Day November 16, 2007

Our heating oil bill arrived today

$3.23 a gallon.  Last year it was $1.95.  It’s about 130 gallons to fill it up. So that’s $160 more (for about 6 weeks of heating.) We can afford it. Lots of people in New England won’t be able to.…

Good point!

From a post on the LBO-Talk listserv Then there’s this classic tale, from a U2 concert in Ireland. In a break between songs, Bono starts clapping, slowly, and as he’s clapping he says, “every time I clap a child in…

Gingrich goes green?

Andrew Sullivan And the enviro-left blows a gasket. It seems to me that if environmentalists actually care about the planet, they should be engaging in dialogue with those who want to do the same thing, even if they differ on…

A really bad idea

Scientists a step closer to steering hurricanes Assuming this could actually be done, imagine the liability if say, New Orleans steered a hurricane away from them and it hit Houston instead. Or maybe Houston would see the steered storm coming,…