Bob McCarty Writes

For the 20th time in the last 21 weeks, according to the Energy Information Administration, the average U.S. retail price for all grades of gasoline declined.  The average price fell 8.2 cents (4.2 percent) from Nov. 24 to $1.870 per gallon on Dec. 1 — the lowest weekly average since Jan. 17, 2005.
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One week into Missouri’s 10-day season for hunting deer with firearms, one St. Louis-area convenience store is already promoting the next ‘hunting’ season.
Below signs offering gas prices as low as $1.59 per gallon, the message, “GET YOUR BEER HUNTING SUPPLIES HERE,” was displayed today at the AroMart Phillips 66 station near Hwy 94 and Harvester [...]

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In a July 8 post, Florida Company to Take Fuel Hedging Mainstream, I wrote about a South Florida company that was poised to take fuel hedging to the mainstream by enabling consumers to purchase fuel in a manner similar to that used by Southwest Airlines.  Unfortunately, it seems the company is slow to get things [...]

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Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis is, perhaps, the best video yet to explain the current economic crisis and offers details about the political players involved, including presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama and several of the folks most responsible for the crisis.
UPDATE 9/29/08:  It appears the video that is the [...]

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Despite the fact that poll results released as recently as Sept. 12 show voters strongly favor offshore drilling, the Democrat-led U.S. House of Representatives seems content with passing ‘dry hole’ energy bills rather than allowing expansion of oil and natural gas exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf and elsewhere in the United States.  Meanwhile…

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