Dreamy
I'm very tired and about to toddle off to bed. Ruby is in the kitchen barking to alert me to the presence on the counter of a freshly baked loaf of bread. I'm waiting for it to get cool enough to wrap up. I'm not sure why she doesn't just jump up and get it; it is within her reach.
She's a funny dog.
But as long as I'm sitting here, waiting around, I will tell you about another item I emailed to myself: this guy might be my dream date. He's done a bunch of high-quality modifications to standard car engines to increase gas mileage and decrease emissions, and to make them burn alternative fuels. The kind of stuff that Detroit says isn't possible. I've been hearing about him here and there for a while now, and was very happy when Fred Clark over at slacktivist (speaking of dream dates, I think Fred is pretty dreamy as well) linked to this story about Jonathan Goodwin.
I have mixed feelings about biofuels; whatever we choose as a source of fuel for transport, heat, or power generation, I think it's imperative that we learn to do with less of it. Whether it comes from a finite source with a pile of associated security and political issues, or from a food crop (or land which could otherwise grow one) at the expense of a hungry planet, burning stuff is an increasingly dumb idea.
And it's clear that a lot of folks here in the U. S. of A. are not willing to live in cold houses, in the dark, and not drive anywhere, so I think that gains in efficiency whereever possible are essential.
Plastic on the windows only goes so far in saving the world.
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3 comments:
Very true! Americans love to live large and waste a lot in doing so.
I am not sure if you are encouraging Ruby to take the bread or not - it seems you are rooting for her to just grab and go?
Yeah, the alternative fuel isn't really that far away, it is just the will to make it happen. After moving from a country where getting 36 miles to the gallon was considered a "clunker" of a car (a old petrol guzzler), to a city which has buses and taxis all running on alternative fuel, where the government GIVES you money if you convert your car to alternative fuel and where car sharing, bike to work incentives and car co-ops exist; I know that these things are possible. But if politicians wait until an overwhelming majority WANT such things, they will wait a long time I am afraid (so act instead of re-act please politico's). I guess I am still wondering if people are more against Iraq because a) tens of thousands of innocent people have been killed, a country in near ruin with no end in sight or b) because a gallon of gas is over $3.00 a gallon?
I was just surprised she hadn't tried to take it. And it was funny the way she was barking at it. She often barks to alert me that I left water running, or the broom is in an unauthorized location (she is terrified of the broom). Or her toy has rolled underneath the sofa or is lodged between the night table and the wall.
Oh, and I think it's b) that people find so upsetting.
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