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  Monday, August 29, 2005


Today's drive through Upper Michigan and Wisconsin was enjoyable--plenty of sunshine.

Mississippi and Louisiana, on the other hand....Katrina has really hit those coastal areas as well as inland very hard.  My company informed all drivers over the QualCOMM to fuel up today instead of tomorrow due to an expected overnight jump in fuel prices.  Call me naive, but if fuel prices jump--say .10 to .20--that is price gouging gone wild.  There is no way that one hurricane is going to slow the flow of fuel throughout the country.  The experts say that it will disrupt coastal refineries down where Katrina hit.  OK--is all America's fuel refined in those areas?  Heck no.  Something, in my humble opinion, smells fishy if fuel prices spike over the next few days.  We'll see.

I either saw a wolf or a dog that looked like a wolf cross the road about 75-yards in front of the truck this morning.  The way it ran and slinked across the road told me that it could have been a wolf.  However, I thought wolves stayed as far away from people and civilization as possible.

Tomorrow morning I'll be headed toward Chicago, IL and then, presumably, back up to the UP.

miles driven = 366

PostSript: 8-10% of the refineries in the gulf region are damaged/disabled.  Consequently, the price of fuel--in theory--shouldn't jump more than 8-10% of what it was a 1-week ago.  So, I guess a .20-.30 rise in the cost of fuel is about right.


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