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Do You Use Credit/Debit Cards?

Read this note very carefully. I did not know about the Clear button, but I will be pushing the Clear button before I swipe my gas or debit card. And after just to be safe.

People are getting really desperate due to the constantly rising gas prices.

A friend just told me about something that happened to one of his coworkers. She used her credit/debit card to purchase gas at the pump (like most of us do). She received her receipt like
normal. However, when she checked her statement, there were two $50 charges added in addition to her purchase. Upon investigation, She found out that because she did not press the ‘Clear’ button on the pump, the employee inside the store was able to use her card to purchase His/her own gas!.

To keep this from happening, after you get your receipt, you must press the ‘CLEAR’ button or your information will be stored until the next customer inserts their card.. Be sure to tell all
your friends/family so that this doesn’t happen to them!

I had never noticed the clear button but I got gas the other day and sure enough it is there.

I will be using it from now on.

An Entrepreneur Makes it Easier on Your Wallet – and Conscience – to Fill Up Your Gas Tank

This year, a new African-American-owned energy company will make it possible to spend less money at the pump.  Atlanta-based Amanah Energy is developing Vetco Alternative Fuels, which will offer both traditional gasoline products and biofuels, including biodiesel and ethanol.  the first 13 of 100 Vetco Alternative Fuels fueling stations are scheduled for rollout in the Southeast in Spring of 2009.  The cost of alternative fuel at Vetco stations will be about 10 to 15 percent less than the price of traditional gas today, according to Amanah Energy’s CEO, Richard Shabazz.  “We can use catfish waste or algae to produce biodiesel and cellulosic biomass, such as plants, to create ethanol.  Amanah Energy will deploy patented technology that will convert waste to energy, which will significantly reduce the cost to produce fuel and decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil.  The reduced cost of production will be passed down to the consumer by lowering the cost at the pump,” Shabazz says.  The first plant to produce Vetco biofuel will open in Ohio in February 2009.  For more details, visit vetcoalternativefuels.com.

You will have help along the way.  People will give you encouragement, money, advice, information, connections.  But ultimately, the planning, preparation, dreaming, most of all the work will be done by you.  You are the one who will stay up late, get up early, sometimes get no sleep, suffer computer crashes, money shortages, work through being sick – You are the one who will do all of these things.  But guess what?  YOU are the one who will reap the greatest rewards.  And it is more than money.  You will reap the unspeakable joy of a job well done, the way you wanted and the incomparable thrill of seeing the manifestation of the fruit of your labor. 

It is appropriate and necessary to ask for help.  But you must do it for you.  There is no husband, wife, sister, brother, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, son, daughter, grandmother, grandfather, who will love or understand your vision like you.  Nobody.   They will try.  They may even become partners with you.  But ask those who have lost companies, kingdoms or marriages, when the storm got bad, they stood alone.  And when the rewards came, nobody else in the room knew what was in their heart. 

You can never live alone in this world, but for your dream and vision, you will sometimes walk alone.  To this day, I have friends who get angry with me because I cannot go out with them, or talk as long as we used to, or break commitments at the last minute.  They don’t understand.  Someone calls me for a last minute speaking engagement, I have to get ready.  People are depending on me to help them, when I step behind that microphone and I will never disappoint them.  My friends can’t do it for me.  Nobody can do it for you.

My last paycheck of $388.00, @200.00 in the bank and the burning desire to open a typing business in 1988, were all I had and it was enough to get my doors opened.  I worked hard, made some money, made one bad decision and lost it all. 

The complete truthful and not so pleasant details are in my book, I Had No Choice available on this web site in the e-store. 

For five years I did well and then after one wrong choice I quit.  A little voice in my heart was telling me to hold on, but I did not listen.  I cried over a broken heart.  I cried over both of my parents being ill.  I cried over one of my sister’s running away from home.  I cried over the deaths of loved ones.  But all of that put together was nothing.  Less than three days after I gave up my dream and gave up on myself, I discovered that if I had held on, just another few hours, not months, not weeks, not even days, but a few hours, and thought one more time, the money I needed, the solution I was looking for was already there.  When I realized that, I literally balled up in a knot on the floor, my heart broke and I cried the most bitter tears I have ever cried in my life.  I don’t care what you are facing, I don’t care what you want to do, unless you are in an abusive relationship, DON’T GIVE UP!  KEEP GOING!