File It Under Silver Lining...

While that ill wind blowing in from Japan may shortly be strewing Iodine-131 particles onto all my California pals, it's also blowing some good to pump-dependent consumers like Io truly: See, now that Japan has no more demand for gasoline, there's an oversupply of oil in the world market! That means you can expect to see the pump price of gasoline go down considerably over the next 10 days.