GM Not the Only Victim of High Crude

Jeff Macke  Jun 23, 2008 2:30 pm

GM Not the Only Victim of High Crude
 
Partner companies also feeling the pinch.
 

 

Hello from New York, where it's Thursday in my brain as I make my way toward a trip to Canada for fishing and bonding later this week. I'm not a bobber-watcher, by nature, but I'm big on bonding and Mrs. Jeffmacke is all but kicking me out of the house with a mandate to "Find My Smile." As I so often point out, it's very seldom in my best interest to disagree with the Missus.

Here's what I'm watching when not wondering if it's possible to just have myself dipped in a giant vat of bug repellent:
 

 

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06-23-2008, 3:28 pm
Acrimony will result as a lot of rural areas which don't benefit much from economic growth in other areas have rolled the dice on a tourism based economy. They are about to lose and lose big, leaving them with nothing in particular to employ th
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06-23-2008, 8:26 pm
Agreed. In scenic rural areas, tourism *is* the economy (which explains why the midwest is just plain old dying..). In my neck of the woods (tee hee), only a tiny fraction of the population does what traditionally held up the economy - namely lumbe
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06-24-2008, 9:37 am
I live in Denver metro, and I think our local ski resorts depend on out of state visitors for a pretty large percentage of lift ticket sales, and a VERY high percentage of hotel / restaurant sales up in the mountains are out of state folks. On the ot
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