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Gas prices across the country, after declining much of April, are spiking again.
Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Causal Evidence from the United States
We estimate that data centers caused average retail electricity rates to fall modestly in the United States from 2015 to 2024 using an instrumental variables approach. Despite prevailing sentiment, the finding is consistent with economic reasoning: existing large power system fixed costs, economies of scale in transmission and distribution, and declining unit costs for generation imply that durable demand growth lowers average prices. We find patterns of economies of scale for transmission, distribution, and generation costs as well as within and across retail customer classes. We caution that future supply constraints could reverse the effect.
Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Causal Evidence from the United States
We estimate that data centers caused average retail electricity rates to fall modestly in the United States from 2015 to 2024 using an instrumental variables approach. Despite prevailing sentiment, the finding is consistent with economic reasoning: existing large power system fixed costs, economies of scale in transmission and distribution, and declining unit costs for generation imply that durable demand growth lowers average prices. We find patterns of economies of scale for transmission, distribution, and generation costs as well as within and across retail customer classes. We caution that future supply constraints could reverse the effect.
Parking meter rates jump to $10/hour for Padres games, Petco Park events
Also, as of late August, metered parking is no longer free after 6 or 8 p.m. The city extended paid parking by two hours, with some meters charging as late as 10 p.m.
Tesla stock suffers double-digit drop on carmaker’s worst day in years
Elon Musk’s EV company lost a quarter of its value this year amid weak profits and high spending on AI and robotics
Electricity prices rising by double the rate of inflation. Data center demand means no relief ahead, analysts say
The impact of the AI industry on electricity prices has turned into a major political flashpoint ahead of the midterm elections this November.
Gasoline - Price - Chart - Historical Data - News
Gasoline rose to 3.72 USD/Gal on May 4, 2026, up 3.50% from the previous day. Over the past month, Gasoline's price has risen 12.48%, and is up 83.65% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Gasoline - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on May of 2026.
The New Gulf War: Epic Fubar Goes Global
Why there is much more at stake here than rising prices
If there’s a war on cars in the USA then the cars have won
American vehicles have grown heavier, faster, and wider every decade since 1982 — and federal fuel economy rules reward the growth. Evidence from 50 years of EPA data.
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Sending Out an SMS: Automatic Enrollment Experiments for Overdraft Alerts
ABSTRACT At‐scale field experiments at major U.K. banks show that automatic enrollment into “just‐in‐time” text alerts reduces unarranged overdraft and unpaid item charges 17% to 19% and arranged overdraft charges 4% to 8%, implying annual market‐wide savings of £170 million to £240 million. Incremental benefits from “early‐warning” alerts are statistically insignificant, although economically significant effects are not ruled out. Prior to the experiments, over half of overdrafts could have been avoided by using lower‐cost liquidity available in savings and credit card accounts. Alerts help consumers achieve less than half of these potential savings.
GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash
It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too
Argentina's Deputy Economy Minister Says Inflation Is No Longer the Problem
Argentina's deputy economy minister says inflation will keep falling and a new central bank law would be a confidence shock. July inflation was 2.1
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.
