HT to my direct boss
The Houston Chronicle posted an AP report (link dead) about brewing your own ethanol to add to gasoline.
Adding 15 percent ethanol to $3 gasoline reduces the cost to $2.40 per gallon, McClanahan said.
A blend with 85 percent ethanol cuts the cost to $1.09 for a blended gallon, she said.
Sasher’s [...]
The 2002 Farm Bill hasn’t even expired yet.
AP reports that the House approved an appropriations bill today:
The Milk Income Loss Contract program pays dairy farmers when milk prices fall below a specified level. The peanut storage program pays storage and handling fees as peanut farmers market their crop.
Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., obtained a one-year extension [...]
The International Herald Tribune reports that Wal-Mart is pulling out of South Korea, selling its businesses to a local retailer for $882 million.
“Wal-Mart and Carrefour were not aggressive enough in expanding their networks in South Korea,” said Koo Chang Gun at Korea Investment & Securities. “Once they lost the race, they could never catch up.”
Wal-Mart [...]
Sam of Nerd Heaven brings us the twenty-fourth edition of the Lutheran Carnival. Verses from a wonderful ascension hymn are mixed among the posts.
Thanks, Sam!
Some lighter fare today with the kids and some extended family. We went to see Over the Hedge, a cute Dreamworks CG movie about a racoon and a group of foragers who go exploring into a neighborhood that sprang up around them over the winter.
Kids will like the cute characters and some burp humor (the [...]
