-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Douglas Crispen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 12:15 AM Subject: TOURBUS -- 2 MARCH 00 -- THE GREAT GAS OUT > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > TOURBUS Volume 5, Number 72 -- 2 March 2000 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ Tip: Use a monospace font like Courier when reading this message ] > _________ ____________ ________ __________ _____________ ___ _ > / | / | | / | \ > | PRINT, PACKAGE, DELIVER YOUR DOCUMENT VIA THE WEB / | \ > |__________|__________/__________|__________|___________/_____| \ > / |----\ > | Printer Broken? Need Color? Can't get to a Drop Box? |////| > | Upload your document to us. We print it, package it and |////| > | deliver it via your selected delivery service. 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After spending a good > portion of the last millennium endeavoring to get my bachelors degree > in economics, I now know how I want to spend the rest of this > next millennium: GRAD SCHOOL! Yes, folks, your fearless bus driver > has applied for admission to the graduate school at Pepperdine. :) > > I probably won't get in. Remember all those times I told you I was a > "poor college student?" Well, I wasn't just referring to my financial > status. I really was a POOR college student. So, if you know anyone > at Pepperdine's Graduate School of Education and Psychology, and > especially if you know anyone associated with their Online Master of > Arts in Educational Technology program, feel free to put in a good > word for me. I need all the help I can get. :P > > TOURBUS is made possible by the kind support of our sponsors. I thank > the folks at "WEB-SEND.com," "Callwave," and "Add-ins.com" for making > today's post possible. 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Personally, I blame Canada. :P > > Actually, according to James Surowiecki at Slate.com, a lot of the > blame belongs to the OPEC oil cartel in general and to Venezuela in > specific: > > Although OPEC remains in the American imagination essentially an > Arab organization, with its meetings ending in those great > visuals of the sheiks sweeping through palatial hallways in their > flowing robes, the key player in the output cutbacks that have > propelled oil prices up near $30 has actually been Venezuela, > thanks to the work of its new oil minister, Ali Rodriguez. > Venezuela is OPEC's second-largest producer. In the past, it's > also been OPEC's most notorious cheater on the quotas that each > member is supposed to obey. But Rodriguez has stayed firm in his > commitment to the output cutbacks, even as OPEC members have > started talking about the need to bring prices down. > > Surowiecki goes on to argue that Venezuela's newfound wealth is both > false and transitory. [Reason #127 why TOURBUS is so great: how many > OTHER Internet newsletters make reference to the oil slip hypothesis?] > You can read Surowiecki's entire article -- "Why High Oil Prices Are > Bad ... for the Sellers" -- at > > <A HREF= > "http://slate.msn.com/Code/Moneybox/Moneybox.asp?Show=2/28/00&idMessage=4707 "> > http://slate.msn.com/Code/Moneybox/Moneybox.asp?Show=2/28/00&idMessage=4707 > </A> > > If that address is to long, try > > <A HREF="http://slate.msn.com/toc/toc.asp"> > http://slate.msn.com/toc/toc.asp </A> > > and look for Surowiecki's article in the Culture section under the > Moneybox heading. You'd better hurry, though. Slate only posts > articles for seven days, and this particular article was posted last > Monday. [I may get into a bunch of trouble for this, but if you can't > find the article on Slate's Web site, let me know -- I'd be happy to > email you a copy (so long as Slate's lawyers don't send me a cease and > desist order).] > > Why am I telling you about the OPEC cutbacks? Well, take a look at > the following email that has been cluttering up people's inboxes for > the past couple of weeks: > > Last year on April 30,1999, a gas out was staged across Canada > and the U.S. to bring the price of gas down, and it worked. > It's time to do something about it again. > > This time, lets make it for three days instead of just one. The > oil cartel decided to slow production to drive up gasoline > prices. Lets see how many Canadian\American people we can get to > ban together for a three day period in April, NOT TO BUY ANY > GASOLINE, during those three days. > > LETS HAVE A GAS OUT. Do not buy any gasoline from APRIL 7, 2000, > THROUGH APRIL 9, 2000. Buy what you need before the dates listed > above, or after, but try not to buy any during the GAS OUT. If > you want to help, just send this to everyone you know and ask > them to do the same. We brought the prices down once before, and > we can do it again! > > Come on North America lets stand together. > > Folks, this is yet ANOTHER Internet ruse. Last year's boycott did NOT > succeed. After the boycott, gas prices went UP, not down! Besides, > I've never met Venezuelan oil minister Ali Rodriguez, but I can > guarantee you that he and the rest of the boys in OPEC won't give two > flips if we boycott the gas pumps for three days ... especially if we > fill up our gas tanks with OPEC-supplied gasoline before and after the > boycott! [I wish TOURBUS was Real Audio-enabled so you could hear how > much I have been giggling over this whole boycott thingy.] > > If you want to read more about why the gas out is, in the wonderful > words of Barbara Mikkelson, a "Pain in the Gas," point your Web > browser to > > <A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/gasout.htm"> > http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/gasout.htm </A>. > > David "I do NOT look like a magician" Emery also has a great article > on the gas out on his Urban Legends and Folklore site at > > <A HREF="http://urbanlegends.about.com/"> > http://urbanlegends.about.com/ </A>. > > Of course, not everyone is a passenger aboard our little bus of > Internet happiness, so, as David Emery so astutely observes, > > Prepare to find [the gas out email] in your inbox time and time > again between now and April 7th. It will rile folks up, it will > get media play, it may even capture the attention of lawmakers > -- which wouldn't be a horrible thing. > > As for me, from April 7th through the 9th I will be boycotting > Marshmallow Peeps. They frighten me. (And so does > http://www.peepsshow.com/intro.html !) > > TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S): > The Great Gas Out > TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES): > http://slate.msn.com/toc/toc.asp > http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/gasout.htm > http://urbanlegends.about.com/ > http://www.peepsshow.com/intro.html > > --------------------------------- > TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE WEEK > --------------------------------- > > Last Saturday afternoon, longtime friend and Mac guru Don Crabb passed > away. Don was the Associate Director of Graduate and Undergraduate > Studies in Computer Science at The University of Chicago. He was also > a columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, MacWorld, PC magazine, MacTech > and MacToday, as well as being one of my colleagues on WGN Radio's > Steve and Johnnie Show. > > As a tribute to Don (and his thong), I thought it would be appropriate > to give the Southern Word a one-week vacation. :) > > You can find all of the old Southern Words of the day at > <A HREF="http://netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html"> > http://netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html </A> > > =====================[ Tourbus Rider Information ]=================== > The Internet Tourbus - U.S. Library of Congress ISSN #1094-2238 > Copyright 1995-2000, Crispen & Rankin - All rights reserved > > Like Tourbus? Recommend It! 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