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I'm leaving next week for LA from South Fla, driving in a small compact with a dog and some belongings........... sounds like fun, huh? My plan so far is to drive hard the first 2 days, some 650 miles to Biloxi day one, 550 miles day 2 to Dallas, then an easy day - 360 miles to Amarillo. From Amarillo, hard again - 600 miles to Flagstaff, and then the last day 475 to LA.
I know this sounds hard - but is it doable? I figure with day 3 being "easy", that's a rest/recover and get ready for the last part of the trip.
Any thoughts?
cross country-just get me there.....
I'm leaving next week for LA from South Fla, driving in a small compact with a dog and some belongings........... sounds like fun, huh? My plan so far is to drive hard the first 2 days, some 650 miles to Biloxi day one, 550 miles day 2 to Dallas, then an easy day - 360 miles to Amarillo. From Amarillo, hard again - 600 miles to Flagstaff, and then the last day 475 to LA.
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I assume there is a reason you are abandoning I-10 after Biloxi..why?
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heading north to avoid mexican border......
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heading north to avoid mexican border......
I do not see a problem with the border as long as you are on the Interstate.
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Just drove from SD over to Phoenix and back - and there are no problems along Freeway 8 - even though it does pass within miles of the border with Mexico. If you drive during the day and have a cell phone - no problemos.
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Here's some joints to stop and rest for lunch on your way from FL to LA.
The best seafood in Mobile, AL is at Wintzell's Oyster House. Get off I 10 at Exit 26 A and go W on Canal Steet. Go .4 mile and turn right on S Washington Avenue. Turn right and go .3 mile to Dauphine Street. Take a right and Wintzell's will be on your right. The best BBQ in the area is at Brick Pit. Get off I 10 at Exit 15B and go N on Highway 90 for 3 miles to Demetropolis Road. Take a left and continue on Demetropolis Road which becomes S University Boulevard. Go about 5 miles from the left you took on Demetropolis to Old Shell Road. Take a right and go to Brick Pit for outstanding BBQ. For fine po boy's and fresh seafood get off I 10 at Exit 15A and go N on Government Boulevard to Hall's Mill Road just past the shopping center on the right. Take a right and go to the Boiling Point.
Wintzell's Oyster House @ 605 Dauphin St., Mobile, AL 251 - 432 - 4605.
The Brick Pit @ 5456 Old Shell Rd., Mobile, AL 251 - 343 - 0001.
The Boiling Pot @ Suite G, 5300 Halls Mill Road, Mobile, AL 251 - 602 - 8405.
For fine southern comfort food get off I 10 at Exit 68 at Moss Point, MS and go N on Highway 613 to Tugus restaurant. Stay on Highway 90 going E from Ocean Springs, MS. Go to Market Street and take a right. Go to Ingall's Avenue and take a left. Go 3 or 4 blocks to Bozo's Grocery for fine po boy's. Go to Tay's for the best BBQ on the coast.
For good BBQ and fun times get off I 10 at Exit 57 and go N on Highway 57 to The Shed for lunch or dinner. For fine country food for breakfast or lunch go E on Highway 90 to Ocean Springs, MS and turn right on Washington Avenue. Take your first left on Robinson Street and go to Bayview Gourmet. Fayard's has good BBQ. Ward's has good seafood and steaks. Phoenicia has good breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Tugus Restaurant @ 6909 Highway 613, Moss Point, MS 228 - 474 - 9910.
Bozo's Grocery @ 2012 Ingalls Ave., Pascagoula, MS 228 - 762 - 3322.
Tay's BBQ @ 3602 Ingalls Avenue Pascagoula, MS 228 – 205 - 2167.
The Shed BBQ and Blues Joint @ 7501 Hwy. 57, Ocean Springs, MS. 228 - 875 - 9590.
Bayview Gourmet @ 1010 Robinson St., Ocean Springs, MS. 228 - 875 - 4252.
Fayard's BP @ 6905 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, MS. 228 - 875 - 1020.
Kenny Ward's @ 1504 Government St., Ocean Springs, MS. 228 - 818 - 4505.
McElroy's on the Bayou @ 705 Bienville Blvd. 228 - 818 - 4600.
Phoenicia Gourmet Cuisine @ 123 Government St., Ocean Springs, MS. 228 - 875 - 0603.
Continue on Highway 90 to Highway 49 N in Gulfport, MS. Take a left and go one block to 13th Street and turn left to Half Shell Oyster House for fine fresh seafood for lunch or dinner. Or continue on Highway 90 to Cowan Road which is E of Highway 49 in Gulfport, MS between Gulfport, MS and Biloxi, MS. Go N on Cowan Road to W Pine Street. Turn left and go 3 blocks to Washington Street, Turn right and go to Blow Fly Inn where the local's dine on fresh seafood for lunch or dinner. Continue E on Highway 90 to Caillavet Street just E of I 110. Turn left and go N to Howard. Turn right and go one block to Old Biloxi Schooner for good po boy's. For fine fresh oysters and good seafood continue E on Howard to Fillin Station for lunch or dinner.
Half Shell Oyster House @ FL 1st, 2500 13th St., Gulfport, MS 228 - 867 - 7001.
Blow Fly Inn @ 1201 Washington Ave., Gulfport, MS 228 - 896 - 9812.
Ole Biloxi Schooner @ 871 Howard Ave., Biloxi, MS 228 - 435 - 8071.
Fillin Station @ 692 Howard Ave., Biloxi, MS 228 - 432 - 5565.
Continue on Highway 90 to Darwell's Cafe in Long Beach, MS for good lunch or dinner. Darwell's was featured on Diners, Drive In's and Dives. Continue on Highway 90 to Shaggy's Harbor Bar and Grill across from the Pass Christian Yacht Club for good fresh seafood, cold drinks and nice music. Get off I 10 at Exit 2 at Bay St. Louis, MS and go E on Scenic Highway 90 to Trapani's for fine fresh seafood for lunch or dinner.
Darwells Cafe @ 127 East 1st St., Long Beach, MS. 228 - 868 - 8946.
Shaggy's Harbor Bar and Grill @ 120 S. Hiern Ave., Pass Harbor, Pass Christian, MS. 228 - 452 - 9939.
Trapani's @ 116 N Beach Boulevard, Bay St. Louis, MS 228 – 467 – 8570.
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Not sure what the point is in recommending dozens of restaurants when the OP has stated he wants to drive hard and just get there.
As for avoiding the Mexican border, that's a non-issue unless you are trying to avoid the occasional interstate checkpoint. There's really no safety issue on driving the shortest route which goes close to the border at times. It's up to you but I'd take the shortest route instead of adding more miles to a really long drive.
Your mileage is doable, many interstates are 70 mph or higher so you can make good time.
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Just so you know, Flagstaff had 20" of snow this week. I would not chance heading north. Stick to the southern route.
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Cool. I'd love to see the rig they had the camera on… was it on a bike, or a scooter, or what?
Couldn't help wondering if this guy was actually going anywhere or just trying to wear himself out ( and me with that song! ) by cycling in circles!!! Still…In Bangkok all you need is a bike, a T-shirt and a hole in the traffic.
I'd guess it was filmed from an old Vespa, sounded like one at least. I have a question and I hope Khun Yai (or someone) will answer. I live in Chiang Mai and am interested in an All City frame. The first comment refers to Brothers Bike as "our partners in Thailand". Are they distributing your frames here in Thailand? Can you provide contact info?
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By Brad Spencer
While OPRF's entire boys golf team missed making the cut by just a few strokes at the Mt. Carmel Sectional on Monday, three players shot well enough to advance on to the Class 3A State Tournament.
Alex Decorrevont shot a 74 at Glenwoodie Golf Club in Glenwood, while Eric Cybulski and Joe McKune both finished with 78s and advanced on after competing in a six-man playoff for the last four spots.
The Huskies finished fourth as a team with a final score of 312. New Trier won the sectional with a 302. OPRF's cross-town rival Fenwick finished eighth overall and did not advance a player to state.
The Class 3A State Tournament begins Friday at The Den at Fox Creek Golf Course in Bloomington.
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The Friars blanked St. Patrick 3-0 behind the scoring of Justin Giacotto. The junior scored two goals in the win, while Austin Nelson added one. Albano Latifi dished out two assists for the Friars, who pushed their record to 10-8-1.
Fenwick closes out the regular season at De La Salle on Thursday.
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Jeffrey Loria goes too far in latest fire sale of Miami Marlins - MLB News | FOX Sports on MSN
After allowing the Red Sox - Dodgers deal it's unlikely Selig can really justify blocking this deal. What should happen is Marlins fans chase them out of town with torches and pitchforks.
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Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.1. Rickey! trades in sheep and threats Posted: November 14, 2012 at 09:59 AM (#4302230)
I want to know how Loria can face the people of South Florida, the taxpayers who subsidized 70 percent of his $515 million ballpark in Miami.
As if he is worried about "facing" anyone. The kinds of cash Loria has extorted from baseball in Montreal and now Miami buys a lot of "never have to see anyone vaguely close to 'the people of South Florida' unless they're cleaning the mansions."
The "best interests of baseball" would be served more by Selig going. Loria and the Wilpons would be chased out of baseball by any successor.3. My name is Votto, and I love to get blotto Posted: November 14, 2012 at 10:47 AM (#4302261)
Jeffrey Loria goes too far in latest fire sale of Miami Marlins
Are you saying he had good ideas at first?
Loria got D-Train to run on time.5. valuearbitrageur Posted: November 14, 2012 at 03:51 PM (#4302651)
Bud Selig should invoke his "best interest of baseball" powers to nullify the blockbuster
He should use it to nullify Loria's ownership.
I'd say that commissioner Bud Selig should invoke his "best interest of baseball" powers to nullify the blockbuster. But frankly, the best interests of baseball would be better served if the deal led to Loria's demise.
Is he suggesting......MURDER????????
Geeze, I can't keep all these Marlins/Loria threads straight.8. Sweatpants Posted: November 14, 2012 at 04:09 PM (#4302685)
Loria got D-Train to run on time.This was pretty awesome.
Will Loria build an autobahn to Marlins Park?10. RMc is a fine piece of cheese Posted: November 14, 2012 at 04:22 PM (#4302708)
Will Loria build an autobahn to Marlins Park?11. Tippecanoe Posted: November 14, 2012 at 05:34 PM (#4302816)
Only if the numbers work out.
Zelig adopts an appeasement policy, while Loria adopts Salarhygiene followed by a jugend movement, all in preparation for a blitzkrieg on the NL east.12. Walt Davis Posted: November 14, 2012 at 05:59 PM (#4302852)
You realize that the more we pile on, the more certain it becomes that the Marlins will win the 2014 WS from the #5 WC spot.13. Al Kaline Trio Posted: November 14, 2012 at 09:37 PM (#4303001)
What if the Marlins surprised us all and signed Greinke and Hamilton? Haha ya right.14. Crispix reaches boiling point with lackluster play Posted: November 14, 2012 at 09:53 PM (#4303006)
- The enemy has made a breakthrough along a wide front. In the south, they have added Kris Medlen and are advancing toward 95 wins. They are in the nation's capital with Harper and Gonzalez, and in the north Utley has reached the front lines and strengthened their advance.
- Ozzie's managing will bring it under control.
- My Führer ... Ozzie could not mobilize sufficient forces for the assault.
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In my book Gods of Aquarius: UFOs and the Transformation of Man [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976], I introduced the concept of the Star People, individuals who feel that they bear within their genes awareness acquired by extraterrestrial interaction with humans in prehistoric or ancient times and who have now been activated by DNA memory to fulfill a mission in assisting others in their spiritual and evolutionary advancement.
Sometime after the book's publication, I received a letter from Philip K. Dick, who told me that he suspected that he was such an individual as those whom I had profiled in the book. He had first realized this in 1974 when his own DNA memory packet began to fire within his psyche.
At that time, he told me, he was shown in a vision, more properly, an inner hologram, the cover of my book, Revelation: The Divine Fire (Prentice-Hall, 1973). A feminine voice told him that this book would help him to understand what was occurring to him. He was also told by the voice to get in touch with me.
Although Dick said that he did read the book and that he did receive the requisite information and comfort that he was promised during the vision, he was reluctant to contact me until he read of my research with those individuals whom I had given the name of Star People. Dick said that he was about to publish a novel (Valis, 1981) that would advance numerous similar concepts.
I wish to hide behind the veil of fiction, he wrote. I can claim that I made the whole thing up. The revelations that I received were so astounding that it has taken me five years to arrive at a place where I will even put forth the concept as fiction.
Dick was shown a vision of himself in a disabled spacecraft heading toward Earth in prehistoric times. He was one of the emigrants of a technologically sophisticated civilization that was undergoing vast convulsions. But the survivors of that extraterrestrial civilization feared that, once contact was lost with the home planet, they might lose continuity in terms of the handing down of their culture from generation to generation. The solution was phylogenic memory.
Dick explained phylogenic memory as complex DNA information packets distributed in dormant form:
These dominant DNA information packets would be disinhibited--induced to fire--in due time, depending on either synchronized inner biological clocks or pure chance stimuli. Or a combination of both, ideally. Thus even thousands of years later, the primordial civilization will be released in the minds of the astonished descendants who suppose themselves autochthones [aboriginal inhabitants] of the planet they now inhabit.
The DNA packets in a given individual will tell him: 1) Where he is from; 2) What made up that original civilization, his civilization; 3) His true nature and faculties; 4) What he must do.
Ideally, he will act out a series of responses based on the packet, the purpose of which is to create on his planet, insofar as it is possible, the civilization which his ancestors maintained.
I evaluate the current widespread firing of these phylogenic memory packets in those you call the Star People as a matter of supreme importance.
In February, 1974, my own DNA memory packet was disinhibited, either by an inner biological clock, which synchronized it with disinhibitions in other people, or by accident. It fired for one complete year.
When The Star People was published in February 1981, I included a number of anonymous quotes from Phil, attributing them to a "well-known science fiction writer's" take on what seemed to be a global phenomenon of men and women experiencing the awakening of their own DNA memory packets of somehow coming from the "stars."
During the course of our correspondence over the next few years, Phil told me that he had recognized the feminine voice that told him to read Revelation: The Divine Fire as the one that had spoken to him sporadically since his high school days. Eventually, the voice had identified herself as the Ruah, the Hebrew word for Spirit of God, Holy Spirit. She was, according to Phils understanding, a tutelary spirit, possessed of a transcendentally rational mind. The Ruah spoke to him in terse, succinct sentences, and communicated most often when he was falling asleep or waking up. He had to be very quiet and attentive in order to hear the brief messages that she relayed.
I had a revelation to share with Phil: The essence of The Divine Fire had been given to me in 1969 during a late night encounter with a hooded, monk-like entity. To silence my inquisitive--and startled--mind, the mysterious visitor had placed me into a deep sleep, but in the morning I arose with the complete outline of Revelation: The Divine Fire in my awakened consciousness. The book was published in 1973, about a year before Phil received the vision from the Ruah advising him to read it.
I lived in Phoenix in 1982, and Phil planned to come over around the time of my birthday in February to discuss a number of new concepts which were occurring to him. Blade Runner, based on his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, had not yet been released. My memory is uncertain on this point, but Phil either called me after he had seen a rough cut of the film or just before he was going to see a screening. In either event, he died before the motion picture was released and before he made the trip to Phoenix that would have enabled us to have that final mind-meld. I was pleased a couple of years ago when Phils widow filled out the Star People/UFO Mystical Questionnaire that Sherry and I still make available on our website.
I know that Phils revelations are expanding with every new release of a motion picture based on his work, a film library that appears to birth another cinematic creation each year--Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, Paycheck, Next. Somewhere Phil smiles upon his legacy with an even greater expanded memory packet, one now suffused with the cosmic awareness that awaits us all.
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Is there a liquid form of Depakote which could be injected into an IV line for a patient who cannot have food or liquids due to Pancreatitis?
Is there a liquid form of Depakote?
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You might want to check with a compounding pharmacy - they are often able to make different forms of medications. Check with your pharmacy - they are usually able to tell you where the closest compounding pharmacy to you is located. Compounding isn't any different than a regular prescription - your doctor's office can call it in as a compound without any difficulty and you usually pay your regular insurance copay.
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Quotation of the day on tyranny…..
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…. is from C.S. Lewis's book "God in the Dock":
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
MP: The first government tyranny that comes to my mind is America's deadly, senseless and expensive War on
Drugs Otherwise Peaceful and Innocent Americans Who Voluntarily Choose to Ingest Plants, Weeds and Intoxicants Currently and Arbitrarily Proscribed by Government Tyrants.
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It's the greatest achievement in human history, and one you probably never heard about
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Dartmouth economics professor Douglas Irwin has an excellent op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal — "The Ultimate Global Antipoverty Program," with the subtitle "Extreme poverty fell to 15% in 2011, from 36% in 1990. Credit goes to the spread of capitalism." Here's an excerpt:
The World Bank reported on Oct. 9 that the share of the world population living in extreme poverty had fallen to 15% in 2011 from 36% in 1990. Earlier this year, the International Labor Office reported that the number of workers in the world earning less than $1.25 a day has fallen to 375 million 2013 from 811 million in 1991.
Such stunning news seems to have escaped public notice, but it means something extraordinary: The past 25 years have witnessed the greatest reduction in global poverty in the history of the world.
To what should this be attributed? Official organizations noting the trend have tended to waffle, but let's be blunt: The credit goes to the spread of capitalism. Over the past few decades, developing countries have embraced economic-policy reforms that have cleared the way for private enterprise.
The reduction in world poverty has attracted little attention because it runs against the narrative pushed by those hostile to capitalism. The Michael Moores of the world portray capitalism as a degrading system in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Yet thanks to growth in the developing world, world-wide income inequality—measured across countries and individual people—is falling, not rising, as Branco Milanovic of City University of New York and other researchers have shown.
Capitalism's bad rap grew out of a false analogy that linked the term with "exploitation." Marxists thought the old economic system in which landlords exploited peasants (feudalism) was being replaced by a new economic system in which capital owners exploited industrial workers (capitalism). But Adam Smith had earlier provided a more accurate description of the economy: a "commercial society." The poorest parts of the world are precisely those that are cut off from the world of markets and commerce, often because of government policies.
MP: From a December 2013 CD post, "the chart above could perhaps qualify as the 'chart of the century' because it illustrates one of the most remarkable achievements in human history: the 80% reduction in world poverty in only 36 years, from 26.8% of the world's population living on $1 or less (in 1987 dollars) in 1970 to only 5.4% in 2006. (Source: The 2009 NBER working paper "Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income," by economists Maxim Pinkovskiy (MIT) and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (Columbia University).
In that post, I also featured the video below, where AEI president Arthur Brooks also makes the case that free markets, free enterprise, and capitalism are responsible for the remarkable reduction in world poverty over the last 40 years:
It turns out that between 1970 and 2010 the worst poverty in the world – people who live on one dollar a day or less – that has decreased by 80 percent (see chart above). You never hear about that. It's the greatest achievement in human history, and you never hear about it.
So what did that? What accounts for that? United Nations? US foreign aid? The International Monetary Fund? Central planning? No.
It was globalization, free trade, the boom in international entrepreneurship. In short, it was the free enterprise system, American style, which is our gift to the world.
I will state, assert and defend the statement that if you love the poor, if you are a good Samaritan, you must stand for the free enterprise system, and you must defend it, not just for ourselves but for people around the world. It is the best anti-poverty measure ever invented.
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Map of the day: Shale oil and gas = jobs, income growth, and economic prosperity
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The map above comes from the Quartz article, "Where and why some middle-class American families are actually getting giant raises." The answers to those questions are the same: "shale oil and gas plays" and "shale oil and gas plays."
The pink regions in the map are the country's biggest shale plays — regions in the US where shale oil and shale gas extraction are or will soon be taking place. The top 25 US counties ranked by the largest increases in median household income between 2010 and 2013 are colored dark purple.
The US county with the largest increase in median household income between 2010 and 2013 was Williams County, in the heart of the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota, where the median household income increased by a whopping 26.7% from $64,217 in 2010 to $81,363 in 2013 (57% above the US median household income of $51,939 in 2013). Nearby Stark County came in third with a 22.6% increase in median household income to $68,284 in 2013, and another Bakken-area county – Ward – ranked No. 8 with a 14.4% increase to $58,846.
Overall, it looks like 11 of the top 15 counties (and 18 of the top 25 counties) with the highest growth in median household income between 2010-2013 are in or near oil and gas shale plays. As Quartz points out "It's undeniable that the shale boom has led to sharply higher salaries for middle-skill workers, which is something that's increasingly hard to find in the US economy. After all, the income of a typical American household is basically where it was a quarter century ago."
It should be no surprise by now, and it's further confirmed by these new data, that the shale revolution is by far the brightest spot in the US economy. The oil and gas shale boom in US has brought thousands of new well-paying jobs to middle-income Americans, rising median household income while the national median is stagnant, jobless rates as low as 0.8% in Williams County ND, housing and construction booms, and millions of dollars in royalty payments to landowners.
It's a very positive formula for economic prosperity: Shale = jobs = rising incomes = economic growth. And for that prosperity, we can thank America's "petropreneurs" and the "Made in the USA" drilling and extraction technologies that they perfected to extract the oceans of energy treasures that were previously inaccessible.
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Uber is transforming the way people travel, live, and socialize, and Big Taxi is doomed
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The New York Times has a great article about how Uber is changing the night life scene in Los Angeles ("Los Angeles in the Rider's Seat"), here's an excerpt:
Ryan O'Connell is part of a growing contingent of urbanites who have made Ubering (it's as much a verb as "Googling") an indispensable part of their day and especially their night life. Untethered from their vehicles, Angelenos are suddenly free to drink, party and walk places. Even as their business models are evolving, these ride-sharing services, which include Lyft, Sidecar and others, have upended the social habits of the area, and rallied its residents to be more peripatetic.
A night out in Los Angeles used to involve negotiating parking, beating traffic and picking a designated driver. Excursions from one end to the other — say, from the oceanfront city of Santa Monica to the trendy Silver Lake neighborhood on the eastern side — had to be planned and timed with military precision, lest they spiral into a three-hour commute. More often than not, they were simply avoided.
At the Mandrake, a bar near Culver City, customers may be more likely to order a third cocktail when they know they can be whisked home safely. At the end of the night, "I see people reach for the phone and call the Uber," said Drew Heitzler, an artist who lives in Venice. Taxis here were often unreliable, he added, but ride shares are always just a swipe away.
Once, only the privileged few, the studio bosses and pampered starlets, could afford to have a chauffeur and a waiting car to transport them around sprawling Los Angeles. Now anyone with a credit card can enjoy that freedom.
At the Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles, a steady stream of Ubers, with their glowing "U" in the windshield, or Lyfts, with their goofy pink mustaches on the hood, disgorge passengers on weekend nights, where they line up for the rooftop bar, hot tub and rock shows. At Bestia, the buzzy Italian restaurant tucked into an industrial alley, many diners still valet park, but ride shares outnumber taxis five to one, said Kenny Arbuckle, a bartender. New bars and lounges emerge seemingly weekly, adding to the ride-share demand.
Ride sharing, some analysts say, has become a viable alternative to owning a car: between the cost of gas, insurance, garages and valet tips, it's often more economical to get a lift in a professional's Toyota than to drive solo in your own, and that's without factoring in the mental cost of sitting in gridlock on Interstate 405. A short ride through downtown in UberX, the company's lower-priced service, introduced here last spring, can cost as little as $4, while parking lots charge $5 for 15 minutes.
MP: It's clear from this article that Uber is becoming more than just an alternative to a traditional taxi, it's actually even much more disruptive than that – it's changing the way people live and socialize in Los Angeles, and even giving people a viable alternative to owning a car. This is turning out to be a much bigger economic story than Uber and its rivals taking away market share from Big Taxi — there are implications that go way beyond a simple story of substituting riding in an UberX car for a taxi.
The profound changes from Uber could be so revolutionary and transformative, that there's no way for current regulators, city planners and government officials to even begin to fathom the disruptive innovation coming from ride-sharing services. As the NY Times article illustrates, Uber has already changed the night life scene in LA, and this change will be coming to many other cities around the country if it hasn't already. The proliferation of ride-sharing services could also eventually impact important decisions about where people live and whether they need a car, how they get around cities for work and socializing — and this could even have public transportation implications. An expansion of ride-sharing services in some cities could make expensive public transportation alternatives like the light-rail system in Minneapolis-St. Paul unnecessary, or could eventually contribute to the demise of those outdated and inefficient methods of moving people around the city.
Here's my economic forecast for the transportation industry: Expect continued and very strong hurricane-strength Schumpeterian gales of innovative disruption from Uber and the other ride-sharing services, with a high likelihood of market disruption and creative destruction of Big Taxi, accompanied by huge tsunami-level tidal waves that represent billions of dollars of increased consumer surplus.
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Ronald Bailey on free markets, liberty and the environment
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Reason Magazine science correspondent Ronald Bailey has an excellent article titled "Liberty and the Environment" in The New Atlantis (see shorter version at Reason here), here's an excerpt (emphasis added):
Human activity is remaking the face of the Earth: transforming and polluting the landscape, warming the atmosphere and oceans, and causing species to go extinct. The orthodox view among ecologists is that human liberty — more specifically economic activity and free markets — is to blame. But the notion that economic activity and free markets are antithetical to the flourishing of the natural world is complicated by the fact that the countries with the biggest environmental problems today, and the least means and apparent interest in addressing them, are not the liberalized ones with advanced capitalist economies but the ones with weak or nonexistent democracies and still-developing economies.
So is it really the case that liberty and the environment are simply opposed? Does the good of one come only at the expense of the other? Or can liberty and a flourishing natural environment reinforce one another, the good of one encouraging the good of the other? Can economic activity under a system of liberty be environmentally sustainable in the long run?
[These] debates should begin with the following fundamental points of agreement, drawn from history and economics. Free markets are the most robust mechanism ever devised by humanity for delivering rapid feedback on how decisions turn out. Profits and losses discipline people to learn quickly from and fix their mistakes. By contrast, top-down bureaucratization tends to stall innovation and to make it more difficult for people and societies to adapt rapidly to changing conditions, economic and ecological. Centrally planned economies fail; centrally planning the world's ecology will fail as well. Our aim must be to find ways for liberty and the environment to flourish together, not to sacrifice one in the vain hope of protecting the other.
HT: Warren Smith
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Quotation of the day on Africa….
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…. is from Walter E. Williams, writing in his latest syndicated column "Africa: A Tragic Continent":
Africa's poverty is, for the most part, self-inflicted. Some people might disagree because their college professors taught them that the legacy of colonialism explains Third World poverty. That's nonsense. Canada was a colony. So were Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. In fact, the richest country in the world, the United States, was once a colony. By contrast, Third World countries such as Ethiopia, Liberia, Nepal and Bhutan were never colonies, yet they are home to some of the world's poorest people.
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Neil Cavuto: What's weirder than gas prices tumbling? Not a single politician demanding to know why.
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Earlier this week on CD I posed the question: If greedy oil speculators were to blame for the $12 per barrel increase in oil prices between January and June earlier this year, do they now get credit for the recent $25 per barrel drop in prices over the last four months? After all, if speculators are responsible for rising oil prices, shouldn't they also then be responsible for falling oil prices? Or do they somehow irrationally only try to make money from rising oil prices, but ignore the huge profits they can also make from falling prices?
In the video above from earlier today on Fox, Neil Cavuto makes a similar point and starts by asking the question: "You know what is weirder than gas prices tumbling the way they have been? Not a single politician demanding to know why they have been falling." Here's more:
Because they [politicians] sure didn't waste a nanosecond taking to the microphone when gas prices were going in the other direction. Where is their rage? Where are the hearings? Why isn't someone dragging these no-good greedy oil guys to Washington to explain this curious crumbling of gas prices? Someone must be manipulating all this, right? You don't go from $4 gas to under $3 gas in less than a year and say all is well. Don't you find it a little odd that the same bunch that said the oil industry manipulated oil prices when they were going up aren't saying boo when they're coming down? Odder still, because the prices are coming down faster than they went up. Maybe the energy guys weren't fixing prices any more on the upside than they are now apparently on the downside. Sometimes it's just market forces, sometimes it's just supply and demand, maybe it's just the world economy slowing down.
MP: Isn't it interesting that when oil and gas prices are rising, politicians blame Big Oil, oil speculators, and industry price manipulation, and not market forces. Congress holds hearings, proposes legislation to eliminate excessive speculation, and tries to impose higher taxes on Big Oil's supposed "windfall profits." But now that oil and gas prices are tumbling, we don't hear anything from Washington. As Cavuto says, all we hear is "crickets."
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George Will: We have more to fear from too much, rather than too little, faith in government
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In the video segment above from Fox News Sunday, George Will skillfully explains in 60 seconds why we have more to fear from too much faith in government than from too little faith in government. Here's a summary of his comments:
Government is not competent. It's not competent under Republicans or Democrats. It is always a monopoly, and monopolies are not disciplined by market forces that connect them with reality.
I think we have much more to fear from too much faith in government than from too little faith in government. Can we trust the government to do its job? What isn't its job these days? I just made a list here: it's fine tuning the curriculum of our students K-12, it's monitoring sex on college campuses, it's deciding how much ethanol we should put in our gas tanks, it's designed our light bulbs and it's worried sick over the name of the Washington football team.
Now this is a government that doesn't know where to stop. The distilled essence of progressivism is that government is a benign, disinterested force – that's false – and b) it's stocked with experts who are really gifted at doing things. Republicans do this also. Democrats do it with domestic policy and Republicans brought us nation building and regime change. A common theme is the excessive faith in the skills of government.
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Texas oil production in August topped 3M barrels/day for the fourth month, as the Lone Star State produced 37% of all US oil
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The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released new state crude oil production data today for the month of August, and one of the highlights of that monthly report is that oil output in America's No. 1 oil-producing state – Texas – continues its phenomenal, eye-popping rise. Here are some details of oil output in "Saudi Texas" for the month of August and the economic impact that production is having on the state's economy:
1. For the fourth straight month starting in May, oil drillers in Texas pumped out more than 3 million barrels of crude oil every day (bpd) during the month of August. The 3.182 million bpd in August was the highest daily oil output in the Lone Star State in any month since at least January 1981, when the EIA started reporting each state's monthly oil production (see chart above). Texas reached the two million barrel per day oil production milestone in August 2012, and has since added a million more barrels of daily oil production in less than two years to reach the three million barrel milestone in May of this year. Compared to oil production a year ago, Texas posted a 21.5% increase in August marking the 40th straight month starting in May 2011 that the state's oil output has increased by more than 20% on a year-over-year basis.
2. Remarkably, oil production in the Lone Star State has doubled in less than three years, from 1.60 million bpd in October 2011 to 3.20 million bpd in August of this year (see chart above), and that production surge has to be one of the most significant increases in oil output ever recorded in the US over such a short period of time. A 1.6 million bpd increase in oil output in only 34 months in one US state is remarkable, and would have never been possible without the revolutionary drilling techniques that just recently started accessing vast oceans of Texas shale oil in the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin oil fields. As I have reported recently on CD, the Eagle Ford and Permian Basin oil fields in Texas are now each producing crude oil at a rate of more than 1 million bpd, joining an elite international group of only ten super-giant oil fields in the world that have surpassed the one million barrel per day milestone at their peak level of production.
3. The exponential increase in Texas oil output over roughly the last three years has completely reversed the previous, gradual 28-year decline in the state's conventional oil production that took place from 1981 to 2009 (see arrows in chart) – thanks almost exclusively to the dramatic increases in the state's output of newly accessible, unconventional shale oil.
4. As recently as mid-2009, Texas was producing less than 20% of America's domestic crude oil. The recent gusher of unconventional oil being produced in the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin oil fields of Texas, thanks to breakthrough drilling and extraction technologies, has recently pushed the Lone Star State's share of domestic crude oil all the way up to more than 36% of America's crude output for the last four months, and almost 37% in August.
5. Oil output has increased so significantly in Texas in recent years that if the state were
considered as a separate oil-producing country, Texas would have been the 8th largest oil-producing nation in the world for crude oil output in June (most recent month available for international oil production data) at 3.07 million bpd – just behind No. 7 Iraq's production of 3.22 million bpd.
6. The dramatic increase in Texas's oil production is bringing jobs and economic prosperity to the state. For example, over the last 12 months through September, payrolls in the state of Texas increased by 413,700 jobs, which was a 3.7% annual increase in the state's employment level, almost double the 1.9% increase in total US payrolls over that period. With only 8.4% of the US population, Texas created 16% of the new US payroll jobs over the last 12 months through September.
Every business day over the last year, almost 1,600 new jobs were created in the Lone Star State, and many of those jobs were directly or indirectly related to the state's booming energy sector, which experienced an 7.8% increase in payrolls for oil and gas extraction jobs (8,200 new jobs) over the most recent 12-month period through September. Oil and gas companies in Texas hired nearly 32 new employees every business day over the last year just for extraction activities, or almost 4 new hires every hour!
MP: The significant increase in Texas's oil production over the last several years is nothing short of phenomenal, and is a direct result of America's "petropreneurs" who developed game-changing drilling technologies that have now revolutionized the nation's production of shale oil. Thanks to those revolutionary technologies, Texas is now home to two of only ten super-giant oil fields in the world to ever produce more than 1 million barrels of oil per day – the Eagle Ford and Permian Basin.
For oil output in Texas to increase from 2 million to more than 3 million bpd in less than two years, and increase so dramatically that the state now produces almost 37% of US oil, is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable energy success stories in US history – and it's just getting started. At the current pace of annual increases of about +20%, Texas oil production will likely surpass 4 million bpd by late summer of next year. With those projected increases in Texas oil output, the state could soon surpass Iraq, Iran and even Canada to move up in the international oil production rankings to become the world's No. 5 oil producer in 2015.
"Saudi Texas" continues to be the shining star of The Great American Shale Boom.
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Thursday morning links
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1. Who'd a-Thunk It? Middle-class Americans can't afford to live in liberal cities? Yes, left-leaning metros like San Francisco tend to have worse income inequality and less affordable housing.
2. Who'd a-Thunk It II? Restaurants will be hurt by the $15 per hour minimum wage that is expected to pass next week in San Francisco? Yes, the longstanding Luna Park Restaurant in San Francisco has already announced that it will close by the end of the year, due to an "expected increase in labor costs that will come along a $15 minimum wage in San Francisco."
3. Who'd a-Thunk It III? More than 200,000 doctors are opting out of Obamacare exchanges? Can you blame them? Obamacare is asking doctors to take on sicker patients for less money, with the risk of not getting paid at all.
4. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma, the "free market-loving, price-displaying, state-of-the-art, AAAHC accredited, doctor owned, multispecialty surgical facility in central Oklahoma" has started accepting Bitcoin for payment. Probably pretty safe to say that Obamacare coverage won't be allowing payments with Bitcoin.
5. Crony Crapitalism Illustrated. Thanks to restrictions on imported sugar, consumers and industrial sugar users have paid roughly twice the world price of sugar for generations (see chart), costing consumers about $3 billion in 2012 and almost $4 billion in 2011. According to Veronique de Rugy writing in Reason, "Sugar Subsidies Make Halloween Candy Much More Expensive, Leave Sour After-Taste."
6. Cartoon of the Day. Another great one from Henry Payne.
7. IBD Editorial. "Hillary's Backtracking Balderdash About Jobs" -
Hillary Clinton has been exposed. Her radical beliefs about how a modern economy works were on display for the world to see last weekend. It was her Howard Dean moment, and it won't go away soon.
8. Markets in Everything: a) For $30, the ride-sharing service Uber delivered kittens on demand yesterday in 7 cities for 15 minutes of "kitten snuggles." Pretty sure Big Taxi would never think of that in a million years!, and b) a powerful new cop-detecting device called Target Blu Eye has hit the market that warns drivers of nearby emergency vehicles, including police cars (even when their radars are off), fire trucks and ambulances.
9. How to best solve the growing organ and kidney shortage (see chart)? According to Richard Epstein:
We must begin by repealing National Organ Transplantation Act and implementing a free market for organs. Open markets could solve the organ shortage problem. On the donor side, it will induce high-quality sellers, because no one wants to buy a hepatic or diseased kidney. On the recipient side, the cash supplements could go a long way to increase organ access to indigent and minority patients, who are currently ill-served by the system. The big losers in this program will be the purveyors of dialysis services. But, the winner will be the large number of stricken people who, liberated from these machines, can live better and richer lives.
This is another example of what I've been calling the Fallacy of the Special Case. Why should the market for kidneys be any different than the market for any other commodity (gold, oil, houses) or salable body part (hair, blood, semen, embryo, bone marrow, etc.)? What makes kidneys so "special" that they should be considered exempt from the laws of supply and demand and market pricing? In this case, the "fallacy of the special case for kidneys" that outlaws market prices is a death sentence for thousands of Americans; last year more than 12 people on the kidney waiting list died every day, and another 8 were taken off the list because they had become too sick for a transplant.
10. Economic news this week: a) the American Staffing Association's weekly Staffing Index increased again to the highest level since 2007 and near to its all-time high, b) US real GDP grew at a faster rate over the last two quarters (4.5% and 3.5%) than in any 2-quarter period since 2003, c) Jobless claims (281,000 four-week average) are the lowest since 2000, d) the lowest metro area jobless rates in September were Bismarck ND (2.1%), Fargo ND (2.3%) and Midland TX (2.6%), demonstrating that oil = jobs, e) consumer confidence jumped to a 7-year high in October and f) the US homeownership rate fell to the lowest level in Q3 (64.3%) in 20 years (see chart below) — is this (the political obsession with homeownership) maybe the biggest public policy failure ever?