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Re: National Average is Down to $2.09 [jipster]

by duke23 on Sun Nov 16 19:45:17 PST 2008

jipster wrote : "Yummy... we have a Ruth's Chris SteakHouse a couple miles down the road. That's about $75 a pop for a medium steak, $10 for a salad, baked potatos are extra... about $5, drinks another $10... then dessert, $10. Unless Al Gore shows up to help with the bill, larsb can plan on spending about $140 per person. " Yum as well, go protein. A Ruth Chris here in Houston as well. $1.77 rug four days ago before the big drop, Shell station, NW Houston. I can smell $1.50. So it will be the 12 oz filet, baked potato and asparagus. Opec will try and cut 1m bbls/day on the 29th of Nov, Failing that a second try in Dec. But when you break the paradigm and are faced with reality, pump it out quick and sell for as much as you can get. Oh yeah and cheat on your quotas. The oil market doth love it's extremes. The larsb world tour should prove... nutritional.

Re: National Average is Down to $2.09 [gagrice]

by jipster on Sun Nov 16 17:48:49 PST 2008

I believe you are right. I think his statement was "a Filet Mignon at Ruth's Chris says gas will NEVER be $2 again". My memory is not what is was 50 years ago so I may have gotten the restaurant wrong. Yummy... we have a Ruth's Chris SteakHouse a couple miles down the road. That's about $75 a pop for a medium steak, $10 for a salad, baked potatos are extra... about $5, drinks another $10... then dessert, $10. Unless Al Gore shows up to help with the bill, larsb can plan on spending about $140 per person. :P

Re: National Average is Down to $2.09 [oldfarmer50]

by gagrice on Sun Nov 16 16:12:56 PST 2008

I believe you are right. I think his statement was "a Filet Mignon at Ruth's Chris says gas will NEVER be $2 again". My memory is not what is was 50 years ago so I may have gotten the restaurant wrong.

Re: An oddball customer... [boomchek]

by fadetoblackii on Thu Sep 11 12:56:35 PDT 2008

Well, that's probably part of it. Lynchburg is a major college town (3 or 4 colleges within 20-30 minutes), but I'm at a high line store, so we don't get quite as many tire kickers... there's not too many college kids that have the nuts to walk in and ask for a test drive in an M3 or C63... they know they won't have a shot anyway, so they mostly stay clear. It's kinda like when you work at Ruth Criss steakhouse, you know you're gonna get tipped pretty nicely, but if you were at Texas Roadhouse, it's a coin flip. The better clientelle means a lower percentage of joyriders... Of course, it also means a lower percentage of overal lot traffic too, so you gotta take the good with the bad.

Unions are back

by dallasdude1 on Sat Sep 06 12:22:35 PDT 2008

In nominal GDP, Luxembourg comes out with the highest income per capita at roughly $88,000 US Dollars (USD). The number two country, Norway, comes well behind, at around $72,300 USD. Following Norway is Qatar with roughly $62,900 USD. The United States comes eighth, with just around $44,200 USD, a bit more than half the per capita income of Luxembourg, as measured in nominal GDP. US union membership up substantially in 2008, study shows Buoyed by a rising tide in California in general and Southern California in particular, U.S. unionization levels rose substantially this year, defying a decades-long trend of decline, according to a report by UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. "The State of the Unions in 2008: A Profile of Union Membership in Los Angeles, California and the Nation" shows unionization rates nationwide rising half a percentage point over the 2007 level, to 12.6 percent of all U.S. civilian workers in 2008. The rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point between 2006 and 2007. Prior to that, the last time U.S. unionization rates registered an increase was in 1979. "This is good news for organized labor," said Ruth Milkman, lead author of the report and outgoing director of the UCLA labor institute. "It shows that despite an extremely hostile environment, unions can grow." Milkman and UCLA sociology graduate student Bongoh Kye analyzed U.S. Current Population Survey data on union membership for California, Los Angeles and the nation. They report unionization rates by race, immigration status, gender, age and education for the first six months of 2008. This year's report and earlier such studies of unionization data going back to 1996 are available at www.irle.ucla.edu/research/unionmembership.html. According to the report, in the first half of 2008, the number of U.S. workers on the membership rolls of labor unions increased by 583,300 over the 2007 average. Fueling the nationwide increase was the recent growth in unionization in California, which currently accounts for 16 percent of all the nation's union members, more than any other state. California's unionization rate in 2008 is 17.8 percent, up from 16.7 percent in 2007 and 15.7 percent in 2006. http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/09/21/workers-joining-afl-cio-unions-at-highest-rate- -in-two-generations/

Re: A case of mistaken identity...part two... [mackabee]

by driver100 on Thu Aug 28 11:32:18 PDT 2008

I love this story! Can't wait to see how it ends. I bet Ruth takes off in the Corolla - never to be heard from again. Our company distributes books! Mack, you would make an excellent writer - even got the punctuation all there. Lots of suspense and irony too! I'll be up all night hoping to hear how this one ends........