Back in the USSA
OK, I've been back in the US for a couple few months now and apparently my self imposed silence is grating. We'll try this blogging thing again and see if I've learned anything about how to do it after 6 or 7 years. After all I did pay Sheila for the space. Funny, according to the counter it seems that the site seems to get more hits when I don't blog.
And now for the news: Pickens sees $300 oil unless U.S. cuts import need Boone is getting old and he missed this one. After investing in a big wind farm in Texas, oil drops like a lead balloon and he's reduced to talking up the price.
Ditto for Hugo. As he tries to spend some money in Russia to screw with the Colombians it wouldn't surprise me if the quid pro quo is to start screwing with the British, which is Russia's newest pastime.
I was in Carlsbad, California a couple of weeks ago and saw some of these scooting around. Since I've been back in California I've also been seeing these stupid 'flex' commercials. The first item: very cool. Most families have two or more cars, it only makes sense one of them should be electric.
Second item: not so cool. Can someone remind me why we threw Governor Davis out on his a**? Rolling brownouts anyone? So it seems like Arnold, who I regretfully voted for, has decided spending money on a slick ad campaign is more useful than getting us more electricity. Where we gonna get the juice when all these zero emission cars come online en masse in less than five years?
Which brings me to the comment bleg: I have decided to sit this general election out. Nobody standing up for office is, shall we say, giving me goose bumps. I thought for a moment that Obama might have a chance of getting us past the whole racial divide thing, or at least having an adult conversation about it, but that seems to have gone down the toilet.
So, in the comments tell us whether you are going to vote or not, and if so, who is the lucky fella? If more than three people comment I'll go get one of those poll/vote thingies, exciting, no? Only restriction is that your comment has to be shorter than the final word count on this original post. You go over and I get to edit creatively.
OK well. I tried to install the comments again but it didn't work. Email if you want until I figure it out.
