Thanks to the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine, I found some postings from a previous iteration of my rants and ravings, and have imported them here. However, the links bounce through the Internet Archive, so my next task will be to go through all those old links and update them to the actual page.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — With oil prices setting records over $90 a barrel and $100 looking ever more likely, experts say there’s a good chance drivers will see $3 gasoline before the end of the year.
“Three dollar gasoline in this market is unavoidable,” said Stephen Schork, publisher of the industry newsletter the Schork Report....
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TreeHugger reports a real shocker: Ethanol production is increasing the demand for corn. The pop corn industry needs to pay its growers more to keep them growing pop corn instead of the federally mandated ethanol. Since corn also feeds cattle, you have no doubt seen the prices of dairy products and beef rise. Add...
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With the increase of gasoline prices, I saw a story on some portal somewhere a couple of weeks ago about hypermiling. Just by turning off my engine at a red light and making a conscious effort to keep my freeway speed below 70 (which isn’t too hard to do on the Nimitz Freeway during...
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Remember when gas was only $2 a gallon? Remember saying to yourself or others “There’s no way I’m paying $3 a gallon for gas”? Remember when George Clooney said he was moving to Canada? Sorry, I digress. Anyway, what is the difference between the gas sold today and the gas sold 6 years ago?...
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So we’re following the story of the Yokels who aren’t pumping gas. Another yokel, Harvey Pollack, also from the greater Milwaukee metropolitan area shut his gas station down, but only for one day. I’m not sure they breed them too well in Milwaukee.
Pollack shuts down his gas pump, decreasing supply in the area. Yokels...
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I first heard this on Fox News on Tuesday when I was home with a sick kid, that some yokels were shutting down their gas stations. One of those guys is Jeff Curro, in the greater Milwaukee metropolitan area.
“The way I see it is, I’m doing all the work of providing the labor, the...
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