Wednesday, May 18, 2022

What does Joe Biden have to do with high fuel prices and why are we miffed about them?

From the Houston Chronicle:

What does Joe Biden have to do with high fuel prices?

A good short summation.

To add to it, while one of our local Senators was making a statement yesterday blaming the President for high gas prices, Wyoming, like Texas, is subject to a set of ironies on this, which are:

We hate high gas prices, as we hate paying them at the pump; but

We need high gas prices, as that makes our oil salable, which we need as long as the state's economy is fossil fuel dependent.

So, we should rejoice at the high prices.

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Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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