Consider this to be a follow-up to oil prices dropping 10 percent. All stories from WOOD-TV's YouTube channel.

First, the stories before the drop in oil prices last week.

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Gasoline averaged around $4.29 per gallon in West Michigan on Tuesday night, but there are several ways to avoid paying the wholesale price.
( See if you notice any theme tying the rest of these videos to high gas prices. )

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Late Night Motie News Linkspam

Tonight, news about food, energy, and politics, along with two stories I tell my students, one about the future of the human population and the other about shopping for a car. I'm sure you can guess which one is more entertaining.

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Detroit Represent!

Crossposted to the_recession.


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Number of Hummers sold in 2006, the company's peak year: 71,524
Number sold last year: 9,046
(Source: The Week)

Never did like the damn gas hogs. Looking forward to the Volt.

I'm still looking for those two articles for nebris  (although I'm beginning to think I'm on a fool's errand; if so, then I think he figured it out before I did, which would explain why he was snickering at me in an earlier post) and dredging up all kinds of things I should have been posting here in the first place.  Fool's errand or not, it's still ( Read more... )

It might be more reason to panic in Washington, as the jobs may be saved, but the control will go overseas.  When a Chinese company offered to buy Union Oil Company, that deal was considered to be a security threat.  The same might be true with this news.

From thetruthaboutcars.com.

Chinese Automakers May Buy GM and Chrysler

By Bertel Schmitt
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