One Man's Whack At Hedging Fuel Costs

Doug Miller, at the Beyond Right Field blog thinks oil prices are going back up, and he has a plan to deal with that. We can tell right off that he's definitely a numbers kind of guy. First he figured out how many gal. of gas the family uses each month (company cars, but...

Posted on 01/05/2009 at 18:59.
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Gas Just Plain Costs Less

Tom Kloza of Speaking of Oil points out the obvious. We are paying less than half of the price of gas we were paying "167 days ago," and it probably will go lower.

But some other multi-year records could be broken before the NFL playoffs conclude. The low nationwide price for the decade is the $1.0769 gal average compiled on December 18, 2001. I think that record will remain intact. But other benchmarks could fall. Gasoline last sold for less than $1.60 gal countrywide on January 23, 2004. It last sold for less than $1.50 gal on the first day of 2004 when the price averaged $1.4842 gal. The last time it sold for less than $1.45 gal was December 31, 2002.

But,...

Posted on 12/29/2008 at 20:00.
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Second Thoughts on Frosty The Coalman

When we were little (back in the olden days) our grandparents had a coal furnace. We loved to see the coalman come and send all that coal down the coal chute. In winter it was even better because we could search around the chute and find eyes for our snowmen. Not so sure what kids...

Posted on 12/26/2008 at 20:15.
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Merry Christmas From Clean Coal

Don't know how we could have missed this. Holiday season and all. NPR to the rescue! Here's the new carol from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity: "Frosty the Coalman."

Posted on 12/24/2008 at 10:53.
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What The Industry Thinks Of Obama's Energy Team

We have Steven Chu, Energy Sec., Lisa Jackson, EPA, Nancy Sutley, Council on Environmental Quality, and Carol Browner, energy czar. Not an oil (wo)man in the mix. This is a horse of a different color. They want to cap greenhouse gasses, and move to renewable fuel. What does...

Posted on 12/23/2008 at 20:27.
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