Posted on 12/04/2011 2:19:36 AM PST by SMGFan
Why not build a car with engine optimized for methanol but is able to use gasoline as a back up. Just won’t burn gasoline as well as an engine intended for gasoline. Put that option out there and you would get buyers, all depending on the price of methanol and how easy it is to find a gas station that carries methanol. Need that methanol distribution infrastructure.
Well if Hollywood bimbos are upset at Newt, then that makes me want to vote for him more.
Any good toolmaker can make exact copies of coin dies in one day. An EDM will burn an exact copy using an original coin as an electrode.
And if you’re talking about precious metal coins, what material will you use to fake a gold and how do you avoid the fact that alternate materials are readlily detected by a plastic pocket scale that costs 50 cents to make?
For fake silver coins (presumably made from lead) a touch of a tooth will make a fake instantly obvious.
And we’re not talking about rare coins, we’re talking about circulating coinage. The rarities are faked using the correct precious metal, incidentally.
Retail transactions would not be in gold coin. But if you actually think lead slugged couterfeit gold coins that would fool anybody with an IQ above 90 are easy to make, frankly, you don’t have a clue.
What is it with these “stars” and the truth? One of my friends worked as an executive soothing or other for the local Goodwill basically she was the bookkeeper/general office do it all.Back when welfare reform started she was in charge of some program they ran trying to evaluate welfare Mom’s whether they were smart enough to go to educate them or guide them into training programs.They also had an adult ed program for those who needed their GED.Anyway the stores she had were awful.99% of them had never known anyone who had a job,had no idea what a job application was.Many of them told her they were just there because they wouldn’t get their check if they didn’t show up and as soon as they were pregnant again they wouldn’t have to come anymore....
What is it with these “stars” and the truth? One of my friends worked as an executive soothing or other for the local Goodwill basically she was the bookkeeper/general office do it all.Back when welfare reform started she was in charge of some program they ran trying to evaluate welfare Mom’s whether they were smart enough to go to educate them or guide them into training programs.They also had an adult ed program for those who needed their GED.Anyway the stores she had were awful.99% of them had never known anyone who had a job,had no idea what a job application was.Many of them told her they were just there because they wouldn’t get their check if they didn’t show up and as soon as they were pregnant again they wouldn’t have to come anymore....
Another strike is... Like MTBE, Methanol is water soluble. Meaning, leaks in storage tanks gets into ground water. Not cool.
Plus.. the greenies won’t allow coal conversion to Methanol because... the process releases a great deal of CO2 to the atmosphere. Stoopid reasoning in my book... but, that’s political reality at the moment.
Historically silver coinage circulates for common transactions while gold coinage circulates among banks or is used by the “commoners” for large purchases. Milton Friedman had something to say about silver coinage
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Milton Friedman: “The major monetary metal in history is silver, not gold.” (I remember it well because the statement struck Jim so strongly that he had it printed up on a sticker and inserted it on the flyleaf of the original 8-1/2 by 11 version.) Friedman was right, of course. For most of mankind throughout most of history, silver has been the much more important monetary metal, familiar as the metal of daily commerce. Gold was used only for very, very large payments, which most people make only rarely, if ever.
http://the-moneychanger.com/articles_files/mmm_files/silver_files/silver_will_outperform.php
Gold standard
does not imply the use of gold coins. It simply requires that the dollar be exchangeable for a fixed quantity of gold. That prevents the most serious form of counterfeiting: printing money by politicians and central bankers.
Gold standard
does not imply the use of gold coins. It simply requires that the dollar be exchangeable for a fixed quantity of gold. That prevents the most serious form of counterfeiting: printing money by politicians and central bankers.
Gold standard
does not imply the use of gold coins. It simply requires that the dollar be exchangeable for a fixed quantity of gold. That prevents the most serious form of counterfeiting: printing money by politicians and central bankers.
Gold standard
does not imply the use of gold coins. It simply requires that the dollar be exchangeable for a fixed quantity of gold. That prevents the most serious form of counterfeiting: printing money by politicians and central bankers.
Gold standard
does not imply the use of gold coins. It simply requires that the dollar be exchangeable for a fixed quantity of gold. That prevents the most serious form of counterfeiting: printing money by politicians and central bankers.
LOL
You’ve never given this matter any thought, have you?
I have made a coin die, have you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_counterfeiting
I guess you don’t know as much about it as you thought you did.
LOL, I like when a report immediately identifies the subject as a moron.
Okay. I’ll grant that you are an expert counterfeiter.
But that wasn’t my point. My point was that, if the U.S. Government were to resume coining gold and silver coins, at a fixed value in dollars, it is absurd to say that there would suddenly be a greater incentive to counterfeit gold and silver coins than there is now.
Coins in common circulation today do have counterfeits, such as the British L1 coin. If America were to go back to silver/gold coins, just how small do you think a dime or quarter would have to be?
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