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Paying $3 a gallon for gas right now... maybe this is why.

by grimgraphix Mar 12, 2010 11:18AM PST

Gasoline prices have jumped by more than .40 cents in my local area in just the past couple of months. I suspect we will be back to paying $3.50 and more by this summer...

China's demand for oil jumped by an "astonishing" 28% in January compared with the same month a year earlier, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.

The body added that demand for oil in 2010 would be underpinned by rising demand from emerging markets, with half of all growth coming from Asia.

But the IEA predicted demand in developed countries would fall by 0.3%.

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Are you sure you want to go there?

by Bill Osler Mar 14, 2010 10:43AM PDT

I don't know whether or not Malthus would be on my list of things for ALL educated people to know, but surely you agree that there are concepts/events/people that should be a part of any well educated person's fund of knowledge? The list might vary from time to time or place to place or culture to culture but I cannot imagine anybody questioning the need for certain minimum breadth of knowledge.

I hardly think it is elitist to believe a well educated person should be educated about a wide variety of topics.

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sure, why not

by jonah jones Mar 14, 2010 9:35PM PDT

define well educated

wait!! i'll save you the time......... you can't

Main Entry: educated
Function: adjective
Date: 1588

1 : having an education; especially : having an education beyond the average <educated speakers>
2 a : giving evidence of training or practice : SKILLED <educated hands> b : befitting one that is educated <educated taste> c : based on some knowledge of fact <an educated guess>

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