Battery Charging
Brr, Dr. Science. It’s cold here tonight and my battery’s dead. So can I charge my dead car battery with Visa?
———- from L. Dean Brandt ofPostville, Iowa
You can but the results might not be what you hoped for. Instead of your car starting, you could end up with a cheap dining room set from J.C. Penneys, a new suit of clothes, a set of Time/Life books or a K-Tel anthology of Olivia Newton-John’s greatest hits. If I were you, I’d stick to jumper cables. They’re much more effective on a cold winter morning, and the interest isn’t compounded at 19.8%. Postville? I believe I had a delightful breakfast there once, perhaps because someone else was paying for it. Thank you, whoever you were or are, for that matter.
You can but the results might not be what you hoped for. Instead of your car starting, you could end up with a cheap dining room set from J.C. Penneys, a new suit of clothes, a set of Time/Life books or a K-Tel anthology of Olivia Newton-John’s greatest hits. If I were you, I’d stick to jumper cables. They’re much more effective on a cold winter morning, and the interest isn’t compounded at 19.8%. Postville? I believe I had a delightful breakfast there once, perhaps because someone else was paying for it. Thank you, whoever you were or are, for that matter.