Notes From All Over -- Part 1 -- October 5, 2021

Breaking: WTI goes over $79. No doubt Resident Biden is calling OPEC this morning. I don't know what Biden is calling OPEC but it's probably a four-letter word. LOL.

Road to New England: link here. ISO NE.

Streaming: in passing on CNBC --

• teens: 32% of ther video consumption is from Netflix; down "slightly" from 38% in past years
• only one streaming company was mentioned: Hulu consumption is increasing (at expense of Netflix?)
• cable television dropping way, way back

Dividend increase: Centerpoint

• bittersweet
• huge cut in dividend mid-2020
• now gradually increasing that dividend again;
• announced a penny increase in the dividend to 17 cents/share
• record date: November 18, 2021; payable in early December (December 9, 2021)

Awards: nominee for "Doofus of the Year, 2021” award:

Mileage this past weekend:

• Enterprise rental
• Toyota Camry, 2021
• almost all highway driving; driving at 70 - 80 mph most of the time on interstate
• total mileage, mostly highway: 1,516 miles
• total gallons of regular unleaded: 42.135 gallons
• cost per mile: about 8 cents/mile
• in city driving in my own car in Euless Texas, a 2011 Honda Civic, I average five to ten cents per mile

Date	Location	Time	Mileage	Miles Traveled Since Last Stop	Gallons To Fill Up	MPG	Price per gallon	Cost to Fill Up
Thursday, Sept 30, 2021		12:20 p.m.	0
		4:15 p.m.	271	271	9.823	27.5	$3.29	$32.41
Sunday, October 3, 2021		3:00 p.m.	775	504	13.354	37.8	$3.09	$41.38
		10:00 p.m.	1186	411	10.237	40.1	$2.69	$27.64
		7:00 a.m	1516	330	8.721	37.8	$2.73	$23.80
Total Gallons Gasoline /  MPG					42.135	36.0
Total Gasoline Costs								$125.23
Cost Per Mile								$0.08