Day: April 4, 2005

$58 a barrel. When will it end?

In my neck-of-the-woods, gas costs $2.40 a gallon. It costs $75 to fill up my KIA Sedona and Toyota Pickup (not mine, but it looks like mine). That’s SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS, and my drive into work is 50 miles round trip Monday through Friday.

Trying to feel better about it all, I found this little nugget:

In real terms, prices were still higher in the 1980s when they peaked at roughly $90 a barrel in today’s money for U.S. crude, according to calculations by the International Energy Agency, using the U.S. Consumer Price Index as an inflation adjuster.

It didn’t make me feel better.

There will be no royal wedding on Friday, as originally planned.

Royal wedding postponed

The Prince of Wales’s wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles is to be postponed to Saturday, Clarence House announced today. Charles will be representing the Queen at the funeral of Pope John Paul II on Friday instead. A spokesman said the Prince took the decision with Mrs Parker Bowles after returning today from his skiing trip. Camilla will not be accompanying the Prince to the funeral.

After Charles announced his decision about the date switch, some amongst the staff swear they heard him mutter, “Bloody Catholics!”.

And as for Camilla, she misses being the queen-in-waiting by one day and suffers an 11th hour diplomatic snub.

Priceless.

Who are you now Al?

This is the ultimate geek post of the day.

Pope’s would-be assassin mourns natural death.

Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who seriously wounded the pope during a 1981 assassination attempt, is mourning the pope’s death from his Turkish prison cell, his brother said Sunday. 

Adnan Agca said his brother told him Wednesday in Istanbul’s Kartal prison that he hoped the pope lived a bit longer.

Yeah, so he could get out and give the job another try. Weird.