If you’re interested in the vagaries of transportation, oil prices and related topics (and you probably are, or you wouldn’t be reading this), the LA Times has a red-hot blog on the subject, the Bottleneck Blog. We discovered it whilst surfing for stories on gas prices - they linked to a news story by this writer (that is, me) about the predicted ripple effect on goods and services. Stay tuned for a longer story on that in this paper!