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Roadside Attractions

Trying to outrunning a tornado, shipping alernatives, biking maps and sleep apnea are among the topics featured — plus Channel 19 and Truck Gallery.

June 3, 2011

Channel 19

Analyst: Blame Fed’s liquidity flood for high oil/diesel

The good news is that skyrocketing oil prices, like slasher movies, are truly frightening only the first time you watch one. They get less scary with repetition. But being less scary doesn’t change the basic facts. Markets need both hedgers and speculators to function properly. When they lose balance, they no longer function according to […]

May 5, 2011

Channel 19

Back to the past: $4 diesel returns

Well it’s official, folks. The Energy Information Administration’s weekly diesel report this week showed the national average with 3 cents of the $4 mark, reaching the highest point yet in the now near nine-month run-up in price we’ve seen since last August, by now oh-so eerily reminiscent of the 2007-08 run (an Overdrive headline in April 2008 […]

April 6, 2011