Posts by dwallace:
Why Is Gas So Cheap Right Now?
Do the prices at the gas pumps have you asking, “Is this 1995 or what?”
If so, you’re not the only one. For years I thought that election years almost always kept gas prices low. Then as soon as the election was over, prices would shoot back up, which never sat well with me.
I was discussing the gas prices with a friend of mine and he informed me that I didn’t know what I was talking about. “The election has nothing to do with oil prices,” he said. “The Saudi’s are pumping at full capacity right now.”
This article explains the low cost of oil and after reading it, I realized that my friend was right. It has nothing to do with it being an election year. The biggest reason prices are so low is because Saudi Arabia is flooding the market, keeping more expensive oil that the U.S. and Canada in the ground.
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http://qz.com/604756/the-us-bet-big-on-american-oil-and-now-the-whole-global-economy-is-paying-the-price/
New Year’s Resolution Check-In
We are in the third week of the New Year, how are your New Year’s Resolutions holding up? If you’re like most Americans, they’ve either come and gone or you’re still waiting to get started. I decided not to do New Year’s Resolutions this year. I did however make five goals that I wanted to […]
New Year’s Resolutions and End Of the Year Inventory – 2015
Every year around this time I start taking inventory of my life and looking back at what’s happened over the last year. This year was a bumpy ride for me and my family. I haven’t written about it up until now, but after 10 years of marriage, my wife and I separated at the end […]
Nanowrimo Day 10
I’ve been keeping busy with my writing project. I’ve had two rounds with an editor that I found on Fiverr. $40 bucks for 80 pages. I hope the old adage, “You get what you pay for,” doesn’t apply here. In the past I used an awesome editor. But this is just a little side-project that […]
Nanowrimo Day 4
It’s really not as interesting talking about making something as it is actually doing it. Yesterday, Day 3 of my project, I spend time looking up e-book cover designers on Fiverr. If you don’t know what Fiverr is, it’s a website where people all over the world will do things for $5 bucks. A word […]
Day 2 NaNoWriMo 2015
Today I registered my domain name. It’s www.bobmarleyneversmokedpot.com There’s nothing there yet. But I’m doing one task a day for 30 days. And I kind of feel like since the book is already written, I’m way ahead of the game. I did spend a several hours pouring over old stories and essays. Just looking through […]
November is National Novel Writing Month
November is National Novel Writing Month. Every year thousands of writers from almost every country in the world sign up at http://nanowrimo.org/ to get support to write their novel. I am kind of participating this year, but I’ve decided to focus on a collection of short stories instead of a novel. Today is daylight savings […]
Vladi-Yadi (and sometimes Buddy)
I got a new foster dog this week. He’s a 8.5 lb. Chihuahua-mix named Vladi, after Valdmir Tarasenko, a St. Louis Blues hockey player. We also call him Yadi after the St. Louis Cardinals catcher, who if his thumb wouldn’t have been hurt we would have perhaps beat those bastardous-assed Cubs. Either way, both Yadi’s […]
Happy – The Movie
I watched a documentary called Happy the other day. The filmmaker interviewed people from all over the world who consider themselves happy-people. Believe it or not, the US and Japan have some of the unhappiest people in the world and we are considered two of the richest countries per-capita. So what makes a person happy? […]
Vanity Cards
I was talking to a friend today about the TV show called The Big Bang Theory. I asked him if he ever read the Vanity Cards at the end of the show. He said, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” I couldn’t believe he had never seen the vanity cards at the end. […]