I heard the new voice of Metro on the Orange Line this morning. A rather pleasant voice so they made a good choice even if the new messages tend to be a bit wordy. The chimes are different too and that tends to get your attention.

In case you haven’t noticed the comments for a couple of posts have been targeted by a spammer. Yesterday alone I had to delete over 50 bogus posts. If this keeps up I may have to move over to a moderated system.

The Washington Times (owned by Rev. Moon) is reporting that most church goers live in the South. That’s not exactly breaking news guys. And it could be that front page reporting like this that is one of the reasons your readership is on the decline. And while it’s not breaking news that Virginia (second lowest church attendance in the South) is full of God-less Heathens it does explain some things.

I really doubt that there is a single fix for driving down the price of gasoline in the United States. And maybe the current price is what it should be, just more than we are accustomed to spending. I’m old enough to remember paying less than a buck a gallon to fill up my car, but in those days I was barely making three bucks an hour. In the big scheme it evens out.

I do know that taxing the oil companies won’t work. They’ll just jack up the base line cost to cover and keep on moving. That’s how business works. Driving down the demand is the only real solution but that’s at least a generation away. The Hybrid cars on the road now are not even making a dent in the demand for petroleum. All they really do is make the owners feel superior to the rest of us. Public transportation helps out a bit, but that’s not wide spread enough to do the trick either.

If you ask me, and by reading this you sort of did, the only real solution is to create a work environment where none of us leave our homes. Two hundred years ago the demand for fossil fuel energy was next to nil. Why? Because most Americans lived and worked in the same place. No need to go in to a crappy cube means no need to buy gas, which means the prices begin to come down.

What I’m really saying is that the weather here is great today and I’m stuck in a cube instead of being out on General’s Ridge.