Dano's Profile

Located in: PineIsland, MN

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• Kline: Democrats spend too much, accomplish too little

  I see those who support the bill STILL cannot answer my question....What is affordable health care? How can it be possibly affordable to everyone? Are some going to get it for free? I would assume that someone who supports this bill should be able to answer such a simple question.

  11/06/2009 5:54 PM
• Kline: Democrats spend too much, accomplish too little

  Mrs. C.,
  Please enlighten me since nobody who supports this bill seems to be able to answer this simple question. What is affordable health care? What makes it affordable? Seems to me, what is affordable for one person probably will not be affordable to another. Unless, of course, it is free, and only the working class pays? How is this affordable to someone who doesn’t work at all? How do they pay in? With our money that we already give them?

  If you ask me the free market is fair. Having a pre existing condition and paying more or not getting insurance at all is the same as having a bad driving record and trying to get insurance. Why are we not passing a bill so everyone is insured for their automobile? I pay more because other people cant afford it or do not have it. Why is that any different than health care? I pay more because some either chose to not pay for a plan, or cannot pay for a plan. Either way we all pay for others.

  The difference is now the burden will always be on the taxpayer. The way it is set up now, the hospital can atleast “try” and get their money out of the patient.

  11/06/2009 4:12 PM
• Both Sides: More ethanol in gasoline could do more harm than help

  If anyone doesn’t believe me, pour about 10 bottles of Isopropal “Heat” in your gas tank and see what happens.

  11/05/2009 8:00 PM
• Both Sides: More ethanol in gasoline could do more harm than help

  Lets have a reality check for a moment.

  First, Ideal air-fuel mixture in any gasoline combustion engine is 14.7:1.

  A non flex vehicle is capable of changes in temperature, altitude, throttle position, barometric pressure etc etc. With that being said your engine is constantly hunting for the best mixture of air-fuel.

  One thing any non flex fuel car cannot sense is the alcohol content in the fuel. As I stated before, the more alcohol in the fuel, more fuel is needed to perfect the mixture.

  One poster says, “yea I ran E20 in my vehicle with no change in mileage.”

  I truly wonder why this is? I will tell all of you that haven’t figured it out yet. The vehicle he is driving has no clue he is putting in more alcohol in the fuel. This creates a condition called a “lean burn”. How does the engine compensate for this? Well if it is severe enough, the engine will knock or “ping”. You will never hear it because todays engines have a knock sensor in the engine block that retards the engine ignition timing to “save” your engine from complete meltdown. Retarding the engine timing does one for you, lose horsepower.

  The reality of the situation is, until vehicles can sense the fuel they are using “flex fuel cars can” there is no advantage what so ever to up the alcohol content.

  11/05/2009 7:49 PM
• Both Sides: More ethanol in gasoline could do more harm than help

  The problem is, your air to fuel mixture has to change. The more alcohol in the fuel, the more fuel is needed. In short you will just lose gas mileage.

  It’s amazing that so many people know so little about what they trust to get them back and forth to work every day.

  11/04/2009 11:35 PM

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