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I’ve been busy lately but had a few things I wanted to post about, so I’ll make the points short.

• Last night was the Democratic Presidential Debate in Philadelphia.  I wish I had time for a whole post on this as I have a lot to talk about, but I’ll stick to one point.  When the issue of gas prices came up, Hilary responded that she wanted to find out if there was price gouging going on in the energy markets (which I’m glad to hear) and she hoped that would lower prices.  She then followed up with saying she would tax gas companies majorly because of how much money they are making.  Hilary, maybe you’ve never taken an economics course, but you know that corporate taxes are passed on directly to the consumer, right?  So a tax on Exxon increases the price of Exxon gas.  Awesome.  I liked Obama’s response much better: he would focus heavily on alternative energy issues and increase the minimum MPG on American vehicles.  Decrease demand and decrease the price at the same time.

• I didn’t even mean for these 2 points to relate, but my second topic is also about gas prices.  When I moved to Atlanta I was paying somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.55 for gas.  Today it is $3.49 at the same station.  That is a 38% increase in less than 1 year, and this is not even peak gas season.  I just wish my paycheck also increased by 38%, as I’ve seen these gas prices effect not only the cost of my vehicle, but my favorite food joints are also feeling the heat and increasing their own prices.

• My third and final point is just to let you all know that something big is brewing for me right now that I’m really excited about.  Actually, 2 things.  I’ll give you more details when I can, but until then I will probably be pretty busy so my posting on here might be fairly light.

That’s all for now.  As always, leave any thoughts you have in the comments.  I’ll definitely have time to respond to comments, as those don’t take nearly as long to write.

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