It’s Finally Friday!!
I am sooo glad for the weekend to be here. I always say I am going to catch up on my sleep but I never do lol. I have no clue what we are going to do this weekend. I know we want to take Russ’s mom to the Diner we discovered in Pensacola. They had good food. It tasted like everything down to the ranch dressing was homemade.
Russ just told me that he just read “In the United States, Chevron pocketed an average of $87 per barrel for crude oil and natural gas liquids sold in the first quarter, more than doubling from $37 per barrel last year.” OK I understand oil is something we have a finite supply of and as demand continues to increase the price is going to go up. However, that just sounds obscene! Oil is currently $112 per barrel. That $87 is 77.7% of the cost per barrel.
Something HAS to give. We have got to really work at finding and using alternative sources of energy. Of course for those sources to be widely adapted, they will have to be affordable. That is one the major kickers. I’d love to set up solar panels to offset some of the electricity we use, but they are expensive. It was 3 months ago we went car shopping. I would have loved to get some kind of hybrid that got wonderful gas mileage, but they cost so much more.
The US, especially rural areas, needs a much better public transportation system. The fewer cars on the road, the less fuel used. I know our area is not very pedestrian/bike friendly. There are a few sidewalks and they even put in a walking/bike path in down Fort Morgan Road. The brain dead thing is that path is off the road, behind trees in a lot of cases, and it is not lit. So at night there are still bikers/walkers that are riding/walking right on the side of the road. We have come close to hitting some of them.