Bad News for the local guys):

I was sitting around with a friend who owns an outboard motor/ boat sales shop and he's thinking about calling it quits after 23 years. He hasn't sold a single boat in 3 months. We counted 17 marine related businesses that have gone under in the last 6 months in the SF Bay area alone. This winter is going to brutalize the boating industry here in the States.

From what I've seen it takes 10 weeks for the price of resin to catch up with the price of oil.

Maybe I should go get a job at McDonalds, I hear their numbers are way up due to the slumping economy;)