Locate an Auto Repair Shop in Yucca, Arizona

True but here is the quick fix by your Führer Rocky: The first thing Rocky, would due is give advance notice to corporate america your day of global capitalism is coming to a crashing end. If you want to sell your product here in the United States, well you have to build it here or face a 100% Tariff. Bingo, problem solved!!! How? Well the tens of millions of good paying jobs that were out sourced would be in sourced causing a shortage of labor (Think Free Market :P ) causing labor rates to go up across the board creating a "level playing field" for all business to compete on. Poor people would have disposable income to buy cars. Marsha7, might go BK because nobody would need his services anymore as the economy would be running like a well oiled machine and a missing and much needed tax base would be created to fund national healthcare. I would ship back all the illegal aliens and land mine the border and would have ground sensors for the tunnel diggers. I might even go one step further and store Nuclear Material in the ground all along the border thus resolving Yucca Mountains problem. ;) Trust me this stuff would be so hot you would drop dead from radiation poisoning if you got 100 yards near it thus we wouldn't have any more border crossers or drug smugglers. Two birds with one stone and hold the applause because I already know I'm a genius. :P Want me to solve any more domestic issues gagrice??? ;) -Rocky P.S. Man maybe I do need to run for public office!!! ;)

This reminds me of the time I took my youngest son to White Sands National Park in New Mexico. We stopped in the gift shop and up on the wall was a t-shirt with two skeletons, one had a hat on and you could obviously see they died in the desert from the heat. One was propped up on a cactus and the other on a yucca tree and one says to the other: "Yeah, but it's a dry heat."

My old Snapper (made before the "new" Snapper company came along) died yesterday - the old B&S engine was smoking and gave up the ghost. I may just not replace the engine or the mower - I have a sling blade and just a pasture more or less. I can dig up the odd thistle. If my wife would quit buying fancy yuccas for the yard, I'd go get a goat. Still holding at $3.75. Where are you again Lostwrench? East Coast?

Seriously, though, I'd love to go nuclear here in the U.S. Although, even if we started building today, I'm sure it'd be 15 years before any plants started kicking out electricity. Anyway, the opponents fear the waste and the potential for a meltdown. The famous quote from The China Syndrome was that it would render "an area the size of Pennsylvania" contaminated. Well, the waste can be recycled, as France has demonstrated. And what waste is left can be dumped in the Yucca Mountain depository that the federal government is constructing right now in Nevada. As for the meltdown factor, the gov't could simply build the nuclear plants in remote areas to minimize the risk. After all, if they could find places do detonate nuclear bombs, they can certainly find places to locate nuclear power facilities. And getting the electricity from remote locations to major metropolitan areas is no problem either. Hoover Dam powers huge parts of Southern California. Why couldn't a nuke plant at the Nevada Test Site power San Francisco, Portland and Seattle? Why couldn't another plant in New Mexico power Denver and Dallas? That way we'd have plenty of cheap electricity to charge our battery-powered cars that burn ZERO $4/gal. gasoline! .

My buddy quit watering his back yard and uses one of those for his front. I whack weeds about twice a year with my neighbor's 20 year old riding mower, but mostly the sling blade keeps the weeds between the yuccas in control. No yard here. I sold my gas mulcher two months ago and hopefully have purchased my last gas powered tool.