The Natchez (Mississippi) Democrat has a simplistic-yet-interesting article, by way of the AP, about the effects of rising gas prices on teen driving habits. Whereas most adults tend to think of a carpool as a workplace-oriented mode of transportation, it seems that the kids these days–because of gas prices–are carpooling to and from social activities [...]
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Generation C(arpool)? Gas Prices Make Teens Want to Share
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s Headlines
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New Jersey to $4!
“Gas for sale, same price, cash or credit.”
Mom-n-pop excited: will cost of gas create rural biz revival?
Vegas to Cali gamblers: we miss you on the Strip, baby!
Honk if you’re mad about gas prices. [Dept. of Ineffectiveness]
This is gonna hurt: heating your home this winter.
Ohio Fuel Beat: locality adding gas surcharge to speeding [...]
Ten Writers Reflect on Life in the Age of Costly Fuel [NYT]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This was published last month, but it’s definitely worth checking out:
The Op-Ed page asked 10 writers to reflect on the consequences — unexpected, unnoticed, unrealized, good, bad or indifferent — of really expensive fuel.
Robert Reich calls fuel prices a regressive tax on the bottom half of the workforce. Some guy writes off road trips as [...]
Today’s Headlines
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Florida lottery runner-up prize: free gas for life.
Paying more for gas, some stations are banning credit cards.
Trout rejoice: anglers fishing less cause of gas prices.
NYC cabbies want fuel surcharge; NYC sez not just yet.
But Norfolk and Virginia Beach are hookin’ cabbies up.
Fewer road projects cause of higher gas prices.
Traveling nurses: we can’t afford to travel.
G&C [...]
Police Blotter: “Boyfriend” of Sex-for-Gas Prostitute Speaks! …But Apparently He Was Arrested With Her and the John!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Angela Eversole, Anthony Schaffner, G&C Police Blotter, gas price protester, gas theft, Kenneth Nowak, Kentucky, Officer Mairose, sex for gas on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to the second installment of the G&C Police Blotter. We begin tonight (or this morning) in Kentucky, with word that the self-professed boyfriend of alleged sex-for-Speedway-gas-card prostitute Angela Eversole has spoken out on his lady’s arrest:
“She’s wrong for cheating on me, but that’s what she was doing, so far as that goes. She definitively [...]
Today’s Headlines
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is suburban life as we know it threatened by the rising cost of gas?
Have you driven a Schwinn late-ly? The car-bike swap is on.
Hummers: cheaper than used to be; boats too. [Oh! Canada! Dept.]
Conservative dude: GOP can use gas to defeat Obama, other Dems.
Hodag Countryfest goers: gas prices won’t stop us! “You just do it.”
Forget [...]
This Just In: Gas & Country Featured on NBC Nightly News (No, Not Our Blog…Our Premise)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cost of gas, Michael Okwu, Mike Taibbi, NBC Nightly News, scooters on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The second lead story on tonight’s NBC Nightly News, filed by Mike Taibbi, was a survey of the ways in which the rising cost of gas is changing life in America. In other words, everything we’re blogging about.
We might just be onto something here….
Update: they just closed out the broadcast with a second story about [...]
Today’s Headlines
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rural volunteer firefighters can’t afford gas to respond to fires.
Garbage trucks guzzle gas; pickups getting costlier [No Shit Dept.]
More bike cops: departments adopting gas-saving police strategies.
Say it with flowers an e-card: florists raise delivery rates.
Idiot: hotel GM sez gas = “outstanding opportunity” for staycation.
Truckers reeling: 1000 companies close, indy drivers operate at loss.
Less cops: Montana [...]
G&C Police Blotter: When Gas $uckers Attack
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Canada, dine-and-dash, drive-offs, first post, Florida, G&C Police Blotter, gas $uckers, New Jersey, New York, New York Post, Oregon, petro-crime, sex for gas, UK, Utah on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Readers of our first post (you three know who you are) might have caught the link to the ’sex for gas’ story, proof positive that the combination of high gas prices and criminal behavior can make for some pretty good material.
And without further adieu, we introduce you to the G&C Police Blotter. We begin today [...]
NYT: Elderly Face Severe Impact From Rising Cost of Gas (and Cops Are Returning to Horseback)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arkansas, CareLink, cost of gas, Meals on Wheels, Michigan, New York Times, seniors, USA Today, volunteerism on July 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Following the lead of USA Today’s July 2nd coverage on the effects of soaring gas prices on fixed income seniors (as well a cover story about how fuel costs are affecting rural towns), The New York Times puts up almost 1600 words on the subject. The news is pretty damn near heartbreaking.
Basically, agencies that provide [...]
