Lawn Aerator shoes work well.
You might call them lawn aerator shoes or aerator sandals or even lawn aeration shoes but the maker of my new Bond Green Giant Spiked ShoesTM did a good thing. I read several reviews of spiked aerator sandals and found mixed reviews.
My review is not mixed: they are good. I paid a whopping $16.99 from Clean Air Gardening for this lawn care equipment, and compared to the cost of pretty much anything else you might use to take care of the grass, this purchase was a bargain. In 15 minutes, I had done a thorough job of our back 40; tomorrow I’ll do the front. (more…)
Business Week reported in this week’s issue that ExxonMobil has been using their record profits to buy back stock. They are not using it to build new refineries, finding new sources oil, or (god forbid) researching and developing environmentally sound energy sources.
A stock buyback allows the company to reduce the supply of their shares, thereby driving up the price, which is good for stockholders. But by not expanding their ability to produce more of their product, they simultaneously reduce the supply of their product, which drives up the price. That only works because they know their will competitors do the same thing.
So guess what? (more…)
U.S. Gasoline prices are back up over $3.00 a gallon, near the record high price set after the Katerina hurricane in 2005. The cause this time is, again, a shortage of refinery capacity. But this time there wasn’t a storm. According to A Reuters reports today
AAA said it was “alarming” that gasoline prices were rising so high without the backdrop of a major geopolitical or natural event to disrupt supply, like a hurricane or a new military flare-up in the Middle East.
Good thing geopolitical or natural events that disrupt supply never happen. Like a hurricane or a flare-up in the Middle East.
This makes me and ExxonMobil happy. (more…)
