Archive for October 2008

My test results after 3 tanks

27. October 2008 by admin.


I have just finished my 3rd tank full and I have modified my original results.  I made this modification because I chose the wrong comparison.  To be as accurate as possible and as fair as possible, I needed to consider 3 types of driving:

1.      local driving

2.      highway driving

3.      a combination of the two

 

When I made my first test comparison I used local driving when I should have sued combined.  So for my 1st tank I drove 386 miles on 13.92 gallons and got 27.72 mpg which was a 2.14% increase.

 

For my 2nd tank I drove 366 miles on 15.56 gallons and got 23.54 mpg which was an 8.04% decrease (I have no idea what happened there.  My wife actually did the driving for most of the 3 tank fills so I don’t know how she drove, except it was mostly back and forth to work.)

 

For my 3rd tank I drove 433 miles on 16.54 gallons and got 26.18 mpg which was a 2.26% increase. 

 

I have started a test using my 1983 Ford truck and am on the 1st tank.

 

I have purchased another company’s product and will begin testing it in the near future.

 

I will also let you know how my next couple of tank fills go.  I am looking for a tester who does a lot of highway driving to see how those results pan out.

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3 short eBooks on our economy and wealth creation

23. October 2008 by admin.


I recently read 3 short eBooks that explained a great deal about why we are in the mess we are in with our economy.  The author also gave suggestions as to what each of us can do to ensure our family comes out on top when this current depression is over.

 

The first book explains why “credit” is our number one enemy and how important it is to live debt free.  The wealthy use credit to make money.  The poor use credit to buy things that we often really do not need.  We let the media and the idea of “keeping up with the Jones” seduce us into buying on credit things that we can live without.

 

The author stated that the U.S. is not the wealthiest country in the world.  In fact we are one of the poorest countries.  In 3rd world countries people live within their means and therefore are not controlled by others.  In the U.S. most of us are in debt and therefore are controlled by the banks. 

 

Somewhere along the road to independence and freedom we lost sight of the true meaning of independence and freedom.  When our forefathers wrote out the Constitution, they meant for us to be a free and independent people.  Then greed and politicians set in and we slowly gave up our freedoms to the extent that today it can take several hours to get on a plane to just fly to another city in the U.S.

 

The author mentions that if you use credit to buy the necessities in your life then you are indeed poor.  However, I would like to clarify that because I use my credit card for everything and I pay my credit bills at each billing cycle.  For me it is much easier to use credit as long as I do not charge more than I can easily pay off when the bill comes due.  Well, besides being easier to charge than carry around cash, I also receive 1% to 5% rebates from the credit card companies (banks) for having used their card.

 

Yes, I realize it is very hard not to want to buy on credit.  When I become depressed or unhappy, it is often very easy to want to buy something to make me feel better.  The media and the banks are very good at convincing us that it’s OK to buy on credit, because we “deserve it”.  Just like when we get that sugar high, very soon we come crashing down to reality when our credit card statement comes and we don’t have the cash to pay it off in full.  It is very easy to rationalize and say, “That’s OK.  I will finish paying it off next month.”  Soon we are in the credit trap and we have sold our freedom for a short term pleasure.  It kinda sounds like a drug addiction, doesn’t it!

 

The second eBook I read explained in very great detail what our dollar is really worth.  The author talks about what was written in the Constitution and why.  He covers the history of banking and the central banks, what is backed and un-backed currency, as well as currency devaluation and reissue.  All of these things lead to our loss of freedom.

 

I was very impressed by this quote by Thomas Jefferson, “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of our currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

 

Doesn’t that pretty much describe what is happening to us now?  Kind of scary, isn’t it?

 

There is a lot of very thought provoking ideas in this eBook.  The author ends with saying that the only way out of this mess is to issue new currency, a currency that is backed by real value like gold and silver.  If all you have is paper money, you are gong to be very sad indeed.  The author suggests buying gold and silver and he recommends a place to do that.

 

In the third eBook I read, the author talked about legally robbing banks.  I have received many ads in the mail and online to purchase such a book.  Well I now have it for free.   Actually he talks about Forex trading, which I am going to seriously look into further.  I have been on a Forex newsletter list for over a year now.  I guess I need to start reading some of those newsletters.

 

Here’s the bottom line of what I learned.  Well, actually I already knew some of it, like the importance of being debt free.  I even have a website where I sell an ebook on how to be debt free.  First, you must become debt free.  Next, put some of your money in gold and silver, mostly silver because gold may be hard to get change for.  Third, look seriously at the Forex market.  It will give you much higher returns than the stock market and when done smart, it can be a lot safer than the stock market.

 

Finally, give serious thought to starting your own business.  With the Internet it can be the best and least expensive way to go, especially when you learn from an expert who knows the ropes and who doesn’t need to take advantage of you to make his/her living.

 

Gary Gile

Andover, CT

Ph: 336-233-5794

Cell: 860-810-7735

gary@TechAgeOfCT.com

 

PS: Send me an email if you want to get your free copies of the 3 eBooks I mentioned above.

 

 

 

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The State of Our Economy

16. October 2008 by admin.

I received an email today from the founder of a simple $5 program I am in to generate wealth in these hard times.  Within the email was an article which gave me a very good insight into how we got to where we are and hinted at some solutions.

We are in a huge mess, so to clean up the mess will be painful for most people.  Those that take advantage of these difficult times by stepping out of their comfort zone and starting their own business will come out much better off than most.

As I mentioned before, there is no shortage of money, just a shortage of guts to take action on the things that will set us free from money worries.

Here’s the article:


Don’t Blame Capitalism

By Peter Schiff
Thursday, October 16, 2008; A19

Amid the chaos of recent days, as the federal government has taken gargantuan steps to stabilize the financial markets, realigning the U.S. economic system in the process, comes a nearly universal consensus: This crisis resulted from government reluctance to regulate the unbridled greed of Wall Street. Many economists and market participants who were formerly averse to government interference agree that a more robust regulatory framework must be constructed to cage the destructive forces of capitalism.

For the political left, which has long championed the need for such limits, this crisis is the opportunity of a lifetime.

Absent from such conclusions is the central role the government played in creating the crisis. Yes, many Wall Street leaders were irresponsible, and they should pay. But they were playing the distorted hand dealt them by government policies. Our leaders irrationally promoted home-buying, discouraged savings, and recklessly encouraged borrowing and lending, which together undermined our markets.

Just as prices in a free market are set by supply and demand, financial and real estate markets are governed by the opposing tension between greed and fear. Everyone wants to make money, but everyone is also afraid of losing what he has. Although few would ascribe their desire for prosperity to greed, it is simply a rose by another name. Greed is the elemental motivation for the economic risk-taking and hard work that are essential to a vibrant economy.

But over the past generation, government has removed the necessary counterbalance of fear from the equation. Policies enacted by the Federal Reserve, the Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (which were always government entities in disguise), and others created advantages for home-buying and selling and removed disincentives for lending and borrowing. The result was a credit and real estate bubble that could only grow — until it could grow no more.

Prominent among these wrongheaded advantages are the mortgage interest tax deduction and the exemption of real estate capital gains from taxable income. These policies create unnatural demand for home purchases and a (tax-free) incentive to speculate in real estate.

Similarly, the FHA, Fannie and Freddie were created to encourage lending by allowing primary lenders to turn their long-term risk over to the government. Absent this implicit guarantee, lenders would probably have been much more conservative in approving borrowers and setting interest terms, and in requiring documentation of incomes and higher down payments. Market forces would have kept out unqualified buyers and prevented home-price appreciation from exceeding the growth in household income.

Interest rates contributed the most to creating the housing boom. After the dot-com crash and the slowdown following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Federal Reserve took extraordinary steps to prevent a shallow recession from deepening. By slashing interest rates to 1 percent and holding them below the rate of inflation for years, the government discouraged savings and practically distributed free money.

Artificially low interest rates invigorated the market for adjustable-rate mortgages and gave birth to the teaser rate, which made overpriced homes appear affordable. Alan Greenspan himself actively encouraged home buyers to avail themselves of these seeming benefits. As monetary policy caused houses to become more expensive, it also temporarily provided buyers with the means to overpay. Cheap money gave rise to subprime mortgages and the resulting securitization wave that made these loans appear safe for investors.

And even today, as market forces deflate the credit bubble, the government is stepping in to re-inflate it. First came the Treasury’s $700 billion plan to purchase mortgage assets that no one in the private sector would buy. Now it has recapitalized banks to the tune of $250 billion, guaranteeing loans between banks and fully insuring non-interest-bearing accounts. Policymakers say that absent these steps, banks would not be able to extend loans. But given our already staggering debt burden, perhaps more loans are not the answer. That’s what the free market is telling us. But the government cannot abide solutions that ask for consumer sacrifice.

Real credit can be supplied only by savings, so artificial steps to stimulate lending will only produce inflation. By refusing to allow market forces to rein in excess spending, liquidate bad investments, replenish depleted savings, fund capital investment and help workers transition from the service sector to the manufacturing sector, government is resisting the cure while exacerbating the disease.

The United States reached its economic preeminence on the strength of its free markets. So far, the economic disaster exacerbated by government policies is creating opportunities for further government interference, which will lead to bigger catastrophes. Binding the country to a tangle of socialist ideals will seal our fate as a second-rate economic power.

The writer, who was economic adviser for Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign, is president of Euro Pacific Capital. He is the author of “The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets.”

Gary Gile
gary@techageofct.com
336-233-5794

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The Power of Stories

10. October 2008 by admin.


The following is a copy of an email I received from Dan Klatt.  The subject of the email was:

 

Case Study: Terry’s Story (The perspective shift will be valuable)

 

Hi Gary,

 

Look at this interesting story and appreciate the important perspective

shift…

 

Imagine for a moment that it’s the first of the month. Your refrigerator

is very nearly bare. You really don’t have enough to feed your wife and

kids breakfast, let alone lunch. And dinner? No way you have enough for

that. You’d like to pay your rent, yet your account is negative.

 

Worse, the electric company is coming tomorrow to turn off your power

unless you can pay the bill; which you can’t.

 

That was the position Terry Mills found himself in. He’d been laid off

some months previous and hadn’t been able to find work. A foolish and

misplaced sense of pride had kept him from applying for unemployment or

welfare … decisions he was sorely regretting.

 

Later, that night of the first of the month, he was in desperation over

what he could possibly do to feed his wife and kids and keep a roof over

their heads when he saw one of those “Save The Children” commercials.

You know the ones. Showing starving and homeless kids from around the

world and pleading for you to help out with a donation.

 

Terry realized something, and through that realization came a decision.

First, he realized that as bad as his situation was, he was living like a

KING compared to many others. As such, his situation really wasn’t that

bad. That then lead him to make a decision. He decided he would do

whatever it took to be able to donate ten grand to that charity … and do

it before the end of the month. He went so far as to call the company and

make the plege.

 

Understand that at this point his bank account was negative, he had little

food, and his electricity was in emminent danger of being turned off. In

fact, Terry didn’t even have any loose change in the house because he’d

already used it all buying what little food there was left in the house.

 

Yet, here he was making a HUGE plege to donate money. He was literally

pleging to give money he didn’t even have yet.

 

Some would say that what he did was irresponsible and/or foolish.

 

However, the morning of the very next day he met my friend Richard.

Somehow, and for some reason, Terry spilled his guts about his situation

to Richard. Also for some reason, Richard took the time to listen.

 

After the two had talked for a while, Richard gave Terry an idea he

could use to make some fast cash (keep reading for details on how to

get the same info Terry got).

 

Almost miraculously, Terry used what he learned to make $1,000 THAT SAME

DAY. It kept his electricity on and put food in his house. Further (and

while his landlord wasn’t happy, he understood) two weeks later Terry got

his rent paid. Two weeks after that …

 

Terry sent a check for ten grand to the charity.

 

So how did he do it?

 

How did he go from so totally broke to so … being able to give a nonprofit

$10,000 (and so quickly)?

 

Well, to prevent this from becoming a crazy long email, Richard and I

have put together a special report that explains what happened, how it

happened, and *WHY* it happened.

 

You’ll be given the exact same methods and techniques Richard gave

Terry to use, and you’ll understand exactly how he transformed his life

the way he did. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to get the universe to

align with you and your actions to get what you want, which can help

you enjoy similar results as Terry by doing what he did and using the

exact rapid cash generation technique Terry learned.

 

This report comes with absolutely no strings or anything like that. We

aren’t selling it to you, there won’t be some opt-in form to fill out to

get it or anything like that.

 

To download the report just go to:

http://www.OutgivingTheUniverse.com/upgrades/AbundanceMultiplied.pdf

 

Warmly,

Dan

 

 

P.S. Did you look at http://www.PersonalGrowthLounge.com yet?

 

If you didn’t, take a few minutes to visit, because I think you’ll be

excited about all the things you’re getting to “learn and grow and

become a better person, in just a few thoughtful minutes each day”.

 

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When I put the email in my word document, I noticed many spelling errors, yet I did not notice them when I read the email.  That’s the mesmerizing effects of a story.  Did you download the report to learn how Terry pulled himself up out of despair?  I bet you did or that you will soon.  Yes, I am going to work on writing more by telling stories.  After all, that was one of the main forms of communicating and teaching 2,000 years ago.

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Have We Reached the “END TIMES”?

10. October 2008 by admin.

We are living in perhaps the most interesting time in history. People are stating that we are in the times the Bible describes as the End Times.  If you believe this then you are 100% correct.  However if you believe in your ability to make your life whatever you choose it to be then you are also right.  After all we are the only animal on earth that has the ability to choose.  There must be a reason for that.  Perhaps it is because our creator wants us to be in charge of our own life.

During the first “Great Depression” people were saying the same things and many people suffered and died poor.  However, others chose not to believe that and they did very well and actually made a lot of money during the Depression.

I just listened to the teleconference call by Robert Kiyosaki and Mike Dillard spoke about predicting the future.  Basically they said that whatever we believe will be true for us.  However talk is cheap.  If you feel that the end is near and you crawl into a hole and cover your eyes and ears then your end is upon you. 

If on the other hand you say “I am going to do the very best I can to make things better for me.”, and you take action to make the very best of today, then you can come out of this depression better off than most people.

I was at the dentist yesterday to have my teeth cleaned.  I asked my hygienist what other people are talking about.  She said people talk about and are concerned about the economy and the upcoming elections.  She told me that people are concerned about whom to vote for, that it is a choice between the lesser of two evils.  My reply was “Why do we think we have to choose between the two most visible candidates?”  We do have other choices in the elections.  We do not have to vote for Obama or McCain.  We can choose not to vote for either of them or we can vote for anyone else on the ballot.

When I told my Mom about this she said that I would be throwing away my vote if I didn’t vote for either one.  Well, imagine, what would it be like if McCain and Obama only received 2 votes each?  What would that be telling the politicians?  What would that be telling the world?  I guess you could say the silent majority has spoken.  Besides our votes actually don’t count anyway.  The Electoral College decides who becomes president.

Well, back to Kiyosaki.  He strongly feels that we each must take care of ourselves.  We must choose to be in control of our own lives.  We must take responsibility for our lives.  He also strongly recommends having your own business and he feels network marketing is the very best business model to follow.

So we have two main choices.  We can either buy into what the media is telling us and hope the government will somehow bail us out or we can decide to take responsibility for our lives and begin our own business.  There are no excuses for not starting your own business.  Whether you are old or young, rich or poor, educated or uneducated, there is a business you can successfully run.  You just need to find a way to add value to the lives of others and make money doing so.  It will take work and it may take time and it will require stepping out of your comfort zone.  But change we must if we want to come out of this depression standing on our own two feet.  Robert Kiyosaki said, “If you are not ahead of change, you become a victim of change.”  Another word for “change” can be “growth”

So we are not in the “End Times”.  We are in the “Time of Change”.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Right Place at the Right Time

8. October 2008 by admin.


It is said that success often comes by being in the right place at the right time.  You are now in the right place and now is the absolute best time.

 

I am reading an e-Book titled “IM Success Formula”.  One very interesting statistic that I read was that of those surveyed (25,000 with 10% responding) 18.21% said they were involved in Internet Marketing to make a little extra income to supplement their full-time job.

 

The other 81.79% were involved in Internet Marketing to replace their full-time JOB.  No wonder more and more people are looking to start and then build a home-based business.

 

The MSN Money website discussed a recent study by research firm Access Markets International Partners.  Some 16.5 million home-based businesses exist in the United States today — an all-time high. The Small Business Administration indicated that home-based companies contribute more than $530 billion to the U.S. economy and represent 50% of all businesses registered in the United States.  Each day more and more home-based businesses are using the Internet to build their business.  So those 81.79% are in the right place.

 

The problem is that in the past fully 95-97% of all businesses fail within the first 2-5 years.  The main problem with Internet Businesses, as I see it, is that people do not treat their business as a business.  They treat it as a hobby.  A true business receives many IRS tax breaks and incentives.  Whereas a hobby receives zero IRS tax incentives.  (The moral is to treat your Internet Business as a business and you stand a better chance of succeeding and you will gain many IRS tax breaks.)

 

One aspect of Internet Marketing is network or referral marketing.  Using the referral marketing business model coupled with Internet marketing, your chances of success have just multiplied.

 

Whatever business you choose, here are two very important points:

1.      Find something you are passionate about

2.      Take immediate action to take advantage of your passion

 

When you do a little research you will be amazed at the variety of businesses you can run using the Internet.  I was surprised to learn that one person was successfully selling pool tables on the Internet and make $1+ million a year.  (I wonder if that is before or after shipping costs.)

 

If you are like me you may not immediately know what your passion is or which passion to work first.  I actually like helping others to find their success (translation: success = “happiness”).

 

So I have found a way to feed my passion as well as my mouth and it has a great potential to help many others to achieve financial freedom; the freedom to take back control of your life.

 

More on this soon.

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Your Plan to Money Success

6. October 2008 by admin.

Yes, I know I said I would have this worked out before now and time seems to move much too fast for me.

 

I still love MLM and am in the testing phase of the fuel catalyst, see my blog at http://BlogByGary.com to read my latest test results.  I still love the Genie, but for some reason (perhaps the fact that you need to download software or perhaps it is because the owners and main leaders have a negative reputation), it is not doing well.  Still when people actually use the software, they will fall in love with it.  Watch the short video about how it works at http://GeniePrime.com.

 

Not related to MLM and something I will work harder at this week is a program that helps drive customers to places of business by the businesses offering FREE Gas.  I could use some help selling it if you are interested in picking up a few extra $$.  Let me know if you are interested and I will send you more info.

 

OK, on to what I feel is a great strategy to make money and build a team of people to work with.  I have read a lot about MLM and how to make it work.  The really successful people at MLM first build a relationship.  They do not attempt to sell the business.  They do sell the tools to help build any business.

 

Why sell the tools.  Simple.  Everyone needs the tools to succeed.  Not everyone will fall in love with your particular MLM.  Not everyone will even want to work any MLM because they claim they don’t like to sell or they don’t know how to sell (which is why you sell them the tools of success).

 

To see an example of selling the tools, check out: http://genieprime.buildingonabudget.com.  There are similar businesses that offer similar programs of selling the tools in order to build a relationship and to fund your main MLM’s advertising.

 

Most people will not want to join your MLM.  They may be interested in buying the tools to help build their downline.  Many people will either say or think to themselves that to join your MLM cost too much.  As you may know, they say this for a number of reasons.  The reasons aren’t important.  So you might want to consider making it so enticing that they can’t say NO and be serious.

 

This is the direction I have chosen to head.  When I tell someone that for as little as $5 they can join a program that will earn them $1,000’s.  Of course you need to validate this claim by explaining how this will be done.  The greatest factor is length of time.  It won’t happen over night.  When they want it to move faster, then they need to invest more money, say $25.

 

How will $5 generate $1,000’s?  It is used as seed money.  You use the $5 program to feed into the $25 program which feeds into a $20 program which feeds into the $99 program which feeds into the final $300 program.

 

So for $5 and a little time you can be very well off.  The more involved you are in the process the quicker it will move.  You could jump to the head of the line by paying the $99 and then sponsor at least 3 people.  Unfortunately most people will not do that and you do need to sponsor 3 people for the $99 program to pay.

 

By starting out with the $5 program, I will help you find your 3 people who will then follow you all the way through the system.  It is sort of a win-win situation.  The best part is I have the time to make this work for you by Christmas when you start today.

 

Gary Gile

336-233-5794

Andover, CT

gary@GaryGile.com

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Results of My First Tank

6. October 2008 by admin.

On September 30, 2008 I added 13.92 gallons of gas to my Camry and dropped in one MPG-CAP.  Since my first fill I had driven.   I got 27.72 mpg, which was an increase of 2.12 mpg or about 8%.

 

A couple of comments:

·        It is Important to note the type of driving you do during your tests.  For the comparison above I used local driving which I have recently been averaging 25.6 mpg.  My highway driving has been averaging 28.9 mpg and my combined has been averaging 27.14 mpg.

·        Since I have been letting my wife use my car (it gets better gas mileage than her SUV) because working from home, I don’t drive much anymore (and loving it), I can not say for certain what type of driving she has been doing.  I chose “local” because her commute to work is mostly back country roads with low speed limits.

·        I have been researching other companies that offer fuel catalyst, see below.  All of them use liquid catalyst.  I used the MPG Boost catalyst for my first tank conditioner and it was a bit messy to pour into the tank.  The fuel CAP is much easier to administer.

·        So far my 2nd tank of gas does not appear to be giving me the same or better results.  I am basing this on the number of miles covered so far.

·        That statement reminded me of something I forgot.  We did put 100 miles of highway driving with the first tank of gas so my increase of 2.12 mpg may be a little high.

·        Keep in mind that it takes 3 tank fills to receive maximum results due to the fact that the old gunk needs to be cleaned out first.

·        Also two other important factors are the reduction in emissions and the reduction in wear on your engine.

 

Once I have more testers I will have a better idea of just how good this product is.

 

Other companies that I have researched can be found at http://www.techage.myffi.biz/, http://www.mygassaver.net/index.htm, http://irenem.neverpayforfuel.com/, and http://icareaboutit.com/enviromax.cfm.

 

The following 5 websites all talk about running your car on water.  I have known about this technology for around 10 or more years and I do believe it’s possible to get the results they claim.  The reason I haven’t yet tried it is because the last time I looked into it, the kits you need to put together were a bit too technical for me.  However, I am about ready to give it another shot. 

 

The water concept is fashioned after “Brown’s Gas” which breaks water down into burnable hydrogen and oxygen.  I have catalogues from American Technologies, the original company that marketed the Brown’s Gas.  I have only about 25 copies and if you would like one, let me know.

 

Here are the 5 websites.  They pretty much offer the same thing but with different prices.  They also have videos that are well worth watching.  http://hydrogengenerator.com.cn/, http://water4gas.com/2books.htm?hop=jmangrum&TID=mmtblog, http://www.gas4free.com/?hop=h2ocell, http://www.hydro4power.com/?hop=jorge0108, and http://runyourcarwithwater.com/?hop=wyndham.

 

Gary

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