I guess I thought last week was a fluke, and that when CNN got into its 207th hour of showing the same footage of an oil rig everyone would start to calm down. Instead, I come home from work, turn on OPB, and find out the price has jumped another 18 cents. Well, one thing's constant at least--we're back to being above the national average again. I'm glad I don't have to drive every day.
I can't believe that the price might go up again tomorrow, too, but all the talking heads seem to think it probably will. They kept using phrases like "unpredicted shortfall" and "ominous silence from the OPEC nations." I don't know what that means, exactly. I guess I'll be doing some research tonight; I have class again with that professor tomorrow, and I bet he assigns us something about gas prices and control of the oil supply. That man loves OPEC; I think his idea of heaven is to become the head of an oil-producing state.
About Me
- bothendsburning
- I'm a grad student studying Resource Politics and Conflict Resolution out here in the Pacific Northwest, and trying to hang on to what's left of the good life. I'm sort of obsessed with the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay because my name is almost the same as hers. I won't tell you what the E.S. stand for, but at least my name isn't Edna. Of course, I can't write beautiful poetry the way she could, either.
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