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Caro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 11:45 AM
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Oil price going through the roof! Whee! - Today’s Headlines 6/11/08

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An ominous warning that the rapid rise in oil prices has only just begun
The chief executive of the world's largest energy company has issued the most dire warning yet about the soaring the price of oil, predicting that it will hit $250 per barrel "in the foreseeable future".
Oh, happy day!—Caro

Buck Fush

For more headlines, visit MakeThemAccountable.com.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 11:47 AM
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1. Anyone want to start a cargo bicycle business??
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Hydra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 11:50 AM
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2. Good idea
But watch your back- innovators get killed when they find a way to beat the tilted system.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 11:53 AM
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3. I'm serious. I live in a small coastal town with LOTS of retired folks
who could use a delivery service.....

I'm getting a bid from some folks on really big cargo bikes....My sister owns a bakery and has to cut her truck costs somehow.....
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 04:15 PM
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11. My husband's grandfather had a thriving bakery business that
featured bicycle delivery of fresh bread. Yummy!!! It's great idea. Dress your delivery boys in 1920s style clothes and people will buy your wares for the theatre of it. You could even have singers or clowns delivering cakes by bicycle to birthday parties (for smaller catering services). Very L.A. ideas. But seriously, my husband's grandfather succeeded by offering bicycle delivery.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 06:22 PM
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12. I get the feeling that LOTS of deliverys are going to be done like that
real soon now....


There's a guy in town that delivers between 300 and 600 pounds of salmon a day like that.

Fock, I love Puget Sound.
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 12:04 PM
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5. Time to bring back the Cushman Truckster
Made in America by the Cushman company.



A three-wheeler with a moped engine and cargo-carrying capacity that got more than 70 miles per gallon. They used to be used by the post office and parking enforcement.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 12:08 PM
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7. Nice! Here's my idea.....
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wiggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 11:58 AM
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4. And demand is falling rapidly. nt
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Beausoleil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 12:05 PM
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6. This is just speculation
but somebody's making a TON of money!
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 12:09 PM
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8. Yeah, they're trying to gobble all they can before their boy leaves office.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 02:37 PM
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10. We need a restraining order on Bush to shut him up. His continued
threats toward Iran are exacerbating the rising oil prices.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 06:24 PM
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13. It is completely in his interest for oil prices to as high as possible...
But I'll bet you know that...... :hi:
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 02:36 PM
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9. How long before the collapse of the trucking and airline industries?
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