Paul from Kentucky sent this: Pioneers show Americans how to live “off-grid” [1]
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John in Ohio flagged this: Diesels [Still] Equal Savings [2]. The article didn’t mention the price differential between road-taxed diesel and “off road ” diesel. Currently, off-road (dyed) diesel sells for about 50 cents less per gallon than the road-taxed variety. That makes a big difference for those of us that store diesel for tractors and diesel generators.
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I spotted this article linked at Drudge: US home prices drop at sharpest rate in 20 years [3]. I predict this downward spiral will continue for at least four years.
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SurvivalBlog reader “Tanker” noticed that the US Federal Reserve is continuing to increase the size of its now ongoing Term Auction Facility (TAF) liquidity-pumping frenzy [4]. Check out the figure at the bottom of the “Non-borrowed” column! That is a lot of money created out of thin air. The global credit crunch is far from over.