Over a barrel
- Oil hits over $110 today. Headlines are reporting the record price-per-gallon of gas every 5 minutes. Here's the answer: Drive less.
- Whenever I say that, I get a few emails about how cruel and heartless I am, and how evil Big Oil is. "Muck, I live in Sacramento and work in Los Angeles. I have a 7 hour commute in each direction, 5 days a week!" It's an exaggeration of course, but you get the idea.
- The fuel-saving option is to work closer to home, live closer to work, utilize mass transit, ride share or carpool, telecommute from home, work an alternative work schedule (four ten-hour days per week), and/or combine driving trips to use less fuel.
- The non-fuel saving option is to cut spending in other areas: Bring a sack lunch, don't eat out, drink tap water instead of bottled water or sodas, quit Starbucks, cut down or eliminate meat and dairy consumption.
- Or mix-n-match. Most folks have options.
Hookers
- Nothing new to report here, I just like saying "Hookers."
- Although, as Adam Warner notes, Eliot Spitzer is still resigned!
- Prostitution advances in a wired world.
