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I especially like the “Cases” for keeping track of stuff.

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Marco Polo and $100 per barrel oil?

As fuel costs continue to rise, the transportation of goods to our individual locations where ever we may be will get more and more expensive. Run this trend out into the future. Is the end-game one where we move significantly back to localized economies? I believe so.

Economies will shift to ones where imports become very expensive, exclusive luxury items once again. The basic necessities will get produced and source locally.

Call it the Marco Polo Effect. I think we’re moving inexorably forward towards it.

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A View into the “Twilight Zone” of Working at Home

clipped from www.mytwodollars.com (For the record, this is what you want to avoid turning in to when you work from home. And no, it’s not me, but thanks…) A lot of people have emailed me over the last 7 months about my working at home. Just so everyone knows, I did have a desk job…in fact I worked in offices for 12 years until this past October, when I gave notice at my job to go out on my own. So far it has been fantastic, as I make my own hours, spend some time at the beach, meet for coffee or lunch with friends (whom also work as freelancers) in the middle of the day, etc. That all being said…sometimes it is a little claustrophobic being in my house all the time with no one to talk to but the cat. Since receiving all these emails, I figured I would put a little list together about what I have learned since I started working from home.

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$72 of Dead Dinosaur Juice?

Given that $6.00 gasoline will soon arrive we’ll be paying $70+ per fill. On May 15^th no one should buy any gasoline? This idea is floating around with special emphasis on myspace members.

A much more “productive” decision – On May 15^th everyone should NOT drive AT ALL.

WHAT IF organizations gave employees the option of working at home on Wednesdays? How much fuel would we conserve?

According to the EIA, in the U.S. we consume about 375 million gallons of gasoline per day. Let’s say half of that is related to commuting to and from the workplace. Then let’s say half of that again is flexible work related which could, to a degree, happen by tele-commuting. So that takes us to 93.75 million gallons per day.

Now let’s say that only 20% of the people or companies take/allow telecommuting on Wednesday. That gets us to 18.75 million gallons each week which is unburned. In 52 weeks we would conserve about 975 million gallons of gasoline.

I think you’d agree it seems a very conservative estimate of what could be done to change our co-dependence on the automobile.

Could you give up driving one day per week?

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