Mark Schieldrop

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Longtime journalist, ex-AOLer, Patch Alum, former City of Cranston, RI press secretary, now a spokesperson for AAA Northeast in Massachusetts. Traffic safety advocate, oil and gas analyst, proponent of EVs, electro-capacitive key switches, brevity and the fine art of Major League Baseball.

I avoid the Oxford comma.

Show threadMark SchieldropDec 20, 2022
@Dusty Hmm. Tough. They're virtually indistinguishable.
Show threadMark SchieldropDec 16, 2022
@mathewi I wish he used Mastadon instead of Post. Oh well.
Mark SchieldropDec 13, 2022
@gfoster I eyed ads for those punchers in Computer Shopper but never made the leap and bought one.
Show threadMark SchieldropDec 5, 2022
@molly0xfff We are big fans of it in my house. We grab a few extra boxes to last through the spring.
Show threadMark SchieldropDec 5, 2022
@mrfusion Yes. CA is essentially its own gas market due to stiffer environmental requirements and some significant shifts in refining capacity/configuration out west in recent years. CA has always led the rest of the country when it comes to environmental standards. The downside of course is higher prices for gas in CA. The discrepancies in price in states like CA compared to Texas where the avg. is $2.78 today get lost when people only talk about the national average. Thanks for mentioning CA!
Show threadMark SchieldropDec 5, 2022

Price snapshot this week:
RI: $3.60, down .10
MA: $3.66, down .10
CT: $3.52, down .13
NY: $3.70, down .08
NJ: $3.58, down .14

Last week gas inventories up 2.1m bbl, distillate (diesel, home heating oil) up 500,000 bbl.

Currently, gas inventories are 4 percent below seasonal 5-year average. Distillate is 11 percent below the 5-year avg.

Mark SchieldropDec 5, 2022

Gas prices continue to fall, prices in the Northeast are still above the national average. But prices will continue to slide thanks to builds in gasoline and diesel over the past few weeks. Meanwhile demand is off by 400,000 bbl/day for gasoline compared to the last year, according to the EIA.

Although prices are below $3/gallon in more and more states, the Northeast supply issue is still a big hurdle for us in NY/NJ/New England.

Show threadMark SchieldropDec 3, 2022
@Calltoactivism it reminds me of late 90s internet, IRC, etc.
Mark SchieldropNov 28, 2022
@vkc nice Model M? It should have a birthdate on the bottom. The gray IBM manufactured ones fetch more but I actually prefer the Lexmark-era ones sometimes. My dream is an industrial olive drab version, or the SpaceSaver, but tough to justify. Keyboards can become an expensive rabbit hole.