@FIRST_LIGHT

I just found this chart on Econbrowser, one of my new favorite blogs.

U.S. vehicle miles traveled in billions of miles, 12-month moving average. Source: Federal Highway Administration.

I achieved average fuel efficiency of 22.6 miles per gallon on my commute today.* That's a 12% improvement over my previous best of 20.2 mpg and a whopping 35% improvement over my "bad old days" average of 16.7 mpg. Inspired by an NPR segment on hypermiling, I used the following procedures for today's result:

I achieved 20.2 MPG on the way into work today. W00T! I drive an extended cab 2003 GMC Sierra pickup truck.* On a normal day, the fuel efficiency computer would read around 16.5 MPG. The difference today was that I decided to drive the speed limit of 65 MPH instead of my normal 75 MPH.

Oil & Money2007.pdf

I've been tracking Gordon Simmons presentations for a few months. He has some great analysis of the peak oil phenomenon on his site. This particular presentation talks about how oil service and contract drilling demand is intense right now.

I've been evaluating and trading a few stocks that play in this domain, and they all seem to be doing well lately. I wonder how far they will run?