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Why Are Gas Prices So High?

For the most part I think I am a pretty intelligent guy, and for the life of me I can not answer this question.
It is getting crazy. Friday our local gas prices went up about 5 cents. I filled up somewhere near the top of that price range, around $3.49 a gallon. And that price was still there on Saturday.
On the way to work today, just 2 days later, that same gas station had the price at $3.61 a gallon.
Now c’mon people, what is up with that. Really, what is causing the gas prices to go up 15 cents almost [...]

Water4gas Scam - Rip-off Or Not

by Adrian Fletcher The price of the goods we need every day seems to increase every time you visit your grocery store. Inflation is on the rise for over a year now. An economic downturn and a rise in oil prices is often blamed for this state of affairs. Indeed, the upward movement of prices is no more apparent than at the gas pump. With gas prices as high as they are, it’s easy to see why people are starting to seek out alternatives to save money on fuel costs. One of the newest fads out there

Let Them Eat Sand

by Jeff Huber I thought Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki showed state fair size baby makers when he told us to start packing our caissons and hit the dusty trail that leads out of Iraq. Then General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the closest thing Pakistan has to a head of state, did Maliki one better when he announced that "no external force" would be allowed to conduct operations inside his country. But Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar took the blue ribbon when he told U.S. and NATO comman

Let Them Eat Sand

Miracle Monday

It's Miracle Monday! Instead of highlighting a miracle today, I thought I would highlight a portion of scripture.As the stock market is crashing and retirement funds disappearing and as gas prices are at an all time high and many people are worried about how they are going to pay their bills and feed their families, I just wanted to remind everyone of this...25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more

Iraqi government fuels 'war for oil' theories by putting reserves up for biggest ever sale

--BP, Shell and Exxon to Meet with Iraq Oil Minister --Unprecedented 40bn barrels up for grabs 13 Oct 2008 The biggest ever sale of oil assets will take place today, when the Iraqi government puts 40bn barrels of recoverable reserves up for offer in London. BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are all expected to attend a meeting at the Park Lane Hotel in Mayfair with the Iraqi oil minister, Hussein al-Shahristani. Access is being given to eight fields, representing about 40% of the Middle Eastern natio

Take the Motor Scooter Today

Take the Motor Scooter Today With the recent rise in gas prices, people who previously never gave it a thought are discovering that motor scooters are a great means of transportation. Of course, In Europe and Asia where gas prices have been high for years, gas powered motor scooters are common. They have long been a staple on European and Asian roads and, unlike in America, are a part of the mainstream, local culture. Both in the U.S. and the rest of the world, gas motor scooters have been ar

Are the mian Symptoms of typhoid fever of typhoid fever.

Are the mian Symptoms of typhoid fever of typhoid fever. October 13th, 2008 I spent the week preceding the DNC visiting relatives in an isolated village in Sicily with old world charm to go with old world food Antara mali wallpapers standards. I think high gas prices are the best thing to happen to renewable energy since the solar panel. Exclusive Tottenham will sign Andrei Arshavin in January. Why not add your thoughts below. And to make matters worse, babies can’t tell us what hurts, so we

Brokaw on NBC's "Meet the Press" presses again on Obama, McCain priorities

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Michael Pollan: Dear Farmer in Chief

In a long and serious article on food policy in today’s NYTimes Magazine, Michael Pollan writes that the era of cheap and abundant food is coming to a close. He says the next American president, no matter which man is elected, is going to find that the health of our nation’s food system is a critical issue of national security. His argument is that unless we address the industrial food system we will not be able to make significant progress resolving the three main issues of our day — health c

When American-Made Toys Are Best

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DrumBeat: October 12, 2008

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Run your Car on Water: Scam or Big-Money Saver at the Gas Pump?

by Dr. Matthew Loop For many, these high gas prices have become almost unbearably out of hand. The price of gas has reached as much as 5.00 a gallon in some of the busier areas of the country, and all signs to point to it only getting worse if relief is not found. It has gotten to the point that few people are able to afford to fill up their cars on a weekly basis and many people are demanding research in alternative fuels so that we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and decrease our ga

Yale Environment 360

If you haven't heard of this site yet, you have now. Its simple posts are relevant, thorough and accurate. In A Corporate Approach to Rescuing the World’s Fisheries, Nicholas Day describes how big bad corporations are pressing for sustainable fishing [my prior posts]: Worried about the reliability of future supplies, major corporations — including Wal-Mart, Unilever, and McDonald’s — are increasingly using their economic clout to bring about change in an industry that has a long history of deci

The best time to purchase gas

What is the best time to get gas? I read an interesting article from a local newspaper that said, “… Americans currently spend $2.57 billion more than they should for gasoline and diesel fuel due to gasoline expanding at warmer temperatures.” That is just unbelievable to me. I have always heard that you should buy gasoline at the coolest time of the day (9pm-6:30am) but I had no idea that so much money was being lost to fuel expansion. The article goes on to say that, “retailers currently mea

Letters to the Editor: Prop H Stop Parroting, Totally Satisfied, Give Schneider a Break, Dump Pelosi

Prop H: Stop Parroting You do readers a disservice by doing nothing beyond parroting PG&E when it comes to discussing Prop H (Potstickers, Oct. 3). The measure contains only one mandate: that the SFPUC study how best to bring San Francisco’s electricity sourcing to a 100 percent clean profile on a phased-in basis by 2040. And the cost of acquiring PG&E’s assets, should the SFPUC decide that that should be part of the plan, would be far less than the $4 billion that PG&E throws out

How To Save On Car Fuel

There are numerous reasons why biodiesel is the best choice instead of regular diesel fuel or alternative fuel choices. It is something worth thinking about too when you are tired of paying the high prices for diesel fuel. Here are a few good reasons why biodiesel is something you should be using in your vehicle right now. Biodiesel contains less water than diesel fuel. All fuel is mixed with water somewhere along the line. However, the actual amount of water that ends up in the fuel and what

Why Doesn’t “Big Oil” Want you to Know about Water Fuel?

Why Doesn’t “Big Oil” Want you to Know about Water Fuel? by Dr. Matthew Loop Sometimes it seems as though there is no end in sight, as gas prices continue to rise and neither the government nor the oil companies seem to be doing much to stop these high gas prices from continuing. In order to save a little bit of money each month, there are several different ways of improving your car’s MPG rating that will help you reduce gas costs overall. When it is warmer outside, gasoline expands. Gas pu

Why Doesn’t “Big Oil” Want you to Know about Water Fuel?

by Dr. Matthew Loop As gas prices continue to rise, being able to afford many of life’s necessities becomes much more difficult. Until car or gas companies find better ways to utilize gas and lower the cost, anything we can do to help relieve some of the high gas prices by improving your cars MPG is incredibly useful. Purchase your gas when it is cold outside, because the cold causes the gasoline to concentrate. During warmer weather, gas expands which gives the pump the impression that more g

NOBODY ASKED ME BUT,

Each week, we present reflections on human society by a 78 year old man with the curious mind of a 12 year old. Nobody Asked Me But. I always feel completely secure on a bus because I have complete confidence in bus drivers. I have never felt the need to gloat at an enemy’s misfortune. It is not who I am. The other day someone crumpled a piece of paper and I burst out in laughter. In my youth, paper was crumbled on the radio to depict action. There should be a law that prevents three truck

Why Doesn’t “Big Oil” Want you to Know about Water Fuel?

by Dr. Matthew Loop Sometimes it seems as though there is no end in sight, as gas prices continue to rise and neither the government nor the oil companies seem to be doing much to stop these high gas prices from continuing. In order to save a little bit of money each month, there are several different ways of improving your car’s MPG rating that will help you reduce gas costs overall. When it is warmer outside, gasoline expands. Gas pumps, however, measure the amount of gas being used by how m

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