Dodge makes a bold move, guaranteeing gas at $2.99 a gallon for 3 years on any new vehicle purchase or lease.
See terms and conditions here:
http://www.dodge.com/en/refuel/
Pretty sad to see though that their highest eligible vehicle’s mpg is 24.
No wonder they need an incentive plan for people to put a Dodge in their garage.
The Moritz family bought the Southport marina from Kevin Turnbow last week. This includes the convenience store, The Pier restaurant and bar, fueling stations and boat slips.
Now the Moritz family owns 3 marinas (Marina bay and also Rickers).
I’m not really sure how I feel about this as it seems like they kinda have a monopoly in that area of the Missouri River, but we will see what happens this summer as I am on the river more now that I am once again a boat owner.
Which brings me to my next news item. I bought a boat!
Well nothing really fancy, in fact it is over 30 years old, but it floats and runs. That’s all I need for a little relaxation out on the river this summer. Plus it is always a good thing when you can pay cash for a depreciating “toy”.
It appears our local Home Depot store is closing. I was wondering how they were making ends meet with the very low amount of customers they seemed to have.
Now I guess I know.
Liquidation sale is this Saturday at 10 am.
We went out for some wings last night at Buffalo Wind Wings and the place was packed due to a promotion. They were offering a new beer for free called Land Shark or something like that from Budweiser. Supposed to taste like Corona without the bitter aftertaste.
Then today on weather.com I saw an ad for “Bud Light with Lime” or something like that.
I find it unusual that Budweiser would be introducing two new products within months of each other. The last new product I remember from them was Budweiser Select with fewer calories when the health craze kicked in a few years ago.
What’s with the sudden new flavors? Could it be that they are trying to retain/grab new market in light of the failing economy? It just seems odd that a company known for its regular and light beer is now testing the waters with citrus type flavors. Is it the economy or a change in taste from consumers?
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Stick it right in their gas tanks that is.
Bush’s widely criticized economic stimulus package will do little more than sustain a way of life just a few months longer.
Many families and single residents on a fixed income do not have room in their already tight budgets for the skyrocketing prices at the pumps. They will have little choice but to use the small token as a means to fill their tanks.
I average about 35 miles a day in travel throughout the month or about 1085 miles a month. Most of this is city driving so at best I average about 15-18 mpg. Usually 15 with the stop-and-go traffic associated with in-town driving.
That equates out to just over 72 gallons of gasoline purchased per month. With the recent $1 plus per gallon hike at the pumps, that comes out to almost $100 more per month to do the same amount of driving.
Bush’s stimulus package will last approximately eight months if gas prices were to freeze today. But they won’t, don’t even get your hopes up. Add another dollar per gallon as most analysts speculate and the “government gift” will last only three months.
And that is just gas. Add the increase in groceries, shipped goods, and other consumer increases and you will be lucky if that check covers two months of the added expenditures of late.
I don’t think this is going to stop any sort of recession, or even delay it. Most of this “stimulus package” will go up in smoke.
About 3 to 4 years ago I created a handful (about 10) modules for DotNetNuke which sold very well at the time. Since my main business focus changed about a year afterwards, I could not dedicate ongoing time to further development to these modules and they stagnated.
I continued to support and sell them, but the sales dropped dramatically as newer more robust modules filled the void. It was a classic case of being one of the first to market and providing a product to fill a niche.
Well at any rate, my profit on those modules has dropped to less than $100 a month for some time now and the number of support tickets has risen dramatically. The reason for this being, in my opinion, is DotNetNuke (DNN) is no longer a platform used only by “geeks” anymore. The adoption rate has gotten large enough that the “normal” user is now maintaining DNN installations and therefore doesn’t have the technical knowledge that was once taken for granted in the DNN community.
Good or bad, it is what it is.
That is why this morning I pulled all of my modules from sale. I will continue to support previous sales for a period of 90 days but no new sales will take place. I might eventually open-source the modules and let the community build upon them, but I’m not sure at this point on the future of them.
I did retain the XMod packages I developed and will continue to support and sell them, as I enjoy the XMod community and feel that I owe Kelly and his team a great deal for providing such a robust module.
The full DNN modules I developed will no longer be sold in the DNN marketplaces. It just wasn’t worth it anymore. The time I was dedicating to support issues far outweighed the amount I was making in sales.
A simple matter of not enough time to support what has become a “hobby” and was taking away from my main business focus.
Can’t wait till that refund check arrives?
Now you can find out the status of your refund online at the IRS website.
https://sa2.www4.irs.gov/irfof/lang/en/irfofgetstatus.jsp
Although most would argue that if you have a big rebate coming, you filled out your withholdings wrong. Why let the government use your money, interest free, all year long?
I see gas took another 10 cent jump yesterday afternoon brining the price per gallon to $3.49. Diesel quickly followed suite and raised to $4.15 a gallon, a modest 4 cent jump compared to gas.
I recently purchased an old Ford diesel pickup to replace my Chevy Duramax which I sold a few months ago. I needed something really cheap to pull my camper to the lake on the weekends until it sells. (Might as well use it if I’m paying for it…)
I was pleasantly surprised to see that this 1986 beast with 313,000 (yes thousand) miles makes just a hair over 20 mpg (actually 20.6 on the last fill) doing mostly town driving. Compare that to the 12.6 mpg my Chevy half ton gas pickup makes. (Which has recently become my daily driver ever since the transmission went out of my Monte Carlo about a month ago.)
When you break down the math, it costs about 28 cents per mile to drive the gas pickup versus 20 cents per mile for the diesel at current gas and diesel prices. Since I usually average 800-1000 miles driven per month, that adds up to $64-80 savings every month in gas/fuel costs if I drive the diesel truck instead of the gas.
I guess my daily driver is gonna switch to the rusted out 3/4 ton pickup even with fuel at over $4 per gallon as it is still the cheaper option…
Now only if that darn Monte Carlo hadn’t have bit the dust!
We are starting on the landscaping around the yard this week.
Hopefully the weather will be nice as there are 2 semi loads of gravel being delivered on Friday for the new parking pad for the camper that I have to have the border ready for prior to delivery.
Jon Barnhardt
