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Ten Ways to Save Money at the Pump

Worried about the high cost of gas? You've got good reason. Gas prices look like they're set to reach record levels.

The best way to avoid spending more on gas than you need to? Keep all of these tips in mind:

1. Drive Smart! When you drive aggressively, you waste gas and put others at risk. Observe the speed limit, avoid rapid acceleration and braking, and maintain a constant speed on the road.

2. Keep Your Car in Shape. A well-tuned car burns less gasoline. So make sure that you get your oil and air filters changed regularly, and that your tires are always properly inflated.

3. Change Your Commute. Sitting in rush hour traffic burns gas and gets you nowhere. If possible, adjust your work schedule so that you avoid rush hour traffic. Even better, and if your employer allows it, think about telecommuting. If you can't telecommute full-time, try for one or two days a week.

4. Use Public Transportation. Look into the public-transportation options in your area, and use them as much as possible.

5. Try to Combine Errands. According to the Department of Energy, several short trips taken from a cold start can use twice as much fuel as a longer, multipurpose trip covering the same distance when the engine is warm.

6. Go for a Ride or Walk. Rather than drive your car to the corner store or a friend's house, walk or ride your bike there. Studies show that this approach has the added advantage of reducing your risk of heart disease.

7. Carpool. Carpool or use ride-share programs if you can. This might also enable you to shorten the time of your commute by using High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes.

8. Pack Light. According to the Department of Energy, a loaded roof rack on your car can decrease fuel economy by approximately five percent. Also, every 100 pounds you carry in a car reduces a typical car's fuel economy by one to two percent. So, when you go on vacation or a long car trip, put everything you can inside your vehicle, and pack light

9. Think Hybrid. The most fuel-efficient vehicles on the road today are hybrid-electric cars. A hybrid combines an electric motor with a conventional, but cleaner, gasoline-powered engine. Over its lifetime, a 50-mile per gallon hybrid Toyota Prius will use half as much gas, and release half as much global-warming pollution, as a 23-mpg Pontiac Grand Prix.

10. Consider Sharing. Rather than buy a new car, sign up for membership with a car-sharing program such as Flexcar or Zipcar. These programs allow you to reserve and drive cars by the hour -- and they cover the cost of the vehicle, insurance, gas, parking, and maintenance.

Bonus: Write Your Leaders. Urge them to raise fuel economy standards to 40 miles per gallon. Modern technology can make our cars and trucks go farther on a gallon of gas. Taking this step would save nearly 4 million barrels of oil a day -- more oil than we currently import from the Persian Gulf. And by saving on gas, you would save nearly $2,000 at the pump over the life of your car.

More on Clean Energy and Energy Efficient Solutions:

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Somos Primos Magazine...

Click here: Somos Primos: Dedicated to Hispanic Heritage and Diversity Issues
http://www.somosprimos.com/sp2008/spjul08/spjul08.htm

Dear Primos and Friends:

Sharing a July 4th message:

"This Independence Day, let’s pause for a moment and thank Spain, our forgotten ally and a steadfast friend during the Revolutionary War. Spain was there from the beginning. In September 1776, Spanish New Orleans sent 10,000 pounds of supplies: muskets, cloth for uniforms, gunpowder, lead and medicine."
Lila Guzman, Ph.D. , author of the Lorenzo series.

The issue is jammed-packed with articles of readers caring and sharing. New things happening, I will just share just a few:

At the request of a reader, I have started a new section, Books. Please feel invited to send information on books, new and your favorite.

A new series by Felipe de Ortego y Gasca starts with this issue, La Leyenda Negra which you can locate under Anti-Spanish Legends. Plans for a symposium on this topic are underway.

In preparation for Hispanic Heritage Month, new resources have been developed: Dan Arellano has prepared a very moving 4-minute video on Hispanics in the Army. Tony Santiago has shared two studies which can be downloaded, Hispanics in the Marines and Hispanics in the Navy.

For Indigenous researchers, John P. Schmal has created a PDF file prepared from data and materials gathered for presentations on Indigenous Mexico.

Please share with family and co-workers, and have a great 4th of July celebration.

Warm regards, Mimi

TABLE OF CONTENTS for Somos Primos, July 2008

United States
Orange County Superior Court Leadership Training
NCLR 40th Annual Conference, July 12-15, San Diego
Number of California's potential immigrant voters to swell
Hector P, Garcia, 1963 Through 1972 the Civil Rights Revolution
Epidemic of Fatherlessness
PBS project: Hector Galán to produce “The War Within”
Letter: Francisco M. Vega to Carlos Guerra, San Antonio Express-News
Defend the Honor Press Release on "The War Within"

National Issues
Los Saldados Olvidados de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
National Hispanic Veterans Museum in San Antonio
Oscar Cantu Made Auxiliary Bishop-Elect
Veteran's Pensions
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, NALIP Lifetime Achievement Advocacy Winner
U.S. Hispanic Women Face Osteoporosis Epidemic
Pew Statistical Portrait of Hispanic Women in the U.S.
Hispanic teens try drugs, suicide at higher rates
$43 Million Research Center Specializing in Minority Health
Hispanic Gains, Minimize Population Losses in Rural/Small-Town America

Action Item
Congressional Medal of Honor Award for Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta
Push for WW II Marine Pfc. Guy Gabaldon to Receive Medal of Honor
Abstract: Ending the Widow Penalty
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, Public Policy Fellowship in Washington
Invitation to Mexican artists for media visibility

Business
Hispanics in Philanthropy--'Thinking Big' Leads to Success
25 Largest Latino Nonprofits in the United States
July 11: National Latina Business Women Association
Managing Your Money, Oaxacan Style
Dichos Cookies
Bombardier Doubles Investment in Mexico
Some U.S. farms outsourced to Mexico
With Migrant Workers in Short Supply, a Farmer Looks to Machines

Books
A History of the Spanish People of Northern New Mexico by Louis F. Serna
Hispanic Military Heroes by Virgil Fernandez
Life in Laredo by Robert D. Wood, S.M.

Education
Forum helps teach undocumented students how to get into college

Bilingual Education
Humanizing Education for the Chicano by Armando Ayala

Culture
Latinos Conquer Broadway With "In the Heights"
CSUF Art Student Inspires Others
New "Amazing Journey" CD Play: "Portrait of Ten Women" explores AIDS
Cinco de Mayo Cultural Exhibit, Texas
Musicians Omar Sosa and John Santos Reunited <<<<<what?
SolArte Art Gallery, Special Chicano Artist Exhibit
La Peña Music Programs for July 2008

Anti-Spanish Legends
Policy Summit on Latino Higher Education
Lo Que se Quedo En El Tintero/What Did Not Get Out of the Inkwell
La Leyenda Negra, By Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, (#1, New Series)
The Tree of Hate Awareness Initiatives

Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanics Americans in the United States Army, produced by Dan Arellano
Hispanics in the United States Marine Corps by Tony Santiago
Hispanics in the United States Navy by Tony Santiago
National Hispanic Heritage Month Home

Military & Law Enforcement Heroes
Tony the Marine Santiago Recognized by Puerto Rican Senate
City of Laredo Plane, Crew 7, 60th Squadron - 39th Bomb Group
Honoring Heroes: Sculpture pays tribute to Company E
Command Sgt. Maj. Mark Cornejo takes command
Latinos/Latinas - Ultimate- Sacrifice, Part VI
Francisco Lovato, Defender of the Honor -Sacramento Area
Filipino Untold Story of WWII Baatan
Major Leonard A. Gonzales, U.S. Air Force
State Parks Searches for Purple Heart Recipients

Patriots of American Revolution
1780 British warship found in Lake Ontario
Spanish Patriots of Peru During the American Revolution, Part 9: (H thru K)

Cuentos
Los Cuentos de Kiko

Literature
A Mexican Look at Egypt, Riva Palacio on Malanco
Las Cobijas - - The Blankets

Surname
July 3,4,5,6: Lozano Reunion of families of the US and Mexico
Apellido Lespron
U.S. Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up With Joneses

Orange County, CA
Father's Art: Four generations of the Guevara family
Eviction is bitter fruit of citrus man's labors - Truly an end of an era
Remembering Normandy: Augustine Martinez's story
Plaques for the pioneers

Los Angeles, CA
Wolf Gallery presents: Honoring the Mexican-America Soldier
Treasure from the Los Angeles City Archives
My Web Stand
Dionicio Morales Receive Honorary Doctorate at Cal State L.A.
Give Em’ Hell Ray

California
CAHistory group
Friends of Santa Cruz State Park
Alert: Presidio of San Francisco National Historic Landmark District
California Mission Studies
Obituary: Rodolfo Marquez Cuellar, Farm Workers
The California Boricuafest
National Project to Spotlight Berkeley Mural
A Nostalgic View of the Spanish Frontier

Northwestern US
Manuel Nuñez Gaona Biography

Southwestern US
Living History at the Tucson Presidio, Spring 2008
Ten Generation Genealogy chart, Tubac/Tucson Presidio, Arizona

African-American
Seeking Multiracial Black-Mexican Individuals
The coal miner who became the father of black history

Indigenous
Indigenous Mexico, New resource by John P. Schmal
"Uncontacted" Tribe Seen in Amazon
Foods of The Americas: Amaranth, The Outlaw Grain
American Indians of the Alamo Scouts
Native American languages are dying out with the elders.
North Meets South - A comparison of Native American healing practices,

Sephardic
Rabbi (Capt.) Raphael Berdugo, 15th Generation Rabbi
Spirit of Sepharad, From Casbah to Caliphate|

Texas
The Tejano Battle of Medina
The Order of Granaderos y Damas de Galvez, July 4th Ceremony
Los Bexarenos, Excellent Tejano Genealogy & Historical Education
Dallas Historical Society Museum
29th Annual Texas State Hispanic Genealogy Conference
East Texas Hispanic Genealogy Society
Obituary: Manuel Borrego traced roots to early Spaniard in Texas

East of Mississippi
Senator Valde Garcia, first Hispanic Senator in Michigan.
Tennessee says illegal immigrants can marry
Juan Crow in Georgia by Roberto Lovato
Rally for Immigration Rights in Milwaukee

East Coast
Carmen Daria Cordero

Mexico
Personajes de la historia/Presidentes Municipales de Torreón, Coah.
General Jose Manuel Rafael Simon de Mier y Teran family connections
Descendents of Don Joseph Gutierrez de Zulaica
Burgos, Tamaulipas, crónica de un viaje en busca de mis ancestros maternos

Caribbean/Cuba
Raul Alarcon Sr.

Spain
Licenciado Barbosa
Barbosa y la Inquisición
La Santa Maria
La Niña Dolores

International
Porfirio Toledo Toledo, Padre de la Canariedad en América
José Antonio Ramos, Nuestro Timplista de Artenara
Italian Families and Individuals in El Salvador
Emigrantes Canarios
Diario El Carabobeño
Bibliografia De Genealogía Chilena

History
Assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
The Bixby Letter

Family History
National Archives Opens Online digital Vault
USCIS Genealogy Service to Handle Citizenship Record Requests
Salt Lake Family History Library
Mexico IGI Batch Numbers
Improvements to the Family History Library Catalog
Yahoo Announces New Latin American Sites

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The Orange County Small Business Development Center…

An economic development program of Rancho Santiago Community College District, is supported by various funding partners, including the U.S. Small Business administration, Cal State University of Fullerton, and the California Community College Chancellor's Office.

The Orange County SBDC exists to create economic impact in our community through the following means:

-- Assisting with the Small Business Start-up Phase

-- Increasing Sales & Profitability of Small Businesses

-- Helping Existing Businesses Expand and Grow

-- Creating New Jobs

-- Retaining Existing Employment

-- Helping Small Business Owners Obtain Financial Loans or Lines of Credit

-- Helping Small Businesses Win Government Contracts

With an award-winning team of professionals, the Orange County SBDC offers free to low-cost training seminars and no-charge consulting on various business topics, including E-Commerce and Website Optimization. We are located at the district office and our services are available to all employees, students, and the general public.

Anyone interested in starting their own business, or is already running one but would like to learn how to make it more successful, please feel free to stop by our office, give us a call, or visit us online at www.ocsbdc.com. Look us up in your phone directory! http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?

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Orange County Small Business Development Center, 2323 North Broadway, Suite 201, Santa Ana, CA 92706.

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