Excellent explanation of why gas prices go up when supply is interrupted: It's amazing what you can learn if you just ask a question or two instead of assuming you already know the answer. Why are gas prices spiking today? Gouging, right? It's the evil big oil companies ripping us off again! Actually, no, it isn't. Read the whole thing via the link above...worth the read. Shots Across The Bow: Gas Prices: The Real Story...
OK, it was bad enough when the threat was lead paint in kids' toys ...now this : BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest is a string of food and product safety scares. Counterfeit, shoddy and dangerous products are widespread in China , whose exports have been rocked in recent months by a spate of safety scandals, ranging from pet food to medicine, tires, toothpaste...
OK, so when you've failed to convince Rolling Stone that a favorite liberal solution is a good thing, you've got a real problem (WARNING: article contains some strong language): The great danger of confronting peak oil and global warming isn't that we will sit on our collective asses and do nothing while civilization collapses, but that we will plunge after "solutions" that will make our problems even worse. Like believing we can replace gasoline with ethanol, the much-hyped biofuel that we make...
As if we needed more reason to be concerned about imports from China: Consumers were advised yesterday to discard all toothpaste made in China after federal health officials said they found Chinese-made toothpaste containing a poison used in some antifreeze in three locations: Miami, the Port of Los Angeles and Puerto Rico . Although there are no reports of anyone being harmed by the toothpaste, the Food and Drug Administration warned that the Chinese products had a “low but meaningful risk of toxicity...