Comments on: Randomness http://dogknitty.com/2008/07/15/randomness/ for the love of knitting Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:33:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bookmarks about Microphone http://dogknitty.com/2008/07/15/randomness/#comment-59 Bookmarks about Microphone Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:46:15 +0000 http://dogknitty.wordpress.com/?p=102#comment-59 [...] - bookmarked by 2 members originally found by Richarxxxxx on 2008-08-28 Randomness http://dogknitty.com/2008/07/15/randomness/ - bookmarked by 4 members originally found by ssong on [...] [...] – bookmarked by 2 members originally found by Richarxxxxx on 2008-08-28 Randomness http://dogknitty.com/2008/07/15/randomness/ – bookmarked by 4 members originally found by ssong on [...]

]]> By: Stacy http://dogknitty.com/2008/07/15/randomness/#comment-31 Stacy Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:26:06 +0000 http://dogknitty.wordpress.com/?p=102#comment-31 LOVE this!! Thanks for making me laugh.... LOVE this!! Thanks for making me laugh….

]]> By: pdxknitterati http://dogknitty.com/2008/07/15/randomness/#comment-26 pdxknitterati Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:50:33 +0000 http://dogknitty.wordpress.com/?p=102#comment-26 I have that same knitters' ADD. Just added another project. Still haven't sewn up Josephine. Twitter? Now it's Plurk! I'm just trying to keep up... I have that same knitters’ ADD. Just added another project. Still haven’t sewn up Josephine.

Twitter? Now it’s Plurk! I’m just trying to keep up…

]]> By: Avivah http://dogknitty.com/2008/07/15/randomness/#comment-25 Avivah Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:17:01 +0000 http://dogknitty.wordpress.com/?p=102#comment-25 Funny thing - in Europe, gas prices are so high (around $11/gal) because 60% of the gas price is taxes. But gas prices haven't gone up that much in Europe, because 60% of the prices is in taxes. It seems counter intuitive, but it works. High taxes buffer high price increases, but they also don't allow for the deep lows of prices (like we used to have with gasoline). The only reason that ciggies and alcohol taxes worked is because they actually increased the taxes themselves, not the price of the ciggies. Gas prices are going up because the amount of gas being produced is not increasing (remember how Bush said going to war with Iraq would be good for oil prices???) but the demand in china and India is increasing exponentially (or so it would seem). The sad reality is that no matter how much we conserve, we will not see the benefit of that conservation, and our only real option is to move away from a fossil fuel economy. And the economist gets off her soapbox and gets some real work done... :) Funny thing – in Europe, gas prices are so high (around $11/gal) because 60% of the gas price is taxes. But gas prices haven’t gone up that much in Europe, because 60% of the prices is in taxes. It seems counter intuitive, but it works. High taxes buffer high price increases, but they also don’t allow for the deep lows of prices (like we used to have with gasoline). The only reason that ciggies and alcohol taxes worked is because they actually increased the taxes themselves, not the price of the ciggies.

Gas prices are going up because the amount of gas being produced is not increasing (remember how Bush said going to war with Iraq would be good for oil prices???) but the demand in china and India is increasing exponentially (or so it would seem). The sad reality is that no matter how much we conserve, we will not see the benefit of that conservation, and our only real option is to move away from a fossil fuel economy.

And the economist gets off her soapbox and gets some real work done… :)

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