Today seems like a good day to launch a blog about the many ways in which the cost of gas is affecting changing life as we know it in this country. A good day because, 232 years after we declared our independence from one Kingdom (Great Britain, for those keeping score at home), we find ourselves more dependent than ever on another: that of Big Oil and the Oil Producers (new record in stores now). And it’s making for more than a few stories.
An important opening note: we have no petro-political ax to grind and our voice, to the extent that you come to recognize it, aims to be narrative. That is to say, we’re just trying to share stories. These stories — big and small, noteworthy and not so much, serious and ridiculous — are all about life at the crossroads of Gas & Country.
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[...] contributing to the steady decay of rural towns (featured in our first post) [...]
[...] 6, 2008 by grandst Readers of our first post (all three of you) might have caught the link to the ’sex for gas’ story, proof [...]
now that we’re in this mess, what can we expect the future leaders of our country do to help us out of it? what exactly are the oil companies and foreign countries that house the oil doing that results in such enormous price increases? and why now are we only feeling the crunch when europe has been feeling it for a decade?