I’m in the process of updating the Oil and Gas Links page of my site. This has become far more time consuming than I anticipated (or wanted). The plan was wean dead links, update changed links, and organize them, if possible. However, I’ve found myself following links, reading stuff with more links and following them, and generally not making much progress with the plan. Now I’m even posting to the blog instead of getting the page done.

What prompted this interlude was a brochure I found at the Energy Information Administration entitled A Primer on Gasoline Prices. For the past few months, there was hardly a week I didn’t hear a debate on some talk show or another, about who was responsible for the conspiracy behind gasoline prices. People love a conspiracy. It’s more satisfying (or, more likely, just requires less thought) to demonize a person/group than try to understand economics and markets. So, this seemed a timely item for the blog, although now that prices are back down people aren’t too worked up any more. To tell you the truth, I haven’t actually read it yet! After all, I have my links project to finish, and I’m running out of daylight (metaphorically – I just mean I’ll need to hurry unless I want to still be working on it tomorrow, and I don’t). So, while I’m working on my links page, y’all can check out the official government line on gasoline prices.