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METRO | Is cheaper driving here to stay?
Gasoline may stay cheap until we burn through the current market glut in perhaps a year. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | September 14, 2015 [This article was written as a companion piece to Roger Baker’s Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Fracking, Metro, Oil Prices, Peak Driving, Rag Bloggers, Roger Baker, Texas Shale, Transportation
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America: You’ve got three more years to drive normally!, Part 2
The estimate of three years of easily affordable driving depends primarily on how long the current fracking boom, which is holding down the global oil price, can be sustained. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | October 1, 2014 … Continue reading
Roger Baker : Oil Addiction Generates Denial
Political cartoon from the LA Progressive.Oil addiction generates denial The major sin of the big oil companies was to get their customers addicted, to set up lobbies to keep them addicted, and to deny the looming shortage problem, including the … Continue reading
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Tagged Economy, Fossil Fuels, Oil Companies, Oil Prices, Peak Oil, Roger Baker, Transportation
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Larry Ray : America’s Gas Pains
Gasoline pump, Naples Italy, March 11, 2012 Photo from la Republica. Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Reality check: America’s gas pains? Most Americans have not lived anywhere other than in America, and many still live not too far … Continue reading
Roger Baker : How High Gas Prices Are Putting the Hurt on Average Drivers
Cartoon from The Smoking Jacket.How high gas prices are hurtingaverage drivers (and voters) By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / March 22, 2012 [This is the first of a two-part series.] High gasoline prices are probably hitting the average … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Economy, Oil Prices, Roger Baker, Transit, Transportation
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Lamar W. Hankins : Gasoline Prices and Political Nonsense
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow: The oil speculators’ dream, from Harper’s Weekly, 1965. Image from cw-chronicles.com / heatingoil.com.Gasoline prices, the XL Pipeline,oil speculators, and political nonsense The giddy, knee-jerk response to higher gasoline prices is the thoughtless mantra ‘drill, baby, drill.’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Fossil Fuels, Keystone XL Pipeline, Lamar W. Hankins, Oil Prices, Oil Speculation
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Alaskans Benefit from Free Venezuelan Heating Oil
Map reflects 2007-’08 winter. Source.Venezuela’s Chavez offers heat to villagesBy Kyle Hopkins / November 28, 2008 VENEZUELAN OIL: Controversial but free program in 3rd year. With heating oil prices approaching $10 a gallon in rural Alaska and reports of neighbors … Continue reading
Toll Roads : Soon to be Yesterday’s News?
Toll road protest in California earlier this year.‘Ordinary people will look back on this era, shake their heads in wonder and ask: how on earth did anyone ever think toll roads were sexy?’By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading
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Tagged Economy, Energy, Finance, Oil Prices, Peak Oil, Public Finance, Texas, Texas Highways, Toll Roads, Transportation
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John Deering / The Arkansas Democrat-GazetteThe Rag Blog
The Economy : A Throw of the Dice
Here are the odds…By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / July 21, 2008 This article following these comments is a judgment by Mark Gongloff of the Wall Street Journal about “how bad” the US economy might get. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged Economy, Gambling, Oil Prices, Stagflation, World Economy
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Manny Aenlle Francisco / The Manila Times / Manila, The PhilippinesThe Rag Blog / Posted July 7, 2008
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Peter Bromhead / Dominion-Post Wellington and Sunday-Star Times / Auckland, New Zealand.The Rag Blog / Posted July 5, 2008
