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ready for sumtravel by automobile. This Tidbits offers you some “fuel please raise your right foot. for thought.” SPEAKING OF TIDBITS... To Plan Your • When the first ModelTrip T cars hit the LET’S TALK IT OVER market, a gas gauge on the dashboard was by Robyn Dawson considered an “extra.” Back then, there was October 22 is International Stuttering no such thing as a gas station; gasoline was sold at pharmacies. Automobile owners filled Awareness Day, so this week’s Tidbits their own containers gas, and then used takes a closer look atwith speech, voices, anda funnel to pour it into their car’s tank. • The first American building built strictly for the purpose of selling gasoline was erecthow humans verbally communicate with ed in 1905 in St. Louis, Missouri. It bore the creative name of Automotive Gasoline Compaone another. ny, and was a subsidiary of Shell Oil. The second gas station in the U.S. opened in Seattle two • Fifty-five million people in the years later. It was fitted with pumps and hoses that allowed drivers to pour the fuel directly world (three million in the United States) into their vehicle’s tank. suffer from the speech impediment com• Prior to 1890, gasoline was treated as a waste byproduct of the oil refining process. monly referred to as stuttering. Although It was commonly used to fuel the equipment at the refinery. Thanks to the popularity of the many questions about the condition remain automobile, gasoline outsold kerosene and other fuels for the first time in the U.S. in 1910. unanswered, researchers have learned thatuse to determine how much to charge for • What is the formula that oil companies there are two main types of stuttering: degasoline? Rumors abound concerning Petey the Petrol Price Hamster and how he’s let loose velopmental and neurogenic. on a computer keyboard to choose random numbers. Trust us – such a rodent doesn’t really •exist. InDevelopmental stuttering occurs truth, many factors are taken into consideration, from supply and demand to oil stock Then quite often in young childrenprices whotoare thestill time of year. Enjoy The Trip! working onaretheir speech and in language • Why gasoline prices posted nine-tenths of a cent?Check It’s now a matter Also Out!of tradition, skills. Youngsters sometimes but it started back in the 1930s, whendon’t a pennyhave had much moreivalue. “Gas wars” a P c k e s agebetween staru tionslanguage on adjacentskills street corners became cutthroat that the necessary to so express Ceven a price reduction sof a fraction of a cent attracted customers. themselves properly. ThisToday, may those lead fractions to an of a penny don’t mean much at all, but customers stillrepetition feel as if they’re if the per-gallon price is listed as $2.99 9/10 involuntary of a saving soundmoney or sylinstead of best a full $3.00. lable while the child’s brain finds the ean Va catYes! ion When you • there a significant difference premium gas? ribb way toIscommunicate. This type ofbetween stutter-regularaand s C buy a new car, check the owner’s manual. Most automobiles are designed to use regular ing is commonly outgrown. but certain high-performance modelsby require premium. Premium gas has a higher •gasoline, Neurogenic stuttering is caused octane level, which means it is formulated to burn making it less likely an interruption between the brain and the slower than regular, a ckyou P agpush f to ignite without benefit of spark. The result is no knocks or pings when l es that pedal o nerves and muscles that control a person’s G to the metal (carefully, of course). speech. It’s a form of brain damage that • The first time U.S. gasoline “at-the-pump” prices seemingly doubled overnight was could be present at birth, or might result during the 1973 Oil Embargo. In retaliation for the West’s support of Israel during the Yom from a traumatic brain injury or a stroke. Kippur War, OPEC placed an embargo on crude oil shipments the U.S. The price per barAndto More... Turn the page for more! rel quickly rose 130 percent, and since oil supplies were limited, lines Out at gas stations Interested Inlong Finding became commonplace for consumers worried that they’d be left without. • To prevent engine knock, researchers have come up with many different types of additives and alternate fuels. As early as 1916, a researcher for General Motors sent a memo to his boss which stated that ethyl alcohol (made from plants) was “the fuel of the future.” The oil lobby was powerful, however, and both automakers and oil companies were quite aware of their dependence on one another. So instead of trying to replace gasoline, chemical engineers focused on developing an additive that would boost its octane rating. That additive was lead. • Some additives aren’t what they seem to be. In 1971, Shell launched a series of radio and television commercials trumpeting an additive called Platformate. One ad depicted two cars racing on a desert road straightaway. The one without Platformate sputtered to a stop long before the Shell car did. However, what Shell failed to mention was that Plat-formate was a standard additive that most oil companies were already in the process of adopting. They were simply the first to advertise it, ensuring that any company who also claimed to offer Platformate would look like a Johnny-come-lately. • Which brand of gasoline came first, Amoco or Standard? Standard is the senior, founded in 1889 by John D. Rockefeller. In fact, when Louis Blaustein started the American Oil Company (Amoco) in 1910, he depended on Standard to ©2005 its own RESERVED ALL RIGHTS provide much of his fuel supply. But Amoco worked quickly to secure drilling and refining facilities, and quickly outshined its elder. The two companies operated independently, but Amoco took more and more control over the Standard brand. Finally, in 1985, the Standard name was retired and all remainFor Advertising Call (208) 640-6227 ing franchises were re-christened with the Amoco logo. Turn the page for more...

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Here’s something of a shocker: There’s a proposal to deny Medicare payments to hospitals if they make a serious mistake with a patient’s treatment. I had assumed they wouldn’t be paid in the ﬁrst place if they made errors. Under the proposal, starting in October, if errors are made, Medicare won’t pay the additional amounts to cover the cost of care for a condition the patient didn’t have when he entered the hospital. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is adding to the list of conditions that are preventable if the hospital follows proper procedures in the ﬁrst place. There’s even a name for it: Hospital Acquired Conditions. In 2007, according to a survey of 1,200 hospitals, 87 percent of hospitals did not follow recommendations that could have prevented common HACs. Some of the preventable conditions on the list include surgical site infections, lung collapse, ventilator-assisted pneumonia and staph infections. HealthGrades, a health-care rating system, says that hospital mistakes killed more than 270,000 Medicare patients between 2004 and 2006, at a cost of $8.8 billion. The types of mistakes made included complications from anesthesia, accidental puncture, bed sores, objects left in the body during surgery and reactions to transfusions. If all hospitals performed up to standard, 37,000 Medicare patient deaths could have been avoided. (To look for your local hospitals on the HealthGrades Web site, go to www.healthgrades. com.) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has developed a Web site, Hospital Compare, to help us gather information about our local hospitals and to make choices based All the Good Ones on that information. The site (www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov) grades hospitals in 26 qualAren’t Taken! ity areas of patient care, with 10 categories on patient experiences. Lonely? Single? 50+? Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personTired of Being Alone? ally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Call Now For Your FREE Write to her in care of King Features Weekly CONSULTATION Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 328536475, or send e-mail to columnreply@gmail. com. (c) 2008 King Features Synd., Inc.

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