Interesting Things

This morning I feel somewhat sobered.  My wife came to me and said, “I feel like I’m mourning.”  I asked her why and she explained that this economic crisis and the condition of our nation make her feel like someone great has died.  She is very concerned about what will happen next and as to what our children will be facing.

I, too, feel this burden.  It seems that we have made the full transition from the world superpower to the world’s super-farce.  I indeed hope that this is temporary, but the only way that it can be temporary is if we make some changes. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo!!! Very exciting indeed: we may see our obsession with gas guzzling vehicles and non-U.S. oil problems come to a form of resolution. This startup says that it can make ethanol for $1 a gallon and without corn AND CAN DO IT NOW (not in 5 years).

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could actually place these genrative devices at gas stations around the country with storage compartments in place so that each gas station could produce and sell its own ethanol at reduced rates???

Wow, in this model, the gas stations would actually make more money than they currently are making and provide a very high degree of self sufficiency for our fuel needs without ticking off the auto industry. At least we could now have a few winners with the only losers being the oil providers and shippers. That’s a big win for everyone in light of today’s crisis!

The other really big win is for farmers. I am all too familiar with this crisis as the smart ones are moving to haylige rather than trying to deal with current corn prices. This could save the corn market and really reduce some serious stress on the agricultural industry.