It's all attributable to those first 10 days in December.

The banks and payment processors were supposed to make the changes in account numbers so that online customers' payments would go through smoothly, and in some cases, the changes weren't made properly.

We had two days in December that you would call winter. We've had so many 50-degree days, it's really been amazing.

It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I turned aside to vomit, I envied them.

That which you see is the first thing to disbelieve

All the increases we see at the pump are attributable to the cost of crude.