Posts Tagged ‘ Gas Prices ’

Vacation Overhaul

Each year we take a road trip to Myrtle Beach with the entire fam and spend a week on the beach in a condo and doing some tourist trap crap.  We spend an enormous amount of money on the trip, but it has always been worth it. Well this year we decided that between the condo fee and the gas prices, we would do a vacation overhaul.  Our family has a very small cottage on Lake Erie and we decided to spend a few days there (no charge) as our mini vacation this year.  Drive time 1hr compared to...

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Wal-Mart Sees Poor People Everyday

“We see it in our stores every day — working men and women living paycheck to paycheck and making more and more difficult decisions,” Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. President and CEO Lee Scott, I bet those hard working men and women are actual employees. The quote was part of a speech to investors and associates at the 2008 Wal-Mart Annual Shareholder Meeting June 6, 2008. Lee Scoot also talked about Wal-Mart being better positioned than any other retailer to succeed both in today’s current economic climate and the retail environment taking shape for the future. He cited strengths such as...

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Alternative Lifestyle

Alternative Lifestyle

Gas prices are getting higher, but that is in par with the rest of the world. Alternative fuels have been on the back burner way too long. I actually worked (1 year for the resume) with a ‘Hill’ lobby information mediation group back in ’96. California has always been on the cusp of alterative fuels, and the rest of the Nation has only known what is “in their back yard” and not willing to purchase outside the norms. Now, this “keep up the Jones” has come to bite our royal arses. Here is the big problem, we are a...

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