Plastic Farm AnimalsA local newspaper poll asked: “With temperatures nearing triple digits, do you think there might be some truth in Global Warming?” 76% of the people who participated in the poll answered, “No.” This is the mentality of my fellow small town Americans. Just ran into one such chap in the pizza shop. We were both […]
Today, I decided to see if I could find out whether it’s possible to buy motor fuel in the United States that hasn’t been mixed with imported oil. For this exercise I targeted the Colorado/Wyoming area and the short answer is “No.” I did find some good news, though. 40% of the 22 million barrels […]
We’ve been living in the Continental United States for nearly 7 months now and are still in shock. It is really hard for us to be here and see how the quality of life has eroded. The problems and their solutions seem so obvious and so simple, yet the majority of people seem oblivious to […]
a)What’s invisible and smells like worms? b)What’s the white stuff in bird poop? c)Why are so many Americans worked up over Bird Flu when there have been less than 100 deaths worldwide over the past two years and no incidents in North America? Answers: a) bird farts b) that’s bird poop, too c) that’s not […]
The obvious cost of the US’s oil addiction is Operation Iraq Liberation (OIL) or, um Operation Iraq Freedom. For that we have 150,000 dead human beings, one country in ruins, and the other politically divided and financially stressed. The worst cost is, of course, what burning all this oil is doing to our atmosphere. Global […]