This week our Prius odometer hit 40,000 miles. We bought the car in May 2005, exactly three years ago. We average 43 mpg. That means we have purchased 930 gallons of gasoline during the three years, or 310 gallons each year.
Looking at the price of gas in Northern California (blue line) over those three years and estimating an average price of $3.10 per gallon, we spent $961 per year on gasoline.
Our previous car got 23 mpg.
She makes a terific argumint.
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The sign in the background reads:
——–Tejas no es una colonia mexicana.
A tip of the hat to Robert Rummel-Hudson's Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords blog.
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There are two competing propositions on the California Direct Primary (June 3) ballot:
Proposition 98—Government Acquisition, Regulation of Private Property
Proposition 99—Eminent Domain. Acquisition of Owner-Occupied Residence
If both measures pass, the one with the most votes prevails.
Do not click away from this page, my non-California readers, this post is not about the Propositions. It is about snarky, sneaky, sleazy tactics. Continue reading “California’s Sneaky Propositions 98 & 99”
While campaigning in Kentucky on Thursday, Hillary Clinton, identifying with Eight Belles, the only filly running in the 134th Kentucky Derby, said, “I want everybody to place a little money on the filly.”
Today, Eight Belles came in second to Big Brown, collapsed, broke both front ankles, and had to be euthanized on the track.
Coincidence? Metaphor? Cosmic joke?
Polls show Obama on the rocks, with pollsters suggesting that his association with Rev. Wright is one important factor in his recent decline. (Note: these polls were run prior to Rev. Wright’s National Press Club talk and Obama’s subsequent repudiation of him.)
The media lens is tightly focused on Wright’s assertion that HIV was invented as a weapon of genocide against people of color. In a previous post, I said that I found his HIV comments laughable. But the punditocracy uses the ludicrousness of Rev. Wright’s position on this one issue to ignore his other indisputably correct rants.
Let’s tally up the assertions in his infamous “Confusing God and Government” sermon—better known to the TV-addicted public as the “God Damn America” speech: Continue reading “Rev. Wright’s Record: 10 Wins, 1 Loss, 2 No Decisions”
Craigslist, the largest source of classified ads in any medium throughout the world, serves 450 cities in 50 countries.
Started in 1995 by software engineer Craig Newmark, 55, as a bulletin board for posting notices of social events relevant to San Francisco-based software and internet developers, Craigslist now adds 30 million new listings and logs 10 billion page views each month! But 94% of Craigslist’s ads are free, and it doesn’t take advertising from outsiders, yet it makes a profit and is growing at an extraordinary rate. How does it do this? And why? Continue reading “Craigslist.org — A Different Kind of Company”