you didn't really sell your baby for reefer?

[nematoddity]

Whole grab-bag of variosity, actually. Nothing hugely earthshaking. :)

We can't seem to decide.

Irresistably drawn to Cher? (Hey, don't laugh. I've seen this work.)
Please refrain from smoting.
Various ways Stan has lost random boyfriends. Poor Gabrielle Stan.
Fluffies. Why they irritate us.

Oh, wau. I have a new conspiracy link! Whee! I

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[nematoddity]

The oil thing gets me, too. I thought about it at first, and thought, hmm, worrisome, think it tracks okay as a theory, but doesn't really impact me.

Then I dug in for a deeper think. Our house is partially heated by heating oil in the winters. Though I don't have a car, I ride where I need to go on a public bus system. Prices go higher than they are right now, I have to decide how badly I need to leave the house (if they raise ticket prices), or have to decide which is more important, food or heating oil (and winters occasionally drop into hard freezes, though it is more temperate here than elsewhere--we've already made the decision two years running that heating oil trumps food, so we'll likely make it again).

And that's discounting the number of items in this house made from petroleum or products derived from, and discounting the idea that most of our food is shipped from out of the area, resulting in higher food prices if gas goes higher.

And there's the theorist in question saying that gas would STILL be cheap at four or five bucks a gallon. And yeah, he's right, it would, but DAMN, practically NO ONE would drive! I remember California in the 70's, during the last great gas crunch--there were times of years where you could hold street fairs on the highways, cars would drive by that rarely.