Hope you all remembered to fill up your tanks before the election. Due to yet another completely unremarkable coincidence that is hardly worth talking about since it has absolutely nothing to do with price fixing or attempts by oil companies to influence the outcome of elections * , the price at the pump is going back up again, in spite of the fact that the price for a barrel of crude oil has fallen during the same period.
In completely unrelated news, the Peak Oil Theory of diminishing petroleum supplies and its associated impacts on the global economy has been dismissed as "faulty" in a press release issued by the Cambridge Energy Research Associates, who warn that alarm over reduced supplies of petroleum could "distort critical policy and investment decisions and cloud the debate over the energy future."
The fact that the CERA is largely funded by oil companies is also completely beside the point and hardly even worth mentioning, which is why most of the news outlets that ran slightly-edited versions of CERA's press release as news stories last week didn't feel the need to mention it. I don't even know why I'm mentioning it, because it's so unimportant.
I apologize for the lengthy gap between postings. The pressure at my day-job has ratcheted up quite a bit of late, and in the interest of not getting dooced I've been forced to severely curtail my posting.* This, of course, occurred right while I was in the midst of a series that requires fact-checking and the like, so I can't quite bang it out in fifteen minute increments on my lunch break. And anybody who knows me knows that my off-hours tend to be full-up with outside activities of a musical nature, so there it is.
I promise to get back on track when time allows. Thank you for your patience.