ON THE ROAD IN OUR TOWNSHIP

Tuesday afternoon and we’re on the road in our Township. Many errands to catch up on.

Stepped into a ‘green’ coffee shop for lunch and am overlooking a miniature woods.
Lunch was soy burger, latte, and lentil soup.

How’s that for an unrepentant conservative?

The food is good and the wait staff is friendly, attentive, and in several cases quite attractive.

And the laptop enjoys being connected to the net to catch up on fixes, patches, etc.

Anyway, we look out on the ‘woods’ and think about the news this Day of Our Lord.

As noted earlier, b.o. has fired GM CEO.

Lots of opinion on the whys and wherefores.

What makes sense?

There is the theory that b.o. needed to show he could be tough on the executives, that he didn’t like the heat of letting the AIG guys off too easily.
Believable?? Of course.
It fits the b.o. modus operandi (sp?).

Anything to protect the image.

But another explanation surfaces:

b.o. wants us to drive smaller vehicles. Congress just passed a massive set aside of potentially high energy producing lands within the continental US – no energy exploitation to be carried on therein.

Control of the auto companies will further the national dem agenda of preventing the auto companies from producing the cars the American people prefer to drive, i.e., the bigger, less fuel efficient vehicles.

No more endarounds of café (sp?) standards by creative American capitalists.

And if this is a true scenario, we can expect further restrictions of off-shore drilling/exploration.

Gas will become more expensive. The people will buy the smaller vehicles when the price per gallon reaches the tipping point of $4.
b.o. has stated that he likes $4 gas, but that it should take a while to get here.

And so, the US will not develop massive oil, natural gas, and coal reserves that are plentiful within the US.
We will pay high prices for our energy sources.
We will continue our dependence for oil/natural gas on foreign suppliers.

And the liberal green constituency will be appeased.

Well, gotta hit the road.

Lunch is over, latte is drunk.

We're a diverse people, lots of layers, lots of complexity.

As the saying goes, "You can fool some of the people some of the time...."

We'll see.

Hopefully, 'You cannot fool of all the people all of the time."