The Surfing/Oil Connection

Leave it to a San Diego paper to find a connection between high oil prices and surfing. Higher prices are apparently raising resin costs, thus hurting surfboard makers, and gas prices are keeping some people from making long drives to the beach to check conditions — but surf webcam traffic is up 10% y-o-y.

[via SD U-T]

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