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Topic: Conserving by Reducing |
mommy22
Replies: 5
Views: 548
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Forum: Conservation and Efficiency Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:51 pm Subject: Re: Conserving by Reducing |
| As far as the population issue goes, I hope that whoever takes the White House in 2009 reverses Bush's stripping money from family health clinics from offering birth control, just because they offer a ... |
Topic: Use of wind energy expected to grow dramatically |
mommy22
Replies: 19
Views: 635
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Forum: Current Energy News Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:41 pm Subject: Re: Use of wind energy expected to grow dramatically |
| They can't look any worse than a huge nuclear reactor or 2 sitting in your backyard! Plus, what WERE they going to do with all the land around old, nonproductive oil wells? |
Topic: Another Gasoline Record |
mommy22
Replies: 293
Views: 21306
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Forum: Current Energy News Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 11:25 am Subject: Re: Another Gasoline Record |
Sort of off topic, but related to the last post.
Yesterday, in NEOhio, Papa John's pizza, after a derogetory comment about LeBron James, offered pizzas all day for 23 cents. I drove by one and people ... |
Topic: "Stimulus" |
mommy22
Replies: 51
Views: 2106
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:57 pm Subject: Re: "Stimulus" |
This is sort of like in Europe...many "EVIL SOCIALIST" countries give money every month to families from the time the fetus is 3 months along til 16 I think. Well, this is a little bit like that!
The ... |
Topic: How long are you preparing for PO? |
mommy22
Replies: 25
Views: 1203
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:09 pm Subject: Re: How long are you preparing for PO? |
| I'd have to say that specifically for PO, since 2004. We had just moved back from France, and a friend casually mentioned the term. I said..."What are you talking about?!" From that point on, it has n ... |
Topic: Will deer eat tomato or string bean plants before fruiting? |
mommy22
Replies: 21
Views: 890
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:16 pm Subject: Re: Will deer eat tomato or string bean plants before fruiti |
| I use a combination of my daughter's old (human smelling) tennis shoes placed around the edge of the garden, a really smelly spray that I got at the nursery, and aluminum pie pans hung on the trellise ... |
Topic: Is it just me, or is PO really hitting the main stream? |
mommy22
Replies: 28
Views: 2289
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:50 am Subject: Re: Is it just me, or is PO really hitting the main stream? |
| I also think that so many things are happening so quickly, and they all are stemming from PO...whether it's airlines going down due to fuel costs, to the whole biofuel/world hunger issues (which was s ... |
Topic: Airline Bankruptcy/Merger Thread |
mommy22
Replies: 162
Views: 9892
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Forum: Current Energy News Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:09 pm Subject: Re: PO strikes down 3 airlines - Champion, Aloha, ATA |
| When we lived in Fort Lauderdale 15 years ago or so, I worked for ATA. At the time, as I understand it, our airline was the only one flying in the black. And all due to government contracts, as Americ ... |
Topic: Stock Market crash? |
mommy22
Replies: 36
Views: 2577
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Forum: Depletion Economics Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:16 pm Subject: Re: Stock Market crash? |
| Actually, learning to make a great pie is a great skill to have! I bake a pie about every 2 weeks, and tonight for dinner, it's chicken pot pie! |
Topic: No bread on the shelves |
mommy22
Replies: 98
Views: 12240
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:20 pm Subject: Re: No bread on the shelves |
Poor Marie...always taken out of context...
The reason that she said that is because at the time, the law was that if the local bakers ran out of bread, people could purchase cake at the same price o ... |
Topic: Scavenging: An Art Form |
mommy22
Replies: 14
Views: 1069
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 3:09 pm Subject: Re: Scavenging: An Art Form |
It's actually quite an interesting time driving around the suburbs here in the US...some great finds!
I found the best drying rack about 8 years ago, and it' s helped me save tons on my (laundry) ele ... |
Topic: Government takes over US mortgage industry |
mommy22
Replies: 54
Views: 4259
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:49 pm Subject: Re: Government takes over US mortgage industry |
| Also, someone was talking about the amount that the US pays vs how much the Europeans pay, and what everyone gets for their money. Well, I'm no expert, but I did live in 3 Euro countries over 18 years ... |
Topic: Government takes over US mortgage industry |
mommy22
Replies: 54
Views: 4259
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:27 pm Subject: Re: Government takes over US mortgage industry |
Someone earlier in this post said something about how people who do live within their means' children will be paying this back in years to come.
I wish that there was a way that I didn't get this mon ... |
Topic: History Channel - Crude |
mommy22
Replies: 23
Views: 2289
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Forum: Current Energy News Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:49 am Subject: Re: History Channel - Crude |
| A little anecdotal tid bit. I went grocery shopping the other day with my cloth grocery bags. When I told the cashier (who was in her 80's, BTW!!!) that I broght my own bags and I would bag the food m ... |
Topic: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil world) |
mommy22
Replies: 2116
Views: 270540
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:57 pm Subject: Re: Today I made / bought / learnt .... (for a post oil wo |
| The fireplace insert that I've been wanting since we bought this house 9 years ago is in! |
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