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I’ve been saving plastic bags since the Carter administration – told my nieces they’d be the most valuable legacy I’d bequeath.
Before plastic bags were available everywhere, you could rent a yacht on the Baltic for a week w/ a stash of plastic bags & a few pairs of nylons.
ENY, isn’t amazing how they are always making “jokes”? You can say the worst crap imaginable, and then fall on your back with your feet in the air, like an upturned waterbug, and cry “I didn’t mean it, it was a JOKE!” So then it doesn’t count? Yeah, right.
plenty of CORN when Biff is around.
Ringo, I’m from Indiana.
Brrrrrr.
didn’t know that Nikki was a raghead. Now I see she was as Sikh.
Looks like 2 guys have done it with her (while she was married)….never knew those republicans were so randy.
DIBS, if that’s a “false market” than we create ALL KINDS of them. And we don’t have any real green solutions bcs we’ve never taken it seriously. We haven’t even figured out how to store most green energy. We need a battery. We are far, far behind.
That said, I”m for nuclear and natural gas too. Mostly because we are so very FAR FAR away from any kind green solution.
Noki, CORN! OMG. Dont get me started.
Dave, natural gas is in a massive glut situation. Massive. Thus, the price has been trading lower to sideways and has become uncorrelated to crude/gas/heating oil. The reason are new technologies which have been developed, i.e. extracting from shale gas, resulting in surprising sources of plentiful, cheap North American gas. Also, LNG extraction, liquifaction and transportation have been improved (and infrastructure built in the country to receive and regasify LNG). That being said, it MAKES SENSE to take advantage of it/consume it and we are finally getting some kind of shortcovering rally in this bear market.
Well said, Noki.
One of the reasons I am so cynical about the current green movement is that it reminds me too much of the seventies green movement, which everyone conveniently fell asleep and forgot for thirty years after it happened. That and my time working at GM and asking why they only built enormous cars with terrible mileage and being told, a.) it was all the fault of the unions*, and b.) those were the only kind of cars anyone wanted.
Regardless, there’s plenty of blame to go around with this oil spill.
Optimistically, I try and think that the clean-up could be a great public works project employing a lot of people, and that maybe this yet-another-catastrophe-caused-by-oil will help foster reliance on other types of energy. Eventually.
*Apparently, everything bad that has ever happened to anyone at General Motors is the fault of the unions. This is like the party line.
looks like Noki finally has some time on her hands today :o)