WalMart makes gas

I had been planning a post about how reduction in oil consumption should be driven less by development of hydrogen cells and hybrids than by people just driving their cars less, walking more, and having more mixed retail/residential zoning to support this. Which would argue against building big boxes. But I kept looking at the post and thinking it looked preachy and boring.

Then today WalMart comes out and blames bad numbers on bad weather and rising oil prices. As in, if the price of a tank is $3 higher, you can't really think about buying a snorkel, motor oil, chips, even dungarees. Or perhaps it's because driving out to where the big boxes are feels more expensive.