000 ... 76700
2008 .. 21700 ... 15000 ... 79700
Nothing really amiss except that the May rush arrived in April and bought up every Prius in the country. Toyota did lose about 10-12 days of sales by not having inventory on hand for the May thrust month buyers but that's a risk of running a just-in-time system.
If they can hybridize the Civic, they could probably hybridize the Fit, which is as good as Insight in that regard. Beyond that, give us the Insight already. People have begun to look past their vanity to save some serious cash in terms of fuel costs on their next car purchase.
We're waiting, Honda...
Next year.
http://automobiles.honda.com/news/press-releases-article.aspx?Category=Future%20- Models%20%26%20Concepts&Article=4510
The U.S. has enormous oil shale resources, too, that, when the technology to
extract it is mature, may provide a very significant boost to domestic energy
supply. According to Rand Corporation, the oil resource in place within the
Green River Formation, which covers portions of Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming, ranges from 1.5 to 1.8 trillion barrels, of which between 500
billion and 1.1 trillion barrels are recoverable. According to Rand, “the
midpoint in our estimate range, 800 billion barrels, is more than triple the
proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.” The U.S. has more oil locked in shale
than any other country on Earth but impediments exist to accessing and
developing this resource.
According to the Department of the Interior, 62 percent of all onshore
federal lands are off-limits to oil and gas development with restrictions
applying to 92 percent of all federal lands.
The Argonne National Laboratory did a report in 2004 that identified 40
specific federal policy areas that halt, limit, delay or restrict natural gas
projects. I urge you to review it – it is a long list. If I may, I offer it today, if
you would like to include it in the record.
As we have increased imports to meet our domestic energy needs, a new
concept of “resource nationalism” is emerging in resource-rich nations
around the world. This concept has changed the dynamics of global energy
development. Thirty years ago, national oil companies owned by or
affiliated with governments were either non-existent or small players.
Today, these national oil companies own as much as 90 percent of the
proven oil reserves in the world, while investor-owned oil companies – some
of which are here today – hold just six percent of proven reserves.
In 2006, the U.S. imported 3.7 billion barrels of oil to meet domestic
demand, which is more than seven times the amount imported in 1970. The
United States is the only country in the world that restricts the use of its own
energy resources while transferring trillions of dollars of wealth to other
countries in order to import energy.
http://judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/08-05-21John_Hofmeister_Testimony.pdf
tornado at my house May 11
tornados all over east side of indy 2 fridays ago, 200 apartments destroyed
80 mph straight winds all over central indiana 2 fridays ago
12 telephone poles down in a row along Indiana rt 9
no power at my house for 39 hrs on weekend after east side tornados
74 mph straight winds last friday at 4PM on day after new roof put on because of tornado
41 counties declared disaster areas from flooding 2 days ago
I-70 and I-65 both closed last saturday from flooding and washouts
91 and humid yesterday, 92 last sunday
torrential downpours again today
Golf ball size hail today 10 miles east of my house
4000 homeowners lost everything in the flooding s. of indy this past weekend
Wisconsin and Iowa have even worse flooding
Water is up to the tops of stop signs in downtown Iowa City.
60-70 mph cross winds on way home last friday with 4 inches of water in entire road and 10 feet visibility due to rain intensity
It comes out at a barrel per month, for each of America's 300,000,000 population. For my family of 4 thats 4 barrels a month. Then we use 6 more barrels of domestic sourced oil per month since imports are only 40% of total consumption. Thats a barrel every 3 days used by my family. 121 barrels a year. Imagine all that stacked in my driveway. It would be 4 rows of 15 barrels long by 2 barrels high and one more left over. At 136 dollars a barrell, that's $16456 of oil my family is using. Only thing is we don't bike or even own a 4 cyl car. We have one V8 and several v6's. we are probably above average consumers of oil, so $16456 might be too low of an estimate. As a country at todays prices it equals $5 trillion dollars a year for oil. This all seems high to me. I wonder if 3.7 Billion is a lie?
I think that may be just crude oil imports. We buy refined products from several countries including the UK. Our total consumption is about 21 million barrels per day. That adds up to about 8 billion barrels per year. As was pointed out we have some high volume users. The airlines, trucking, ships and military. We are just light users comparatively speaking.
On another note if Chevron, Shell etc ever pulled out due to government involvement, Petro Canada, BP(English owned) and others will gladly step in with other Canadian run operations and just take over selling high priced Canadian gas to everyone:) So Chevron and Shell would stand to lose if they did not comply with the Alberta government, so who runs the show? The Alberta government. Shell and Chevron don't own the oil, they are only leasing it so to speak for massive profits, but so is the Albertan government. It is a vicious circle. Thank god the people there benefit, at least there is some justice in the world, Albertans 'good on you mates!!'
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed that gas was up.
RUG is up to another record, $4.073.