I guess it depends on who pays your salary.
The price of a barrel of sweet crude oil was trading at $124.44 on July 24, 2008. This is the lowest price since early June.
An article at MSNBC reports:
A weekly report by the U.S. Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration showed that gasoline demand over the four [...]

Weeds, The Whole Blah Damn Thing

We have a resident toad.
A month and a half ago, I was filling a watering can. I noticed that I was being watched. I picked the toad up to show my daughters. It chirped away at me and peed. I didn’t know toads had big bladders. I put [...]

What worried Mr. Shameless most, with the collapse of IndyMac, was the run on the bank.
Lines of people demanding to withdraw their money. The realization that FDIC only covers the first $100,000. Wondering if my banks are healthy.
A friend speculates that the dollar has been overvalued for quite some time and [...]

The next few months are shaping up to be very interesting, indeed.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the [...]

Drive 5% less.
Slow down.
Inflate your tires.
CNN reports “Those three steps would reduce U.S. oil consumption by 1.3 million barrels a day immediately.”
Which is approximately two times what drilling in ANWR would produce per day.