Here's today's 'Old News' hot off the web...

An article like this makes me wonder how technologically advanced we really are. Technologically speaking, we've known for decades what happens to batteries in cold and hot weather. 

If you lived in northern Canada or Alaska, and intended to drive a vehicle during the colder months - which means the nine months winter and the two months of bad skiing that we can't call 'summer' around here, you'd likely have your vehicle equipped with not one but two batteries, and a heavy-duty alternator for the charging system, because it's a well-known fact that batteries lose half their punch in cold and sub-zero temperatures. And unless you have an electric heater under them, powered from your household electrical supply, like the engine block heater you have to keep the coolant warm, then you risk having those batteries frozen, in which case, they burst, and it's 'game over'.

And that's your 'Electricity 101' for today, fellow drivers. Aren't you glad you live in the Sunny South, where all you need to worry about are the alligators and the radar traps and the distractions like bikini-clad Walmart shoppers? And Miley Cyrus running around half-naked? Gawd! That must be a terrible ordeal....