Hello. My name is Iggy and I’ll be your guide today. Click here for the rest of the story: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/ecuador/theguide.pdf .
Fuso Footprint
It was pointed out on a forum I participate in that while I am advocating conservation and energy independence, we live in a vehicle that is not all that fuel effecient. I took that as a valid observation and decided to…
More Oil Info
Here’s some additional oil factoids: Source: DOE http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/oil.html Source: DOE http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
Every 24 Hours
The United States of America imports 13,468,000 barrels—565,656,000 gallons—of petroleum products. Every day. America imports 2,163,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products from Persian Gulf countries. Every day. America imports 5,980,000 barrels of oil and petroleum products…
What You Know – True or False
Is what you know true? Is what you believe to be true actually, in fact true? Click here to find out some of the answer: www.hackneys.com/docs/trueorfalse.pdf .
One Lap of America
PDF version of this document is here: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/ecuador/onelapofamerica.pdf Last year I met a European traveler in Argentina who spent six weeks in the United States a few years earlier. His six week visit gave him, in his opinion, total…
A Worthwhile Resolution
I spent my New Year’s Eve in a surgical suite. Click here to learn how you can avoid the same fate: http://www.hackneys.com/docs/aworthwhileresolution.pdf Happy New Year. Now go get checked.