gas-price

Photo by Michael (mx5tx). Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.The bad news continues for fuel efficient vehicle technologies. The AP is reporting that yesterday's oil barrel price of $74.54 was a 14-month low, and that price is half (half!) of the high price earlier this summer. The main ...

Photo by CoreBurn. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.Hurricane Ike has done its structural damage to Texas and other areas, but the aftereffects are still raging. While gasoline prices these last few months in the U.S. have not been climbing as crazily as they were earlier this year, the ...

Photo by iboy_daniel. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.All of those reduced-fuel-use school buses (examples here and here) can't help some school systems continue on as normal in the current economy. Thanks to high fuel prices - among other reasons - the four-day "work" week that is ...

Let's see. You're a gas station owner who wants to get out of the petrol business and into something a little more eco-friendly. Electric cars, say. How do you mark the transition? For Milton Grin, owner of a Valero in Kansas City, Missouri, the answer was to attract attention to his new venture by ...

Photo by Maveric2003. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.It wasn't too long ago that the Good Lord came out against sinful gas guzzlers. But, if people like Rocky Twyman are to be believed, then perhaps God is rethinking His policies. Twyman is a choir director who leads the "Pray at the ...

I'm not familiar with Richard Viguerie, but he's a proud conservative and more than willing to engage in some "attack the liberals" maneuvers to complain about high gas prices. Since I get a bit of flack from our readers about airing my leftwing views, I thought I'd highlight Viguerie's argument - ...

Photo by ClevelandSGS. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.Angela Eversole thought she had it all figured out: she needed gas, and was alledgedly willing to give up a little sex to get it. Unfortunately for her, the deal she was setting up for "a $100 gasoline card and other gifts" was ...

Left: "We can't drill our way out of this!"Right: "We can't conserve our way out of this!"Chorus: "We must innovate our way out of this!"(Maybe, but how long will that take? What will it cost? Who will pay?)Democrats: "Big Oil's fault! Confiscate their profits!"Republicans: "Environmentalists' ...

Photo by pincusvt. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.Well, now we have proof that the New York Times is biased against flyover country. I mean, only a left-wing maniac would dare point out that living out in God's Country (away from those sinful cities) isn't all it's cracked up to be. ...

Photo by ^Riza^. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0.The seemingly relentless march of gas prices in the upward direction has become, well, not quite so relentless. For now, gas prices are hovering around the $4/gallon mark, but what's in store for the rest of 2008? A national survey has ...