tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35048242.post2463722383572131166..comments2024-01-19T04:01:36.869-05:00Comments on Kim Rossi: Kim Rossi Staglianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17687828526726281119noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35048242.post-60476054816317378382008-06-26T20:01:00.000-04:002008-06-26T20:01:00.000-04:00I started tracking petrol prices about a year and ...I started tracking petrol prices about a year and a half ago, at the start of 2007, when I first heard the term "Peak Oil".<BR/><BR/>This time last year I paid 99c a litre for petrol. <BR/><BR/>Today if I go fill my car, I will pay $2.12-09c a litre. <BR/><BR/>Pretty worrying.<BR/><BR/>When we learned about Peak Oil, we sold our 2004 car and downgraded to a 1997 model (went from a car valued at $15K to one valued at $2,300). If petrol becomes so expensive we have to walk away from it, we'll lose a lot less money.<BR/><BR/>We're also planting food plants and are involved in the Transition Towns movement in our city.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15497683565965322222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35048242.post-47530621835098993092008-06-11T12:21:00.000-04:002008-06-11T12:21:00.000-04:00The news here is that the north sea has just got a...The news here is that the north sea has just got a whole lot more viable thanks to the increase in oil price per barrel so as a plus point we'll be longer to running out (and therefore Scotland will be better of for a while yet) but as a downside we'll have to continue paying through the nose for it.<BR/><BR/>Whoopdedoo!Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09594327337549020199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35048242.post-69126371745538969762008-06-11T11:55:00.000-04:002008-06-11T11:55:00.000-04:00I'm partial to cherry wheat Sam Adams in the summe...I'm partial to cherry wheat Sam Adams in the summertime... but I'd never say no to a Guinness any time of the year. Especially the canned Guinness... I swear I'm drinking from a tap.<BR/><BR/>If you're living on the cheap thanks to gas prices, I found a way to make pissy beer taste halfway decent. Pour a cheap domestic like Beast Ice (our old Sigma Nu name for Milwaukee's Best Ice, haha) into a tall lager glass, then add a half shot to a full shot of tomato juice. Throw in ice cubes, some lime juice, and, if you really want to go the distance, put in a green onion shoot which can be used as a straw. Also a dash of tabasco sauce and black pepper.<BR/><BR/>Bloody beer... sounds bloody awful but surprisingly good. Beau Bridges' character in Jerry Maguire drank these. I used to polish off one before chapter to get me through two hours of drudgery and whining.<BR/><BR/>Pyramid Hefeweizen is also excellent in the summer heat. Lemon juice and a couple lemon wedges are required.Josh Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12558573851875174188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35048242.post-66627028277849146152008-06-11T07:39:00.000-04:002008-06-11T07:39:00.000-04:00Kelli Ann, I admit, I no longer have the scrap. I ...Kelli Ann, I admit, I no longer have the scrap. I kept it in my car for years though - $.99 - it was summer of 1999 and we were in Doylestown, PA. Today I expect over $4.60 in CT. It's frightening. I don't have $80 to fill my minivan more than 1.5 times per month. Good thing I work from home.<BR/><BR/>Holly, how's gas in Canada? Can we drill out your polar bears please so we can get 5 drops of fuel for our Hummers? PLEASE? LOL!Kim Rossi Staglianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17687828526726281119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35048242.post-4502051686808779082008-06-10T22:37:00.000-04:002008-06-10T22:37:00.000-04:00Amazing, isn't it?!!Makes me ill.Amazing, isn't it?!!<BR/>Makes me ill.Holly Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02336717023482533615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35048242.post-45506278540253338242008-06-10T21:25:00.000-04:002008-06-10T21:25:00.000-04:00Oh my gosh. You actually have a receipt from 9 ye...Oh my gosh. You actually have a receipt from 9 years ago??!!!<BR/><BR/>Forget the gas prices -- the fact that you saved a piece of paper for the last nine years is the newsworthy story here. <BR/><BR/>Crap! I clean out my purse every night (think anal) and it would be a fickin miracle if I had a receipt from 1 week ago -- let alone 9 years ago!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35048242.post-69999378909801598122008-06-10T18:05:00.000-04:002008-06-10T18:05:00.000-04:00I'm partial to the Guinness, aye Kim, but it's har...I'm partial to the Guinness, aye Kim, but it's hardly the weather for it. I'd prefer a really cold lager, Harp perhaps, and if no one is looking, I might make it with 1/4 cranberry juice, and 3/4 beer. But p-Shuush, don't tell my chums I do that, or there'd be apoplexy among the Boston Irish. Very refreshing on a hot day all the same.<BR/><BR/>Good thoughts your way, and if we manage to gather by the grill soon, I'll raise a toast to you and your ones.<BR/><BR/>be wellAhvarahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05020487813867165641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35048242.post-87106532752492735392008-06-10T17:34:00.000-04:002008-06-10T17:34:00.000-04:00Mmmm, Samuel Smith's Pale Ale! Or are you a Harp/G...Mmmm, Samuel Smith's Pale Ale! Or are you a Harp/Guiness man? I'll take a black and tan and remain home indeed! With those Jaffa cakes for sustence of course.<BR/><BR/>Cheers to you my Boston friend!Kim Rossi Staglianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17687828526726281119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35048242.post-50968393880569192312008-06-10T17:17:00.000-04:002008-06-10T17:17:00.000-04:002008: Regular Lager, stupidly cold: $3.85 (U.S. A...<B>2008: Regular Lager, stupidly cold: $3.85 </B> (U.S. Average, and cheaper if you buy in bulk from your local liquor store fridge. Drink, Don't drive, forget about it.)<BR/><BR/>cheers me dears.Ahvarahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05020487813867165641noreply@blogger.com