005 - gas price blurb

ok, i'm adding this blurb about gas prices Dec.14,2008; The gas price posted at a local Safeway (a different Safeway location than the previous post, Safeway(mj) $1.34/Litre-Sep.18,2008), is $ 0.739

shift gears// do you remember in the summer/fall, the so-called financial "experts" predicted that the price of a barrel of oil will shortly reach $150 and beyond? well, they were partially right. i remember a barrel went for about $140 US, but what they were wrong about was that one of the main causes of the fast rise in price was not so-much supply & demand, but more speculation and greed. Last week i remember the price was about $43 a barrel.
right now the website: http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/ says the NYMEX crude future is $47.14

shift gears// how much of the financial woes of the big three auto manufacturers are due to their management paths & marketing models instead of the tough times of the current economical times? Please change or attempt to change your product to non-combustible propulsion transportation. There must be a way to do this with a feasible/sustainable market plan. If you pursue combustion, at least, let it be hydrogen fuel. It's cleaner than carbon fuels. (no carbon in ... no carbon out; what comes out the exhaust is H2O.) Is it as efficient?... probably not; but that isn't the main issue.