A conservative voice crying in the liberal wilderness of Greater Binghamton, NY
Category: TransportationBy Jim Willis on Nov 26, 2007 in Business, Energy, Transportation | 7 Comments
Can anyone tell me why I’m paying $0.20 more per gallon for gas in Greater Binghamton than it costs 25 minutes over the border in South Gibson, PA? Does it really cost that much to deliver gas an extra 25 miles? Last Thursday as my family and I were traveling back from the Scranton area, [...]
By Jim Willis on Nov 12, 2007 in Business, Environment, Transportation | 2 Comments
In typical and predictable fashion, the leftists at the Press & Sun-Bulletin have written an editorial blaming Detroit for not producing fuel-efficient automobiles. The implied message is, high prices for gas would be just fine if we were driving cars and vans and SUVs that got 100 miles/gallon. In part, the editorial reads:
[I]t still doesn’t [...]
By Jim Willis on Oct 15, 2007 in Transportation | 0 Comments
A negative rant about our local airport. Well, not exactly against the airport but the airlines that service it. For years the local airport–once called Link Field in honor of the father of the flight simulator and local hero Edwin A. Link, then renamed the Binghamton Regional Airport, now called the Greater Binghamton Airport, was [...]