Backyard Nightmare
September 20, 2011Either resigned to fate, or highly naive: Rebecca Sparks, who works at the town’s Barber Shop, says she’s not nervous: “I believe they’d tell us if there was a problem.” Ugly business, nuclear power. Near…
Category Archives: Energy
Pump Dump
September 3, 2011After my weekly visit to the laundromat this morning, I put another $20 worth of gas in my old Jeep, this time the price per gallon was back to near-about standard: $4.09 — a dime…
Here We Go Again
September 2, 2011Just as tropical storm warnings were issued Friday for the Gulf of Mexico, there’s come reports the infamous BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster is coming back to life. There’s reports oil is leaking from the…
“Suppression of Irrefutable Facts.â€
September 1, 2011As we thunder through 2011, many of the things we take for granted are slowly floating past us like all that debris washing through the homes and towns in Vermont — a game-changing time is…
Pump Perception
August 17, 2011(Illustration found here). Yesterday, I put another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep, this time at $3.99 a gallon, which is a dime drop since the last time a couple of weeks ago. Oil…
Peak Oil — Sleepwalking Disaster Cont.
July 25, 2011Knowledge is way-preferred over ignorance, even if that knowledge makes one want to blow chunks, shit-the-pants or go run-and-hide, or maybe all three right together. My post over the weekend was on peak oil, so…
Peak Oil — Surrealistic Sleepwalking Into Disaster
July 24, 2011Greased-nuts-and-bolts and impractical machinery — reality’s pixilated dream of an era coming quickly to an end. Peak oil appears to the naked eye less chaotic than climate change — a not-so-violent soft and gradual approach…
Pump Pressure
June 30, 2011Once again, another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep yesterday, the pump price now at $4.09 a gallon for regular, down a whole dime since the last visit 10 days ago. Gas prices are dropping,…
Gas and Other Forms of Indigestion
June 20, 2011On Friday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in the old Jeep and the pump price was the same as the last time — $4.19 a gallon for regular. Whop-pee! Isn’t that something? The…
A Dog’s Paw: Climate’s Crusade
June 16, 2011The very most-wonderful dog I ever had was a Springer Spaniel (very similar to the one shown at left) named Bogie, one sweet animal given to me as a puppy. He was a pure breed,…