Gas Guzzler

So what do you do if you’re a greenie and it’s dark outside (no solar), and there’s no wind (no turbine power) and the EPA shut your coal-fired electrical plant down and it’s really, really cold outside (reduced battery life) and you still have to work for a living?

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#BlackIceMatters

From CBS Baltimore, “Neighbors Losing Patience Where Plows Still Haven’t Cleared Streets“.

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The dig out from the weekend snow storm continues across Maryland.

Derek Valcourt with the growing frustrations in some areas where plows still haven’t cleared the streets.

Black_Ice_MattersWhat’s making some people bitter is trying to understand why all of the streets around them have been plowed, but they’re still stuck.

Along Millvale Road in the Millford Mill area of Baltimore County, neighbors are losing patience, knowing all the surrounding streets have been plowed.

“It’s been four days and no one has come down our block yet,” said Tony Redd.

“I figured this neighborhood would get a plow to come through at least once out of five days, and we haven’t even seen a plow,” said James Forman.

Daily Darwin – Chasing Balls

Darwin duly points out that if man was meant to play golf (chase little balls around) he wouldn’t have been given his own little set much closer at hand.

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Natural selection deems that some individuals serve as a warning to others. Who are we to disagree? The next generation, ever and anon, is descended from the survivors

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Peak Oil – Getting Greased

With all the various comparisons of the price of a barrel of oil to water, or milk, or say Starbucks coffee  one other comparison bears making–

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** Peak Oil:  is the point in time when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which it is expected to enter terminal decline.  It is often confused with oil depletion; however, peak oil is the point of maximum production, while depletion refers to a period of falling reserves and supply.