Nathan Bomey, - USA TODAY
Stephan: Here is an article about something I certainly did not know, and perhaps you didn't either; something that can save all of us some money.
Monday morning is the cheapest time to fill up, according to GasBuddy.
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Want to save money at the pump? Fill up on Monday morning on your way to work.
That’s the advice of GasBuddy, the fuel-savings app that tracks real-time data from more than 150,000 gas stations throughout the country.
In a study provided exclusively to USA TODAY, GasBuddy assessed the best day to fill up and the worst day to fill up nationwide and in each state.
While Monday is the best day on average nationwide to fill up, Friday is the worst day. (Scroll down to see state-by-state details on the best and worst time to get fuel.)
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“Very early in the week, when gas stations are generally a little bit quieter traffic-wise, is a great time to fill up,” said Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. “We generally see more volatility and higher prices later in the week.”
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Thursday, April 11th, 2019
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
Stephan: Listening to the news today I realized that we have gone beyond satire to tragedy. One of America's two parties, The Republicans, has reached a level of ignorance, incompetence, heartlessness, and spinlessness such that almost every action they take, the things they say, the positions they advocate are destructive of the nation's democracy and wellbeing.
Today's edition of SR is made up of just a portion of the news reports I have seen about Republican statements and actions on a single day. Meanwhile, according to fivethirtyeight, Donald Trump has the approval of 41.8% of Americans. Why is that do you think?
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Thursday, April 11th, 2019
MATTHEW ROZSA, Breaking News Writer - Salon
Stephan: The House has passed a net neutrality bill, and here is how the Republican Senate has responded. Could it be any clearer that the only people the Republican Party cares about are the uber-rich, and the corporations they control? You don't matter, do you get that?
Republican Senator and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
If a net neutrality bill passes the House of Representatives, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it would be “dead on arrival” in the upper chamber.
The bill in question would restore the net neutrality rules implemented by former President Barack Obama in 2015, according to Reuters. On Tuesday the House of Representatives, which is controlled by the Democrats, decided to delay a vote both on that bill and a series of proposed amendments to the legislation due to an unrelated issue over a different budget provision.
The bill, which was dubbed the Save The Internet Act, later passed on Wednesday. In response, CREDO Action Campaign Manager Brandy Doyle released a statement praising the decision by saying that “today’s vote is exactly what Americans want from their representatives in Congress. The leaders who voted for net neutrality chose to side with more than 80 percent of Americans over giant corporations. People care about maintaining the Internet as an open platform accessible to everyone, and outside of […]
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Thursday, April 11th, 2019
Nik DeCosta-Klipa, - Boston.com
Stephan: This actually happened.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry
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John Kerry apparently could not believe the questions he was getting Tuesday.
The former U.S. secretary of state and Massachusetts senator was back on Capitol Hill for a House Oversight Committee hearing on combatting climate change, but found himself at times being questioned about his college major.
“Isn’t it true you have a science degree from Yale?” asked Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, who studied engineering at MIT and doubts the science of human-caused climate change.
Massie took issue with Kerry’s recent criticism of a panel formed by President Donald Trump, reportedly intended to downplay the threat of climate change. The committee follows the Republican president’s dismissal of a report last fall by 13 federal agencies detailing the “intensifying” damage of global warming in the United States.
In a Washington Post opinion piece in February, Kerry called Trump’s climate change panel a “council of doubters and deniers” and a “kangaroo court.”
“It sounds like […]
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Thursday, April 11th, 2019
AMANDA MARCOTTE, Politics Writer - Salon
Stephan: Republicans feel so empowered under Trump that they open state their real agenda.
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Science, according to a Trump appointee at the Department of the Interior, is “a Democrat thing.” Those words were reportedly used to justify the abrupt 2017 cancellation of a study into the health effects of mountaintop removal for coal-mining. At the time, then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke claimed that the study was canceled after a careful review of the grant process.
But during a Tuesday congressional hearing on this issue, Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Calif., citing the inspector general’s report into the matter, said that a Trump appointee named Landon “Tucker” Davis had offered a likelier explanation for why a study that was more than halfway done was abruptly shut down: In Davis’ words, “Science was a Democrat thing.”
“I was deeply offended,” Lowenthal told Salon when asked about Davis’s comment. “Without independent science, evidence, facts and expertise, policy is made in the dark and special interests can lie to the public and rewrite the rules for their own benefit.”
“If the administration dismisses science as a ‘Democrat thing,’ the results will speak for themselves: worse public […]
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