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It’s the scenario this blog has been discussing since 2008: rising gas prices can threaten economic recovery: Brent crude, used to price foreign oil imported by U.S. refineries, rose $1.08 to $120.01 per barrel on Thursday. It’s up 12 percent so far this year and 15 percent from a year ago. West Texas Intermediate, the [...]
January saw record prices at the pump: January is typically a month of falling gasoline prices because fuel demand falters in the slower travel weeks that follow the year-end holidays. Not so this year. In January, retail gasoline prices averaged $3.37 a gallon, according to the Oil Price Information Service, a private fuel information service. [...]
Lots of good discussions going on – so here’s another thread for you all to continue them, and add anything else HSR-related that might be on your mind. The average gas price in Los Angeles County is now $4.25. Last weekend in Monterey I saw a few stations at $4.30. It should be clear as [...]
When it comes to rich and powerful, it’s not easy to beat Alain C. Enthoven. He served as a Deputy Secretary of Defense under Robert S. McNamara during the 1960s. He was a professor at Stanford and is now an emeritus professor there as well. He lives an Atherton and owns a home with an [...]
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