http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:10:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/22/atlanta-at-20-per-gallon-of-gas/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/22/atlanta-at-20-per-gallon-of-gas/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:32:54 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22678 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/22/atlanta-at-20-per-gallon-of-gas/feed/ 0 Author writes we'll be happier, healthier and devoid of Wal-Marts http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/02/correction-maybe-perdue-doesnt-have-pull-in-dc/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/02/correction-maybe-perdue-doesnt-have-pull-in-dc/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:14:42 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6824 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/02/correction-maybe-perdue-doesnt-have-pull-in-dc/feed/ 1 Jim Galloway posts that yesterday’s release of 900,000 barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve wasn’t thanks to Gov. Sonny Perdue’s efforts. It was just well-timed and concurrent with a request from refiners. The AJC muckracker passes ob a statement from a U.S. Department of Energy spokesman: “DOE approved an additional release of up to 900,000 [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/01/us-department-of-energy-opens-oil-reserve-for-georgia/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/01/us-department-of-energy-opens-oil-reserve-for-georgia/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:13:51 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6795 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/01/us-department-of-energy-opens-oil-reserve-for-georgia/feed/ 4 Turns out Gov. Sonny Perdue’s got some pull up in Washington, D.C. Per the governor’s request, the U.S. Department of Energy says it’ll open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the Gulf of Mexico to help ease Georgia’s gas shortage. “Today the Department approved an additional release of up to 900,000 barrels of crude oil from the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/30/gas-shortage-romance/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/30/gas-shortage-romance/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:27:10 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6685 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/30/gas-shortage-romance/feed/ 1 From Atlanta’s Missed Connections page on Craigslist: QT NORTH DRUID HILLS – m4w – 30 (Atlanta) Reply to: pers-860816732@craigslist.org [?] Date: 2008-09-30, 10:09AM EDT You were in line behind me waiting for gas. You looked amazing in your black BMW. If you noticed me…and you see this. lets talk. Maybe we can get some gas together sometimes Have any of [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/perdue-requests-bush-open-reserves/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/perdue-requests-bush-open-reserves/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:49:25 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6625 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/perdue-requests-bush-open-reserves/feed/ 4 Gov. Sonny Perdue has asked Pres. Bush to release crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. (Click here to view the letter to the president.) “As President Bush and Congress work on a plan to rescue our financial markets, I urge them to also focus on our fuel shortage in the Southeast,” Perdue said in a [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/epidemik-coalition-looks-at-gas-shortage/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/epidemik-coalition-looks-at-gas-shortage/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:21:54 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6589 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/epidemik-coalition-looks-at-gas-shortage/feed/ 0 Christa at Pecanne Log points us to Ted Ullrich’s “Localize Your Life” project, a photographic examination of a city with little fuel. Ullrich is a member of local creative agency the Epidemik Coalition. (Screenshot from Ullrich’s Flickr) Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/atlanta-blogs-today-50/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/atlanta-blogs-today-50/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:19:13 +0000 Scott Freeman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6562 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/29/atlanta-blogs-today-50/feed/ 0 — Now in his second term of office, exactly what has Sonny Purdue accomplished beyond his fishing program? ATLmalcontent ponders that question as gas supplies dwindle while the governor twiddles his thumbs and says, “Crisis? What crisis?” Hell, Sonny ain’t even in the country. This week’s sign of the end of the world as we [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/26/gov-perdue-drops-the-tire-pressure-tip/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/26/gov-perdue-drops-the-tire-pressure-tip/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:05:58 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6539 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/26/gov-perdue-drops-the-tire-pressure-tip/feed/ 0 Gov. Sonny Perdue has rehashed some tips as to how Georgians can conserve fuel in these gas-strapped times. It’s just that something’s missing from the list: · Drive sensibly: Speeding, rapid acceleration (jackrabbit starts), and rapid braking lowers gas mileage. · Choose the right vehicle: If you own more than one vehicle, drive the one [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/26/morning-headlines-143/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/26/morning-headlines-143/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:53:15 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6477 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/26/morning-headlines-143/feed/ 1 MELTDOWN: Bailout talks crumbled Thursday night when House Republicans announced they won’t back the plan because it offends free-market absolutism. McCain, who made a fuss this week about injecting himself into the negotiations, was largely silent as the Republican revolt ripped apart consensus. Talks resume today, and Bush promised this morning that a bailout package [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/morning-headlines-142/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/morning-headlines-142/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:20:39 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6417 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/morning-headlines-142/feed/ 2 BAILOUT: President Bush, looking concerned, nervous but still slightly amused, tells the nation that the “entire economy is in danger.” PALIN: CNN’s Campbell Brown issued a rant to the McCain campaign Tuesday, calling for it to stop sheltering its VP candidate and treating her “like she is a delicate flower that will wilt at any moment,” [...]