Collecting My Thoughts

I hate to use Aljazeera as a news source (owned by a Qatar magnate, but probably not as oppressive as Twitter, FB or Jeff Bezos' WaPo),...

“Abolishing the ethanol mandate requiring ethanol to be blended with gasoline at the pump or waiving the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) would...

Where did the money go? The drop in gasoline prices since summer has amounted to about $2,000 per household in spendable income. That's...

Off shore drilling ban lifted on July 14, 2008 and prices immediately began to plummet. I'm not sure even one drop has resulted from t...

Changing behavior I was running (driving) a few errands this morning and noticed a few things: 1) absolutely everyone was driving the speed...

The oil shortage I filled up this morning for $3.89 a gallon, and locally, that's about the best you can do (Speedway Mill Run). Then I...

Highway fatalities down Ohio had six; Michigan three fatalities over the Memorial Day week-end. Lowest in 38 years. I would say a higher pr...

KISS: The rules of supply and demand Yesterday gasoline jumped twenty five cents between the time my husband filled up in Bucyrus, and when...

Gas prices and leisure activities We're heading for Lake Erie today--yard work and spring house cleaning are on the agenda for our summe...

Rising food prices caused by rising gasoline costs The cost of gasoline is going up because of our current flailing, misguided, disastrous ...

Central Ohioans and rising gas prices The news stories yesterday worked very hard to gin up a problem with travel and the economy, but I d...

4163 Gas Guzzlers Bring back the grid! This plan is unsafe for children, impedes walking or biking any where, jams up artery roads if you c...

3873 Populist pandering by politicians promising penalties A reader's comments in USAToday, June 5: "As long as we live in a soci...