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dr_phil_physicsGoing To Be A Sloppy Start
Despite the unfortunate naming for January in Michigan, tomorrow starts the Spring 2008 Semester. Through New Year's Day we had lots of pretty snow falling -- but Kalamazoo got a lot more. I went to the office on Thursday and it looked like a overly frosted wedding cake.
Today the temperature has soared into the 50s and up here, all the snow is gone. Our driveway is soft, squishy and waterlogged mud. I can only imagine that campus is going to be a slushy mush.
No, Don't Tell Me That
Well, it's a new year and I've already carped about the weather, so let's talk about gasoline pricing. (grin) First of all, the New Year has brought us to the realm of $100 a barrel oil. Anyone out there still think there isn't a serious problem regarding (a) fossil fuels and (b) the value of the American economy?
Last week I saw a report saying that "by April" we'd have $3.75/gallon gasoline. Oh come on, don't say that. As soon as you say that, it's gonna happen. It's like you have given permission to jack up the prices. And they have -- on Friday gas in Allendale MI was up to $3.35.9/gal for regular. I'll be paying $3.75/gal long before April -- you heard it hear first. Sucks.
Another Sign Of Impending Doom
Well, I should've seen this coming. There was an ad on TV for the Speedway chain of gas stations slash convenience stores, and they were promoting Shockwave Energy Coffee. Google turned up nothing but other bloggers -- even the Speedway website is mute on the subject. My guess is that someone decided to take "energy water" and use it to make coffee. Great. Wire up people even more, then exhaust their ability to reason or maintain heart rates or blood pressure levels within acceptable levels.
Sigh.
Dr. Phil
Despite the unfortunate naming for January in Michigan, tomorrow starts the Spring 2008 Semester. Through New Year's Day we had lots of pretty snow falling -- but Kalamazoo got a lot more. I went to the office on Thursday and it looked like a overly frosted wedding cake.
Today the temperature has soared into the 50s and up here, all the snow is gone. Our driveway is soft, squishy and waterlogged mud. I can only imagine that campus is going to be a slushy mush.
No, Don't Tell Me That
Well, it's a new year and I've already carped about the weather, so let's talk about gasoline pricing. (grin) First of all, the New Year has brought us to the realm of $100 a barrel oil. Anyone out there still think there isn't a serious problem regarding (a) fossil fuels and (b) the value of the American economy?
Last week I saw a report saying that "by April" we'd have $3.75/gallon gasoline. Oh come on, don't say that. As soon as you say that, it's gonna happen. It's like you have given permission to jack up the prices. And they have -- on Friday gas in Allendale MI was up to $3.35.9/gal for regular. I'll be paying $3.75/gal long before April -- you heard it hear first. Sucks.
Another Sign Of Impending Doom
Well, I should've seen this coming. There was an ad on TV for the Speedway chain of gas stations slash convenience stores, and they were promoting Shockwave Energy Coffee. Google turned up nothing but other bloggers -- even the Speedway website is mute on the subject. My guess is that someone decided to take "energy water" and use it to make coffee. Great. Wire up people even more, then exhaust their ability to reason or maintain heart rates or blood pressure levels within acceptable levels.
Sigh.
Dr. Phil
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Date: Monday, 7 January 2008 03:28 (UTC)And you might want to look to see if you have a lot of socialist programs operating out of the State Capitol. We here in Missouri are paying between 2.75 and I just paid $2.85 on the way home tonight. Last week it was $2.74.
When the media was paying attention to gas prices during the price run-up, I looked at the prices all over. Those nations/States with the highest degree of socialism like GB & California had the highest prices. Personally, I have YET to pay $3.00 for a gallon of gas. (It's been a near thing... but I didn't quite have to.)
Part of the gas price and the oil price is the 40% devaluation of the US Dollar since 2000. (And we ALL know what happened in 2000... don't we!) But then... it's something that from the US perspective really needs to happen. Our government (us) has about $3 trillion in debt. So how do you think they're going to get rid of it? Hold a bake sale? It's too much... so we're gonna monetize it. If we owed $3 Trillion in 2000, in 2000 dollars, we now only own $1.8 Trillion. Not bad for a president who's supposed to be spending us into the poor house! But along the way, that means that imports (gas?) will get more expensive. (American wine is better anyway!)
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Date: Monday, 7 January 2008 18:34 (UTC)Dr. Phil