I was riding the bus last Sunday and like always, if there is an available sit, I chose to sit by the window so I can watch outside. It was raining that day but I noticed a street sweeper was still busy doing her job. Questions came to my mind. Do we really need that many street sweepers to clean our streets? Here’s the logic to the question. If people are responsible enough to throw their candy wrappers, cigarette butts, [...]
I had a glimpse of the newspaper headline today that says “Oil Plunges to $61/barrel” so I thought of checking the history of oil prices in the last few months. With a record of $147 a barrel in July that caused the rise in prices of gas, LPG, goods, commodities and fares, the oil price has gone down to more than 50%. With such drop in prices, consumers (including me) expect that there will be a noticeable price decrease. Unfortunately, [...]
