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Q: Why doen’t the US begin using coal to produce oil? South Africa has been doing do for years!?
SECUNDA, South Africa — Every day, conveyor belts haul about 120,000 metric tons of coal into an industrial complex here two hours east of Johannesburg.

The facility — resembling a nuclear power plant, with concrete silos looming over nearby potato farms — superheats the coal to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It adds steam and oxygen, cranks up the pressure, and pushes the coal through a series of chemical reactions.

Then it spits out something extraordinary: 160,000 barrels of oil a day.

For decades, scientists have known how to convert coal into a liquid that can be refined into gasoline or diesel fuel. But everyone thought the process was too expensive to be practical.

The lone exception was South Africa, a one-time pariah state that had huge reserves of coal and, thanks to anti-apartheid sanctions, limited access to foreign oil. Sasol Ltd., a partly state-owned company, built several coal-to-liquids plants, including the ones at Secunda, and became the world’s leading purveyor of coal-to-liquids technology.

Now, oil prices are above $70 a barrel, and Sasol has emerged as the key player at the center of the world’s latest alternative-energy boom.

China is building a coal-to-oil plant costing several billion dollars in Inner Mongolia and may add as many as 27 facilities — including some with Sasol’s help — over the next several years, according to a recent tally by Credit Suisse.

In the U.S., the Defense Department is studying coal-to-oil technology as a way to reduce the American military’s dependence on Middle Eastern crude oil. And the National Coal Council, an industry association, is pushing for government incentives to help generate some 2.6 million barrels of liquid fuel a day from coal by 2025. That would satisfy some 10 percent of America’s expected oil demand that year. The plan would require 475 million tons of coal a year, which represents more than 40 percent of current annual U.S. production. Industry officials believe America’s coal reserves are big enough to allow for the extra production.

Coal-to-liquids “is not going to replace oil,” says Lean Strauss, a Sasol executive who directs the company’s overseas energy business. “But it’s an important substitute. It is one of the solutions to energy security.”

In June, two senators from coal-producing states, Barack Obama of Illinois and Jim Bunning of Kentucky, introduced a bill to offer loan guarantees and tax incentives for U.S. coal-to-liquid plants.

Sasol has found a particularly receptive audience in Montana’s Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer, who says he carries a lump of coal and a vial of liquefied coal with him at all times. He is lobbying coal companies and others to build coal-to-liquid plants across his state, which has some of the biggest coal reserves in the U.S.

Current estimates indicate the world has just 41 years of known oil reserves and 65 years of natural-gas supplies. It has enough coal reserves to last an estimated 155 years, with some of the largest reserves in the two biggest oil-consuming countries, the U.S. and China.

It’s far from clear, however, that the world would be better off — economically or environmentally — by burning more coal to fuel cars and trucks.

One problem is that coal-to-oil projects are extremely expensive. A single plant capable of producing about 80,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day — less than 0.5 percent of America’s daily oil diet — would cost an estimated $6 billion or more to build.

Energy analysts reckon that some coal-to-liquids projects can offer an acceptable return on investment when oil is priced as low as $30 or $35 a barrel, though such ventures might require government tax incentives to reduce operating costs. It seems likely that oil prices will stay above that level for a while, but the longer-term outlook is anyone’s guess. An earlier flurry of interest in coal-to-oil facilities in the U.S. during the Carter administration in the late 1970s died after oil prices collapsed.

Coal-to-oil projects also pose serious environmental questions. When the South African facility superheats coal and turns it into a gas, one of the main waste products is carbon dioxide, thought to be a significant cause of global warming.

The Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S.-based environmental advocacy group, estimates that the production and use of gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other fuels from crude oil release about 27.5 pounds of carbon dioxide per gallon. The production and use of a gallon of liquid fuel originating in coal emit about 49.5 pounds of carbon dioxide, they estimate. Even some boosters of the coal-to-oil plants describe them as carbon-dioxide factories that produce energy on the side.

“Before deciding whether to invest scores — perhaps hundreds — of billions of dollars in a new industry like coal-to-liquids, we need a much more serious assessment of whether this is an industry that should proceed at all,” said David Hawkins, director of the Climate Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, at a recent U.S. Senate hearing.

Coal-to-oil is one of several promising but potentially polluting technologies that are receiving new attention amid high oil prices. Energy companies are trying to unlock natural gas trapped in shale and other difficult rock formations. They’re also tapping oil-soaked sands in Canada and so-called heavy oils in politically challenging places such as Venezuela. Environmentalists fear these new sources will outshine conservation as the way to address the world’s growing thirst for energy.

In South Africa, environmental groups say Sasol’s facilities have emitted huge volumes of carbon dioxide and pollutants, including sulfur dioxide. They say these have caused a host of respiratory problems in nearby communities. Sasol says its emissions of these pollutants are small compared to emissions by other companies’ coal-burning electricity plants in the region.

Sasol officials acknowledge their facilities emit greenhouse gases and that building more coal-to-liquids facilities around the world “could have potentially significant implications, in the long run, for our commitment to reducing carbon intensity,” according to a recent company report on its social and environmental programs.

Sasol says it plans to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions per ton of product by 10 percent by 2015. Sasol and many other coal-to-oil proponents say that future coal-to-liquids plants can be built with newer technologies that trap carbon dioxide and store it, sharply reducing their emissions.

To many South Africans, Sasol is a huge success story. The company’s daily production now meets about 30 percent of South Africa’s transport-fuel needs. The country’s 50-rand bank note even features a picture of one of Sasol’s plants.

Sasol’s share price has more than tripled over the past three years. Analysts estimate it earned about $2 billion in the year ended June 30, about 35 percent higher than the year before — such a sharp rise that South African authorities are contemplating a “windfall tax” on the company.

Coal-to-oil technology dates back to the 1920s, when two German chemists, Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch, developed a process to convert coal into a gas and then use it to make synthetic fuels. Coal-to-oil technology helped fuel the Nazi war machine, which lacked access to sufficient crude oil. International oil companies also experimented with the process but put it aside because oil was cheaper.

South Africa took a different view. The country lacked oil, but had enormous deposits of coal, much of which had limited market value because of its poor quality. In 1950, the government set up Sasol as a state-owned company and authorized funding for its first project, a coal-to-liquids facility called Sasolburg in the South African countryside.

When oil prices soared in the 1970s, South African officials decided to up the ante. They lent Sasol $6 billion to build two new facilities at Secunda — each 10 times as large as Sasolburg. The government also privatized the company, listing it on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1979. (The government maintains a 23.5 percent stake).

By the time the facilities were completed in the early 1980s, international oil prices were collapsing. The project was nonetheless a success for the white-dominated apartheid government because international sanctions were restricting South Africa’s ability to buy foreign oil. The plants managed to stay profitable by continually boosting efficiency and expanding their end products to include plastics, fertilizers and explosives.

Besides the government loans, Sasol at various times received cash payments from the government when oil prices fell below a certain level. It eventually paid back the loans and stopped receiving subsidies for its coal-to-oil business by 2000.

Today, Secunda is a buzzing industrial hub with 16,000 employees, miles of interlocking pipes and cables, and eight colossal silos. The silos, each big enough to contain a football field, cool steam involved in the conversion process. Fuel trucks wait along the edge of the facility to fill up with gasoline. Nearby mines produce more than 40 million metric tons of coal a year — as much as all of Illinois.

Outside the plant gates, Secunda has a boomtown feel. It has some 35,000 people, a BMW dealership and a multistory casino hotel called Graceland designed to evoke the “grand old age of Colonial America.”

A growing focus for Sasol is marketing its technology overseas. The company first tried to do so in the 1990s, after apartheid ended, but executives found doors slammed in their faces. Oil was trading for less than $25 a barrel at the time. “We sat in corridors waiting for meetings that never happened because they didn’t even know who Sasol was,” recalls Pat Davies, Sasol’s chief executive.

Sasol made its first inroads in countries such as Qatar that have big stockpiles of hard-to-transport natural gas. These countries were interested in Sasol’s technology for turning natural gas into liquid fuel.

As oil prices began to perk up, Sasol drew interest on the coal front from China, with its big coal reserves and energy needs. In marketing materials produced for Chinese government officials and investors, Sasol offers a simple message: By 2015, 70 percent of China’s oil imports will come from the Middle East. Yet the country has coal reserves equivalent to more than half the oil in the Middle East.

By 2004, Chinese energy planners began meeting with Sasol executives in Beijing to discuss the coal-to-oil process. That was followed by a series of meetings with policy makers and Chinese companies, capped by a gathering in Cape Town in June attended by visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

Coal-generated pollution is emerging as a major environmental crisis in China. Yet Chinese officials are apparently willing to accept more coal use if it means improving the country’s energy security, especially if local companies can design facilities to use relatively clean-burning varieties of coal.

Shenhua Group, China’s largest coal producer, has started work on China’s first commercial coal-to-oil facility, designed eventually to produce as many as 200,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. Although that plant uses a different process from Sasol’s at Secunda, Shenhua officials are in negotiations with Sasol to jointly build at least one additional 80,000-barrel-a-day plant using the South African company’s technique.

While Sasol would charge a fee for licensing its technology, its main interest is to share ownership in the facilities once they’re built because it wants a share of the long-term profits. In China, Sasol is asking for a 50 percent equity stake in the projects. A Shenhua official says negotiations are going smoothly and the company hopes to begin construction soon.

In Montana, at least two companies, including the world’s largest private-sector coal company, Peabody Energy Corp. of St. Louis, have said they are looking at potential coal-to-oil sites. Montana’s Gov. Schweitzer says any excess carbon dioxide from a facility could be given to oil companies to be injected back into the ground to enhance recovery from old wells.

Bringing Sasol on board is critical, says Gov. Schweitzer. He says Wall Street banks want the South Africans to play a role because Sasol is the only company with a track record in the business. To woo Sasol executives, he says, he took them on a flight over Montana coal country last year.

“These are the guys everyone wants to take to the prom,” Gov. Schweitzer says.

Sasol officials say they’re interested in Montana and other potential sites in the U.S., provided they can find a suitable partner and receive tax or other incentives.

Coal-to-oil “is coming to the United States,” Gov. Schweitzer proclaims. When it does, he says, other countries “will be scrambling to protect their oil supplies — and we’ll be energy independent.”

First published on August 17, 2006 at 12:00 am
Shai Oster in Beijing contributed to this article.
Sorry for long article. Simple fact is that the US has th largest reserve of coal in the world. Coal to Oil technology is a proven fact, used be Germany in WWII and more recently by South Africa during there period of Aparthide. This country needs long term options and this seems like a viable option. -5dollar galon gas may make people demand for solutions at a louder scream

A: yeah, posting a massive article in the body where elaboration on the question is supposed to be… not the best idea.

it takes energy to turn coal into oil. you’d need local power stations (nuclear would be the most efficient and cleanest) to process it without transporting it (transportation would be inefficient and you’d have to have extra power generation without driving up power costs in the area that processing occured).

unfortunately, power plants don’t build as fast as they do in simcity. any plants operating now would have had to have something magical known as “forward thinking”. I don’t think we have any of that here in the States.

Q: Who can add to this list of “ridiculous” laws? Which law is the funniest?
ILLINOIS – females must call their male counterparts “master” while on a date. (This does not apply to married couples.)
-According to state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is “American”.
-A man with a mustache may not kiss a woman.
- It is against the law to use a slingshot unless your are a law enforcement officer.

-Chicago: Law forbids eating in a place that is on fire; It is illegal to give a dog whiskey; Kites may not be flown within the city limits; Spitting against the wind is forbidden
-One may not pee in his neighbor’s mouth
-There is a $1,000 dollar fine for beating rats with baseball bats.
-In Chicago it is also illegal to take a French poodle to the opera, and for women over 200 pounds to ride horses in shorts.

You may be convicted of a Class 4 felony offense, punishable by up to three years in state prison, for the crime of “eavesdropping” on your own conversation

-Dwarf-tossing,” the strange practice of hurling dwarfs in padded suits, is outlawed in the bars of Springfield, Ill., because it’s dangerous and exploitative. The practice is apparently allowed elsewhere in town, with a special permit.

CHINA – You must be intelligent to go to college.

IOWA – Men cannot wink at females they are unacquainted with.

NEW YORK – $25 fine for flirting -prohibits men from turning around on any city street and looking “at a woman in that way”. 2nd conviction for a crime of this magnitude calls for the violating male to wear horse-blinders. Men cannot be seen in public wearing pants/jacket that don’t match. You may only water your lawn if hose is held in hand.

CALIFORNIA – Sunshine is guaranteed to the masses. It’s a misdemeanor to shoot at any game from a moving vehicle, unless that target is a whale.
-No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 mph.
-Nobody is allowed to ride a bike in a pool.

OREGON – One may not test their physical endurance while driving a car on a highway. Illegal to place a container filled with human fecal matter on the side of any highway. It is illegal to whisper “dirty” things in your lover’s ear during sex. Ice-cream may not be eaten on Sunday’s. Ministers are forbidden to eat onion or garlic before delivering a sermon.

OKLAHOMA: You must first have permission before taking a bite out of someone’s hamburger. Whale fishing is illegal. People who make ugly faces at dogs may be fined. Molesting an automobile is illegal. Cars must be tethered/leashed outside of public buildings.

PENNSYLVANIA – Placing an alligator over 3 ft in a kitchen to frighten a family member is illegal.
In Ohio, it’s illegal to hold a piece of cheese in hand while talking to the opposite sex.

A: Virtually none of these laws actually exist. You do realize this, right?

The Internet is a great thing. One of its downsides, though, is that any knuckle-dragger can write their own site, and post it as “true”, and someone will fall for it.

Richard

Q: should i buy a 1998 eclipse gsx awd with many modifications?
PROS:
-425 awd hp (that’s to the wheels, so about 515ish to the engine)
-awd
-34,000 Original miles on motor and Body
-Absolutely clean inside and out
-can winterize the car,( turn down boost so im running off motor only)

Cons:
-will be driven during winter in illinois
-afraid of breaking down
-afraid of crank walk
- my mom really disagrees with me getting it (she doesn’t care about horsepower, i used to own a 2005 gto)

let me know what you think
THANKS!!

A: As an owner of an AWDTSI Talon for over 10 years I can tell you this cars are great for any time of the year. AWD in the winter is what this cars where made for. This cars are very very very delicate and you will need to treat it like it was your baby. Mobile 15-50 full synthetic every 3000 miles or less. Checking spark plugs every so often. You don’t need to detune the car because most likely the big turbo wont spull till 4 or 5 thousand rpms just shift at 2.5 or 3 rpms.

If you trust the guy that is selling it to you then go for it if not then don’t do it.

Q: need help, long quiz!!!?
first answerer will be rated the best!!! im only 14 plzzzzzzzz!!!

Question 1.Mohammed bought a car in Countryside and a house in Palos Hills.
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2. I’ve never been to Europe; as a matter of fact, I’ve never been anywhere.

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3.John Ciardi was famous; for his poetry he also translated Dante’s Inferno.

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4. The Titanic was designed to be unsinkable, nevertheless; it sank on its maiden voyage.

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5. Bloomington, Illinois is the home of State Farm Insurance.

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6. The house on Crossing Road was, surrounded by fields and forests.

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7. While doing the dishes, a glass shattered in the soapy water.

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8. I asked for a dollar, I was given a quarter.

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9. The Oder River, flows through Poland.

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10. Joe said to his boss, “Can I have Monday off”

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11. The restaurant’s sundae bar featured bowls of whipped cream chopped nuts and chocolate sprinkles.

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12. Worried by the test, Janet studied all night.

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13. Richard and John Plantagenet were English kings; they were the sons of Henry II.

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14. maureen asked, “will you split a piece of cheesecake with me?”
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15. Abraham Lincoln, who grew up in Illinois, was a great president.

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can you please help i have to pass this class ive been taking the test all day and im failing plzz

A: 1) correct 2)incorrect semi colon 3) incorrect semi colon 4)incorrect semi colon 5) correct comma use 6)incorrect comma use 7)misplaced modifier 8)correct 9)incorrect comma use 10)QUESTION MARK 11)incorrect comma use 12)correct sentence 13)correct semi colon use 14)two 15)correct comma use

Q: felonies for something I dont think was bad on my part?
Well I am 20, And live in illinois. Currently I have two pending felonies. A class 3 for battery and a class 4 for mob action. What happend was was friend has problems with this gay named cole. Then out of no where he came to the houes me and my friends where at. Cole was freaking out and throwing chairs and rackets and a bunch of stuff. Hes was VERY drunk and on zanex bars. Then he smacked my friend who was a girl cause she was screaming threats at him. Then I dont time too get lost and he punched me in the face. I threw him down and gave him three good hits to the rips. Then my two buddys run up and one of them starts kicking him and the other (who was the cause of this) uses a small ball point hammer and starts hitting coles head. As soon as I saw this I stepped back and left and watched from a distants. Cole was so messed up he got up after all that and starts throwing more things at EVERYONE. Then 5 cop cars came and I left and they found me at a 7-11 near bye. All four of us got arrested with the same charges. Im still going to court for all this and have a very good lawyer. Do you think this will be dropped? I have plans for a bright future for school as well as the national guard. Ideas anyone!?

A: Don’t count on all the Charges being Dropped, – just Reduced. And how MUCH so- depends on how GOOD your Lawyer really IS… As for your “bright future”- this Incident is certainly gonna tarnish it Some… So do yourself THIS “Favor”; keep out of Trouble from now on, -& for HEAVENS Sake, Find some Better Friends !!!

Q: What do you think of my novel so far?
Chapter 1:
I stared out of my window, expressionless, as I watched the rain fall. I was home alone, no one close for miles. My mom and dad had left to Muncie, Ohio to see my mom’s parents. Then they would go to Morristown, New York to see my dad’s. I was used to staying home alone; I was already 19, so if I wanted to drive somewhere, I could easily slip into my Mercedes. I had a job. I had money. And I had a license. I got up and strolled across the room to my computer. It said I had 2 emails from my parents. They had a laptop with them so they could keep in touch. I clicked one.
Valerie,
Hey its your mom, just checking on you. We are still on the plane. We will probably be in Muncie in another 2-3 hours. Send me a response as soon as you get this. I love you,
Mom
I sighed and clicked “reply”.
Mom,
Okay. I got the message. Everything is good. Its been raining a lot. I love you, too.
Val
I clicked the other email and it popped open.
Valerie,
If you plan to go anywhere, please tell us so we know you are safe! We forgot to mention this in the other email. Okay well I love you. Bye.
Mom
Once again, I clicked reply.
Mom,
That’s funny because I was just about to go outside and ride around. I’ll bring my phone in case something happens. Okay bye!
Val
I shut down my computer and walked outside, thankful I had my jacket on. I threw the hood over, onto my head, and ran to my Mercedes. I jumped in and put the key in the ignition. I started it and backed out of my gravel drive-way onto the empty street. I lived in Valley City, Illinois. Not very many people lived here. In fact, in 2000 there was only 14 people who lived in Valley City. I cruised down my street, looking at the sun setting against the winter sky. I drove around, looking at the scenery. My family chose here to live because we like being alone. It runs in the family. I am going to describe myself. I have slick, black hair that shines and hangs just below my waistline. My eyes are light blue, which is weird because not one family member that I know has blue eyes, so I stand out. I have dark, tan skin and I’m 5’9”. I love playing softball. I put the car in auto-drive for a second and I leaned back in my seat and closed my eyes. I felt a head-ache coming on. When I opened my eyes again, there was suddenly a boy on the side of the road.
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This is not even half of what I have written so far. If you want the full story, just tell me..

A: If you are writing a novel I have some suggestions for you.

You may want to make the chapters longer then that, most novels have at least 2-3 pages per chapter. Some novels have many more then that (15-20 page chapters).

The story feels kind of rushed with little detail. Another pointer, you should never come right out and describe a character. Try giving little hints as to what the look like or explain it slowly, through their actions. For example

“I stood in front of the mirror and stared at the reflection. Soft blue eyes framed by long black eyelashes returned my gaze. I smiled slightly and the image reflected it. Sighing quietly I ran my hand through my silky black hair. I’d been growing it out since I was little and now it was done below my waist. It was a pain to brush it out in the morning.”

Something like that.

Also, it’s very unlikely that only 14 people lived in a town in 2000. If your writing realistic fiction then you might want to make things accurate, unless it is a made up town she lives in.

There are some grammar errors in there that you might want to check out.

Good luck! Keep writing!

Q: How can I deal with life at this point?
Here I am. So obviously i’m not right in the head. I keep wanting sexual pleasure, & it just so happens that I could never get it from my partner. So I resorted to cheating. The 2 partners that i’ve done this to (not at the same time obviously) have both lost significant trust in me..i’m still with the last one I cheated on, but….it doesn’t feel right. Because the other partner was my first love. I keep thinking about her, but we never talk anymore. She always seems depressed and stuff. And when she told me she slept with another guy, I was devastated. But I shouldn’t be. Is it because I promised my virginity to her & not only broke that promise, but broke it by cheating? She says we will never be together because of this reason, & that I should forget about her. But she doesn’t understand that I still care for her very deeply & that Im really hoping one day she can see that. But I feel so hopeless, & my current partner has lost trust in me too. She says that we can move past it & work it out, but I don’t know. I’m really really scared. And bad things have been happening after I hurt these people I care about. This past week I backed up into someones bumper, I damaged my dad’s car. I’m going to college for the first time tomorrow, but my schedule is messed up. On mondays & wednesdays I don’t even have time for lunch cause my classes run from like 9:00 am to 3:45 pm, with no leeway in between classes. I also have almost no knowledge of where any of my classes are. I probably don’t even have half the materials I need, since i’m taking 3 art classes. And even little things that happen to me, such as spilling a drink, dropping something, accidentally bumping into something, missing a phone call, or something of the like makes me feel like banging my head against a wall, hoping I fall into a coma. Back to my first love, its hard to think about her cause we promised each other so much & we had something special, & I ruined it all. And THEN I go & ruin it with my current partner. I feel like the biggest douchebag in the world, like I committed murder twice, cause i’m pretty sure I broke both of their hearts. Not only this, but I miss my friends from Maryland (where I used to live). But they don’t text me or IM me or anything, it’s like they completely forgot about me. Ever since I moved to Illinois after my mom’s death (I was 13 at the time), it feels like everything has gone downhill. I feel nothing is worth it anymore, & that I should just disappear & save EVERYONE trouble. I honestly want my old life back & I keep thinking how things would’ve been different if I hadn’t done these things. I really feel like i’ve lost everything. . . All I ever wanted to do in life was fulfill the dream that i’ve had ever since I was little, & connect with someone strongly & have a good relationship, & maybe a family later down the road. I know i’m still young (about to be 18) but I feel like i’ve gone through way too much for someone my age. I hate the teens cycle of life. All this drama & sex. Its tearing me apart. I’ve prayed to God that something good will happen, but I feel as if he keeps denying me even the simple things in life that will make me happy. I feel like I will never be forgiven & I will end up being one of those people working at McDonald’s with like 5 kids & living in a run-down apartment or something. I have combined feelings of sadness, anger, fear, & most of all, hopelessness. I know people change but. . .it always seems for the worse. If anyone can help me with any part of this, I would be very thankful.

A: HI Tucker……

I have some good news for you… life ain’t all that bad… no matter how much you feel it sucks , from your view point.

First I wanna deal with the loss of your mom, and the feeling that you’ve also lost your Maryland friends. First, having your mom die when you were 13 is a crappy thing. My son’s dad died when they were just a bit older than you were…. One handled it well.. the other boy was in counseling, was acting out ( stealing and stuff). Eventually they both had to learn the same lesson you seem to already have learned. ‘Life sometimes shits on you, but you have to make the best of it and keep going’. It seems that you have a goal (going to college) and this is a good thing. Keep at it! College is such a different place from High School, After the first month or so you’ll be fine!
Your Maryland friends, do ya Facebook with them?, text them? How do you keep in touch with them?.. Like you they have lives and get busy… Chances are if you extend an hand.. someone will reach back.

Which brings me to your second, and seemingly more important point. RELATIONSHIPS. Hun, no one ‘gets’ relationships ‘right’ on the first try. ( i promised my first time to someone, and ended up with someone totally different too) It happens. The good news here is you don’t seem to be a cold hearted cad who doesn’t care. If anything you seem to be very empathetic, and this is a good thing!
College is going to be an eye opener, everyone who is there WANTS to be there… There are awesome experiences to be had!…. The really hard lesson here is, maybe it’s time to leave the practice runs at relationships, behind, and just look for someone new at school.

The classes, the scheduling, will all work out, (when yer at breakfast on the two days when you don’t get lunch, grab something for later, and eat it between classes, it’s a can-do thing!

The bottom line here is this… Your life is changing, evolving, and for the better! Just remember to not carry a lot of baggage into the big bright new life you are creating for yourself!
Good Luck!!

Q: Do you like my story?
this is just a rough draft and i would love any comments or suggestions! thanks everybody!

I used to have friends. But that all changed when she told me I wasn’t who I thought I was. I at the time had no idea what she was talking about. But as I got older I realized there was a possibility. My name is Grace Hoffman and (she) is my sister, the real Grace Hoffman.
I was 12 years old when is started seeing her. I didn’t realize she was dead until I was 14. I’m now 15 and have been with the real Grace for 3 whole years. I never liked having her around until recently. I was scared at first, then confused, mad, and now I’m fine with it. This might have been why I lost all my friends. Yelling at invisible people. It’s just a possibility though.
See, my parents died in a car crash when I was just 2 years old. So they couldn’t have told me about Grace. But I would have thought that my aunt who I now live with would’ve. She had the chance for 13 years. But boy was I wrong.
Grace was their first child. But she died when she was 1 week old when she got pneumonia. Then they wanted another child, but to be just like the daughter they thought they would’ve had. So that’s how I got called Grace. While my birth certificate says Lilly Hoffman.
The very first time I saw her was when I was sitting on my bed looking at old pictures of mom, dad, and me. I found one picture of her in it though. I had always thought it was just one of my friends or a cousin I didn’t know of. I now know that it was grace. But that was not the first time of actually seeing her. As in her standing there next to me.
The first time I saw her ghost or spirit or whatever you want to call it was when I was at school. I was swinging with my friends when the empty swing next to me started to swing with no wind or anything. Everyone else started screaming that it was a ghost. But I saw her there and tried to explain to them that she was there. No one else could see her there and that is why I lost my friends because everyone thought I was crazy.
I live in Chicago, Illinois and my real name I suppose is Lilly. My nickname though is psycho. That’s why I’m going to be going to a new school this year, Orangedale high school. A private school, ick! But I don’t really care cause school is not what I’m going to be studying. I’m going to find out everything about Grace my sister. This should be interesting.

A: It shows promise. Remember to tighten up the exposition a little though.

Q: How to ask this girl out?
I’ve liked a girl for a long time… We’re pretty much best friends, and we see each other all the time. We’ve dated before (about 3 monthes ago) and she broke up with me without telling me why exactly. We didn’t talk for about a month after that, but then we started hanging out a lot after that. About a month after that, I realized I still kind of like her a lot. Well, I decided to ask her out again. Two weeks ago, we were lying on a couch, all cuddled up watching movies…

Yesterday we went to the coconut festival, and had a great time. At the beginning of the night she said something like, “You and me should travel somewhere someday.” I asked, “Like where?” and she responded, “Europe, maybe, when we’re older.” She also pretty much invited me to come to her grandmother’s house in Illinois next summer. When we were on the fares wheel, she was talking about some guy, non-stop. About how much of an asshole he is, and everything. (Mind you, this is a guy she used to have a crush on. It made me feel like she still does. ) When we were on the other rides, I put my arm around her, and she didn’t seem to mind until’ she started getting really tired, even though she doesn’t really like most people touching her. On our way home in the car, she was falling asleep. She looked up for a second and said, “My back’s hurting. I wish I could lie down a little.” So I let her know that she could just rest on my shoulder, and she did. So we were just sort of cuddled up in the back seat, very nice. I don’t know how to ask her out, seeing as I’ve already asked her in the past. (But, she was actually kind of mad at me at the time… and I didn’t know.) And she still talks about this guy a lot… she’s always saying, “I hate him so much!” but, that’s just making me think she still likes him…

So, now I just do’t know what to say to her… I still like her a lot, and I want to ask her to give me another chance, without just seeming pathetic. Can somebody please help me?

A: Well She could be making you jealous with the guy.

Just be yourself and find/ask around if she still likes you. If so then tell her and ask her out again, saying you want to give the relationship another chance or want to start again.

Q: Docs list who would be allowed to die in a catastrophe your opinion?
Docs list who would be allowed to die in a catastrophe
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won’t get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding whom to let die.
Now, an influential group of physicians has drafted a grimly specific list of recommendations for which patients wouldn’t be treated. They include the very elderly, seriously hurt trauma victims, severely burned patients and those with severe dementia.
The suggested list was compiled by a task force whose members come from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and government agencies. They include the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services.
The proposed guidelines are designed to be a blueprint for hospitals “so that everybody will be thinking in the same way” when pandemic flu or another widespread health care disaster hits, said Dr. Asha Devereaux. She is a critical care specialist in San Diego, California, and lead writer of the task force report.
The idea is to try to make sure that scarce resources — including ventilators, medicine and doctors and nurses — are used in a uniform, objective way, task force members said.
Their recommendations appear in a report appearing Monday in the May edition of Chest, the medical journal of the American College of Chest Physicians.
“If a mass casualty critical care event were to occur tomorrow, many people with clinical conditions that are survivable under usual health care system conditions may have to forgo life-sustaining interventions owing to deficiencies in supply or staffing,” the report states.
To prepare, hospitals should designate a triage team with the Godlike task of deciding who will and who won’t get lifesaving care, the task force wrote. Those out of luck are the people at high risk of death and a slim chance of long-term survival. But the recommendations get much more specific, and include:
• People older than 85.
• Those with severe trauma, which could include critical injuries from car crashes and shootings.
• Severely burned patients older than 60.
• Those with severe mental impairment, which could include advanced Alzheimer’s disease.
• Those with a severe chronic disease, such as advanced heart failure, lung disease or poorly controlled diabetes.
Dr. Kevin Yeskey, director of the preparedness and emergency operations office at the Department of Health and Human Services, was on the task force. He said the report would be among many the agency reviews as part of preparedness efforts.
Public health law expert Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University called the report an important initiative but also “a political minefield and a legal minefield.”
The recommendations would probably violate federal laws against age discrimination and disability discrimination, said Gostin, who was not on the task force.
If followed to a tee, such rules could exclude care for the poorest, most disadvantaged citizens who suffer disproportionately from chronic disease and disability, he said. While health care rationing will be necessary in a mass disaster, “there are some real ethical concerns here.”
James Bentley, a senior vice president at American Hospital Association, said the report will give guidance to hospitals in shaping their own preparedness plans even if they don’t follow all the suggestions.
He said the proposals resemble a battlefield approach in which limited health care resources are reserved for those most likely to survive.
Bentley said it’s not the first time this type of approach has been recommended for a catastrophic pandemic, but that “this is the most detailed one I have seen from a professional group.”
While the notion of rationing health care is unpleasant, the report could help the public understand that it will be necessary, Bentley said.
Devereaux said compiling the list “was emotionally difficult for everyone.”
That’s partly because members believe it’s just a matter of time before such a health care disaster hits, she said.
“You never know,” Devereaux said. “SARS took a lot of folks by surprise. We didn’t even know it existed.”

A: Sounds good to me!

Q: Smoking Tail Lights in Illinios legal?
I found this article about smoking tail lights and it talks about going to this site

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http://www.law.cornell.edu/statutes.html
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to make sure it is legal for smoke tail lights in your state. So I search my state, all the way down to VEHICLES/Illinois Vehicle Code/ARTICLE V/ GLASS, WINDSHIELDS AND MIRRORS.

It tells me this:

“Nothing contained in this Section shall prohibit the use of nonreflective, smoked or tinted glass, nonreflective film, perforated window screen or other decorative window application on windows to the rear of the driver’s seat, except that any motor vehicle with a window to the rear of the driver’s seat treated in this manner shall be equipped with a side mirror on each side of the motor vehicle which are in conformance with Section 12‑502. “

It doesn’t say anything about the % of light that has to pass through or anything. I was wondering is it legal at all? I see alot of cars with smoked lights, but how much is exactly street legal
Indie, you’re the first one to admit on yahoo answers that its not always the drivers fault! I posted yahoo answers on any defense on contesting a “no front license plate” ticket. and every anwser I got was basically in a nerdy voice ” Well, stop breaking the rules then!”

ok, no one likes paying tickets for stupid shyt, exactly true. If its illegal to hang things on your rear view mirror, why do they sell air freshners that are meant to?? you know what, imma ask that question right now, see what i get! Lol! and yes i did get a ticket for that, “obstuction of view” !! bs man

A: The website you referenced is a compilation of state laws, which is important.

However, your question’s answer has to do with Federal law.
As long as your light meet the minimum requirements of “candle power” in 49CFR571.108 (check figure 1, at the end of the regulation, page 270), then it would be legal in Illinois.

If it can’t meet the Federal requirements, then the Illinois cops would have a right to ticket you.

Q: Speeding Ticket…. Cop refused to show me the radar…. Got it on tape?
I was on cruise going 62-62 (hard to tell which) in a 55…. I was pulled over and issued a citation for going 81. I think, here in Illinois that that is reckless driving? Not sure there, but I was clearly not going that fast. Sooo…. I asked the trooper to see the radar, and he said, plainly, “no” and walked away to write the ticket.

When he came back, I had my voice recorder running, and asked him again. He said I cant see it because, in short, He does not know me, It’s not safe, and also added “whos to say that I was not aiming at another car and got you…. that’s why the courts just take my word for it.” That’s pretty shocking to me. Does he not HAVE to show me the radar? My fear is that if I just pay the 95 bucks, it goes away, but If I go to court and lose I have to pay min $275 court cost here in DuPage county. For the record they used LiDar.

Any suggestions? Is the tape even any good since he didnt know he was being taped?

A: Hate to say it but they are NOT required by law to show you the radar upon request…that is a myth but they can if they so choose.

And since you didn’t make him aware that he was being recorded on the recording your tape is inadmissible.

Q: I’m 16, and I want to move out of my house.?
Hey everyone, I’m 16 (Ill be 17 in 3 months), and for a few years now I have felt the need to get out of my house. Before I start, I don’t want anyone to think I’m just some rebel teen that wants to leave so she can go party. I’m not like that. I’m in accelerated classes, I make straight A’s, and I don’t drink or party or anything like that.

Anyway, a little of the background.
My sister moved out with no problem about 6 years ago at 16. My mom has gotten a little stricter though, and I’m afraid she won’t let me go that easy. I have a job, and I pay for my own car (which is NOT in her name). The only thing they pay for for me is my cell phone bill, which is not a problem getting switched. My mom has a drinking problem too.

Get this, I had to drop my step dad off at 12:15, on fathers day, at the bar, because he didn’t want her to drive home because she was drunk. (She would have if he would’ve let her) . She is not physically abusive to me, but she is mentally abusive when she’s drunk.

I have a little sister that is 9 also. She’s the baby, and she is treated fine, and I have a feeling when she’s old enough to realize how they are she’ll want to leave too.

I’ve read into the emancipation thing.
I’m not sure how that would work.
I live in Illinois.
What would happen if I just left?
(I would move in to my step-grandpa’s house, where my sister used to live, but at the time my grandma was still alive.)

Any help? :/
Let me know if you have ANY questions or need any more detail!
THANK YOU!!!
I would be moving in with my step-grandpa.
He is more than willing to take me in.
I have my own room there.
He lives a few minutes away from my house now.
I have a job, and my own car.

My dad lives about 15 minutes away from me, but is not financially stable.
Thank you for all the help everyone, Please keep it coming!

I’m looking into EVERYTHING as of right now.
But please remember, I will have a stable home at my grandpa’s in the same district so nothing will change much besides my living environment. Same school, same job, everything.
My grandpa (relative) will provide for me so now worries for that.
My biggest problem is, my mother and step father will not let me move out and live at my relatives.
They want me to live with them and be miserable, honestly.
So my question is, legally how can I move into my grandpas if they don’t want me to?
I’m not sure they would have the guts to do anything if I did it anyway, but I’m just not sure.
What if they did do something? How could I fight back?

A: I moved out on my own when I was 17 years old. I am 27 now and I am just now getting my life straight. I am not saying that this will happen to you,but you would be so much better off to tough it out where you are then to move out . I promise you. I have lived in places no one should ever have to live. I have worked hard all my life. It isn’t worth it . Trust me. I had a very overbearing mother. Who didn’t have a drinking problem. She is bipolar. My father was not there for me either.
You do what you want,but you have only another year left and then you can go to college, and not make the mistakes that so many of us have made. Bless you.

Q: can a cop confiscate my dirtbike?
well i live near some woods and a field, and quite a ways back is an abandoned emergency landing strip. for airplanes, but nobody uses it anymore. the city cays its a road now but there are no street signs, road marks or anything. i ride my dirtbike there sometimes and the other day, me and my friend seen two cop cars. WE SHOT OUT OF THERE and went back to my house. we hid them in my garage behind a lawnmower. but like 2 weeks ago there was a load of people with go carts and atv’s on there. nobody called the cops on them and there go carts were louder than our dirtbikes..

i just dont get it. i live in illinois

A: There are two issues. If you do not own the property, then you could be trespassing. Just because someone else is trespassing does not mean that you should be allowed to.

Second issue. Are your bikes street legal? If not, it could be ok to ride them in the woods, but not on the street. If you did not have a trailer to take your bikes there, then you had to break a few laws getting there.

Another issue is that you are a minor with a motorcycle. If someone complained because their chickens stopped laying eggs because of trail bikes going up and down the road to the old runway at all hours, the police will stop every minor on a motorcycle they see trying to find out who is responsible.

Q: Will Ford still fix this recall part for free?
I bought the car second hand, and it has 76k miles on it. The suspension often makes a loud “popping” noise especially while turning tightly.

JUL 15, 2004 | Recall ID# 17835

Recall Reason SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:COIL SPRINGS
Recall Date JUL 15, 2004
Model Affected TAURUS
Potential Units Affected 899060

Recall Summary
ON CERTAIN PASSENGER VEHICLES ORIGINALLY SOLD IN OR CURRENTLY REGISTERED IN THE STATES OF CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, ILLINOIS, INDIANA, IOWA, KENTUCKY, MAINE, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA, RHODE ISLAND, VERMONT, WEST VIRGINIA, WISCONSIN, AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, THE FRONT COIL SPRINGS COULD FRACTURE DUE TO CORROSION ASSOCIATED WITH SALT USED ON THE ROADWAYS DURING THE WINTER. A FRACTURED SPRING COULD MOVE PAST THE SPRING SEAT AND CONTACT A FRONT TIRE.

Consequence
IF THIS OCCURS, THE TIRE MAY RUPTURE RESULTING IN A RAPID AIR LOSS, WHICH COULD RESULT IN A CRASH.

Remedy
DEALERS WILL INSTALL PROTECTIVE SPRING SHIELDS. IN ADDITION, FORD IS EXTENDING THE WARRANTY COVERAGE OF THE FRONT COIL SPRINGS IN ALL OTHER STATES, FOR FRACTURE ONLY, UP TO 10 YEARS OF SERVICE OR 150,000 MILES, WHICHEVER OCCURS FIRST. IF THE VEHICLE HAS ALREADY ACCUMULATED MORE THAN 150,000 MILES, THIS COVERAGE WILL LAST UNTIL JULY 31, 2005. IF EITHER FRONT COIL SPRING FRACTURES, DEALERS WILL REPLACE BOTH FRONT SPRINGS AT NO CHARGE TO THE OWNER. AN INTERIM NOTICE WAS SENT TO OWNERS ON AUGUST 2, 2004. PARTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE 2000-2001 MY VEHICLES AND OWNERS WERE SENT A LETTER ON JANUARY 10, 2005, ADVISING THEM TO BRING IN THEIR VEHICLES FOR REPAIR PARTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE AVAILABLE FOR THE 1999 MY VEHICLES BY THE END OF FEBRUARY 2005 AND OWNERS OF THESE VEHICLES WILL BE NOTIFIED THEN. OWNERS SHOULD CONTACT FORD AT 1-800-392-3673.

Notes
FORD MOTOR COMPANY 04S17

A: If it is a safety recall yes they will do it call in advance to the 800 number so they can give you a pre approval #

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