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Mental Recession?

It’s July, and we have a mini-heatwave, yet the talk is of next winter. Take a look at these numbers for home heating oil here in Massachusetts.

Average Price For July 8

  • 2008: 4.71
  • 2007: 2.54
  • 2006: 2.58
  • 2005: 1.98
  • 2004: 1.54
  • 2003: 1.31
  • 2002: 1.16
  • 2001: 1.31

Somebody should let Phil Gramm, former senator and now economic advisor to John McCain, know that there’s nothing psychological about the cost of energy. There are many people in the northeast who simply will not be able to pay their heating bills, and they need to do their whining now, before they freeze in their own homes. And today the price of a barrel of crude oil has set yet another record.

2 comments July 11th, 2008

A Raybert Production

Raybert Productions was Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, who gave us the Monkees TV show and, later, the movie Easy Rider. Nearly a year ago I posted a clip from the Monkees’ movie Head, featuring Toni Basil. Toni was also in Easy Rider.


Easy Rider helped make a star of Jack Nicholson, who is credited with co-writing Head, and in which he made this cameo appearance.

The Monkees were smack-dab center stage for my age group. I’d post more about them, but I’m leaving the field open for D.F. Rogers, should he ever decide to do a Monkees Web site or blog.

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Canine Minus Six

July 6 was National Kissing Day in the UK. Hmm. I wonder what “Kissing Day” is in Flemish…?

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