A 200 gallon British Petroleum oil spill discovered in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay caused price per gallon to rise past $76 Monday and threaten the shutdown of the nation’s largest oil field. However, BP officials intimated they’re looking into ways to conduct repairs and checks without disabling the entire operation.
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BP Closes Major Alaskan Oil Field
By 8.7.06
Due to a leak, British Petroleum announced an indefinite shutdown of the Prudhoe Bay field, which produces 8% of the US oil supply. Crude oil prices rocketed past $76.
The News; Bury My Lump of Coal Under the Old Apple Tree
By 7.5.06
• BP oil contains black soylent green. [CT] “Jackson Leads Anti-BP March Near Refinery”
Bloody Oil Makes Blood Boil
By 6.30.06
Eagle-eyed reader Billifer von Raptor spotted the following sign in a local Wahoo’s Fish Taco in San Diego, CA and was disturbed by its promise, what with something in Afghanistan and Iraq going on.
The News; Dance Like Nobody’s Buying
By 6.23.06
• The Googleplex paid him off in lifetime supply of candy, hair combings. [LAT] “Lawmaker’s Porn Suit Against Google Dropped”
San Fran Kills SUV Limos With Hills
By 6.16.06
This is what happens when you take a stretch SUV limo through the hills and dales of San Francisco.
Arson To The Rescue When SUV Owners Can’t Afford Gas
By 6.14.06
Is the Charybdis of your SUV’s gas tank getting you down? Why not purge it in cleansing fire? For $300 dollars, a weasel in a black trench coat will be more than happy to steal your SUV for you and light it on fire so you can reclaim the insurance money. And you’ll even be in Rome: a spate of such arson crimes are sweeping California.
The News
By 6.8.06
• Airlines fill up on freight to try to make a buck. Cargo crates complain of cramped quarters, having to buy own forklifts. [CT]
Pith & Vinegar: Awkward Simile Edition
By 6.1.06
• Vonage offered shares to customers before the IPO. Now that the stock tanked, customers are balking at paying up, and Vonage may pursue payment, which is sorta like breaking the knuckles on your amputated arm. [NYT]
Shotgun Blast Settles $36.50 Gas Bill
By 5.29.06
Now that prices of gas are skyrocketing, it’s perhaps understandable that you’d underestimate the cost of a full tank. But watch out! Being short on bread for a tank of gas could cause you to look down the cobalt blue double barrels of a sawed-off shotgun.
Hawaiian Gas Cap Bleeds Customers Even Drier
By 5.15.06
Now that we are all paying for gas not with money (who can afford it?) but priceless, non-inflationary currencies like our daughter’s virginities and healthy human livers, you might start thinking that the government should get involved. “They should regulate, control and cap gasoline prices for our nation’s motorists!” you might cry.
Find Cheap Gas
By 5.8.06
Two tools for finding cheap gas teats nearby are Cheap Gas and MSN Autos. The first integrates Gas Buddy with Google Maps. Bill Gates’ offering displays pricing info from over 90,000 gas stations nationwide using data from the OPIS Price Index.
Consumers Are Manic Depressive
By 5.5.06
Unable to decide whether the economy is good or bad, the Chicago Tribune settles for a resounding, “Yes.”
The Intentional Comedy, Uncanny Editorial, of NYT Photography
By 5.5.06
As part of the growing awareness of The Consumerist that there are these things called cars and people put pricey gas in them, we were pleased as a plum in a pie to spy this choice pic in the New York Times this morning.
