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Homer forms a bowling team but is forced to throw Otto, the burn-out bus driver, off the team in favor of Mr. Burns--who funded the team...
...whatever Texaco, Conoco and Citgo are willing to serve up," laughs University of Oklahoma meteorologist Joshua Wurman. Nor do the hazards of the job always come from nature. Last year Wurman stopped during a chase to help extract a car from a ditch. "While I was pushing, the driver gunned his engine and I was covered in mud and cow manure...
...using the figure of $27 because that's an economist's estimate of how much the "average driver" would save on gasoline every year if he no longer had to pay the 4.3 cents-per-gal. tax hike. It's a figure based on the assumption that the oil companies, long known for their exquisite sense of fair play, will pass the full saving on to consumers...
...figured that I'm an average driver. Not to boast, I've always thought that I'm a bit better than average. I am, after all, the former co-editor of a New York journal called Beautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking. You don't get that kind of position if you need eight turns to back into a space and still end up far enough away from the curb to permit motorcycle parking on your right...
Then it occurred to me that "average driver" was based on miles driven rather than skill at the wheel. My saving might be less than $27 because I live in New York City, where alternatives to driving are available and increasingly attractive. The subway system, for instance, has mostly new trains as well as many renovated stations, and I think of it as much safer now that Bernhard Goetz, the wonk vigilante, is moving to Boston...