I have decided I want geraniums. I saw these lovely red potted plants and remembered growing up with a mother who loved geraniums. She also liked them because on hot Italian summer afternoons she liked to leave windows and doors open and she believed they keep snakes away.
I wasn't expecting to see geraniums on Elgin Lane but there they were. I also was not expecting to see a poster calling for an end to new oil wells in the US. It's a nice idea but what do we replace oil with? I guess we feel the same about nukes right now but there again, where else do we get electricity? At the moment renewables don't seem ready to step up and take the place of what we have. As witnessed by the vehicle parked in the driveway of the home with the poster.
I don't think of a V-8 Toyota Tundra pick up as being a fuel efficient vehicle.
I keep hoping solar and wind will do more but apparently it's tough to run a grid with power sources that fluctuate wildly in their output. using corn to replace oil for gasoline is horribly inefficient and is driving up the cost of food causing Third World starvation. The choices seem neither easy nor obvious to me. This next sign always brings a chuckle to my gay buddy Noel.
"They got that right!" he said with a chortle when I showed him a photo of a crocheted doily with the same message I found in a country store in Georgia. I noticed a net carefully placed over a pool under construction. It would never have occurred to me but no doubt someone somewhere would take the opportunity to fall in were it not properly covered.
And a little further on from the pool, around the corner I passed this splendid tub, headed to it's mew home in the back of a pick up.
This goes a long way to explaining why I prefer showers to tubs. Modern tubs have none of the style or inherent comfort of a hip bath like this. Nostalgia extends to more than just vehicles.
I wasn't expecting to see geraniums on Elgin Lane but there they were. I also was not expecting to see a poster calling for an end to new oil wells in the US. It's a nice idea but what do we replace oil with? I guess we feel the same about nukes right now but there again, where else do we get electricity? At the moment renewables don't seem ready to step up and take the place of what we have. As witnessed by the vehicle parked in the driveway of the home with the poster.I don't think of a V-8 Toyota Tundra pick up as being a fuel efficient vehicle.
I keep hoping solar and wind will do more but apparently it's tough to run a grid with power sources that fluctuate wildly in their output. using corn to replace oil for gasoline is horribly inefficient and is driving up the cost of food causing Third World starvation. The choices seem neither easy nor obvious to me. This next sign always brings a chuckle to my gay buddy Noel."They got that right!" he said with a chortle when I showed him a photo of a crocheted doily with the same message I found in a country store in Georgia. I noticed a net carefully placed over a pool under construction. It would never have occurred to me but no doubt someone somewhere would take the opportunity to fall in were it not properly covered.
And a little further on from the pool, around the corner I passed this splendid tub, headed to it's mew home in the back of a pick up.This goes a long way to explaining why I prefer showers to tubs. Modern tubs have none of the style or inherent comfort of a hip bath like this. Nostalgia extends to more than just vehicles.
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Replacements for fuel, check out mega-floral trees. However, I still think President Carter's algae program for bio fuel (still the lowest cost to date with the most promising results) is the way to go.
At TEDxTampabay, I did see the inventor of the spray on solar cell give a presentation. It was pretty impressive.
BTW, I own a v8 Tundra pickup truck I don't drive much. Thankfully I work from home.
The paradox is I get 45 mpg on the Bonneville but I ride it all the time...
I'd like to think that technology will save our asses but I fear we will have to live within a world of constrained resources and fewer people. And it will take some pain to get there. Meanwhile I relish every middle class day of my life.
The paradox is I get 45 mpg on the Bonneville but I ride it all the time...
I'd like to think that technology will save our asses but I fear we will have to live within a world of constrained resources and fewer people. And it will take some pain to get there. Meanwhile I relish every middle class day of my life.
There is infinitely more natural gas in the world than oil. They run cars easily off natural gas. It's the cheapest energy source for vehicles and it's way more efficient and not even nearly as dirty. It's the easiest solution for the next 100-200 years until a more advanced and inexpensive solution will be found. Natural Gas is so cheap, they have stopped exploring and developing many projects in Canada. And there is the reason you won't see it widespread. They say the price of oil and gas is driven by demand. Bullshit. It's driven only partially by demand. It's driven primarily by charging the absolute price the consumer can bear. That's why the oil companies are pumping out as much of this stuff as they can, because it's cheap for them to do it and they can charge exhorbitant prices. If it were just demand, their costs to supply would negate much of their profit. Growth baby! Take the money and run until it all comes crashing to a halt or we can no longer breath without coughing.
Itlains have had gas tanks in their trunks for decades. Run out of gas switch to gasoline and drive to refill with liquid gas ( I think its butane but I'm not sure).
It could be done here but look around- people take what they are given.
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