War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Intense sunshine this afternoon and a pleasant, comfortable wind — gorgeous! One more for the Left Coast: California is the first to ban plastic bags at the state level. Gov. Moonbeam Brown signed the law today — Lost Coast Outpost has the local angle. And the major ingredient of those bags is oil — reportedly…
High overcast this early Monday morning on California’s north coast with no stars and a chilly wind. The last few days have been near-gorgeous, but we’re expecting a fairly-good size storm for Tuesday or Wednesday and sunshine might be gone awhile. Oil and water don’t mix, and so should it be with climate change as…
A record — US peoples spent $448 billion on gasoline since the beginning of this year, $100 billion more than 2010, which in turn, puts OPEC on pace to top $1 trillion in net oil exports for the first time, or 29 percent more than last year. Ain’t that some shit. Despite the surge, pump…
Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in the old Jeep, the pump price still at $3.99 a gallon for regular — a fixture now at the local Union 76. Although those numbers have not moved here on California’s northern coast for at least two months, the overall gas/oil theater appears on some kind…
On Friday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in the old Jeep and the pump price was the same as the last time — $4.19 a gallon for regular. Whop-pee! Isn’t that something? The excitement is not in the price, but that it didn’t go higher — hard to understand these numbers at the…