Category: gas
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Stupid Ideas
A lot of people are complaining about the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EARNS_OIL?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">profits the oil industry</a> is making and have all kinds of solutions as to how to help consumers past this stretch of high gas prices. The stupidest of these I've heard is a $100 fuel-cost rebate for millions of taxpayers and suspending the federal 18.4-cent-per-gallon gasoline…
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Growing Pains
The ethanol industry is having some growing pains. According to <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060320/ap_on_bi_ge/gas_prices_ethanol">this story</a>, the price we will pay for gasoline this summer is going to be significantly higher because there is not sufficient distribution facilities to get the ethanol where it needs to be causing shortages of fuels in some markets.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>But there's trouble…