Editorial
Voices: Flexfuel is a joke
I have a 2007 Chevrolet pickup that is flexfuel. We just got E85 fuel, so I was glad to see the savings, until my first tank of it.
My mileage went from 15 to 16 miles per gallon on regular unleaded to 9.7 mpg on the E85 ! That is an important bit of information left off the window sticker.
So I did some math, to drive 10,000 miles at current fuel prices, it will cost me $632 more to use E85. Where is the incentive to use E85 ? What is the point? I’ll keep using regular unleaded.
I think there is a lot of information about ethanol that is not being shared. Sure, it is good for farmers. Corn prices will continue to rise, and we are creating new jobs in the ethanol plants, but for how long ? How can we justify paying that much more for this fuel ?
Make mine unleaded please !
Kevin Rook
Lamar
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Scorecard for voters
The Missouri Bar on Wednesday recommended that voters give a St. Louis County judge the heave-ho.
The critical rating may result in the end of Associate Circuit Judge Judy Draper’s days behind the bench. It will be up to voters in that area to decide whether they want to retain Draper. -
Carol Stark: Cross words summon solution
There is nothing I have ever written about in this column that results in as much feedback as a call out to readers for suggestions about comics and puzzles.
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Guest columnist Erin Noble: America should be clean energy leader
After nearly two years of work on a comprehensive climate change and clean energy bill, Senate Democrats recently abandoned efforts in exchange for a weakened “oil spill bill.” Citing their inabilities to overcome a Republican filibuster, the oil spill bill includes only minor clean energy provisions and completely fails to address the underlying causes of the climate crisis. Luckily, the weakened bill did not advance before the Senate’s August recess. This provides one last chance for the bill to be amended with a national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) when the Senate reconvenes later this month.
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Guest columnist Robert M. Clayton III: Need help paying your phone bill?
Telephone service is a vital communication link to health care, family and friends. However, some Missourians do not have access to such a link because of financial difficulties. There are programs available to help qualified Missourians receive a discount on monthly telephone bills and provide a reduction in installation and connection fees.
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Voices: Up, up and away
It’s hard to keep a good plane down. When my husband was in the service during World War II, he was in the Air Force and his second home while he was stationed in England was a B-17 Flying Fortress.
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Voices: ‘Yes’ correct answer
Joan Umphenour (Globe, Aug. 19), who has a master’s degree, is upset because most of us Missourians apparently didn’t understand the ballot in Missouri about the health care bill because she couldn’t understand it. She apparently thinks we voted “yes” meaning “no.”
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Voices: No choice perfect
Jim Stone’s guest column (Globe, Aug. 29) on the surface seems well thought out and even persuasive. What it lacks is a basic understanding of what the access to some means of self-defense really is.
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Voices: Hidden bias
I must admit the Globe did a pretty good job hiding obvious bias (In our view, Globe, Sept. 3), but you seem to have conveniently forgotten there is a very clear difference here in that one of the candidates here is of the party that got us in this mess and voted lock step with the (former) president who led us to this crisis to begin with.
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Voices: Volunteers needed
They come to Joplin Neighborhood Adult Literacy Read to improve their literacy skills in English, and we are committed to providing services to enable them to reach their full potential. To do that, we offer help in reading, math and English as a second language with one-on-one tutors and classes. Right now we are looking for a few more good volunteers who want to take the training to work with our students.
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Voices: Signing dog’s death warrant
On Wednesday evening while driving on Joplin’s North Main Street, I hit and killed a beautiful bloodhound dog.
This dog, whether lost or dumped by his owner at the nearby Humane Society, was in the turn lane with heavy traffic on both sides of it. - More Editorial Headlines
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Scorecard for voters
