It’s always entertaining to watch Sky News’s feed of the CBS Evening News at 00:30 each evening (it’s delayed by an hour). Last week, on the day that London won the Olympics, and world leaders met at Gleneagles for G8, the headlines were all about Hurricane Dennis. Fair enough, but I’m sure that G8 really warrented more than the 20 seconds or so it got. The Olympic story, while somewhat further down the pecking order, got a couple of minutes with little to no time spent dwelling on the poor New York showing.
Last night, however, a big story was the fact that the national average price for gas in the States has reached $2.33. (See this story in USA Today).
Let’s put that in context shall we? In the UK, according to the AA, unleaded petrol was around 86p per litre. $2.33 equates to 35p per litre. (Guess who read their Google Friends newsletter this morning?)
So stop complaining, get some smaller cars, don’t burn as much fuel, and you might have fewer hurricanes hitting your coast at the cost of several billion dollars a time.