Archive for the ‘Gas and Oil’ Category
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
My tachometer, my friend. Not all vehicles have one of these but it is a helpful monitor of gas consumption. The relationship between gas consumed and revolutions (cycles) per minute isn't exactly linear but in general, the higher the engine's RPM, the more gas is consumed. The tachometer gives me ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Today Exxon Mobil announced an $11.68 billion profit for the second quarter of 2008, which works out to about $1,500 per second, as the media are reporting. This statement reminds me of the kind of envy that dripped from Microsoft articles in the 1990s. Bill Gates' income was a ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
One of No Credit Needed's posts asked people about what exactly constituted six months' worth of expenses, which led naturally to a discussion about emergency funds. The last of four questions he asked his readers to respond to:
What is the smallest emergency fund with which you would be comfortable?
I ...
Posted in Biblical Finance, Gas and Oil, Personal Finance | 9 Comments »
Friday, July 11th, 2008
With $4 gas nicely entrenched now in the US -- and higher fear premiums brought on by recent Iranian missile tests -- driving around is starting to suck. (Well, at least the filling-up part.)
Ah well, just get a gas guzzler with a guarantee of $2.99 gas and you're all ...
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