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The Price of Gasoline Is Too Low!
Yesterday morning I pulled up at the local convenience store and paid $4.59 for a gallon of gas. Will the price hit five bucks in another couple of weeks? I hope so. In fact, I’d like the price go to six or even seven bucks. Maybe when it gets up that high, those schmucks driving around in their ‘I’m a tough guy’ trucks with their ‘Trump-2024’ flags will begin to think (if they can think) that maybe the Green New Deal ain’t such a bad thing.
I was a VP of IT for a Fortune 100 financial services company back in 2005, when we ran out of space in the company parking lot. We rented additional parking space several blocks away from the Home Office, and employees began to complain that to park in the newly-acquired parking area required them to come in earlier or be late to their desks.
So, I came up with the brilliant idea that we would write and put an app on the company intranet which allowed a user to insert his or her home address, click the magic ‘submit’ command, and see the addresses of every other company employee within a 5-mile radius of where this user lived. The whole point of the effort, of course, was to encourage carpools.
I don’t think twenty people in the entire workforce of 4,000 ever looked at the app. And we even put a link to the app on the most popular intranet page, which was the page that contained the daily…