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May 12, 2006
Blood and Gas?
I know sounds a little gory, it's late in the day, but I just had to put this chart together. Steven Levitt (of Freakonomics fame) was kind enough to link to my post yesterday on rising gas prices and searches for "gas prices" here (the Freakonomics blog is one of my favorites by the way). Interestingly enough, Stephen Dubner (co-author of Freakonomics) chimed in with a link to a story from last September about gas stations that were offering free gas in exchange for blood donations to help the Katrina relief effort. I couldn't resist, so here's the chart correlating "gas" to "blood" (please pardon the indulgence). There does seem to be some positive correlation, apart from the story, i'm not sure why...

Posted by Bill Tancer at 05:28 PM
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I guess that's why there's the word freak in freakonomics ;)
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Posted by: Carrie at May 15, 2006 08:56 AM
Yeah...that does seem a little wierd
Posted by: Shoemoney at May 22, 2006 04:48 PM
