If It Was My Home - Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster

This was an interesting look at the Gulf oil spill, and centering the map at our office's zip code in Pontiac had the spill almost reaching three of the Great Lakes. If I had centered in Waterford Township, I probably would have gotten into Lake Michigan.

So here we are, almost to Memorial Day and as usual, gas prices are still a story.

But this year, they're doing something else. They're falling.

It seems that locally, they fall faster in some areas. Yesterday, I kept seeing $2.85 or so for regular in Rochester Hills, but when I came into Pontiac to work, I saw $2.61. That was low enough to get my attention.

Funny how that price of oil impacts some stations, or perhaps localities, more than others.