Schwinn has put together  a beautiful new bike called the Campus that is dripping with class, features and beauty.  This is a unique Schwinn because it is an electric assisted bicycle which comes with 21- and 24 speed transmission for you to pump with your legs plus it carries a 24 Volt 400 Watt electric hub motor in its front wheel  which can get you moving by itself up to a brisk 18 mph.  The really incredible thing about this bike is that you can get up to about 60 Miles range on a single charge with its removable lithium ion battery! The hybrid drivetrain weighs only 10 pounds and the bike itself is very light weight.

Because this new Schwinn is an electric assisted bicycle, you will have a much bigger range than the 60 miles and you won’t even break a sweat because the electric motor will push you along like a gale force wind as you cruise to your destination.

You can check out the new Schwinn Campus here:  The Schwinn Campus

Here we are halfway through the summer, the sun is out, the kids are playing, we’re all going on vacation in the gas prices are going up again! The latest thing I have heard about oil prices and why they are going up is very interesting.

First of all, the Chinese have announced that they are going to start producing their own oil. As a matter of fact, the Chinese have put a cap on how much their government spent on a barrel of oil. For quite some time now, we have heard that the reason that oil prices are going way up is because a lot of these Third World countries like India and China have not been consuming oil until the last few years.

Now, China and India are very much more productive and are competing in the global economic arena and therefore more Chinese and Indians are becoming affluent and able to purchase cars and drive them. However, with the Chinese announcing that they will build their own oil refineries and become independent with their own oil, this should be lowering the price of oil should it?

Also, the Saudis have announced that they are going to be producing more oil and therefore they will have a surplus with should drive the price of oil down by five dollars a barrel as well!

Well, leave it up to the big oil companies to come up with another reason why oil prices are going up. What the new line of crap being put out is that Israel is preparing to attack Iran in some sort of preemptive strike to protect themselves. In other words, just because Israel has threatened Iran that means that oil prices should be going up again.

Now, I’m not going to get into who is going to kill who, or who is going to attack who or whatever. My point is, that there is always a reason to raise oil prices. Let’s just think for a minute. A Couple years ago, we were told that hurricane Katrina drove up the oil prices. Then there was another period of time when one oil platform or another was having some sort of a weird malfunction or a breakage of equipment which caused a shortage in oil and that too drove up oil prices. Several months later we hear that there is some sort of tension in the Middle East and there is a fear that the will be another war. It just never stops!! Somebody has got to pull out a B. S. filter and say “Wait a minute, we’ve heard enough of this crap.”

What I would like to see the United States do, is have our president get on the podium and make a speech very similar to John F. Kennedy’s speech about the space program. For those of you that do not know this part of American history or are too young to know this, Kennedy made a speech that committed are space program to put a man on the moon within 10 years. And guess what? We did it. America was well behind Russia in the space race and we stepped up to the plate and blew them out water!

Now, if we had a president that was not so well connected with the oil industry and he made a speech like Kennedy’s that said we are going to commit ourselves to be totally free of oil and fossil fuels within the next 10 years. I 100% believe that we could do it. Hell, the United States had barely gone in the space when Kennedy had made his speech much less make the kind of commitment that we did to get all way to the moon and back, so don’t tell me we can’t do it.

In my opinion it would be so much easier to get away from fossil fuels that was to get into outer space into the moon. Think about that achievement. Think about how hard it is to get men all way to our moon and back, it is a colossal achievement. We can and must get away from fossil fuels in the dependence on big oil. I’m not a person a believes that we are causing all of its global warming, and if you have been reading this blog, you’ll know my reasons for this. But I do believe in taking care of our environment and making the air cleaner. I would love nothing more than two walk down the street and see quiet vehicles humming along that pump zero emissions into the air.

Until the United States of America comes together and commits time and large amounts of money to solving this fuel problem it will never end. Unfortunately the wonderful politicians that we vote into their respective offices (this includes both the Democrats and Republicans) will have to stop sucking up to the big oil money so they can get more campaign funds and achieve their agendas.

Until this happens we will be sucking on oil for the rest of our days.

The last of the two of the top ten electric skateboards that we reviewed, Skatemaster Electric Skateboard has been placed on another site while the CCSK8 Powerboard’s site has been terminated for whatever reason.  We only hope that it is because they are installing a new site. However, those of you involved in the electric skateboard industry could easily build a site based on that particular powerboard and develop an online business.

I would build one myself but I have Waaaay too many irons in the fire as it is. However,  if you decide to build a web site based on electric skateboards or whatever, then don’t worry if you can’t build a website, because there is a system in place that can help you build a beautiful site and market it for less than a dollar a day.  To see what I am talking about, click here:

THE SYSTEM 

Anyway, tomorrow will bring new articles and posts about some really exciting developments in the electric bike and electric scooter communty.

Here’s to Volts up yer butt!!!

ELMO

Man, this skateboard is right out of Area 51!! This is the Groundsurf Bluetooth Enabled Skateboard. Since it is such a top secret mode rignt I’m sure the alien technology that went into this marvel will have to be back engineered so we can figure out how it works!

The site for this electric skateboard is under construction right now, but I’m sure it will be up soon.

Here is the current URL: http://www.groundsurf.com/

I tried like crazy to find a video of the Scorpion 3 Wheeled Electric Skateboard, but to no avail.  I went to their website and tried to get pictures of the board but they have some sort of software loaded that won’t even let you save an image.  I finally got this image from Google images that I could send to this blog.

I like their skateboard but I really think their marketing of this great product sucks, big-time.  Their site doesn’t help them sell their product at all.

Anyway, this is a real cool skateboard and one definitely worth mentioning in our top ten skateboard list.