Tips from Gas Station: how to fill up oil your self

More and more gas stations are shifting toward self-service. If you’ve been reluctant to abandon the luxury of the full-service lane, chances are that it’s going to get more and more difficult to find one. Knowing how to fill ‘er up yourself not only prevents you from being stranded with an empty tank when there’s no one available to fill it for you, but it also saves you money on every gallon, every time.

Always extinguish your cigarette before you start to pump gasoline. If the flame comes in contact with gasoline fumes, it can cause an explosion.

Certificate of Deposit rates are an investment opportunity to generate long-term stable profits for non-risk takers. CDs are usually fixed rate which means user has to agree on the interest rates with the bank before investing the amount with them and the rate of CD remains constant until CD matures.

The best savings accounts are the ones that provide good bank interest rates. CDs are safe investments compared to other relative investment opportunities like stocks, off shore investment, mutual funds etc. Banking institutions offer low stable plans with very low risk. One important thing about CDs is that you can't withdraw your money/investment before your CD matures. If you do so bank charges you with a penalty as per rules of that bank. So that could be the amount deducted from your profit.

The best money market rates generate high profits with a little more risk then small term CD plan. Investment with smaller banks give you the opportunity to generate high profit because of the policy of such banks as they want to attract more and more people towards them. But one should be careful with such investments as any thing can happen.

You are given the choice at the time of your CD rates maturity that you can either reinvest the amount or just withdraw money and go home. Reinvesting is something that gives more benefits with a little high risk. One can get maximum profits with reinvesting after maturity. If you don't take any action at the time of maturity of your CD then bank automatically invest your amount in the same CD plan so you have to be a little more careful in your decisions what to do? If you plan to keep on reinvesting till you reach maximum profit that could be a good move but you should be aware of the facts and CD rates so that you don't lose any money.

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Chevy brings back the electric car.

You will not read one article about the Chevrolet Volt Concept that doesn't somehow reference the movie Who Killed the Electric Car?. For those of you that wonder why every article about the Volt will name-check that documentary, it's because the film boldly claims that it was GM that killed the electric car, and not Professor Plum in the Kitchen with the candlestick. Well, that and the fact that the Volt Concept is being touted as the General's all-new electric vehicle. We don't want to be left out of the movie-related hype, so consider this intro paragraph to be our way of capitalizing on someone else's hard work.



But it's unfair to call the Volt an electric vehicle, as the Cobalt-sized concept can also be called a gas/electric hybrid. The big difference between the Volt and a vehicle like the Prius is the fact that the Volt can travel up to 40 miles on electric power alone. The Chevrolet Volt is what is referred to as a "plug-in" electric vehicle. To recharge the Volt, owners can plug the car in to a standard 110 volt household power outlet. Yeah, it takes about six hours to fully recharge the Volt, but you won't notice that "lost" time if you recharge the car while you sleep.


People that want to drive further than 40 miles will have to make use of the Volt's 3-cylinder 1-liter E85-ethanol engine. Unlike traditional gas/electric hybrids, the 3-cylinder E85 engine is designed to run as a generator that recharges the electric motor's batteries. So while the Volt does burn gas, the car technically gets its power from only electricity. Even when the gas engine is recharging the electric motor, the Volt is still able to achieve fuel economy in the triple-digit range (GM claims that 150 miles per gallon is possible) and have a total driving range of over 640 miles. That's pretty damn impressive.

GM knows that it's a good idea to produce vehicles that are environmentally-friendly in ways that extend beyond just what comes out of the vehicles' tailpipes. Many of this concept's panels are made out of an easily-recyclable composite material, meaning that even if/when the vehicle is scrapped, its impact on the Earth will still be small.



Though a "compact" car built with "environmentally-friendly " materials, the Volt doesn't look like a tree-hugging hippie's wet dream. Dare we say it, but we can see quite a bit of the Camaro concept in the Volt's shell - especially in the front end and blistered fenders. We also like the way Chevy was able to give the car a really high beltline and "squished" cabin without punishing occupants with limited outward visibility. Take a closer look at the doors; the "glass" goes way past the beltline and into the doors themselves. Chevy says that this "door glass" is a high-tech scratch-resistant plastic composite that has the appearance of traditional glass. The Volt's roof is also made up of this glass-like plastic composite.


As with all concept cars, the interior of the Volt is designed to appeal to the "smart, urban driver". However, unlike most "out-there" future rides, the technology in the Volt is all current-gen or near-future tech. That means that we can see some of the Volt's interior features make their way to production vehicles in the next couple of years.

Most of the Volt's interior is made up of light and recyclable composite panels, but that's not the interesting part of this Chevy's cockpit. To quote GM, the Volt's "compression-molded foam with a textile-patterned surface layer is applied on the entire lower instrument panel, lower door trim panels and rear quarter trim areas." This is interesting as the press release goes on to say that this material is, " used in some of the latest luggage designs."



Why do we mention that the Volt has an interior made out of luggage? Get a closer look at the dash and door side pockets; these things open and close with a zipper. Granted, it's a high-tech "zipper", but it's still a zipper nonetheless.


As cool as high-tech zippers are, the Volt's dash has a high-tech gauge cluster whose coolness is only rivaled by the one found in the Saab Aero X. This "two-tier" gauge cluster uses futuristic-looking analog displays to convey "traditional" information about the car (such as speed, etc.). But the cool part of this information center is the gauge that gives the driver the 411 on the Volt's advanced propulsion system.

The Volt's "power" gauge uses invisible, fluorescent inks to create animated "holographic-like" displays for the driver. We think that it shares a bit of that "altimeter" feel found in the Saab Aero X concept (which is in the GM family for those of you not in the know...) Consider the Volt's "power" display to be a very cool version of the "power monitor" found in the Prius. If this really is "near-future" technology, we certainly hope that GM puts it into a production car soon.

While the Volt is just a concept, experts say that GM's propulsion technology can make it into production vehicles by 2010. That's just three years away! We're old, so those three years of waiting will fly by as if they're nothing. You young 'uns that can't wait 36 months can get your Volt fix by clicking on the Media Page and checking out our huge gallery of Volt images.