Ethanol Bad for Environment

Crops consume carbon dioxide when they grow but add it when they’re burned, so it balances itself right? Corn Ethanol and Soybean diesel sound like a good option but there’s a sinister downside to the use of bio-fuels. It’s twice as bad as burning gasoline in terms of greenhouse gasses and global warming. Princeton Universities [...]

Microsoft + Yahoo = 2 Google?

Google is upset that Microsoft wants to take over Yahoo. Yahoo with Microsoft and their search website –www.live.com together do not surpass Google’s search volume, but it would allow the two together to get a significant amount of search traffic and perhaps overtake Google at sometime in the future. The takeover bid could set the [...]

Intelius Cell Phone Records Made Public

Intelius.com is an information aggregator on the internet. They provide background checks and information services. Now they’re supplying your cell phone number. To get the 411 on a cell phone you need to go to the website and enter the name of the person for which you are looking. Depending on the name of the [...]

Emergency Rate Cut

The Federal Reserve cut U.S. interest rates by three quarters of a percent. That is the federal funds rate or the interest rate that banks charge each other on overnight loans. The new rate is 3.5% down from 4.25%. This is the first emergency rate cut by the Fed since September 11, 2001. International markets [...]

Secret Information About You Available Free on the Internet

While the television commercials are entertaining, FreeCreditReport.com is not spending money on television advertising for no gain. When you sign up at their website, you are actually signing up for a service that costs $14.95 per month. Just because the word “free” is in the name of the website, doesn’t mean it is actually free. [...]

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