Were You Affected By Gas/Oil Prices Last Year? If So, Call Me
PRINCETON, NJ — Thirty percent of Americans report that their employers have laid off employees during the past six months — up from 22% a year ago, and the highest level since August 2003, when 34% of employees said this was the case.
So this is one of those internet APBs — apologize if you’ve answered one of these before and I didn’t respond. This time, I’m really hoping to find people who can tell me their stories.
I’m writing about the effect of the high energy prices from last summer, i.e. the oil bubble. So I’m looking for people who were seriously, materially affected by energy prices last year. If you were laid off by a company that suffered because of high energy prices, for instance, or if you could no longer make a commute because gas prices made working uneconomic (I found someone with a problem like that last year in Vermont), or if you went into debt to pay for air conditioning or heat for your home — I’m interested to hear your story and hear how you managed the problem.
I’m particularly interested in people who’ve had these problems and also happen to live in certain parts of the country. The places I’m looking at most closely include:
1) The city of Chicago
2) The Miami/Fort Lauderdale area
3) In Pennsylvania, along the Pennsylvania Turnpike
4) South and Central Indiana
5) Phoenix/Tempe
6) Southern California/Sacramento/Bay Area
But even if you don’t live in one of those places, send me a note to the address at the side of this page (for “media inquiries”) — your experience may still connect to some other issues I’m looking at. I’m going to be making phone interviews all day tomorrow, so if you write me and have some time to speak tomorrow, please indicate a good time for me to call.
Thanks in advance for your patience.
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Sure, just when I finally go to post a complaint about your Goddamn article never being posted to rollingstone.com it gets posted today (we’re not exactly lining our birdcages with RS pages on the other side of the Earth here if you catch my drift). Tell Mr. Wenner that I’m hip to this new concept of media buyers having to work for a living and print magazines having to earn a living by selling magazines instead of selling real estate on the page, but we need an option C that comes somewhere between “fly 9,000 miles” and “wait several weeks.” Something virtual would be nice. We’re not living in Jim Thompson’s days here where we all get very excited about weekend jaunts to The Oriental to pick up our post, so if someone could throw us a bone where we don’t have to basically OCR your articles and email them around the world as PDFs like a bunch of snickering kids stealing dad’s Playboy for the night that’d be grand.
Best of luck on your next story, sounds actually quite interesting! I’ll check it out when it gets posted online in 2010.