I read an article today that looks like we are getting really close to making hydrogen a viable alternative fuel source. This article is a bit light on details, but lurking around the Web a bit, it looks like the carriers are easily reusible, it is completely safe, and it meets the Department of Energy targets for 2015 already.
I can only imagine where this could go. One caveat, though. I haven’t seen where it has been discussed as to how cheaply this is created and consumed.
Bad news. Remember 99-cent gallons of gas? Forget it. It looks like $3.00/gal or more is about to become the staple for awhile. Unfortunately, the heartless witch Katarina decided to take out some key refineries and oil import terminals.
Of course this will have an adverse reaction in the price of gas. What can we do about it? Well, there are some obvious choices:
However, if you are reading this, chances are you don’t live in a heavily-populated metro area and are quite dependent on your car or truck for your commute to work. For those of you, like me, there exist websites where we can share published gas prices to make smarter choices at the pump. For those of us in Illinois, Illinois Gas Prices is a good website that you can use to find cheap gas in your area. For instance, I use a search to find gas stations in Peoria that have reported the lowest prices in the last 4 hours.
There exists many websites that track this information for other areas of the country as well. The most well known is probably Gas Buddy. It keeps a pretty large database for all metro areas, and there is a Googlemaps implementation of this at Cheapgas.
Did any of you see Hollow Man, Vertical Limit, A Knightâs Tale, The Animal, or The Patriot in the theater? If so, you may be eligible for a fat $5 check from Sony.
There was a critic named David Manning that wrote rave reviews for each of these movies, which may have influenced some people to go see them. That’s his job, right? Maybe if he existed. Unfortunately, Sony made him up.
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