Gas went up today.
30 cents a gallon.
This is nuts. Oil went up a few cents per barrel, and there is a hurricane in the gulf, but neither of those are sufficient justification for a 30 cent per gallon price hike. This is highway robbery, and someone needs to be sued or strung up or something!
30 cents per gallon works out to a minimum of an additional $450 million per week. Probably closer to $1 billion when all is said and done. And what have the oil industries done this week to justify an additional billion in gross profits?
Here in Indianapolis prices keep coming tantalizingly close to $3.50 per gallon, and then quickly spiking up. I sometimes wonder if 3.50 is a psychological price point for oil companies, as if god forbid gas prices should drop below that point. I have no proof of course, but I have watched this happen 4 times in a row these last few weeks.
We are waiting for an answer.
(and of course prices won't drop 30 cents per gallon. No, that would be too obvious)
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Another success from my former employer
--It's not as much as we asked for, but the neighborhood in question really needs the help (particularly after this year's flooding):
East Moline recently received a $350,000 grant that will cover about one-third of the cost for putting in new water and sanitary lines for the Babcock-Meersman subdivision near the Quad-City Downs.
The funding is part of $11 million in funding from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development going to communities in Illinois. East Moline is the only community in the Quad-City area to receive funds.
Mayor John Thodos said the project will help replace wells and septic systems and put residents on city services. The addition was annexed by the city about 10 years ago, he said.
“This has been an issue for quite some time,” he said of bringing the residents city services. “If we could start this project this year it would be wonderful.”
The project is expected to cost about $900,000.
— Dustin Lemmon
East Moline recently received a $350,000 grant that will cover about one-third of the cost for putting in new water and sanitary lines for the Babcock-Meersman subdivision near the Quad-City Downs.
The funding is part of $11 million in funding from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development going to communities in Illinois. East Moline is the only community in the Quad-City area to receive funds.
Mayor John Thodos said the project will help replace wells and septic systems and put residents on city services. The addition was annexed by the city about 10 years ago, he said.
“This has been an issue for quite some time,” he said of bringing the residents city services. “If we could start this project this year it would be wonderful.”
The project is expected to cost about $900,000.
— Dustin Lemmon
Friday, September 5, 2008
Sarah Palin notes
the list of Gov. Palin's controversies are lengthy:
-- She has been out of country but once, and considers the Iraq war an 'task from God'
-- She originially supported the 'Bridge to nowhere', then opposed it only after Congress basically killed it, but kept the money.
-- The 'reformer' obtained (through the help of a private lobbyist) $27 million in earmarks for the City of Wasilla
-- She denies the man-made contribution to global warming
-- She calls building a natural gas pipeline 'God's will'
-- Her statewide campaigns were partially funded by oil companies
-- She supports teaching creationism in the public schools
-- She cut support for teenage mothers and supports abstinence-only policies
-- She allegedly fired a state official in the Alaska public safety department for not firing a trooper who was in a divorce battle with her sister
-- She expressed support for the Alaska Independence Party (a seccessionist party), but she was VERY careful not to express outright support for seccession: "I share your party’s vision of upholding the constitution of our great state"
-- she left the town of Wasilla $20 million in debt when she left office in 2002.
Here is a link to these stories: http://thinkprogress.org/palin-digest/
--It's not about her being a woman, a parent of a newborn, or even her lack of experience. The experience she has is what is especially troubling. This is the person who, if McCain wins, will be half a heartbeat from the presidency. Is it any wonder McCain is keeping her away from reporters?
-- She has been out of country but once, and considers the Iraq war an 'task from God'
-- She originially supported the 'Bridge to nowhere', then opposed it only after Congress basically killed it, but kept the money.
-- The 'reformer' obtained (through the help of a private lobbyist) $27 million in earmarks for the City of Wasilla
-- She denies the man-made contribution to global warming
-- She calls building a natural gas pipeline 'God's will'
-- Her statewide campaigns were partially funded by oil companies
-- She supports teaching creationism in the public schools
-- She cut support for teenage mothers and supports abstinence-only policies
-- She allegedly fired a state official in the Alaska public safety department for not firing a trooper who was in a divorce battle with her sister
-- She expressed support for the Alaska Independence Party (a seccessionist party), but she was VERY careful not to express outright support for seccession: "I share your party’s vision of upholding the constitution of our great state"
-- she left the town of Wasilla $20 million in debt when she left office in 2002.
Here is a link to these stories: http://thinkprogress.org/palin-digest/
--It's not about her being a woman, a parent of a newborn, or even her lack of experience. The experience she has is what is especially troubling. This is the person who, if McCain wins, will be half a heartbeat from the presidency. Is it any wonder McCain is keeping her away from reporters?
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Even more fantasy metros:
-What can I say; I love this stuff. I will tell you that if you are interested in the dicussion of these maps (I'm not; even my geekness has limits), there is a forum for such things (several of these maps come from it): http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=384997
Enjoy:
--A proposal for Rome 1986
--Seattle
--Sydney Australia
--Hamilton, Ontario (with a half-million people it is very doubtful this will ever be built)
--Montreal
Enjoy:
--A proposal for Rome 1986
--Seattle
--Sydney Australia
--Hamilton, Ontario (with a half-million people it is very doubtful this will ever be built)
--Montreal
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