From Treehugger.com today...W is a genius!

This makes so much sense: President Bush just ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline, making it easier for refiners to meet demand and possibly dampen prices at the pump. According to Yahoo News, Easing the environment rules will allow refiners greater flexibility in providing oil supplies since they will not have to use certain additives such as ethanol to meet clean air standards. Where did he announce this? at a speech in front of the Ethanol lobby group- kind of like announcing gun registration at an NRA convention. "Our addiction to oil is a matter of national security concerns," the president said in a speech to the Renewable Fuels Association, which advocates alternate energy sources. "After all, today we get about 60 percent of our oil from foreign countries. That's up from 20 years ago, where about 25 percent of our oil came from foreign countries." We suppose those pesky scrubbers needed for high sulphur coal will be next to go. Read also the remarkable statement on ethanol below the fold- more on this later.::Yahoo News Thanks Brenton

Phonin' it in, baby!

Testin' the waters with the email function on Blogger! If this works well, it will be a way to get my thoughts out there when they occur rather than being forced to wait until I am out from behind the Websense curtain. Deliciously subversive it's not, but it's my little way of stickin' it to the man.
So, really odd dream last night. Laura and I were shopping in some type of whole foods grocery in another town when suddenly, Jacob shows up with Totomi (whom I have never actually met) and both of them are raved to the hilt...loose clothes, glitter, pacifiers, the whole nine yards! Next thing I know, the grocery is bathed in light and trance music. Weird, wild stuff.
I think I can piece it together, though. This past Saturday, me and the family cruised up to Cincy to go to the Gaiam outlet and Trader Joe's with some friends from Woodford. That's the whole foods tie-in. On my trip home from work yesterday, I broke down and listened to a dance club hit on the radio that had enough trance elements to make it tolerable. And lastly, I checked out El Jacquez's Flickr page just before retiring to the land of nod. Made for a surreal dream, but it's pretty cool to be able to make such a direct correlation with real events.
Righto, so until next time....