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it's my understanding that one of things creating high oil prices is lack of refineries, not lack of drilling. it doesn't matter how much you pull out of the ground if there aren't enough refinery.

posted 4 years, 8 months ago
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do you think that Gordon Smith's attack ad on Merkley actually had the opposite effect by making people think that Merkley had a better chance of beating Smith?

posted 5 years ago
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we moved back to Portland this summer. Last month, after having our house on the market in Arizona for almost a year, we finally had an accepted offer. a week later, fannie mae and freddie mac declared all of arizona a "declining market" which meant that even people with good credit needed to come up with 10% down rather than the 5% normally needed for a "conforming loan". Fortunately FHA changed their loan limit a couple days later otherwise the deal would have fallen through. as it is, it closed two weeks late, but at least it closed!

posted 5 years, 1 month ago
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